Looking back at 2025 I can't help but feel an immense sense of gratitude towards the fediverse.

I found so many friends and lovely communities on here. I feel part of a rebel alliance, working towards the goal of creating a better internet - and resisting broligarchs.

This year I made a stock photo for the fediverse and an introductory video. I hope I can find MANY new ways to support the good cause in 2026.

Wishing everyone a wonderful new year!

We got this.

#RESIST ! ✊

A necessary watch. @pluralistic calling on nations to repeal anti-circumvention laws as a response to (US) tariffs. Radical sovereignty as political leverage, hitting where it hurts most.

"Lets move fast and break Tim Cooks things. Lets move fast and break kings."

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

#ccc #39C3 #digitalsovereignty

AI Must Die!

Critical Perspectives on the State of Artificial Intelligence

AI MUST DIE is a short zine by Myke Walton and Cam Smith that presents critical perspectives on the way that AI is talked about, governed, and owned in 2025.

AI is fucking everywhere: at work, at school, in our homes, in our phones, on our streets, in our governments, and at war. We are living through an era of extreme AI hype. In this climate, some people have gotten rich off of the stolen data and stolen labor that fuels these technologies. Others have been surveilled, oppressed, exploited, and killed. This text presents a short, practical guide to the technologies currently called “AI,” the ideologies and actors pouring gasoline on the AI dumpsterfire, and what we can do about it.

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How long will this go on? When will the hype cycle end? Is another AI winter coming? Faced with an inhumane tech industry and complicit governments it may ultimately fall to the people to invent new ways to evade, refuse, resist, sabotage or otherwise destroy AI.

Hammers up! AI Must Die!

Seize the means of computation

Read the full zine here: https://www.aimustdie.info/

Monstrous AI Slop imitating famous people is OUT OF CONTROL on YouTube

It's a horrific scourge. Realistic AI imitations of celebrities, politicians, and more putting words in their mouths that they never said are flooding #YouTube. Sometimes the "Altered or synthetic content" label is visible if you bother to look at the description (which takes extra effort on YT TV interfaces in particular) but the similar warning banner that used to appear for some seconds overlaid on the videos no longer seems to routinely appear.

#Google is creating a monster, and sooner rather than later that monster is likely to turn on its maker.