Dan McQuillan
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Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuri...
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I wrote 'Resisting AI' (subtitled 'An Anti-fascist approach to Artificial Intelligence') to help preempt the kind of convergence of far right politics and the tech sector that we are waking up to today. The struggle against fascistic solutionism continues. bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai
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Facebook mums are a group that isn’t identified as vulnerable in the same way as teen boys etc. we need a Netflix show called “middle age” where it shows the right wing harm being pumped into homes via parenting bloggers etc. Teen boys don’t just find these ideas online, they hear them at home
January 4, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Facebook mums are a group that isn’t identified as vulnerable in the same way as teen boys etc. we need a Netflix show called “middle age” where it shows the right wing harm being pumped into homes via parenting bloggers etc. Teen boys don’t just find these ideas online, they hear them at home
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Relatedly : in every adult online safety workshop I have done, I have said mumsnet and white mummy bloggers or Instagram families should worry you as much as Roblox or Snapchat.
Mumsnet and other parenting forums, FB groups etc are hotbeds of right wing radicalisation. We did warn you all..
Mumsnet and other parenting forums, FB groups etc are hotbeds of right wing radicalisation. We did warn you all..
Mumsnet backs reform bit.ly/45DEBUT at least it has topped Labour in voting intentions in a survey of its members.
Mumsnet mothers have always leaned Labour. Now Reform is ahead
Rising support for Nigel Farage’s party — if not the man himself — may worry the government
bit.ly
January 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Relatedly : in every adult online safety workshop I have done, I have said mumsnet and white mummy bloggers or Instagram families should worry you as much as Roblox or Snapchat.
Mumsnet and other parenting forums, FB groups etc are hotbeds of right wing radicalisation. We did warn you all..
Mumsnet and other parenting forums, FB groups etc are hotbeds of right wing radicalisation. We did warn you all..
To paraphrase Raoul Vaneigem, people who talk about Resonsible AI or Responsible Tech without referring to the need to restructure our political-economy for the common good and to socialise all infrastructure, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
January 3, 2026 at 1:13 PM
To paraphrase Raoul Vaneigem, people who talk about Resonsible AI or Responsible Tech without referring to the need to restructure our political-economy for the common good and to socialise all infrastructure, such people have a corpse in their mouth.
Prediction: the notion of 'sovereignty' will be one of key technopolitical pH tests of 2026. Proposed as a solution to AI's centrifugal accelerationism, technonationalism is actually the desired outcome of current restructuring, and a safe space for Western masculine subjectivity.
January 2, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Prediction: the notion of 'sovereignty' will be one of key technopolitical pH tests of 2026. Proposed as a solution to AI's centrifugal accelerationism, technonationalism is actually the desired outcome of current restructuring, and a safe space for Western masculine subjectivity.
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some reading groups starting January 12:
- Thought Soup (buying books from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social to raise money for Palestinians) ➡️ "echolalia echolalia" by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
- AI Skeptics Reading Group ➡️ "Resisting AI" by @danmcquillan.bsky.social
- Thought Soup (buying books from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social to raise money for Palestinians) ➡️ "echolalia echolalia" by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
- AI Skeptics Reading Group ➡️ "Resisting AI" by @danmcquillan.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 5:13 PM
some reading groups starting January 12:
- Thought Soup (buying books from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social to raise money for Palestinians) ➡️ "echolalia echolalia" by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
- AI Skeptics Reading Group ➡️ "Resisting AI" by @danmcquillan.bsky.social
- Thought Soup (buying books from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social to raise money for Palestinians) ➡️ "echolalia echolalia" by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social
- AI Skeptics Reading Group ➡️ "Resisting AI" by @danmcquillan.bsky.social
This looks like a truly terrible take from Cory Doctorow which, in its apparently unabashed celebration of an "unstoppable coalition of activists, entrepreneurs and natsec hawks", is a mask-off moment for the liberal & statist politics of enshittifcation pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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January 1, 2026 at 4:35 PM
This looks like a truly terrible take from Cory Doctorow which, in its apparently unabashed celebration of an "unstoppable coalition of activists, entrepreneurs and natsec hawks", is a mask-off moment for the liberal & statist politics of enshittifcation pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...
Both honoured and caffeinated to have made the Brooklyn Coffee Shop reading list of 2025 www.instagram.com/p/DS75lPmDdhl/ ☕️☕️☕️ ('Resisting AI' also makes a brief appearance in this reel www.instagram.com/p/DM0XtRcx5lN/)
January 1, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Both honoured and caffeinated to have made the Brooklyn Coffee Shop reading list of 2025 www.instagram.com/p/DS75lPmDdhl/ ☕️☕️☕️ ('Resisting AI' also makes a brief appearance in this reel www.instagram.com/p/DM0XtRcx5lN/)
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just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Bob and I were among the hundreds of researchers that were supposed to conduct the 6th U.S. National Climate Assessment. Now it looks like they're gonna produce it with a few people and Grok? Communities need rigorous and accurate information about climate change. This will put communities at risk.
January 1, 2026 at 7:11 AM
just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism.
Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)
Thesis: people who are still on the AI hype-train are correct in sensing a systemic restructuring of the political and cultural order and are responding to it in ways that we have all been conditioned to do i.e. to desire our own repression.
January 1, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Thesis: people who are still on the AI hype-train are correct in sensing a systemic restructuring of the political and cultural order and are responding to it in ways that we have all been conditioned to do i.e. to desire our own repression.
Article 15 of the German constitution, allowing for the socialisation of means of production, was in part a reaction to the collaboration of industrial monopolies with the Nazi state. Looking at you, Big Tech 👀
(h/t 'Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation' www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...)
(h/t 'Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation' www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...)
Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation | Future Histories Podcast
Rabea Berfelde discusses socialisation, its history and current socialisation movements.
www.futurehistories.today
December 31, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Article 15 of the German constitution, allowing for the socialisation of means of production, was in part a reaction to the collaboration of industrial monopolies with the Nazi state. Looking at you, Big Tech 👀
(h/t 'Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation' www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...)
(h/t 'Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation' www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...)
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A new episode of Future Histories Live!
This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements.
Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland.
Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj
This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements.
Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland.
Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj
December 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A new episode of Future Histories Live!
This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements.
Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland.
Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj
This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements.
Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland.
Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj
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O ponto central do debate sobre o consumo de energia e água dos datacenters é colocar a questão da ressocialização dos recursos energéticos e hídricos em benefício do bem comum.
The deeper point of debating the energy and water demands of data centres is to pose the question of re-socialising energy and water resources for the common good 🔋🌊✊
December 30, 2025 at 9:18 AM
O ponto central do debate sobre o consumo de energia e água dos datacenters é colocar a questão da ressocialização dos recursos energéticos e hídricos em benefício do bem comum.
The deeper point of debating the energy and water demands of data centres is to pose the question of re-socialising energy and water resources for the common good 🔋🌊✊
December 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The deeper point of debating the energy and water demands of data centres is to pose the question of re-socialising energy and water resources for the common good 🔋🌊✊
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¡Que se vayan todos!
December 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
¡Que se vayan todos!
¡Que se vayan todos!
December 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
¡Que se vayan todos!
What is "oligarchic sovereignty" and can it explain the tech bro seizure of the US government and its effects on the world? I discuss with some very thoughtful colleagues here: cup.org/3KZzRly
Free to read as a Christmas gift to you all:
Free to read as a Christmas gift to you all:
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Oligarchic sovereignty: Technology and the future of global order
cup.org
December 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
Tech Policy Press: The Year in Books 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power.
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
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Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
Automatised metapolitics, coming soon to a uni near you.
'Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender' www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
'Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender' www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
Texas universities deploy AI for course audits
Records obtained by The Texas Tribune show how universities are using the technology to reshape curriculum under political pressure, raising concerns about academic freedom.
www.texastribune.org
December 19, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Automatised metapolitics, coming soon to a uni near you.
'Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender' www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
'Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender' www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
We need a Russell Tribunal to investigate universities' complicity in AI-led crimes against education
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell...)
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell...)
December 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
We need a Russell Tribunal to investigate universities' complicity in AI-led crimes against education
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell...)
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell...)
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#OtD 18 Dec 1974 the radical Danish Solvognen theatre group, dressed as Santas, provoked a near-riot in the Magasin department store when they gave out free toys from the shelves to children. When they were arrested by police, the children began to cry www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...
December 18, 2025 at 8:10 AM
#OtD 18 Dec 1974 the radical Danish Solvognen theatre group, dressed as Santas, provoked a near-riot in the Magasin department store when they gave out free toys from the shelves to children. When they were arrested by police, the children began to cry www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...
Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech, Berlin 10-12 April 2026 programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/
Cables of Resistance - Bewegungskonferenz gegen Big Tech
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Cables of Resistance - Bewegungskonferenz gegen Big Tech
programm.infraunited.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech, Berlin 10-12 April 2026 programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/
New archetype for the struggle - 'the Disability Luddite'. Armed with a disability justice perspective, the Disability Luddite aims for the destruction of technologies that amplify the social construction of disability 🔨👨🦼🏴
December 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
New archetype for the struggle - 'the Disability Luddite'. Armed with a disability justice perspective, the Disability Luddite aims for the destruction of technologies that amplify the social construction of disability 🔨👨🦼🏴
A quick glance at the Home Office Instagram gives you a sense of how far the far right mainstreaming has gone in the UK. (Surprised not to see a Trump-style ASMR of a migrant in chains, but I'm sure that's coming...)
December 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A quick glance at the Home Office Instagram gives you a sense of how far the far right mainstreaming has gone in the UK. (Surprised not to see a Trump-style ASMR of a migrant in chains, but I'm sure that's coming...)
Amazon Prime pulls AI-powered recaps after errors www.theverge.com/news/842978/... but the NHS continues to pilot an AI discharge summary tool based on Palantir's system (referred to in these minutes as the FDP - Federated Data Platform) www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/fe... 😷💻☠️
NHS England » Federated Data Platform Check and Challenge Group – minutes and action notes: 19 September 2025
NHS England » Federated Data Platform Check and Challenge Group – minutes and action notes: 19 September 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Amazon Prime pulls AI-powered recaps after errors www.theverge.com/news/842978/... but the NHS continues to pilot an AI discharge summary tool based on Palantir's system (referred to in these minutes as the FDP - Federated Data Platform) www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/fe... 😷💻☠️