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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 10d

Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉

Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!

Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI

Front and back cover of the Zine sitting among Japanese maple leaves. Front cover has the title "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" with subtitle "AI Sucks and You Should Not Use It, Volume 2"
along with the date of October 2025 and author Lauren Woolsey.

Back cover has the text "References available on the back of this unfolded sheet and at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI" along with a QR code to that link. Then it has the text "Share with a friend, light the world! Connect w/ me: @cgsunit.bsky.social"

Pages 2 and 3 of the Zine, open among tree leaves.

Page 2 starts with handwritten "First...some backstory!" and then the text reads as follows: "Version Volume 1 of this zine, (June 2025), is called “Why GenAI Sucks and you should not use it.” I gave copies to my friends, did swaps at Grand Rapids Zine Fest, and shared the digital scan with hundreds of folks. It’s been great to connect with a community of humans who also think AI sucks! Since June, more great folks have added to the conversation. Let me introduce a few here..."

Page 3 is titled Anthony Moser and has the following text: "“I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.” So opens this most excellent essay (posted August 2025).
You absolutely need to read it. Also, it has 24 linked resources, if my Zine v1.1 list wasn’t enough to get you started being a hater."

Pages 4 and 5 of the Zine, open among tree leaves.

Page 4 is titled Olivia Guest and has the text: "1. Look at Guest’s incredible collection promoting Critical AI Literacy (CAIL): olivia.science/ai . 2. Discover a framework to define AI in “What Does 'Human-Centred AI' Mean?” (July 2025). 3. Share with educator friends Guest et al: “Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia” (September 2025). Such a helpful paper for advocacy!"

Page 5 is titled Ali Alkhatib and has the following text: "“AI is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power.” -from his essay Defining AI. Ali is on my recent radar because he’s starting “AI Skeptics Reading Group” the same month that this Zine launches (October 2025)! If you're a reader, check out the book list on p. 7 here!"

Pages 6 and 7 of the Zine, in partial shadow from tree leaves and surrounded by Japanese maple leaves.

Page 6 is titled Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute and has the text: "Great projects DAIR supports: Data Workers Inquiry (work led by Dr. Milagros Miceli), Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 (by E. Bender and A. Hanna), Possible Futures workshop and Zine series. Timnit Gebru is founder and executive director of DAIR and co-author of the “TESCREAL Bundle” research paper. (Read it!)

Page 7 is titled Further Reading and has a drawn stack of books with the following titles and publication months: Resisting AI (08/22), Blood in the Machine (09/23), The AI Mirror (06/24), Taming Silicon Valley (09/24), Why We Fear AI (03/25), More Everything Forever (04/25), The AI Con (05/25), Empire of AI (05/25). There are notes for The AI Con that the authors run the podcast mentioned on page 6 and that it is the book that the Reading Group from page 5 started on 10/13/25. The page ends with the text "Authors and full titles in reference list!" and a signature from Lauren "Double U."

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1h

The Regime's goal is to grind everyone down. Plain & simple. Our goal is to refuse this by taking turns to fight where and how we can. When one group needs to bow out, then another group needs to step in and so on. We don't all have to do everything. We can all do something though. Stay in the fight

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project.

www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

The Crime of Human Virtue

Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.

www.the-reframe.com

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 14h

I can't help but note one other exception to your initial statement :) but yes, the Tetris show does look really interesting!

Clue Hello GIF

Alt: Cast of the movie Clue opens the door and smiles

media.tenor.com

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Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 2d

Starlings and the magic of murmurations – a stunning watercolor serenade to one of Earth's great wonders www.themarginalian.org/2023/10/24/w...

Starlings and the Magic of Murmurations: A Stunning Watercolor Celebration of One of Earth’s Living Wonders

Biking back to my rented cottage from CERN one autumn evening, having descended into the underworld of matter for a visit to the world’s largest high-energy particle collider, a sight stopped…

www.themarginalian.org

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 1d

It's an excellent exhibit, and I was surprised at how high quality the whole museum is, especially after their huge expansion about a year ago.

Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 1d

I celebrated my 10 year anniversary with my husband this weekend! We had originally planned to drive several hours North to see trees and the Lake, but we passed a billboard for the Art Nouveau exhibit at Muskegon Museum of Art on our drive so we stopped there instead :)

An authentic print of Zodiac, by Alphonse Mucha, without any of the lettering it is often known for.

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Megan Piontkowski illustration @meganpiont.bsky.social · 1d

I was commissioned to make a zine for the No Kings 2 protest on Saturday Oct 18th!

If you wonder “what can I do?” this zine is for you. It’s packed with things that you can do from wearing a “no ICE” pin to organizing a visibility brigade with your friends.

drive.google.com/file/d/1TJnH...

Hand holding a black and white illustrated zine of two people holding signs that say “we marched! Now what?”

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11d

These guys now are selling magic beans back and forth to each other with money *they can't possibly afford* each desperate to not be left holding the bag because they all know that:

There is no pivot to a new grift left.

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4d

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 4d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Climate.us @climate.us · 4d

Climate(.)gov wasn't built in a day. It wasn't even built in a year. It is a big, complicated site that we don't just want to rebuild but also improve with Climate.us.

Realistically, this is going to take some time. However, we want to take a moment to remind people what it is that we...
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Climate.us

independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics

Climate.us

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Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4d

Energy requirements for AI mean that the only way for the bubble not to burst would require companies to multiply their carbon footprint to an unimaginable degree. Right now, while AI is barely functional and mostly a novelty for the lazy, it requires so much energy that data centers rival cities.

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 5d

I have appreciated Kurzgesagt for quite a long time now and link to several of their videos in my course materials for astronomy.

This newest video is so good and so clear, and I have joined their Patreon for a year because of this messaging. I highly recommend watching it.

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell @kurzgesagt.org · 6d

AI-generated content is flooding the internet, and we're entering a new era of information overload. Watch our latest video to find out how AI slop affects the internet and why kurzgesagt videos will always remain human-made: https://kgs.link/AISlop

In the middle, there is an AI-generated picture of a duck. Below it, there is a human-illustrated Duck, looking at the other duck in shock, and saying "Wtf is this?"

Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 5d

Zelda Williams made a statement that has such an important quote about AI in it (for sad context, it was in response to being inundated with AI slop of her dad):

"And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it ‘the future,’ AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed."

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 6d

suspending my generalized agnosticism to pray for Dolly Parton

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 6d

Ooh thanks for reminding me of "tarpitting 8-ball"

Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 6d

cassie willson @cassiewillson.bsky.social · Jul 13

there are so many great things about generative AI! here are some of my favorites <3

Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 6d

lol damn I felt this in my bones it hit so hard

Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 7d

"anti-AI people should just learn more about it" motherfucker I know so much about it, that's why I'm anti-AI

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 6d

For readers in the comments, a +1 to Direct Air Capture not being backed by science. See, e.g. drawdown.org/explorer/dep...

Deploy Direct Air Capture

Direct air capture (DAC) is an industrial process that captures CO2 from the air and then injects it deep underground for permanent, geologic storage.

drawdown.org

Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 6d

Fair, but some context for the science from @projectdrawdown.bsky.social : drawdown.org/explorer/dep...

Deploy Direct Air Capture

Direct air capture (DAC) is an industrial process that captures CO2 from the air and then injects it deep underground for permanent, geologic storage.

drawdown.org

Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 6d

See also this one from today: www.reuters.com/pictures/pic...

Other one in quoted post: www.reutersconnect.com/item/protest...

A demonstrator wearing an inflatable frog costume walks outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) headquarters, as law enforcement officers work to disperse the crowd to clear traffic to the ICE building, during a protest, in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 6, 2025. Credit: REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 10d

We are here because policing in the U.S. has been this way for generations. This is why ICE acts with impunity. They know they can act this way.

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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 7d

New post on creating.care - staying informed without staying inflamed creating.care/p/staying-in...

staying informed without staying inflamed

some of the independent news sources I keep in rotation, a newish poster and some new book recommendations

creating.care

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Lauren Woolsey @cgsunit.bsky.social · 6d

They are caught up in an arms race of bullshit and it's absurd that there are no regulations that can effectively stop them.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 6d

Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle have collectively announced plans to spend more than $1 trillion on data centers in the next several years.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 6d

This is also why huge amounts of heavily funded propaganda is necessary in capitalism in the first place—commodifying, dominating, destroying & competing goes against our material interests, so people have to be brainwashed into dehumanizing each other & disconnecting from land to let it happen

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