Myles Lewando

"If university bots graded bots, you would no longer have a university. You’d have a tomb, an academic mausoleum in which digital phantoms murmured emptily" theconversation.com/friday-essay...

and to all of creation.

This is wonderful! As a serial tab-closer I doubt I'd see much overgrowth, but I have multiple friends and colleagues who would be surrounded by a jungle in no time.

When people claim there is a high demand for AI, remember: … we were not given a choice. AI was pushed into products we already use. It’s like claiming there’s a high demand for high fructose corn syrup….. or advertisements.

Today is the day! DATA BY DESIGN is out in the world! With immense gratitude to the entire project team, to @gita2.bsky.social, and to @mitpress.bsky.social, for turning this vision into reality. We're so excited to be able to celebrate with all of you!

Evergreen.

This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

I wrote a short guide on how to get more natural sounding voices on Linux. With thanks to @edent.tel for making me aware there were options beyond the default. #A11y #Accessibility #Linux codemacabre.com/notes/natura...

I bought this course today and, only a short way through it, I am absolutely convinced of its quality. I can't wait to continue with it!

I do, honestly, want to like more things, they just need to be better.

A great thread of brilliant resources.

This book's been eyeing me from my to-read shelf for months; I'm looking forward to finally reading it. (As usual, I'll be joining in spirit as I can't join the meetings due to timezone.)

Can a technology be fascist? codemacabre.com/notes/agains...

They get it! > How do you enforce this? > You [can't]. People will still send LLM generated code. This policy makes it explicit that we do not welcome these careless submissions. We have a Code of Conduct that is 80% about [...] what our values are, and 20% about handling unwanted behavior 💯

Everyone’s talking about AI, but no one’s actually asking workers how it’s affecting us. So we’ve done it ourselves. Today we are launching the AI Workers’ Inquiry, a new study led by workers themselves, into the way AI is changing work. Read it at go.utaw.tech/ai

I watched Resident Evil today. A great film, highly recommended!

When we talk about the costs that LLMs impose on society we should not forget the fact that nothing works anymore because everyone is so scared of getting their shit scraped. I can't even use google scholar from my university or starlink because they send too much traffic.

“Generative AI can seem astonishingly real, but like the spoon in The Matrix, it’s just an illusion.” Léonie Watson (@tink.uk), beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025. beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse... #btconf #mondayMixtape

“Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026” https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/ > We can point out all of the harms being done by the technology right now, and we can speak to the additional harms that will be done if things continue like this, but our concerns are spurned or ignored.

What are you doing Saturday, October 17. It's a good day for creative coding. Learn more and register at ccfest.rocks/register/ #virtualCCFest

This looks amazing! I'd do it myself if I could, but other nature / art / data vis nerds should definitely take a look.

"We know what to do: incubate open-access A.I. models, regulate technologies before they go rogue, hold the people who allow them to go rogue accountable if they do and protect the most vulnerable when we, the people, sometimes get it wrong." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Paul M. Barrett reviews two new books on Silicon Valley's ideological bent — Gil Durán's The Nerd Reich and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism — and asks whether people are now willing to do what is necessary to resist technofascism.

I'm looking forward to starting @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social's new book, End Times Fascism.

I received a panicked message from a family member this week asking if "AI" will really cause the extinction of the human race. I did my best to dispel these fears in simple terms, but my anger at the industry leaked through. Perhaps I should have sent them this very accessible article instead.

Really important to understand that AI has not become *more* AI, *real* AI, or *good* AI since the late 70s. It's still a parlour trick. The parlour has just got a lot bigger and the trick a lot more tricksy.

Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors

An excellent, timely podcast by @bcmerchant.bsky.social with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social about end times fascism and the current "AI" doomerism. youtube.com/watch?v=rR5U...

This is a great thread that highlights what we need to do about "AI".

Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It costs roughly £200K to show an ad to every adult in the UK on Insta, Facebook, X & Google. With £72m in crypto donations, Reform now has enough money to repeat this every week until 2029. Dodgy ads already shaped Brexit, we can't afford to let it happen again. We need to scale up our fight.

📝💝 but what a privilege it is to read your code kayserifserif.place/posts/2026/h...

This looks amazing!

Very much this. Holding space for refusal of this tech is a key resistance strategy. That means advocating for that option in e.g. school policies (if we can't get a full ban) but also simply being visible in our own refusal, so that others see it as possible.

New on the MAIHT3k newsletter -- how to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistance. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

"…when I hear a tech person say that something's 'just a tool', I can't help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves." An excellent read by @iris-meredith.bsky.social. deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such...

Yes… Ha ha ha… Yes!

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.

Open-Source needs your help! The NHS are looking to make their code private 😭 @edent.tel wrote a blog post here: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05... please sign here is you disagree with this change, making things open makes them better: keepthingsopen.com