Lauren Woolsey
@cgsunit.bsky.social
Earthling, she/her, teacher of science, reader of books, player of board games, and more. Avatar by Corinne Roberts :) These days, I post a lot about how AI sucks, see zines and info at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Absolutely! Part of my info zine v1 on AI is titled billionaire bullshit, and I also did one of these readalong threads for More Everything Forever by Adam Becker. Great overview of the Silicon Valley monsters.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Absolutely! Part of my info zine v1 on AI is titled billionaire bullshit, and I also did one of these readalong threads for More Everything Forever by Adam Becker. Great overview of the Silicon Valley monsters.
Chapter 2 is "A Taxonomy of AI: We're Wrong About What AI Is" and @fractalecho.bsky.social opens with six "types" of AI: automators, simulators, discriminators, predicators, amalgamators, and subjugators.
I can't wait to read it tomorrow (and their definition of AI)! Time for bed now though.
5/🧵
I can't wait to read it tomorrow (and their definition of AI)! Time for bed now though.
5/🧵
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Chapter 2 is "A Taxonomy of AI: We're Wrong About What AI Is" and @fractalecho.bsky.social opens with six "types" of AI: automators, simulators, discriminators, predicators, amalgamators, and subjugators.
I can't wait to read it tomorrow (and their definition of AI)! Time for bed now though.
5/🧵
I can't wait to read it tomorrow (and their definition of AI)! Time for bed now though.
5/🧵
I'm introduced on page 10 to a new term, metaeugenics. Williams quotes one of their earlier papers to define and then contrast this concept with necropolitics, as this is an internalized collection of beliefs while necropolitics is an external regime/power structure (see Mbembé and Meintjes 2003).
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I'm introduced on page 10 to a new term, metaeugenics. Williams quotes one of their earlier papers to define and then contrast this concept with necropolitics, as this is an internalized collection of beliefs while necropolitics is an external regime/power structure (see Mbembé and Meintjes 2003).
The pages that follow are a brief overview of the origins of eugenics. It's on pages 6-8 where the TESCREAL Bundle, which I've mentioned in both of my anti-AI zines, takes the spotlight. Williams describes and cites Gebru and Torres (2024) and if anyone hasn't read it, please do:
The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial general intelligence
| First Monday
firstmonday.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:23 AM
The pages that follow are a brief overview of the origins of eugenics. It's on pages 6-8 where the TESCREAL Bundle, which I've mentioned in both of my anti-AI zines, takes the spotlight. Williams describes and cites Gebru and Torres (2024) and if anyone hasn't read it, please do:
It sure does :) the cover is gorgeous and happens to match my very pro-Autumn style!
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
It sure does :) the cover is gorgeous and happens to match my very pro-Autumn style!
This is only page 3 and I'm so invested in learning more from this author. Luddite as an insult certainly gets thrown around a lot these days, and I'm happy to have their concise clarification on what side of history that movement was on at the very start of the book.
![Text from the book on page 3 reads "[...] other humans. No, this book is not a Luddite treatise--if, by Luddite, you mean a consumate techno-pessimist that believes all technological advancement is an anathema to human flourishing. But if by Luddite you mean a conscientious objection to top-down dictatorial automation of human thought and skill as a capitalist ploy for the devaluation of labor, and therefore the devaluation of laborers and human life in general... Then, yes. This is a Luddite treatise.
This book disambiguates the purposes of AI and its conscquences for humanity (and the environment) through descriptions of how AI projects produce, harm, and even kill disabled people. Through these stories, this book also provides a guide to the various and confusing meanings, methods, and impacts of "AI" in terms that are clear and relevant to everyday [...]"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2feqoni5dsr7hu4446qthqgj/bafkreiezixrst5b6h3onvdjoeldz3frhe7vpsc5nrmvlsjs5qvbygp7pxq@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is only page 3 and I'm so invested in learning more from this author. Luddite as an insult certainly gets thrown around a lot these days, and I'm happy to have their concise clarification on what side of history that movement was on at the very start of the book.
This one is so good, and I keep going back to the core message and structure of some of the later parts. I wrote up a thread of highlights from when I read it, if you're interested (after you finish your own reading!)
In a solid essay included in his book Very Fine People, @juliusgoat.bsky.social asks: which is most important, order or justice?
Later on the same page after the image shown here, he notes "a society preferring order to justice would greatly resent any finding of fault [within the system]."
Later on the same page after the image shown here, he notes "a society preferring order to justice would greatly resent any finding of fault [within the system]."
November 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM
This one is so good, and I keep going back to the core message and structure of some of the later parts. I wrote up a thread of highlights from when I read it, if you're interested (after you finish your own reading!)
Reposted by Lauren Woolsey
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
Reposted by Lauren Woolsey
"hope over tyranny
"hope over big money and small ideas
"hope over despair
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
"hope over big money and small ideas
"hope over despair
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
November 5, 2025 at 4:29 AM
"hope over tyranny
"hope over big money and small ideas
"hope over despair
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
"hope over big money and small ideas
"hope over despair
"no longer would politics would be something that is done to us. now it would be something that WE DO"
Part of this quote was near the start of Mamdani's phenomenonal speech, and I always love to pay attention to not just what quotes are selected, but where/who they are from.
Mamdani's whole campaign has been such a beautiful educational journey in that way, especially the Until It's Done segments!
Mamdani's whole campaign has been such a beautiful educational journey in that way, especially the Until It's Done segments!
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Part of this quote was near the start of Mamdani's phenomenonal speech, and I always love to pay attention to not just what quotes are selected, but where/who they are from.
Mamdani's whole campaign has been such a beautiful educational journey in that way, especially the Until It's Done segments!
Mamdani's whole campaign has been such a beautiful educational journey in that way, especially the Until It's Done segments!
Oh heck yes, here's another incredible anti-AI zine from a year ago that I just learned about from @juliesetele.bsky.social! They seem like an awesome person, definitely give them a follow <3
AI is very bad, actually: A manifesto
Updated 10/8 with slightly revised formatting. This should print and fold nicer now! References are linked below. AI is very bad, actually – revised formattingDownload References Chayka, K. (…
juliesetele.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Oh heck yes, here's another incredible anti-AI zine from a year ago that I just learned about from @juliesetele.bsky.social! They seem like an awesome person, definitely give them a follow <3
