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Dylan

@dylanmo.bsky.social
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Artist & Writer + PhD student - Digital Humanities - Resisting AI. Also a living donor (kidney). DylanOrchard.com 📍South East London

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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Being from SE London I've met a fair few Millwall fans over the years, some of whom loudly declared that they were friendly, decent people. Pretty much every single one has ended up trying to start a fight. I'm sure decent Millwall fans exist, I've just never met one. Only aggressive, bigoted pricks
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tante @tante.cc · 28/08/2026
My wife bought new salad cutlery and because of the weird number of arms on the fork my first impulse was "that's AI". Which of course doesn't make sense because I was holding the object in my hands.
A salad fork with 5 arms instead of the usual 4
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Adam Rutherford @adamrutherford.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I just looked at a dog, a real, physical dog and thought 'that looks like AI'. I might need a day off.
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Thoughts on where AI resistance is and where it will, or could, end up. sayyesdono.com/2026/08/17/e...
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Exploitation: The Heart of Cruelty, The Heart of Resistance
Over the last year or so the enthusiasm for the anti-data centre push back has increasingly blossomed into a broader sense of enthusiasm for anti-AI resistance. Taking inspiration from local campai…
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I am never more productive than when I have a real job to avoid.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Look at me, exploring things.
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
His official account... amazing.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I was on a podcast talking about AI and resistance, so that's a nice thing.
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Metal Gear Summer '27 ☀️🥀☠️ @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Britain's future children to be divided into hackers and absolute rubes.
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DrMikeWatts @drmikewatts.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
British fraudsters are using #AI to doctor insurance claims: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... #ArtificialIntelligence
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Brit fraudsters using AI to doctor 'evidence' in motor insurance claims
Policy-holders increasingly turn fender benders into much more by sprinkling in their favorite AI chatbots, Aviva says
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Having to start masking up because of all the kids trying to use my haggard face to dodge age verification.
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Mollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Group of teenagers lurking outside a Curry’s trying to bully you into buying them an iPad so they can go on Pinterest
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
One thing I've noticed about my PhD is that spending most of your time, every day, thinking about a thing makes you really unsure whether you ever actually think about a thing or actually know anything about it.
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The joys of malicious compliance... sayyesdono.com/fire-ill-tak...
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Fire! I'll take you to burn... your tokens... - Say Yes - Do No
After this report from Axion about an unnamed company managing to torch half a billion dollars in the span of a month through unregulated Claude token usage...
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
On the 8th of July, as part of London Data Week, me and some colleagues will be on a panel exploring what AI really is and what it really isn't here at King's College London. All welcome so feel free to sign up now! luma.com/2aoxft1z
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Breaking Down AI: Technologies, Myths, Realities · Luma
Join Reclaiming Futures at King's College London for a panel of three researchers describing three different faces of AI, offering an simple introduction for…
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Anti-AI anthology... Started going through the submissions for this (still time to contribute if you're interested!) and it's a genuine pleasure to immediately find stuff that's really good... sayyesdono.com/anti-ai-anth...
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Anti-AI Anthology Submissions - Say Yes - Do No
Anti-AI Anthology This upcoming collection of prose, poetry and visual art is intended to present new narratives and experiences which challenge both the...
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I'm a guest editor on this so hope all you AI critical folks are up for it...
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Some thoughts on faux-social LLMs and the financial death of friends and lovers... sayyesdono.com/tech-bros-st...
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Tech Bros Stole My Friend: Faux-Social LLMs Meet the Market - Say Yes - Do No
Sometimes even I, as an ardent Luddite, wish AI companies would be slower in driving their own failure. Recently I've been working on a paper relating to...
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Some thoughts on the increasing shift towards the criminalisation and problematisation of anti-AI resistance. sayyesdono.com/old-tactics-...
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Old Tactics, Neo-Luddites: We're all the problem now... - Say Yes - Do No
This article from Wired is well worth a read as it outlines the increasing attempts in the US to problematise and criminalise AI resistance movements....
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Counterpoint: No I will not
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Even If You Hate AI, You Will Use Google AI Search
The search giant’s AI-crafted answers are so convenient, you’ll be sucked in—to the detriment of the web and the artists and thinkers behind it.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 22/05/2026
This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Proud to say I had some minor involvement in this but all credit to everyone from We & AI and beyond who did the real work.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
There are enough Labour activists left to fill a carpark?
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Looks like Richard Florida's back on the menu boys.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Good, but also depressing that not signing a contract with the anti-Christ doomsday cult surveillance company ends up being seen as a real win. Our base line is subterranean.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Is there ever going to be a law of diminishing returns on this shit? Even in the US the hacks change the gimmick once a decade or so (Glenn Beck stopped crying, Candace Owens went conspiracy gossip). It's only here where Stalin and the SWP seem to be eternal rallying cries.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
They’re going to call you Stalin no matter what you do, so why not just do some good things that people actually like rather than burning up every last atom of public goodwill trying to impress people who hate you.
GILES UDY: I have spent decades studying Stalin's Russia - and Starmer's Britain is more similar than you'd think...
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I'm not a Green. And paying attention to random social media posts isn't scrutiny, it's nothing.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Project I'm working, please do share if you know anyone who might be interested.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20/05/2026
Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Well that's not very Progressive Alliance of you now is it? Meanie.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Your OP was 'noticing' random social media comments being rude, something which you should know isn't relevant politically or journalistically. Maybe you should create an alt so you can revel in the discourse rather than using one framed to suggest legitimacy?
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Scuppering Labour is valid in itself, if you're a rival party. Even making a substantial dent in their vote would prove that the Greens are a viable alternative.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
To be fair this is an excellent reaction to being called out. Next time any editor questions my stuff I will immediately 'launch an investigation' too.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
All else aside some people really need to get a new reference point for Left wingers they dislike.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Kind of makes me wonder what the point of comments like yours is. Journalists, who have a platform and should know not to highlight SM anecdotes as in any way relevant, often do this sort of thing.
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Nelle from the Leftist Cooks (She/Her) @neillyleftistcook.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"In YouTube Shorts, a new “Remix” option will let users write a prompt to remix a creator’s video by changing its style or even adding themselves into the video, without changing the basic context of the video." Only fascists will use this feature and only fascists will enjoy watching.
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YouTube Will Let Creators Use AI to Insert Themselves Into Other People’s Videos
The Google-owned video platform also now has more three billion users, the company revealed Tuesday.
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Beatings will continue until you love Wes Streeting.
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
A few bits of resistance related new I've seen this week... sayyesdono.com/monday-resis...
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Monday Resistance Update #9 - Say Yes - Do No
A random sampling of stuff I've come across this week... -- Article - A Lo-Fi Rebellion Against A.I. I don't think there's anything revelatory in this,...
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Some thoughts on how 'AI' is becoming a made up term and one of the best motivators for resisting it. sayyesdono.com/exposure-the...
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Exposure Therapy - AI Resistance Inspired by AI Hype - Say Yes - Do No
Between the two distant poles of thought on Artificial Intelligence - those of abolitionism and blind enthusiasm - there lays an infinite and fertile ground...
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Take that Richard Dawkins...
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I know protest organisers are always optimistic about numbers but Met are always daft with their underestimates. Nakba Day march will be at least double that number.
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Monday AI Resistance update... Just random bits I pick up throughout the week which may be of interest. sayyesdono.com/monday-ai-re...
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Monday AI Resistance Update #7 - Say Yes - Do No
A random sampling of stuff I've come across this week... Article - The people building AI think it might be conscious. That’s not the most alarming part A...
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Dylan @dylanmo.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I love reading beyond all other forms of cultural experience but I always forget just how easily effected I am by it. Any halfway decent book ends up being a reality I struggle to escape, for better or worse.
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
It's May so final month for submissions to the anti-AI anthology I'm working on - sayyesdono.com/anti-ai-anth... Responses will go out next month but the sooner you submit the better, got a growing pile to go through already.
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Anti-AI Anthology Submissions - Say Yes - Do No
Anti-AI Anthology This upcoming collection of prose, poetry and visual art is intended to present new narratives and experiences which challenge both the...
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Have added my own jangling, caffeine induced thoughts to the original article @ sayyesdono.com/data-centres...
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Data Centres & Class - Say Yes - Do No
Having just read this article by Holly Buck I'm immediately trying not to be too scornful. The gist of it is that resistance to data centre construction is...
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Say Yes, Do No @sayyesdono.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Good article which happily takes the right approach to the hype - reporting it and then letting the weight of criticism grind it into nothingness. A lot of it could easily transfer to counter the Doomer narratives around AI too - idle talking points which ignore real, immediate harms.
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