"The pushback against AI is not a rejection of 'progress' but the creation of a future that doesn’t diminish what it means to be human"…

"Contemporary resistance in Latin America, Africa, and elsewhere is inseparable both from the ongoing colonial logics of contemporary tech industries and from the original anti-colonial resistance that was a part of attempts at colonization. The populations outside of the West are still often simply treated as either cheap labor or as valuable data. At the same time, these populations’ natural environments are extracted for the building-out of essential AI infrastructures. Contemporary resistance to AI and to data centers needs to be understood as a refusal of these afterlives of colonialism."

Why refusing #AI is a fight for the soul.
Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity…

https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai