I appreciate the focus Bernie has put on AI dangers, I just wish he’d focus on the harms happening TODAY.
These doomers may be right, but they also play into a game AI CEOs love to play. Saying Gen AI is extremely dangerous is the same as saying it’s extremely powerful. It fans the hype.
Stoked about Josh’s illos in this issue 😍 @joshuawcotter.bsky.social
we need to stop data centers and become environmental dissenters.
we need to cancel cons that troll, seeking market and culture control.
we need to say tech, no! to cancel this schism of harmful optimism.
we need to cancel bot conscription, not just ai subscriptions.
we need to cancel kill chains, fantasies about bot brains and automated people slain.
we need to cancel job raiders and human haters.
we need to cancel bot conscription, not just ai subscriptions.
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A GIF showing the cover and inside of a provocative anti AI zine called power tools
art resist while fascism persists.
new issue of the power tools zine is live.
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New issue of the Power Tools Zine is live: powertoolsofai.com/zines/power-...
Power Tools Zine Issue #2 WIP
Updated the Power Tools website, issue #2 of the zine coming soon 👀
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@joshuawcotter.bsky.social I'd love to feature this in the next issue of Power Tools (an AI critique zine) if you're up for it. powertoolsofai.com/power-tools-...
Photo of Bart Fish's "Power Tools" zine (first edition, November 2025) and some slogan stickers with statements like "GenAI sucks"
Photo of the same Zine opened to my article arguing that AI systems are not tools as we understand that concept.
Bart Fish made a cool Zine about AI including a snippet of one of my essays and sent me a copy. Love it!
Glad it arrived safely! Thanks again for your contribution 🖤
Besides being a false equivalency, if we want to use that example, it’s like being pro-computers while IBM was helping Nazis commit genocide. The context of the time we live in, matters.
A well-know creative leader just told me that saying we should resist AI because it’s being used for mass surveillance, war (domestic & international), misinformation, racism etc is the same as saying designers should have not used computers and quit design, because the govt uses them for bad things
how can we be locked in our cognitive cells, if we refuse to enter their prisons? how can they justify pouring billions into a technology that so many hate and do not want? how can they keep selling a future that is so incredibly divorced from the present reality?
do yourself a favor. resist.
meanwhile tech billionaire ai ceos beg us to accept this slop, and tell us we must create a "new equilibrium", where we do not judge ai outputs so harshly. they say that our resistance is harmful to adoption and society, that we must use ai and we must use it as much as possible.
every day we're served slop. in our feeds, on all of our screens and in our jobs. government manufactured violence is couched between ai kittens swimming in rainbow pools and cute(?) ai fruit eating itself.
extreme techno-optimism, mixed w/ authoritarianism, surveillance and xenophobia have become the new american manifesto. billionaires get richer while we're mired in uncertainty, fear and ai-enabled shackles.
Glad you’re getting some good use out of it 🙌🏻
there’s been some awesome submissions already for issue #2 and some really rad artists that have agreed to contribute. i’m looking forward to getting started on it.
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power tools is a newsletter and zine, dedicated to ai critique and resistance. powertoolsofai.com/zine/
thank you to everyone that ordered a physical copy of my first zine issue 🖤
i’ve been working hard to put them all together and i am very close to mailing them out. still have a surprise or two, that i’m working on 👀
I started an AI critique zine to push back against the hype. I’m always looking for contributors, for any creatives that want to make some anti-AI art. powertoolsofai.com/zine/
I hate AI so much, I made a zine about it: powertoolsofai.com/zine/
Here’s one more way I said fuck AI…make a zine dedicated to it:
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@smoothdunk2.bsky.social Love this 🤣 I’d love to include this in a future issue of my zine, Power Tools if you’re up for it! Full attribution and link to your site. It’s a free zine dedicated to AI critique. Just launched the first issue today: powertoolsofai.com/zine/
every issue will have a free pdf version, as well as an option to pay what you want for a physical copy. each physical copy includes an 8x10 print and anti-ai stickers, while supplies last.
power tools: the zine is finally available ⚡🪚
it features eight creatives, including photographers, cartoonists, designers, artists and writers. It’s a mix of short stories, poems, essays, and art with critique of AI as the overarching theme.
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@joshuabenton.com mentioned ya and the atlantic article you wrote on musk’s grandfather in this. just sharing in case you’re interested
