mike_hales 💔*!?¿*

Hey @opencollective@mastodon.opencollective.com
What this business with Persona?

I'm in four collectives that use OpenCollective for funding. We want absolutely nothing to do with Peter Thiel/Palantir/Persona.

Will you please post some clarification of relationships and intentions, soon. Thanks 🙏

I'd forgotten this image I made in 1974. Prefiguring AI? At the time, it was just depicting the professional-managerial class, as post-Fordism begins to unroll. Anyway, now an actual machine stands in that place - pull the plug?

From Mike Hales (1974), 'Management science and "the second industrial revolution"', *Radical Science Journal*, #1, January 1974, p26.

March against the machines
https://pulltheplug.uk/
Saturday, February 28, 2026, 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Start at the Open AI office
York House, Fora, 221 Pentonville Rd, London, N1 9UZ

> Let People Control AI
> We call on the UK government to fund binding Citizens’ Assemblies on AI and implement their decisions.
> We all know best what role we want AI to play in our lives. By bringing together juries of ordinary people, informed by experts, to make binding decisions about AI, we can take back control from a handful of American tech companies overshadowing every aspect of our lives.
> If the UK government prefers to listen to industrial lobbyists over its own citizens, we will take matters into our own hands and set up our own Citizens’ Assembly on AI.

Who? Bears hallmarks of Extinction Rebellion?