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the irony of people warring over lupita nyong'o's beauty and not realizing it makes her the perfect modern day helen of troy. her beauty has launched a thousand tik tok tirades, hundreds of bigoted reddit posts, countless youtube hot takes.

a sign of the times. dollar genai: exploit poor neighborhoods with dynamic pricing based on customer purchase history and habits. ai death & beyond: a death agent spends your remaining life, absorbing your memories, thoughts and beliefs.

ai city: imagine a world with zero politics, just technology making every decision, catching every premeditated crime. (formerly known as as praxis) ai’s closet: dying to see someone undressed without all the trouble of dating them? want to humiliate or harass someone you dislike?

The Monet post on X was manufactured outrage based on deception. You know, the kind of thing X and MAGA are known for. The real insight is that AI bros have never heard of behavioral priming. Maybe that’s why they’re so goddamn gullible?

art resist while fascism persists. new issue of the power tools zine is live. powertoolsofai.com/zines/power-...

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 👀

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. powertoolsofai.com/zine/

elon musk is an immigrant that hates immigrants, a narcissist disguised as an altruist, a critic who refuses to be criticized, a polluter parading as an environmentalist, a free speech “advocate” who pushes for censorship, a government contract hoarder that criticizes government spending…

elon musk is an immigrant that hates immigrants, a narcissist disguised as an altruist, a critic who refuses to be criticized, a polluter parading as an environmentalist, a free speech “advocate” who pushes for censorship, a government contract hoarder that criticizes government spending…

what do you get when hobble together extreme tech optimism, authoritarianism, theology, and 1930s german political theory? a franken-thiel. this month i’m focusing on the monsters of ai, frightening demagogues hell-bent on transforming our society into a dystopian horror. first up is peter thiel.

what do all of these tiktok ‘creators’ have in common? they are all ai accounts entirely dedicated to spreading maga and conservative views.

it’s no accident that ai toolmen have partnered so closely w/ the current regime. it’s no accident that ai is targeted at the educated, at knowledge workers and fields that are predominantly liberal.

what do all of these tiktok ‘creators’ have in common? they are all ai accounts entirely dedicated to spreading maga and conservative views.

they have thousands of followers, views and comments. some are obviously ai, others aren’t. when you read the comments, it’s hard to tell what % are bots and who are humans. no one is calling out these accounts as ai.