Technology

Trying to be fair to it and assess based on what I can find there:

Pros:

The section about "possible futures" seems to be centering indigenous / sovereign AI projects, among others, which suggests the point is not to be knee-jerk anti-AI tech, but rather center a more liberation perspective on it, so good.

Mixed:

Some of the suggestions, like joining a labor coalition, are not bad advice, but like... centering it around AI seems to be a bit tunnel-vision.

Cons:

Inspired by Choose Democracy’s Resist List against authoritarianism

Choose Democracy is apparently a Yankee thing about fighting for "democracy". So... maintaining the liberal democracy power structure?

we organized the AI resistance movements we documented based on how they pressure different “Pillars of Support” that uphold and perpetuate the empires.

This seems to be referencing the term one of their people, the author of Empires of AI, coined. I have not read the book, but a quick look for info on wikipedia alleges:

It focuses on the history of OpenAI and its culture of secrecy and devotion to the promise of artificial general intelligence (AGI) while extracting vast amounts of resources and exploiting workers.

The book includes interviews with around 260 people, correspondence, Slack conversations, and relevant documents.[1][2] The title makes reference to colonial empires of the 1800s.[3]

So anti-imperialist and anti-colonial from the sound of it, but why reduce it to "empires of AI"? AI in the hands of the western empire is an arm of it, not the empire itself. I hope they are not trying to say China is one of these "empires", but I don't want to accuse without evidence, so I will leave it at that.

"Microslop"

Throughout 2025, people started spreading the word "Microslop" to criticise the flood of low-quality outputs generated by Microsoft’s AI features. The term became viral when the company decided to ban its use on the Copilot Discord server, later on proceeding to shutting down the server itself. Specific initiatives also emerged from this frustration such as the website microslop.com which features a tracker documenting incidents of AI-generated content flooding the internet or corrupting the user experience.

This may be more of a personal thing, but I find the term slop to refer to AI to be very unhelpful and reductionist as criticism. The followup described here might be a good thing, but the example of "microslop" as a viral term like it's a good thing seems very internet-brain to me. People should be thinking about narrative on a deeper level than trying to dunk on big corp AI in a reactive way. The big corp AI isn't magically worse because it's big corp and in fact it is among some of the most capable AI out there. The problem with it is other things, like who has power over it.

Far from an exhaustive assessment, but I wanted to write something because on the surface, it seems to be very Yankee concept of social change (which can often be shallow and liberal).