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luddites > grifters Power Tools: A critique of genAI & it’s toolmen. www.powertoolsofai.com

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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
this is what a right-wing monopoly looks like. when you buy political favor ($45 million) and swear allegiance to the president, you can buy whatever you want. when they can’t control the news or culture, they try to buy it instead.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
steal anything: second in a series of ai critical sign illustrations.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Stoked about Josh’s illos in this issue 😍 @joshuawcotter.bsky.social
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
art resist while fascism persists. new issue of the power tools zine is live. powertoolsofai.com/zines/power-...
A GIF showing the cover and inside of a provocative anti AI zine called power tools
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
New issue of the Power Tools Zine is live: powertoolsofai.com/zines/power-...
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Power Tools Zine Issue #2 WIP
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
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.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
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 👀
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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/
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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…
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
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.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
This print I created was inspired by Joe Nunnink’s AI Bob Ross skits 🤣 Added some fast food / clown references because why not
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
test print: ai companions
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
what do all of these tiktok ‘creators’ have in common? they are all ai accounts entirely dedicated to spreading maga and conservative views.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
these two power tools of ai images i created, are live on @betterimagesofai.bsky.social i donated them so anyone can use them for free. if you’re not familiar with better images of ai, their mission is to source ai images that aren’t stereotypical and better represent the discourse around ai.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
what if the jobs that ai creates, are ones that nobody wants? what if these jobs are low paying, lack security and involve being exposed to traumatic materials? this is already happening in countries like kenya, uganda, the philippines, venezeula and india. read more at powertoolsofai.com
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Ed recently blocked me because I tagged him in a relevant post about my artwork and referenced his business idiot piece. I wasn’t a paid subscriber but was an avid reader of his newsletter and was considering paying for it. I also regularly listened to his podcast.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
“that millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.” -erich fromm, the sane society
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
if you wanted to control large masses of people, where would you start? how they create, consume and distribute information. how would you force adoption? threaten their livelihood and financial security.
Collage depicting a brain with callouts that all say chatgpt, inferring that our thinking is being replaced. “Control the brain” is at the top and emphasized. A scrap shows screwdrivers alluding to tools and a young woman has her face in her hands at the bottom right.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
ai is not merely a tool. it’s a power tool. a tool used to surveil, persuade, misinform and control. elon musk wants to use his ai to rewrite history, using his own extremist views to create an orwellian record 1/5
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
I don’t usually post work on here but this is a brand refresh I led late last year.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Love this. We must all fight against Musk on all fronts. Here’s my contribution — Elon Musk in 2004, clearly balding, before getting gender affirming plastic surgery.
A balding, pre-gender affirming plastic surgery Elon Musk
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Jeff Bezos is so intoxicated by Trump’s promises to deregulate, that he doesn’t care about free press. American billionaires don’t care about civil rights or fighting fascism. They care about unfettered growth.
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
This is bro-caster Bradley Martyn, asking if we should stop letting women make choices any more. @mcuban.bsky.social Still think dems should study red pill bro content and emulate it? #redpill
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
“The tech oligarchs are assaulting our democracy.” Love this speech by @alexandrageese.bsky.social
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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
I was living in NYC in November of 2020, when Biden won. I remember the positive energy in the streets was electric. People honking horns, cheering and celebrating in the streets. A young child, swung around a streetlight pole, yelling “Biden won!” It was a New York moment. It was special.
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