i don't want to be one of the people that's like "this goes for trans men, too" but it absolutely does hold for trans men too. anecdotal, sure, but i've definitely perceived this
I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
In 2023, a sci-fi magazine shut down submissions after being flooded with AI-written stories. That problem is now everywhere — AI-generated text overwhelming courts, journals, newsrooms, and HR departments.
To those lamenting seeing activists fight over what often appears to be trivial bullshit: if it makes you feel any better, this is absolutely nothing NEW, and it doesn’t appear to be an impediment to success in and of itself.
To those activists: take it to the Signal group chat more often. please!
I heard or was involved in at least 5 different conversations over the holidays where people were talking to their 70+ yo parents about how basically everything they see on Facebook is AI BS. One was after one of them told a roomful of people that Bruce Willis died, because of bad info from FB
Why do I look at the phone? Just to feel sad?
Tumblr post by and-fishing-equipment reading "in 2026 DO NOT ask yourself whether your art is GOOD instead ask: - Is it SINCERE - is it CATHARTIC - was it FUN TO MAKE - is it MADE BY ME and don't forget to stay silly"
Make dyson spheres a thing that gets you laughed out of polite society again
Where are the neo-Luddites smashing the GenAI machines? Cos I would really be up for joining in. We need a radical politics of refusal and we need it yesterday.
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
Batman "this is the weapon of the enemy" panel
AI is an anti-labor tool. People are right to recoil at its use.
This makes me want to find or create a chat on Element (or Discord) called Humorless Luddites that's LITERALLY just a bulletin board where we can still find each other. Folks can have a Fight This Bullshit activism channel there, yes, fine, great, but the overall vibe would be more social
I know! How is this “the future?” Why do we want a future without artists and musicians?
VIRGIN AI LOVER: you've got to embrace new technology
LUDDITE CHAD: the devastating capabilities of anthropogenic forces confront us with an urgent need to rethink the socially and ecologically destructive potentials of "progress"
Diagram Do I need Ai? No
If it makes you happy it's not a waste of time. Niedliche Illustration einer malenden Katze
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Entering my Luddite era.
Not luddite as anti-technology. Luddite as in desiring to work in harmony and honesty with technology I understand and respect and maintain. Luddite as in fighting against those who warp it into monstrosity and leverage it against humanity and community and the common good.
Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves
Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars
Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.
Want to find a good picture of a garden gnome for my profile picture. Kind of can’t be genAi. Maybe I will draw one myself at some point.
I love this movie, even with all of its multi-director wonkiness.
A comic strip titled The Amazing World of Tomorrow. A food delivery robot cooler drives down a sidewalk. It crashes into a rental scooter. It backs up. It crashes into the rental scooter again. The scooter wobbles. The scooter falls to the ground as the food delivery robot backs up again. A driverless taxi crashes into both the scooter and the food delivery robot sending them flying.
The Amazing World Of Tomorrow
Being anti-AI does not mean that I'm anti-technology.
It means that I'm pro-art and pro-human.
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
These assholes killed the internet and I will go to my grave hating them
Yeah, what’s up with that? Didn’t used to be that way. You could dig for pages and pages and find obscure things.
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Sounds terrifying. What could possibly go wrong?
“A still-underappreciated truism of our moment is that there is great solidarity to be found in refusing a technology.”
Don't forget the other great messaging from these asses:
"These technologies will probably literally destroy humanity and/or the biosphere and we must advance them as rapidly as possible."
I grew up as society was reckoning with cellphones and computers. How dystopian it is to contemplate growing up when there isn’t even an upside to new tech.
