Dystopian tech is not inevitable.

We can push back against dystopia.

And we can win.

Do not capitulate.

#BeTheResistance #DigitalRights #HumanRights #NoAI

Just what we don't need, another climate destroying data centre to take more water and use so much energy that they use it as a reason to use more fossil fuels
Plus more land turned to concrete.

Microsoft is planning to build huge AI data centres in Leeds that will drain the River Aire and massively increase carbon emissions. Add your name to help stop the final sign-off: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/prevent-construction-of-microsoft-hyperscale-datacentres-in-leeds

#ClimateChange #NoAI

Solidarity means alt text!

Thread about disability liberation, a request for solidarity, and some alt text resources:

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#altText #solidarity #solidarityMeansAltText #disabilityLiberation #anarchism #art #illustration #calendsArt #noAI

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Solidarity means alt text. Hand-lettered message in bold uppercase framed by vines and flowers. The words "alt text" are large and prominent. The "A" in the word "means" is circled, forming a circle-A for anarchism. The circle-A is centered in the image. The frame illustration is made of simple line drawings of wavy vines with flower buds and leaves. The letters and floral frame are white on a black background. The illustration is signed in a lower corner of the frame with the handle calends of april.

For anyone with voting power re: Debian's General Resolution - please vote option 1 to fully ban LLM contributions. #noai

Is there a job portal/network for the #noAI, #neoLuddites crowd?

#FollowerPower #getFediHired #FediHelp #jobSearch

@dgerard I haven't been a DD in a very long time but all of you who are still part of the project please support this.

#debian #noai

Also this Sunday! We have a Rally in Kinsmen park in Saskatoon #yxe #NoAI

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NO AI DATA CENTERS IN SASKATCHEWAN Make your voice heard by signing the moratorium urging the suspension of Al data center development in Saskatchewan! Organized by Red Bear Party KINSMEN PARK SASKATOON JULY 26 3PM There will also be a series of speeches! We're asking attendees to bring water and Gatorades! There will be a distribution of excess water and other resources to the unhoused community suffering from the heat. Please bring signs, posters, and other additional resources like food or tarps you think may be helpful. @RedBearParty

Is the only way to have work meetings that aren't constantly recorded or using an AI notetaker (which is recording) to start one's own organization with a no-recording policy?

#Privacy #HumanRights #NoAI #NoSurveillance

@drew hits the nail on the head as usual.

Torvalds, on AI in the kernel: "We do open source because it results in better technology, not because of religious reasons."

This statement—morally rigid, hypocritically pseudo-apolitical, arguing from authority, and irrationally ignoring evidence—overtly and redundantly meets the criteria to be dismissed as a religious statement.

https://drewdevault.com/blog/AI-in-Linux/

#noai

Noch mehr Tränen, noch mehr Gleitgel.

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/24/codeberg-divides/

#Codeberg #noAI

The people boycotting Codeberg is exactly the type of people you want boycotting oxygen too.

#noai #antiai #codeberg #opensource

If you agree with @Codeberg 's decision over banning LLM-generated code, why not support them financially with a membership?

https://join.codeberg.org/

For €2/month you can support an important organisation taking a stand against AI, providing a #FOSS alternative to big corporate GitHub. Many nerds here can afford that.

As an active member of the Codeberg e.V. nonprofit, you also get a voice and a vote in how Codeberg is run. It was the members who voted to support the resolution against slopcode.

#Codeberg #git #NoAI #FuckAI

Watching this video makes me feel really sad for teachers and professors who just want to teach 😔

#noai #academia #technology #books

Other Kagi users, you'll want to turn off the revolting "Summarize" option on search (click the three dots next to the share button on any search page and hit the slider).

#noAI #Kagi

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The wealthiest people on Earth are the most evil people on Earth, pushing the planet destroying torment nexus bots.

Meanwhile, those of us trying to fight them for the sake of humanity are now risking eviction from late rent.

Only about $12 USD to secure your eBook at the lowest level pledge. Campaign is now officially successful, but Kickstarter is my only source of income now. I need to raise as much as possible, $3000 isn't livable income for three+ months working on my book.

I have an excellent reputation on Kickstarter.

Pledge! Until August 5th.

Kickstarter link:

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#NoAI

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@hkrn
"U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the agency views Chinese distillation as a form of IP theft."
Oh *now* they care about IP theft? I thought this was "the same way people learned"?
#noai

Excellent example of good design, analysis, and testing in an iterative fashion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df1mDyIoQnI&t=789s (cued to the description of test methods used)

This is a world where there isn't even a whiff of AI/LLM/Vibe Coding.

Don't let the aviation slant of the video turn you away. The principles shown here are applicable to all sorts of scenarios, even code.

#AvGeek #Aviation #ElectricAircraft #Homebuilt #DIY #EAA #Engineering #Design #AI #NoAI #LLM #VibeCoding

@emilymbender @alex Thank you for writing and publishing this book. I went from #AIskeptic to #NoAI after reading it. Highly recommended! 🤗

I think many people read about the new #Codeberg #noai rule for the first time and assume it could be abused just like copyright law, but those are fundamentally different: no one has any 'right' to get AI removed from Codeberg. Trolls cannot file a false claim and demand an investigation to get someone in trouble. The system does not need to 'scale' or have a perfect detection rate. We just need to get rid of the worst and most obvious offenders, thats all. Humans can do this work just fine.

A Truchet tile variation with long flowing lines knotted together in center tiles.

CMYK on 11”15” watercolor paper, vintage HP DraftPro DXL #PenPlotter, Python, #NoAI

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/truchet-tiles/

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot

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A pen plot on white paper of long horizontal lines of mixed color that appear to be fluttering in the wind. The lines meet in the middle connected via arcs and diagonal lines. The center tiles also have a few vertical slightly wavy threads coming out of the top and bottom. The lines are drawn in cyan, yellow, magenta, and black inks and make secondary colors.

Another Truchet tile variation with long flowing lines knotted together in center tiles.

CMYK on 11”15” watercolor paper, vintage HP DraftPro DXL #PenPlotter, Python, #NoAI

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/truchet-tiles/

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot

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A pen plot on white paper of long horizontal lines of mixed color groups that appear to be fluttering in the wind. The lines meet in the middle connected via arcs and diagonal lines. The center tiles also have a few vertical slightly wavy threads coming out of the top and bottom. The lines are drawn in cyan, yellow, magenta, and black inks and make secondary colors.

Sometimes the tiles just arrange themselves in a curious way. Do you see a face?

CMYK on 11”15” watercolor paper, vintage HP DraftPro DXL #PenPlotter, Python, #NoAI

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/truchet-tiles/

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot

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A pen plot on white paper of horizontal, vertical, and diagonal lines of cyan, yellow, and magenta filling a rectangular square grid. The outer perimeter has wavy lines extending out looking like threads.

Another Truchet tile iteration with long flowing lines knotted together in the center tiles.

CMYK on 11”15” watercolor paper, vintage HP DraftPro DXL #PenPlotter, Python, #NoAI

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/truchet-tiles/

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot

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A pen plot on white paper of long horizontal lines of mixed color groups that appear to be fluttering in the wind. The lines meet in the middle connected via arcs and diagonal lines. The lines are drawn in cyan, yellow, magenta, and black inks and make secondary colors.

🎶 ☠️ 💙 Some cool sounds, & cool water for #WomenMusicWednesday

https://youtu.be/qDR_NV9mhno

"Flow Like So" is a synth-soaked ambient piece with accordion I composed in 2022. I put some finishing touches on it and then built this video with water footage from the Penticton, BC, Canada dam. It's mesmerizing, relaxing, chill.

For music nerds, the time signature is 7/4. The accordion is my musette tuned Weltmeister Achat. The synths sounds are all in GarageBand (the free Apple app) which just goes to show that possibilities are endless if you have a creative streak and like to play with sonic landscapes."

Real performances on actual instruments. No AI

#Synths #WomenInMusic #WomenComposers #Electronica #Music #Penticton #BC #NoAI

Getting banned from a community for pointing out that someone's AI "art" sucks is pretty satisfying.

I highly recommend it.

#NoAI #AIArt #Irony

#askfedi I am looking for account suggestions for advocates and activists in several areas: #lgbtq - #diversity - #ecology - #antiai / #noai - #antinazi

@stuartml In terms of no #noAI movement, @aral is quite a vocal voice of reason

You know what would be great to add to this planet already plagued by heat waves, heat domes, and constant summer wildfires?

More data centres!

What's that? You don't have a refrigerated underground bunker to survive more heat?

Well that's on you, should have stopped eating avocado toasts earlier to save some money for it or for a nice luxury yacht sailing the melted arctic seas

#NoAI #DataCenters

Do you know a company/organization that has a policy to never record meetings and forbid the use of AI notetakers during meetings?

#Privacy #NoAI

I needed something send to people who aren't aware of the issues with #AI but couldn't find anything comprehensive and authoritative enough, so I compiled a page of links that hopefully can provide enough evidence... 🚫🤖

#NoAI #LLM #Techbros #DataCenters #Capitalism

https://eobet.com/fun/llms/

lol - BlueZ has started using LLM for analysing btmon trace if it has been attached.

I'd have even understood if it was a locally trained LLM - but no, as it''s explicitly stated when creating issue, it's a third-party one!

considering BlueZ is pretty much the sole option for Bluetooth stack on Linux, perhaps there might have to be a discussion for alternatives...

#Bluetooth #BlueZ #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #RaspberryPi #Ubuntu #Debian #Privacy #LLM #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #NoAI

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Exempt from one of BlueZ raised issues: Privacy Skip anonymization — Send the raw decoded trace to the LLM without scrubbing MAC addresses or device names. I understand this trace will be processed by a third-party LLM API and I have the right to share this data. Versions BlueZ version: 5.85-4ubuntu0.1 Kernel version: 7.0.0-28-generic Problematic device: Ubuntu 26.04 github-actions (bot): btsnoop Analyzer is processing your trace. This typically takes 1-3 minutes. Decoding with btmon, then sending to LLM for analysis...

We've updated our website to include an Anti-AI stance.

In a nutshell, it reflects the decision we announced here some days ago: AI won't be allowed in the project. Neither for reporting issues, writing code, nor as part of any feature.

Read more: https://libreweddingplanner.org/#anti-ai-stance

#noai

Being against AI feels exactly like being for veganism - personal benefits seem more important than everything else.

#NoAI #veganism

Had our company allhands yesterday. They were talking about all the wonderful AI tools they are introducing to 'help' us.

Someone (not me, though I wish it had been haha) asked a question along the lines of

"with all these new AI tools, can we have transparency on what it is costing and is there a plan for when the cost inevitably becomes unaffordable?"

The main AI fan in the leadership team scoffed, said in a sulky tone "dont agree with inevitable" and went on to say there's lots of myths about AI we need to do an AI myth busting session.

Yes, lets.

Still waiting on a response to my short essay to the leadership team about why I wont be using any of these tools.

#NoAI

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#NoAI

Tomorrow is the second Recovering After Gen AI webinar, this time with No to Big Tech's Matt Tutt. (Check out https://www.notobigtech.org) @matttutt

Whether or not you attended the webinar with @tante on Saturday, you can enjoy the one that's tomorrow, Tuesday July 21st.

These are all simply conversations with thoughtful tech critics about how we should deal with the aftermath of Gen AI.

The Gen AI nightmare will end, because the datacentres are unsustainable according to the MIT, UN, and Harvard Science Review research I cite. Model collapse (slop feeding on slop), and the financial bubble are additional major factors.

In its wake, we will have to deal with millions of cognitively damaged people, massive skill loss, nearly an entire generation unable to enter the workforce, massive environmental damage including a lot less land for agriculture and for humans to live on, immense e-waste and abandoned datacentres, and a possibly badly damaged power grid.

Free-of-charge, no registration necessary. No new software required. The Jitsi app is built into our website and compatible with all desktop and mobile web browsers.

Tuesday, July 21st

1pm CEST, 7am EDT, 4am PDT

Free-of-charge, no registration.

For more information, visit https://stopgenai.com/recovering-after-gen-ai-webinars/

Recovering After Gen AI book Kickstarter, fully funded* by week two, with two weeks to go. Pledge rewards start at about $12 USD.

Kickstarter link:
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Tuesday, July 21st 1pm CEST, 7am EDT, 4am PDT Free-of-charge, no registration. For more information, visit https://stopgenai.com/recovering-after-gen-ai-webinars/

I keep watching for the AI bubble to burst. It's been so expensive for so little returns.

At work, a senior leader asked me to present on AI. As a manager, I'm expected to adopt it, whether I can use it or not.

Our usage is tracked, so I've had to do some stuff with it. I tried setting up a complex process, since the easy things aren't really time-savers. I presented on this testing, even though I doubt I'm actually going to use it.

Every day, the AI tools seem to interpret the exact same prompts differently. So when I validate the output, it has changed.

How can I add an AI process into my workflow when the output is different every day? How much extra time am I wasting in validating the output? And don't tell me that my prompt is bad. It works until suddenly it doesn't. The tool is bad. Tools shouldn't do that.

I can write programming logic to do the same things. I know the code isn't going to give me different output every time I open it.

The senior leaders are desperate to find use cases for AI. The companies have invested a lot of money and want to see returns, but it's not happening. When are they going to cut their losses?

#NoAI

Let's get this straight: anything created with "AI" is #slop.

It doesn't have to be vibe-coded. It doesn't have to be horrible code. It doesn't matter that you've spent hours perfecting the prompt. It doesn't matter that ten people have spent a week reviewing it in detail.

As long as an "AI" took part in writing it, it's slop. It's an unethical technology, and anything created with it is tainted. It's an inhuman technology, and you're supporting it. You're being disrespectful to your users and contributors. You're putting your own convenience over humanity. You're aiding the worst murderous assholes in the history of humanity. And what's perhaps worst, you quite likely believe that you are making a net positive contribution, that you're helping people, while you're actually disrespecting and harming them.

#NoAI #NoLLM

I was handed a printed conversation someone had with Gemini today as medical advice. I really hate this timeline.

#NoAI

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I had a great time chatting with @davidgerard about my upcoming book, Recovering After Gen AI.

Yep, David and I both agree that the nightmare of Gen AI will probably end within the next few years. Because the datacentres are unsustainable according to the laws of physics, the computer science concept of model collapse, and of course... that ridiculous financial bubble.

Pivot to AI blog link in my comment to this post.

#NoAI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbqGOGwggiI

And here's the blog link.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/17/kim-crawley-recovering-after-gen-ai/

Please consider buying Pivot to AI merch, donating to David's Ko-fi, and/or pledging to my Kickstarter campaign (ending on August 5th). Because the good guys fighting Gen AI are broke, and the bad guys inflicting Gen AI upon humanity and the badly damaged Earth are billionaires and trillionaires.

Pivot to AI merch
https://pivot-to-ai.redbubble.com/

David's Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/A1529D5

My Kickstarter campaign
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/

#NoAI

@davidgerard

Now that the CEO of Flock has called deflock.me a terrorist organization, I'd hate for other people to know about these other flock watchdog groups.

Please don't go on these websites, I beg you.

https://Alpr.wtf - Every U.S. jurisdiction using ALPR, plus how to file info requests.

https://EyesOnFlock.com - Crowdsourced map of Flock cameras and city contracts.

https://Deflock.me - Nationwide ALPR map tracking Flock deployments, removals, and resistance.

https://HaveIBeenFlocked.com — Quick check to see if Flock is watching your neighborhood.

https://DontGetFlocked.com — Plots your route, counts ALPR/Flock cameras, and suggests surveillance-free alternatives.

#flock #surveillance #uspol #police #politics #ai #noai #facialrecognition

I see the Rage Against the AI Hype is slowly increasing. And I'm here for it

#NoAI

The shitty way that Torvalds made this statement about AI use in the Linux kernel is fucking infuriating. If you want those of us against AI to leave, then I'll leave. I've been moving closer and closer to BSD over the past few months and this statement is speeding up that process.

I've been running Linux for more than 30 years and dammit, now I'm fucking pissed! I fucking hate AI now more than ever. If you're okay with the terrible ethics of AI, then use it. Just stop telling me that I should be or I'll be left behind. Fucking leave me behind. I don't care!

#noai #fuckai

https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116929287711031596

@zzt One thing I found noticeable about Torvald's post is that like every good Just-A-Tool-Bro, he avoided even acknowledging the externalised costs. Unless Linus is willing to move next to a data center powered by gas turbines, he needs to shut the fuck up.

#NoAI #Linux

Just thought of another great way to poison AI bots:

Use a Markov chain of "The Eye of Argon" by Jim Theis.

In fact, you probably don't even NEED to run it through a Markov chain. It's nonsensical as it is! 😂🤣

#noai #fuckai #poisonai

Just chipped in $15 to The NetBSD Foundation! 🧡🚩

One of the biggest advantages of NetBSD right now is their strict policy against accepting LLM-generated code commits. For a FOSS operating system, this is a massive win. It protects code provenance, avoids copyright pollution, and ensures every line is purposefully crafted and reviewed by actual humans.

If you value clean, human-driven open-source development, join me in supporting them!

🔗 https://www.netbsd.org/donations/

#NetBSD #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #HumanMade #NoAI #AntiAI #RunBSD

The state of #Python ecosystem right now: almost everything is slop. Some projects are complete vibe-coded slop (autobahn, chardet, cryptography). Some projects are disguised slop ("Coding agents shouldn't co-author themselves.")

There is only a handful of human projects left (Flask being one bright example). And they're being killed. They're being killed by the neverending slew of slop pull requests. They're being killed by all their dependencies becoming slop. They're being killed because this whole ecosystem has became such a complete cesspit that you have zero motivation to do anything.

EDIT: and honestly, this is only going to get worse. When you kill the incentive to work on projects, you only get more slop. Maintainers give in, and more projects become slop. Or they give up, and projects get forked unto slop.

#NoAI #NoLLM

#Signal troubleshooting - very odd support conversation

Yesterday afternoon I had a quick video call with someone using Signal and then I went to pick up my child from an afternoon summer program.

When I got home I realized that my phone wasn't receiving any new messages on Signal... but my computer was. Signal on my phone was completely frozen.

I followed a prompt and sent the most recent log to their support email. Then carried on with my life.

At some point, 2 hours later, I had a eureka moment: the last thing that worked was a call. Let's try the same thing.

So I called my mom and hung up (she was in the same room as me). After the call, all the Signal messages that had accumulated during the afternoon magically synched. Everything worked again! And then I found a new message by Signal saying "Welcome to the official Signal release chat!" Ok.

Glad I was distracted by my child and dinner because when I checked my email, I found a response from Signal support: "It appears the database is irrecoverably damaged. Unfortunately you will need to completely uninstall and then reinstall Signal. This will delete your message history. It cannot be recovered."

Say what? 😳​

So I wrote back to Signal that I had fixed my issue by simply starting a call and then all the messages started synching again. I thanked them for their speedy reply and said everything was ok.

I did the bedtime routine for my child and before bed I checked my email again.

Two identical emails from Signal:

"Hello. We understand your frustration. We feel it too" HUH?

"There is no specific timeline for a resolution at this moment." WHAT RESOLUTION, I SAID I FIXED THE PROBLEM?

"Please keep in mind we are a small team and have limitations as a non-profit organization. Uninstalling and reinstalling is the only action available."

I feel for you Signal and I'm super grateful for all you do, but maybe your LLM support system needs some tweaking. Because this has got to be some LLM that misunderstood my reply.

Thank goodness I didn't wipe 6 years' worth of messages, gaaah.

Signal has been working perfectly ever since. Still, I'm now compiling a list of people I message on there as a contingency plan, should thing go awry again.

I've been using #DeltaChat more lately and more and really love it.

one more tale for #MySoCalledSudoLife

#NoAI #LLM

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an email from Signal support that reads: "hello, we understand your frustration. we feel it, too. there is no specific timeline for a resolution at this moment. please keep in mind that we are a small team and have limitations as a non-profit organization. uninstalling and reinstalling is the only action available."

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a screenshot of an email from Signal Support: Hello, Thanks for contacting us and sorry to hear that you're unable to use Signal. It appears the database is irrecoverably damaged. Unfortunately, you will need to completely uninstall and then reinstall Signal. This will delete your message history. It cannot be recovered. To uninstall: * Tap and hold on the Signal app icon until it shakes then select delete.

"'AI is just a tool', yeah, well, so is meth. Several militaries distributed it to their front-line soldiers to enable them to fight for longer. It's also an FDA approved medication for treatment-resistant ADHD.

Yet if I gave all my employees unlimited free meth, created a leaderboard where whoever uses the most meth each month gets a bonus, then fired everyone who refused to engage in mandatory meth smoking, I think the investors might have some question."

The tool is stupid, and not for whatever the fuck you're doing with it."

- Marcus Hutchins, the guy who stopped WannaCry.

#NoAI

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/malwaretech_ai-is-just-a-tool-yeah-well-so-is-meth-share-7482471602165620736-QxrH/

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"'AI is just a tool', yeah, well, so is meth. Several militaries distributed it to their front-line soldiers to enable them to fight for longer. It's also an FDA approved medication for treatment-resistant ADHD. Yet if I gave all my employees unlimited free meth, created a leaderboard where whoever uses the most meth each month gets a bonus, then fired everyone who refused to engage in mandatory meth smoking, I think the investors might have some question." The tool is stupid, and not for whatever the fuck you're doing with it." - Marcus Hutchins, the guy who stopped WannaCry. LinkedIn screenshot

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We're 75% funded, a week into a month long campaign!

Recovering After Gen AI book.

I have a solid Kickstarter track record that can be verified. Three previous book Kickstarters, funded and fulfilled. Two of them on time, one two months late. My previous book Technofascism Survival Guide was a Kickstarter "Project We Love!"

My books are 100% human researched and human written, the pre-2020 way.

Recovering After Gen AI is based on my thesis that Gen AI will end because the datacentres are physically unsustainable according to my cited MIT, UN, and Harvard Science Review research. Plus the conundrum of model collapse, and the financial bubble.

In the wake of Gen AI ending will be millions of people with immense psychological and cognitive problems due to delegating their thinking to the technofascist slop bot, and becoming emotionally attached under the illusion of sentience.

There will be further accelerated climate disaster.

A possibly greatly damaged power grid.

Immense waste in the form of billions of dollars worth of abandoned datacentres.

And an unimaginable amount of tech debt into the form of most software having tons of the worst bugs ever, way worse than human coded bugs. Software people use everyday becoming completely unusable.

Later this month, I will appear on Blueprints of Disruption, Stupid Sexy Privacy, and Pivot to AI. Which should boost my reach further.

Pitch in for as little as about $12 USD for an eBook!

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#NoAI

Kickstarter link:

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Recovering After Gen AI Kickstarter, $2226 out of $2999 raised.

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The talking heads elevated by the media as the voice for "anti AI" are hypocrites and they don't care about helping ordinary people who are facing poverty thanks to Gen AI.

Ed Zitron yells "NO ONE IS LOSING THEIR JOBS!" several times per week.

Cory Doctorow actually chooses to use Gen AI. Seriously.

Instead, elevate people who are poor, struggling, and suffering for having moral principles.

My latest blog.

Share! 🎉 🎉 #NoAI

https://stopgenai.com/anti-ai-mr-rogers-said-look-for-the-helpers-celebrated-false-prophets-spat-upon-helpers/

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Public domain hubble telescope image

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-ai-data-centre-near-auchtertool-fife

We're asked to go easy on nearly everything and those blasted ai centres are popping up everywhere. I signed this.

#Petition #Noai

There seem to be two distinct kinds of AI Psychosis occuring:

Type 1: Becoming delusional about themselves and the world as a result of being gasslit or glazed by the "friend in their computer" thinking they’re inventing new physics, discovering mystical secrets or generating megabytes of useless output;

Type 2: Becoming delusional about what LLMs are capable of and how effective they are, as a result of developing a reliance upon them, and becoming fanatical in their promotion and defense.

The Friends of Eliza can help you overcome your AI/LLM prompt-query compulsion syndrome.

Endorphins are the hardest to resist.
Work together and we can beat this.

The first meeting is in the Chinese Room at 11:00am. Coffee and Cake will be available 🙂☕️️🧁

• Humans must not anthropomorphise AI systems,
• Humans must not blindly trust the output of AI systems,
• Humans must remain fully responsible and accountable for consequences arising from the use of AI systems

#NoAI
#FriendsOfEliza
#PPQS
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You can offset carbon on a spreadsheet. Yet you can't offset thermodynamics in the real world.

Big tech is bragging about "water-efficient" AI data centers while intentionally omitting the power plant. Read this article.

In the US, generating the electricity to run these clusters uses roughly 12x more water than the data centers use on-site.

Buying "water credits" in Michigan does not change the physical reality that you are boiling off the local municipal water supply in a desert area to dissipate the thermal load of an LLM.

Kinda sus to call it an engineering breakthrough. Looks like thermodynamic gerrymandering to me.

Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-data-centers-water-use-901e2902?st=o4wXMk&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

#infrastructure #greenwashing #technology #genai #noai #climatechange #datacenters #sysadmin

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screenshot of the linked article with heading "AI Data Centers Use Far More Water Than Most Tech Giants Report"

Lighthouse.

#PixelArt #isometric #lighthouse #graphics #design #artwork #2D #vector #illustration #illustrator #fantasy #picture #DigitalArt #OriginalArt #digital #experimental #style #art #artist #arts #arte #designer #GraphicDesign #minimalism #NoAI #HumanArt #ArtLovers #FineArt #painting #drawing #doodle #sketch #MastoArt #FediArt #MastodonArt #CreativeToots #ArtistsOnMastodon

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Isometric pixel art of a lighthouse on a tiny rocky island.

I will try using this to block sites that has a lot of AI-generated crab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/block-website/

Unfortunately it does not appear to support use of a list, that would be convenient :\

#noai #browserextension #firefox

Nearly half funded* after less than a day... Wow!

Thank you so much, my wonderful backers!

Please share. 🎉🎉

Let's get our ideas together for how we will recover society and the Earth once the Gen AI nightmare is over! Pledge levels starting at $15 CAD for the eBook.

#NoAI

* I want to raise way more than $2,999 CAD. Kickstarter is really my only income at the moment, thanks to what Gen AI has done to my livelihood. Technofascism Survival Guide raised $12,000 out of $2,700. The $2,999 goal for Recovering After Gen AI is because if I miss a minimum fundraising level, I receive no money from Kickstarter. So really, I hope my book isn't half funded yet.

Kickstarter link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai

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Recovering After Gen AI book Kickstarter, $1,351 out of $2,999 raised.

@deFractal
> The #Fediverse may soon need a social vouching system

Social vouching can't do much to prevent #siliconiac agents from acting through a protein proxy.

The problem is tough. We could enforce #noai registrations by using CAVER(RTT) techniques°. About the only thing a 2TW datacenter can not reliably solve/mimic. Yet.

This class of reverse turing test though can be discriminating: many humans far on the autism spectrum have no abilities to pass it as well. It also inevitably has strong cultural biases.

° CAVER RTT Context Aware Video Emotion Recognition – Reverse Turing Test. Don't search for papers yet ;)

went to the zoo 2day, this is the only decent photo I was able to get

second photo is unedited

#photography #amaturePhotography #noAi #parrot #birb #birdphotography

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A parrot clinging onto a branch

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A parrot clinging onto a branch, unedited version

Nothing that humans made up is inevitable.

The technologies we use are choices we make. The governments we elect are choices we make. The regulations we design are choices we make.

All of it can be changed, reversed, banned, and is indeed evitable.

#NoAI

the response is spot on

#saynotoai #ai #noai #naomiklein

I'm currently trying Mojeek as an alternative to Google, and happy to see they have an active Mastodon account @Mojeek - they're currently asking for testing help at https://www.mojeek.com/eval - which is fun to be able to help while searching. I noticed there were some things that seem to be missing, like built in km/mph conversions for example or expected to see a wikipedia URL in the search results. #mojeekfeedback

#degoogle #antiai #noai #alternatives #tech #technology

RE: https://eldritch.cafe/@HauntedOwlbear/116862684402113085

Seriously infosec ppl we actually have no excuse. Here, take my collection of places to find free, public domain images, you'll discover some amazing art:

• US National Gallery of Art, open access collection (info): https://www.nga.gov/artwork-search?download=1

• Old Book Illustrations (@oldbookillustrations): https://www.oldbookillustrations.com

• Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

• Public Domain Review (@publicdomainrev)'s Image Archive: https://pdimagearchive.org

• New York Public Library, public domain digital collection: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/search/index?filters=%5Brights%3DpublicDomain%5D

• Biodiversity Heritage Library's Flickr account: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/

• Art Institute of Chicago, open access collection (info): https://www.artic.edu/collection?is_public_domain=1

• Metropolitan Museum of Art, open access collection (info): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search?searchField=All&showOnly=openAccess&sortBy=relevance

• Getty Museum, open content collection (info): https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/search?open_content=true

#infosec #noAI

People who are #Antiai , supporters of #noai should look into #NetBSD and donate to support such projects. Also #zig is anti AI for their development

Playing with nested boxes in today's #inkyDays drawing.

Here's an in-progress shot. The rest is now posted for all of my supporters on patreon and ko-fi:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/157125081
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-May-2026-O4O21YSSKM

#ink #drawing #art #GenerativeArt #ProceduralArt #NoAI #wip

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Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern is difficult to describe...variously sized boxes, up against each other, with more boxes nested inside of them.

The penguins are fed up with the constant onslaught of slop from every direction, in today's #inkyDays drawing.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/157125081
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-May-2026-O4O21YSSKM

#ink #drawing #art #penguins #StarTrek #NoAI

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Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern is three angry-looking penguins wielding star trek Klingon batleths. My glass dipping pen is next to my sketchbook.

I know it’s par for the course for politicians to spout any old bollocks about things they know nothing about for FFS. This is the kind of hyperbole you’d expect from seven-year-olds telling tall tales about their alleged exploits. #ukpolitics #ai #noai

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/05/ai-hiroshima-style-threat-humanity-global-rules-yvette-cooper

Actual product you can buy.

No, please don't.

#NoAI

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An advertisement for a grey colored mouse with an orange "AI" button. Text above the mouse say "Flagship feel, Ai smart voice mouse, Able to speak and translate one-click operation is more convenient."

I will never understand why so many activists still use generative images for their content, and rely on big tech for communications and organizations when there are now so many practical, more secure, and much more ethical alternatives.

Your principles aren't just to be stated, they must also be embodied and integrated in your work.

We must show by example what can be done with ethical tech and ethical practices.

#Activism #NoAI #NoBigTech

My neighbor is wanting to move away from WordPress since the project is all-in on AI. She read that Drupal is, as well, and is now wondering if @joomla is? Does anyone have any info on this? I tried to get her to try a SSG but she says she's not quite ready for that just yet.

#noai #joomla

Share! 🎉🎉

It's official.

After my three-in-a-row successfully Kickstarter funded and backer fulfilled campaigns for Ultimate Cybersecurity Careers Guide, Digital Safety in a Dangerous World, and Technofascism Survival Guide (100% fulfilled on July 1st)...

Kickstarter approved my campaign for my fourth self published book...

Recovering After Gen AI.

Campaign will launch on ▶️ Monday, July 6th.

⭐ Visit my campaign page to sign up for notifications. No obligation to pledge.

Gen AI will END because:

- Datacenters cannot be sustained due to laws of physics (Harvard Science Review linked on campaign page)

- Financial bubble will burst, @davidgerard estimates 2027. Economists I cite say "soon."

What do we do about:

- Population wide psychosis and cognitive atrophy?
- Environmental nightmare: droughts and heatwaves?
- Damaged power grid?
- Most popular software inoperable or buggy as hell through massive AI slop tech debt?
- An entire generation of youth without jobs?
- Seniors retiring without juniors to promote?
- Immense skills loss in the workforce?

I will interview psychologists, economists, engineers, psychiatrists, technicians, and environmentalists for their insights.

🗓️ Campaign launch, Monday July 6th.
🗓️ Estimated October 2026 publication.

Share! 🎉🎉

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai

#NoAI

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Recovering After Gen AI book cover

@emilymbender @alex "Responsible use of this crack pipe.." he said in his TED Talk 🤡

#NoAI #ButlerianJihad

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #LLM #NoAI #Haskell #ghc

Literally overheard in another meeting:

"I realize that I am sitting in meetings with developers who are literally prompting claude to write code, and just copypasta that code into the PRs. And I realize to myself. Am I getting more stupid for doing this? Why are we doing this? Why have we been directed to do this? Why am I not fighting this?"

#Claude #Agentic #noAI #python #golang #kotlin #developers #software #whythefuckarewehere

I like the motivation of the Godot #NoAI policy because its focus is on the community and people. it's really well written.

the quality/efficiency debate has always been red herring. you don't need to go there.

https://godotengine.org/article/contribution-policy-2026/

cue the "but how do you know??!!1 folk"

Lots of small arc tiles make up this big Truchet tile rug plot giving a very textural feel.

CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

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A pen plot on white paper of Truchet tiles of small overlapping concentric arcs in portrait orientation grouping, swirling around the page in primary CMYK inks but mixing to create secondary colors. The four sides of the group extend beyond in random lengths like tassels.

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Detail from a pen plot on white paper of Truchet tiles of small overlapping concentric arcs in a large portrait orientation grouping, swirling around the page in primary CMYK inks but mixing to create secondary colors. The detail focuses on a the bottom showing the individual pen strokes of the tassel threads in an oblique view as the distance goes out of focus.

In a shocking development it turns out that if you don’t do something, you don’t learn how to do it. How could anyone have ever predicted this?!?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereknewton/2026/06/30/study-using-ai-chatbots-creates-significant-learning-loss/

#aimakesyoustupid #noai

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/116837603148561633

Computer says No
#noAI

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"The boss had “clearly developed some sort of mental disorder,” she said. “Spending the whole day talking to ChatGPT and making decisions about the future of your company and the people who work there based on what it ‘tells’ you seems insane."

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/bosses-obsessed-with-ai

Does anyone have link to #noai software/linux and other projects? I know someone posted it in Mastodon but I seem to forget to bookmark it.

It's not a link to Github. Thanks, much appreciated.

#NoAI

I HATE how I can't find good images anymore online. Every image search turns up to be at least 20% slop, IF NOT MORE. Google - slop, duckduckgo - slop I can report as slop but it doesn't disappear, Vivaldi - slop I can't report or block in any way even though it is anti AI search engine.

I can't use stock photo sites without AI, pinterest is AI riddled as well - where the ABSOLUTE FUCK can I find 100% human photography?

#FuckAI #NoAI #Photography #landscape #ArtReferences #vivaldi #DDG #Google

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.” – Lucy Parsons, revolutionary anarchist.

Lucy Parsons was a writer, orator, labor organizer, and revolutionary anarchist. She co-founded the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) after the judicial murder of the Haymarket Martyrs, including her husband, Albert Parsons.

She worked for social revolution, not electoral reform.

In her advocacy for workers, women, Black people, and immigrants, she did not shy away from calling for direct action and propaganda of the deed.

The power of her speeches and writing caused fear in the elite and those who served them: the police in so-called Chicago called her “more dangerous than a thousand rioters”. 🔥️

https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/about_lucyparsons.html

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#LucyParsons #subterraneanArt #calendsArt #anarchism #laborHistory #history #historyOfAnarchism #Haymarket #HaymarketAnarchists #HaymarketMartyrs #iww #illustration #drawing #portrait #anarchistArt #art #noAI

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"Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth." – Lucy Parsons, revolutionary anarchist. An illustration featuring a portrait of Lucy Parsons with those words arranged around her. Lucy Parsons was a Black, Mexican, and Indigenous woman. In this portrait her face is framed by the wide brim of a Victorian-era hat which is decorated with large fluffy feathers. She has a calm, serious, dignified expression. She wears a boldly striped silk dress, a scarf pinned with a simple scarf pin, and small pendant earrings. In this illustration the scarf is red, the only bright color in a piece which is otherwise all grayscale. The illustration is drawn in a simple style. The portrait is referenced from a photo of Lucy Parsons from 1886. (The color of the scarf in the illustration is artistic license; the reference is a Victorian-era monochrome photograph.) This illustration was made with a drawing tablet and an open source drawing program. No AI, ever.

So, today I was called a "Luddite" because I don't like AI.

Call me what you want, but when it comes to folks losing their jobs, data centers sucking up our water and causing higher energy bills for people already struggling, LLMs being trained on stolen data, and so many other ethical issues, I won't budge or back down on how I feel.

I will proudly accept the Luddite label. I've been around for nearly 60 years and have had a pretty shitty go of it the past 5 or so years. You can't hurt my feelings.

#noai #fuckai

CMYK Halftone Roses. Drawing halftones with a plotter is brutal on the pen up/down mechanism (so many dots!) but the results are very pleasing.

CMYK on 24”x36” watercolor paper using a vintage HP DraftPro DXL pen plotter generated and controlled with Python.

Available in my shop: https://shop.paulrickards.com/large-plots/

#PenPlotter #GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

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A portrait pen plot on white paper of a bouquet of roses in yellow, pink, and red. The yellow and pink roses are almost fully open while the red and several others are still tightly closed. The drawing is made from thousands and thousands of tiny dots of various sizes in rotated halftone screen all drawn in cyan, yellow, magenta, or black pens. It’s based on the horticultural work “Varietes de Rose jaune et de Rose du Bengale. Rosa lutea & Rosa Indica (Var.)” by P. J. Redoute and Langlois from around 1830. https://collections.rhs.org.uk/view/64393/varietes-de-rose-jaune-et-de-rose-du-bengale-rosa-lutea-rosa-indica-var

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Detail of roses and a blue butterfly drawn with tiny CMYK dots of various sizes.

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Detail of roses drawn with tiny CMYK dots of various sizes.

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Detail of a butterfly drawn with tiny CMYK dots of various sizes.

Some #PenPlotter ASMR drawing tiny halftone dots with a cyan pen on top of a completed yellow layer.

(See previous post in thread for completed plot.)

#GenerativeArt #CreativeCoding #MastoArt #Art #ArtForSale #Artist #ArtForSaleByArtist #PenPlotterArt #PenPlot #NoAI

Considering that AI data centres are:👇

🤐 Being constructed across Canada with high secrecy and low community involvement;

Causing noise and water pollution, and strain water reservoirs and energy grids;

Contributing to eliminate significant numbers of jobs across society;

Contributing to undermining Canada's digital sovereignty, with public services and local AI infrastructure committed to foreign AI products.

This is a petition created by @GarrickWinter to ask the Canadian government to 🇨🇦✍️👇

1: Cease all incentives, subsidies, and permit accelerations for AI data centres;

2: Revoke permits and supports for AI data centre projects that have not been rigorously and transparently vetted by the local community;

3: Commission a detailed study for public release on negative externalities associated with existing AI data centres in Canada and elsewhere;

4: Require that all AI infrastructure projects be initiated and sought out by local communities, and be put through a transparent and democratic approval process; and

5: Subject AI products to genuine taxes as well as enforceable regulations around safety, transparency, and power and water use effectiveness.

Please sign it and spread the word! 👇

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7550

#NoAI #Canada #CanPoli #CndPol #DataCentres

The planet is baking and fucks are out there posting about how much they use AI and think it's such a useful tool.

#noai #fuckai

✊️ Vim Classic 8.3 Debuts as an AI-Free Vim Fork https://linuxiac.com/vim-classic-8-3-debuts-as-an-ai-free-vim-fork/

#vim #noai #opensource #vimclassic

RE: https://mastodon.social/@noaivancouver/116808223626839535

CANADIAN AI HATERS SHOW UP this Saturday June 27th! Especially if you're in a location where a data centre is being proposed.

And ESPECIALLY if you're a programmer / tech worker / computer toucher. The animators and artists have been consistently out there doing the work, we need to start growing a spine (:

The info is on the third image of the quoted text, but I'll pull it out here:

• Vancouver, 1pm - Art Gallery (Robson St. side)
• Victoria, 1pm - Victoria City Hall
• Kamloops, 1pm - Kamloops Courthouse
• Edmonton, 2pm - Alberta Legislature Steps
• Grande Prairie, 2pm - Grande Prairie City Hall
• Red Deer, 2pm - Red Deer City Hall
• Calgary, 2pm - Calgary City Hall
• Regina, 1pm - Victoria Park
• Moose Jaw, 2pm - Moose Jaw City Hall
• Hamilton, 1pm - Hamilton City Hall
• Toronto, 1pm - Toronto City Hall
• Halifax, 1pm - Halifax Pier
• Lorneville, 1pm - King’s Square

#noAI #canada

It's funny that I've often complained about #Debian being long in the tooth, but now I'm kinda considering sticking with #Trixie until 2030-06-30 (end of #LTS).

...becase it's relatively #slop-free, at least in "base."

#NoAI #AInt

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116810536261122047

Open Source developers, take note.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #copyright #NoAI #ArtificialIntelligence #AI

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@newsguyusa@flipboard.social

Owners and operators of ~400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/publishers-sue-microsoft-openai-over-unauthorized-content-use

No one ever learns from history.

"AI" is just a reiteration of the "South Sea Bubble".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Sea_Company

#noAI

MaruMori is what the kids today would call "based." I think... (Insert Steve Buscemi "fellow kids" here.)

#NoAI

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It's... noun time For this usage, nouns are even easier, since we don't have to worry about tenses anymore! Japanese text Many problems are arising with the spread of Al. AFpS

#TuneTuesday 🎶 💜 ☠️ Enjoy this new track on our latest album released on the Solstice.

"We've Got What It Takes" is an uptempo, dance-inducing, ska like ensemble tune reminding us that together we can

"Nix the hate
Fix what’s stuck
Stop the worst
from running amok ..."

Fab trumpet solo.

https://musicshop.themadmaggies.com/track/weve-got-what-it-takes

#Joy
#theMadMaggies #Music
#Accordion #tTrumpet #Trombone #Tuba #Sax #Drums #Guitar #Bass #Synths #NoAI #WomenComposers #Ska