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steal anything: second in a series of ai critical sign illustrations.

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— this is the first of a series of sign illustrations that critically challenge ai narratives.

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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?

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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

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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The Meta x Kylie Jenner collab is giving Torches of Freedom vibes. How do you change the perception that a product is used by men to harass women? Find a beautiful reality star to promote them.

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💯 Such a good read. I always enjoy tante’s writing and pov.

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Imagine still being super excited about AI and simultaneously concerned about a vry fashy govt and not seeing the overlap of these two things.

It’s honestly a kind of techno-optimism, which he fails to see is exactly what’s propping up a fashy govt.

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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

This was such a painful read. Just such incredibly shallow analysis and conclusions. What’s weird is you sometimes can see the fascism problem but can’t see how it connects to AI as a sociopolitical project. This is going to age so badly.

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It’s official, AI boosters are joining forces with NFT scam culture. In a completely predictable move, AI bros are amplifying an NFT scam artist (Monet scam) and calling it proof of bias. What do they have in common? A love of deception, a disdain of artists and a love of the grift.

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also, if we're being real – the whole thing was an nft scam script. it was all scripted to create context/value for an nft. that's it. no deeper meaning or insight.

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There’s a lot of irony in pro-AI folks so blindly believing a deceptive rage bait post exposed bias, while not looking in the mirror to see they’re own deeply entrenched bias at work

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You are so focused on your anger against people that resist or don't like AI, you have also lost your judgment. You so badly want to believe this is proof that anti-ai people are irrational, you believe it all w/out any further thought. It's confirmation bias.

It means it was deceptive framing engineered to create outrage. Not to mention many of the accounts appeared to be bots, but that's another topic. Plenty of people called out that it was a monet or a jpeg too, but why mention that when it doesn't suit your narrative?

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Why did they think it was AI? Because the poster told people it was. That's deception. Your arriving at the incorrect conclusion ironically because you appear to incredibly biased and pro AI. Is not art a social reason? These other reasons werent part of the Monet thing at all. It's just your bias

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So we’re completely abandoning logic or rational thought? Your bias is screaming right now. The deception invalidates the response. You don’t blame the person whose drink was drugged, for acting irrationally

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Well yeah, that was based on unconscious stimuli. It’s a little different when you purposely deceive people to manufacture outrage. You are still priming a response, based on deception.

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Never heard of behavioral priming? I mean X is kind of known for manufactured outrage based on deception, no?

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Never heard of behavioral priming?

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Never heard of behavioral priming?

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I’m guess you’ve never heard of behavioral priming?

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“they’re eating the dogs!” “ai won’t take your job, someone using ai will” “tell me why my ai generated monet is inferior.” same vibes, same deception, same manufactured outrage. we’re all living in an epstein world, where deception is the currency.

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?

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Zines are great cause they’re like magazines but without MAGA.

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Very true. The book you have coming out sounds right up my alley. I’ll definitely be checking it out!

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It’s definitely that, but it only gains credibility if we give it to them.

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Actually, nvm. It’s only binding if you use the site (ie to respond) and agree to their ToS. If everyone just ignores it, it’s just a place for rich people to air their grievances

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Actually, nvm. It’s only binding if you use the site (ie to respond) and agree to their ToS. If everyone just ignores it, it’s just a place for rich people to air their grievances

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It appears that it’s an AI-powered legal service with potentially real consequences, no? The AI jury part seems insane, but if this makes it cheap and easy for the rich to sue ANYONE and at scale, that’s a huge free speech issue imo

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

It appears that this might be an AI-Powered legal service with potentially real consequences, no?

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Reposted by bart fish

Last week, a 20 year-old man threw a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's mansion; two days later, people fired a gun at it. Earlier that week, someone fired gunshots into an city councilman's house who approved a data center. Why the AI backlash has turned violent:

bloodinthemachine.com

Why the AI backlash has turned violent

And why it's probably only going to get worse from here.

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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I appreciate the focus Bernie has put on AI dangers, I just wish he’d focus on the harms happening TODAY. These doomers may be right, but they also play into a game AI CEOs love to play. Saying Gen AI is extremely dangerous is the same as saying it’s extremely powerful. It fans the hype.

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

we need to stop data centers and become environmental dissenters. we need to cancel cons that troll, seeking market and culture control. we need to say tech, no! to cancel this schism of harmful optimism.

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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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.

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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 · 18/02/2026

@joshuawcotter.bsky.social I'd love to feature this in the next issue of Power Tools (an AI critique zine) if you're up for it. powertoolsofai.com/power-tools-...

powertoolsofai.com

Power Tools: Zine #1

AI critique and resistance, one zine at a time

tante @tante.cc · 31/01/2026

Reposted by bart fish

Bart Fish made a cool Zine about AI including a snippet of one of my essays and sent me a copy. Love it!

Photo of Bart Fish's "Power Tools" zine (first edition, November 2025) and some slogan stickers with statements like "GenAI sucks"

Photo of the same Zine opened to my article arguing that AI systems are not tools as we understand that concept.

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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Glad it arrived safely! Thanks again for your contribution 🖤

bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Besides being a false equivalency, if we want to use that example, it’s like being pro-computers while IBM was helping Nazis commit genocide. The context of the time we live in, matters.

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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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

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bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

how can we be locked in our cognitive cells, if we refuse to enter their prisons? how can they justify pouring billions into a technology that so many hate and do not want? how can they keep selling a future that is so incredibly divorced from the present reality? do yourself a favor. resist.