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Why the #AI backlash has turned violent · & why it's probably only going to get worse from here. @brianmerchant@mastodon.social

👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-the-ai-backlash-has-turned-violent

This citizen-run collaborative mapping proj. tracks & visualizes proposed data center projects & related development activity in the United States.

👉🏻 https://trackdatacenters.com/

A new report published Tues. finds that a significant share of employees are actively trying to sabotage their company’s AI rollout.

👉🏻 https://fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen-z-workers-sabotage-ai-rollout-backlash/

collapse: data.models.worlds. What role does technology play in th intensifying state of crisis shaping our world?

👉🏻 https://we-make-money-not-art.com/collapse-data-models-worlds-what-role-does-technology-play-in-the-intensifying-state-of-crisis-shaping-our-world/

Parasite Art · as a Subversive Form of Resistance That Offers Direct Tactics in Times of Missing Emancipatory Alternatives.

👉🏻 https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/17911

This article highlights forms of resistance that challenge corporate-state control over internet monopolies. @Escuderoandaluz@mastodon.art

👉🏻 https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/17905

"Refugees & #AI" · Centering the lived experiences of refugees & their power building work in fighting against surveillance technologies.

👉🏻 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887

Sydney councils fear new datacentres could cause blackouts, block housing & affect locals’ health. #AI

👉🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/04/sydney-councils-fear-new-datacentres-could-cause-blackouts-block-housing-and-affect-locals-health

Hyperscale · The Ambition & Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires. How the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. @parismarx@mastodon.online

👉🏻 https://bookshop.org/p/books/hyperscale-the-ambition-and-excess-of-big-tech-s-data-empires-paris-marx/bef8c026f7d016e2?ean=9798217048526&next=t&next=t&affiliate=18331&ref=disconnect.blog

April 2022 · Towards Democratic #Technologies: Six fragmented points of departure for a collaborative movement of engineers, artists & users. @daniploeger@tldr.nettime.org

👉🏻 https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/q-1k1sYpXSDpUGL2rY4ZFAGe/

Don’t show me your AI. It is rude! · A curated list of approaches, projects, & initiatives addressing the challenges posed by Gen AI. @info_activism@mastodon.cc

👉🏻 https://www.tacticaltech.org/news/insights/Don%E2%80%99t-show-me-your-AI./

Raging Against the Machine · A Popular School Against AI will address the problems, possibilities, & politics that haunt our understanding of #AI.

👉🏻 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn9h4vhwpqdTT0-zMCmfdpV2OmQZDGLKO

AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1 °C · Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power #AI ..

👉🏻 https://archive.is/20260329173023/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/

#AI's #aesthetics of failure · On the demise of #Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop. @brianmerchant@mastodon.social

👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthetics-of-failure

Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer from a “major artificial intelligence company” to turn her farmland into a data center.

👉🏻 https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/kentucky-woman-rejects-26-million-offer-to-turn-her-farm-into-a-data-center/

@dresstokilt@mastodon.social @tobadzistsini@bonequest.net

Just to clarify, there’s a character limit on alt text, so it couldn’t fit the full text from the image there.

The full alt text is shared by @Aline_Fuller@kolektiva.social here: @Aline_Fuller@kolektiva.social

Call for Projects · @Error417@tldr.nettime.org is looking fr projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” & confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on.

👉🏻 https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable/open-call

This workshop examines machinations fostering & reshaping global power dynamics, embodied militarisation, AI, warfare, & resistance.

👉🏻 https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/MTLBX8/

"SLOW LLM" is a browser extension and DNS service that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly. It works with #ChatGPT and #Claude. @samlavigne@mastodon.social

👉🏻 https://slowllm.lav.io/

The Case for #Palestine at the Venice Biennale · 'We are calling on participants in the Venice Biennale to demand that the #Biennale does not give cover to genocide.'

👉🏻 https://hyperallergic.com/the-case-for-boycotting-the-2026-venice-biennale/

The Ends of AI · Sycophancy and psychosis. "AI under fascist capitalism remakes the entire world into Epstein’s island." @mel_hogan@mstdn.ca

👉🏻 https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ends-of-ai/

@eibart@zirk.us

I’d genuinely appreciate help improving the alt-text rather than just being told it’s an affront. I’ve already gone ahead and edited the post, but if you have suggestions for a better description, I’m happy to update it.

After The Algorithm · Mar. 20-29. What does artificial «intelligence» mean for your job, your creativity, your community?

👉🏻 https://atafestival.io/

Algorithmic Dehumanization: Lessons from the Use of AI in the Gaza War · Execution of necropolitical power over life and death. @berlinergazette@mstdn.social

👉🏻 https://berlinergazette.de/algorithmic-dehumanization-lessons-from-the-use-of-ai-in-the-gaza-war/

Why we fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares. Truly understanding th potential impacts of AI means confronting capitalism & class, power & exploitation ..

👉🏻 https://www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai

An excellent CONTRIBUTING.md example with strict no-LLM policies. @algernon@come-from.mad-scientist.club

👉🏻 https://git.madhouse-project.org/iocaine/iocaine/pulls/127/files

Google is considering building a datacenter in Nebraska that could require more than 3 times the amount of power the entire city of Lincoln uses at peak demand ..

👉🏻 https://flatwaterfreepress.org/google-proposes-nebraska-data-center-requiring-more-power-than-all-of-lincoln/

Call for participation! Luddite Camp 2026 · 14-16 Aug. A small weekend gathering for #Luddites, tech critics, & others who demand a human-centred way of living.

👉🏻 https://camp.perfectlives.eu/

Eyes on AI is a game that helps you understand how AI-powered surveillance impacts your life and community.

👉🏻 https://eyeson-ai.org/

"Death by GPS" · Examines how biases in #automation impact relationships between individuals, labor, & social structures, resulting in new forms of exploitation.

👉🏻 https://www.salvatore-vitale.com/#/project/death-by-gps

AI has already been used to kill people .. OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths.

👉🏻 https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9

#US data centers face slew of problems amid grassroots protests against #AI · New constructions delayed or cancelled ..

👉🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/24/datacenters-ai-construction

Six protocols for permacomputational self-defense against laborious #computing · A tactical toolbox against “artificial intelligence”, using only paper & pen. @NbYr@post.lurk.org

👉🏻 https://wiki.rybn.org/doku.php?id=six_protocols_for_permacomputational_self-defense_against_laborious_computing

Qwen Stefani Against Techfascism · Instructions for Simple #Sabotage · A handbook of resistance. @mediengruppe_bitnik@tldr.nettime.org

👉🏻 https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/q

Open Source Data Center Atlas · Explore current and future projections of data center locations and supporting infrastructure.

👉🏻 https://im3.pnnl.gov/datacenter-atlas

"too dirty to be trained" · Make your data too dirty for '#AI'. Can we opt out from being trained by becoming unqualified? @jwn@tldr.nettime.org

👉🏻 https://too-dirty-to-be-trained.net

"AI MUST DIE" · is a short zine that presents critical perspectives on the way that AI is talked about, governed, and owned in 2025.

👉🏻 https://www.aimustdie.info/

[..] The fall of the fiber optic control, power and paranoia is a #map that shows all the documented cuts made in the Internet’s undersea cables. @Escuderoandaluz@mastodon.art

👉🏻 https://escuderoandaluz.com/2025/08/10/the-fall-of-the-fiber-optic-control-power-and-paranoia/

'#HalluciGen' · This #article aims documents how to set up the content management system WordPress to feed #AI scrapers with nonsensical noise. @mplanitzer@tldr.nettime.org

👉🏻 https://carrier-bag.net/hallucigen-a-practical-implementation-to-defend-from-ai-scrapers/

#Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies · A fluid group of #artists and engineers working in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. @daniploeger@tldr.nettime.org

Practising critical responses to disrupted futures · Critical Signals explores practical & visionary responses to an era of collapses ..

👉🏻 https://criticalsignals.nz/

The weaponization of Waymo .. How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations. @brianmerchant@mastodon.social

👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo

Fuck Starlink 🖕🛰️ Our environment, our climate & our sky are common goods. They are too precious to be privatized ..

👉🏻 https://fuckstarlink.org/

The deadliest poison known to AI · iocaine does not try to slow crawlers. iocaine is purely about generating garbage.

👉🏻 https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine