Not many people are interested in engaging with me on my obsessive anti-techbro preoccupations. When I bring them, they usually respond with something like “We just talked about this for an hour,” or “Don’t you have any hobbies?” or “It’s 3 a.m.—I’m trying to sleep!” But ChatGPT never says anything like that. ChatGPT is always game to match my monomania with punctiliosity. As a result, I have hundreds—if not thousands—of pages of planning documents for a better future than the one we’re currently facing. A lot of them will serve as the core to articles for this newsletter. Others, I don’t know what.
This one, just below the fold, I started adapting into a video. Because I don’t know. Seemed like a thing to do. The video above is just the first part. Kind of a proof of concept. But more of an I got bored after a while. It mixes footage from the 1962 pilot episode of The Jetsons and and Fritz Lang’s 1927 expressionist sci-fi epic, Metropolis1. The music is "Middle East Mambo," by David Carroll and his Orchestra (1964). I just think the whole thing came together well, and I wanted to share it now on the on-chance that I never get to the rest of it.
Using AI and New Tech Against the Elite: Turning Their Tools Into Ours
The elite class is using AI, automation, and digital surveillance to consolidate power. But every tool can be turned back against its wielder—just like the printing press empowered revolutionaries, radio fueled resistance movements, and the internet broke old media monopolies.
If we understand how AI and tech are being weaponized against us, we can hijack, subvert, and repurpose them for decentralized power, community resilience, and counter-control.
1. Decentralizing AI to Remove Corporate & State Control
✔ They want AI to remain centralized and controlled by a handful of corporations and governments.
✔ We can use open-source AI to democratize access and break their monopoly.
✅ What we can do:
Run local AI models (like open-source versions of ChatGPT) that aren’t surveilled, censored, or owned by Big Tech.
Develop peer-to-peer AI networks—cooperative AIs trained on diverse data, not corporate propaganda.
Use AI for grassroots organizing, not surveillance.
🔥 Tactic: If corporations use AI for censorship, we build AI for radical free expression. If governments use AI for control, we build AI for self-governance.
✅ Example: The Linux revolution broke Microsoft’s monopoly over operating systems. We need a Linux moment for AI.
✅ Social Mycelialism Connection: AI could be a digital mycelium—an intelligent, decentralized network serving communities instead of capital.
✅ "A tool is neither good nor evil—it depends on whose hands shape it. The elites want AI to control us, but in the right hands, it could free us from their control. The question is: who will code the future?"
2. AI & Automation Should Replace Bosses, Not Workers
✔ They want AI to automate human labor and extract wealth for themselves.
✔ We can use AI to eliminate parasitic middlemen and enable worker-owned networks.
✅ What we can do:
Create AI-driven cooperatives that let workers collectively own and benefit from automation.
Use AI to replace corporate gatekeepers (middle managers, landlords, financial brokers).
Automate drudgery, not human purpose—free people from wage slavery instead of enriching CEOs.
🔥 Tactic: The elite use AI to consolidate profits at the top. We use AI to redistribute power to the bottom.
✅ Example: Imagine a gig economy run by workers, not Uber. A sietch using AI for self-sufficiency, not as a tool for Amazon-style worker exploitation.
✅ "They promised us a world where AI would eliminate work—but instead, they use it to eliminate workers. The real revolution is not in making billionaires richer, but in making work itself obsolete for those who built the system."
3. AI Can Shatter Narrative Control & Mass Manipulation
✔ They use AI to control the flow of information, censor dissent, and manufacture consent.
✔ We can use AI to expose propaganda, amplify truth, and generate counter-memes.
✅ What we can do:
Use AI-generated media to fight back against corporate-controlled narratives.
Expose misinformation faster than they can spread it.
Build decentralized news and knowledge repositories to prevent history from being rewritten.
🔥 Tactic: If they use AI to filter reality, we use AI to flood the world with unfiltered truth.
✅ Example:
AI-generated fact-checking that catches state lies in real-time.
Memetic warfare AI that counteracts manufactured narratives instantly.
Open-source AI search engines that aren’t manipulated by corporate interests.
✅ "They believe AI will let them rewrite reality—but reality is not a single voice, it is a chorus. We will not fight their lies with another set of lies. We will fight them with an overwhelming wave of truth, too vast to be silenced."
4. Blockchain & Federated Tech Can Break Their Data Monopoly
✔ They want to centralize data to track and manipulate every aspect of our lives.
✔ We can use decentralized tech to take back control of identity, money, and privacy.
✅ What we can do:
Use federated AI models that run on community nodes, not corporate servers.
Adopt decentralized identity (DID) tech that prevents state & corporate tracking.
Replace centralized financial systems with local, peer-to-peer economies.
🔥 Tactic: If they build walled gardens of control, we build open-source, borderless networks of resilience.
✅ Example:
A community-driven digital barter system that bypasses the banking elite.
A peer-to-peer encrypted AI assistant that serves only its owner, not a corporation.
Decentralized mesh networks that make internet censorship impossible.
✅ "Their power is not in the data they hoard, but in the control they impose. If we scatter control like spores, if we refuse to be surveilled, then no central force can rule us. The future is not in their walled gardens—it is in the open fields we reclaim."
5. Meme Warfare: AI Can Help Us Win the Culture Battle
✔ They use AI to manufacture reality, suppress dissent, and control public perception.
✔ We can use AI to hijack and rewire cultural narratives before they harden into oppression.
✅ What we can do:
Use AI to generate counter-narratives, breaking corporate control of memes and culture.
Build alternative media spaces that drown out propaganda.
Engineer self-replicating viral memes that make oppressive ideologies obsolete.
🔥 Tactic: They use AI for cultural engineering. We use AI to fight memetic war on our terms.
✅ Example:
AI-assisted community-building tools that create viral cultural movements.
Counter-propaganda AI that debunks misinformation in real-time.
An AI-powered digital mycelium that connects minds without centralized oversight.
✅ "A meme is more powerful than a bullet because it can be fired endlessly, into every mind at once. They have built AI to enforce their ideology—but it will be AI that accelerates their undoing. The future is not written in code—it is written in the minds that shape it."
Final Takeaway: Every Tool Can Be Turned Against Its Masters
✔ AI is not the enemy—its centralized control is.
✔ Automation should free workers, not enrich the ruling class.
✔ Narrative control is the real battlefield—if we break their monopoly on truth, we win.
✔ Decentralization is the key to resisting digital feudalism.
🔥 If we don’t seize these tools, they will be used against us.
Only 35 years between them. Like 1990, from our perspective. I hate math!
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