Alex Hanna

As usual, @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is spot on with her analysis of our political moment. Here, asking why Democrats aren't capitalizing on rage against data centers. I was happy to chip in my own two cents on why Bernie is missing the mark. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/o...

Opinion | This Could Be the Winning Issue for Democrats nytimes.com

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Luddite Lab labor.dair-institute.org

The youth know what’s up. Check out @janus.bsky.social's article in @theverge.com. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The more young people use AI, the more they hate it theverge.com

Full episode: www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buzzsprout.com

We are also releasing a new research primer, "Myths about Generative AI, Productivity, and Labor Displacement", which discusses five common myths around generative AI at work. This primer will be the first of many. labor.dair-institute.org/primers

Luddite Lab labor.dair-institute.org

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @dairinstitute.bsky.social as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library. www.eventbri…

Launching the Luddite Lab Resource Hub eventbrite.com

TORONTO: tomorrow at 7 PM! I'll be in conversation with Dr. M. Murphy and discussing The AI Con at the Jackman Humanities Institute. RSVP at aiconto.eventbrite.ca.

Dr. Alex Hanna, author of THE AI CON (with Dr. M Murphy) eventbrite.ca

Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)

This is an absolutely hilarious coming from an Uber exec. No ROI on AI tools, you say?? Hrm!

Attending two more graduation ceremonies this week. Let's see if we can get the students to boo at every mention of AI

Users of Link Tree -- they are now integrating "AI" features effective July 5. Time to delete your account and move to an alternative.

Why, Bernie, why?? 😩 We discuss Bernie Sanders’ AI doomerism with writer, researcher, and activist @nathaliemarechal.net on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Snowflake CIO laid off 200 employees and told workers they need to find a way to get more productive with AI. The Information frames it as going backwards (i.e., getting productive and THEN laying them off). But the playbook isn't different from the rest of tech. He just said the quiet part aloud.

Well I went to a graduation tonight and they still used an AI voice

Crying in Ancillary Justice (2016): an artificial intelligence mourns the loss of her creator and the connection to her culture as she vows revenge in a tale of space empire treachery

Why, Bernie, why?? 😩 We discuss Bernie Sanders’s AI doomerism with writer, researcher, and activist @nathaliemarechal.net on Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s latest episode “Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole”. (with @emilymbender.bsky.social)

Tried to get an AI Slop chant going during the Adobe ad but it did not take #Valks