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Starting next week from the Platform Cooperative Consortium, a series of sessions on the topic: platform.coop/blog/ai-with... @pcc-global.bsky.social

Once we have such tools, and once people have reframed their definition of what "good" AI is to be about these concerns rather than party tricks, it will be possible to have more constructive conversations. And there could be 1000s of different kinds of models, rather than just 2-3 big companies.

AI is worthless. Get a fugging grip.

This is the conclusion that my (admittedly very local, admittedly very artsy) peer group landed on though! LLMs the technological concept are totally fine - if you do local, open-source models running on consensually trained data and clean energy. But "AI" as it *actually exists* is loathsome.

Paging @ntnsndr.in nathanschneider.info/2026/06/an-i...

Public companies are collectively owned. Also smash communism

There are folks who are thinking about it but they're few and far between. Also generally not successful: bsky.app/profile/know...

have u seen @cocore.dev by @devingaffney.com?

Yes seven years does sound like enough for people to normalize whatever bullshit is happening right now.

This indexes into something that in my mind comes from Gebrus and M. Bender‘s work and advocacy and what I call "proper scooping". What‘s the problem that needs solving? What problem paths are we addressing? (With what desired outcomes?) Thus, where do we source the data from?

We were just talking about things like collective ownership of different parts of the AI stack in the @publicai.network seminar with guest @ntnsndr.in. Recording posted soon and there are six seminar sessions left this season. Love to see you there! publicai.network/seminar.html

coincidentally actionnetwork.org/events/how-s... is tonight and about this and i'm going!

Worker-owned and operated AI and datacenters that align with ecological values is what humans desperately need but the mainstream narrative creates the wrong divide. Instead of humans vs. AI, it should be humans and AI vs. capitalism.

... I think virtually always the way it's *received* is that this specific techn is going to be shoved at us and the person saying it's "inevitable" is making a personally targeted threat. I think most don't intend to be threatening but it's really received that way. Very "lie back and enjoy it"

You can see that most creators don’t even trust that their work would be adequately compensated nor that they’d have enough control over how their work is used. My organization along with other photo groups are coming together to replicate this survey and advocate for creators here in the U.S.