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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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The Strange Disappearance of an #AntiAI #Activist
#SamKirchner wants to save the world from artificial superintelligence. He’s been missing for two weeks.
By Kaitlyn Tiffany, December 4, 2025
Excerpt: "The reaction from the broader #AISafety movement was fast and consistent. Many disavowed violence. One group, #PauseAI, a much larger AI-safety activist group than #StopAI, specifically disavowed Kirchner. PauseAI is notably staid—it includes property damage in its definition of violence, for instance, and doesn’t allow volunteers to do anything illegal or disruptive, such as chain themselves to doors, barricade gates, and otherwise trespass or interfere with the operations of AI companies. 'The kind of protests we do are people standing at the same place and maybe speaking a message,' the group’s CEO, Maxime Fournes, told me, 'but not preventing people from going to work or blocking the streets.'
"This is one of the reasons that Stop AI was founded in the first place. Kirchner and others, who’d met in the PauseAI #Discord server, thought that that genteel approach was insufficient. Instead, Stop AI situated itself in a tradition of more confrontational protest, consulting #GeneSharp’s 1973 classic, The #MethodsOfNonviolentAction, which includes such tactics as #SitIns, '#NonviolentObstruction,' and 'seeking imprisonment.'
"In its early stages, the movement against unaccountable AI development has had to face the same questions as any other burgeoning social movement: How do you win broad support? How can you be palatable and appealing while also being sufficiently pointed, extreme enough to get attention but not so much that you sabotage yourself? If the stakes are as high as you say they are, how do you act like it?
"#MichaëlTrazzi, an activist who went on a hunger strike outside #Google #DeepMind’s London headquarters in September, also believes that AI could lead to human extinction. He told me that he believes that people can do things that are extreme enough to 'show we are in an emergency' while still being nonviolent and nondisruptive. (PauseAI also discourages its members from doing hunger strikes.)"
Read more:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/12/sam-kirchner-missing-stop-ai/685144/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/l6ACC#AISucks #NoNukesforAI #AIResistance #Terminator #Alphabet #WarBots #SkyNet #Activists
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Komende #donderdag zijn er weer #sitins en #noise #demo's, verspreid over het hele #land.
In onze #regio niet alleen in #Arnhem en #Nijmegen, maar ook in #Tiel, #Zutphen, #Apeldoorn, #Doetinchem en op #station #Ede-#Wageningen.#Update over de demo in Arnhem:
Het begint om 18:00 op het station, met een #lawaaiprotest met #potten en #pannen.
Aansluitend trekken we om 18:30 met een #mars de #stad in, waar het op dat moment #koopavond is. -
Komende #donderdag zijn er weer #sitins en #noise #demo's, verspreid over het hele #land.
In onze #regio niet alleen in #Arnhem en #Nijmegen, maar ook in #Tiel, #Zutphen, #Apeldoorn, #Doetinchem en op #station #Ede-#Wageningen.#Update over de demo in Arnhem:
Het begint om 18:00 op het station, met een #lawaaiprotest met #potten en #pannen.
Aansluitend trekken we om 18:30 met een #mars de #stad in, waar het op dat moment #koopavond is. -
Er zijn wel wat andere verspreid over het land, maar nog amper een landelijk overzicht gezien zoals vorige week. Hart van Nederland doet het wel wonderlijk genoeg, maar geen RTL, NU.nl en NOS.
Hart van Nederland: https://www.hartvannederland.nl/politiek/demonstratie/artikelen/treinstations-land-volgestroomd-vele-honderden-demonstranten
Lokaal wel gelukkig aandacht. Een incompleet overzicht:
🍉 #Amsterdam: https://www.at5.nl/artikelen/233787/hal-centraal-station-opnieuw-vol-pro-palestijnse-demonstranten, https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/351062/hal-amsterdam-centraal-station-opnieuw-vol-pro-palestijnse-demonstranten
🍉 #Arnhem: https://www.rtvconnect.nl/nieuws/artikel/geluid-voor-gaza-klinkt-op-arnhem-centraal
🍉 #Assen: https://www.rtvdrenthe.nl/nieuws/17670479/tientallen-voeren-lawaaiprotest-voor-gaza-op-station-assen
🍉 #Breda en #Tilburg: https://www.bd.nl/video/productie/groot-gaza-protest-bij-station-tilburg-1655551
🍉 #DenHaag: https://www.denhaagcentraal.net/nieuws/lawaaiprotest-op-centraal-station-tegen-hongersnood-in-gaza/
🍉 #Doetinchem: https://www.doetinchemsvizier.nl/nieuws/maatschappij/524192/actie-voor-gaza-bij-centraal-station-doetinchem
🍉 #Haarlem: https://www.trouw.nl/binnenland/met-oorverdovende-herrie-protesteert-haarlem-tegen-de-stilte-in-den-haag~b174b9a74/
🍉 #Maastricht: https://www.l1nieuws.nl/nieuws/2960035/activisten-protesteren-op-station-maastricht-voor-einde-van-hongersnood-in-gaza
🍉 #Zaandam: https://www.deorkaan.nl/drukker-dan-normaal-bij-gaza-demo-station-zaandam%F0%9F%8E%A5/
🍉 #Zwolle: https://archive.ph/penjq#SitIn #SitIns #Gaza #Palestina #StopTheGenocide #StopTheStarvation
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[verkeerde account getoot] Treuriger gesteld met de media-aandacht dan vorige week. Ondanks nóg meer sit-ins en nóg meer mensen.
RTV Utrecht: *Weer lawaaiprotest in stationshal Utrecht, ook demonstratie op Amersfoort Centraal*
"De hal van station Utrecht Centraal staat vanavond opnieuw vol. Honderden demonstranten protesteren er tegen de oorlog en de uithongering in Gaza. Ook op Amersfoort Centraal hebben ongeveer honderd mensen zich verzameld.
Rond 18.00 uur stroomden deelnemers de hal aan de centrumkant van het station in Utrecht binnen. Mensen zwaaien met Palestijnse vlaggen en maken veel geluid met potten, pannen en pollepels. Ook hielden ze een minuut stilte en las iemand een gedicht voor in het Arabisch, Nederland en Engels. …"#sitIns #SitIn #Utrecht #Amersfoort #Gaza #Palestina #StopTheGenocide #StopTheStarvation
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Weet iemand hoe laat de sit-ins morgen zijn, en welke #nsstations meedoen? Ik zoek en vind van alles maar dat dus niet.
Extra vraagje? Toeval?
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27 June 1905, the revolutionary union the Industrial Workers of the World (#IWW) was founded in Chicago, Illinois. One of the first multiracial unions in the US, #Wobblies organized all workers into #onebigunion, to end exploitation and abolish #capitalism.
It organised large swathes of previously unorganised workers in the US, and pioneered many innovative new types of #directaction like #slowdowns, #sitins and #sabotage.
Anti-war IWW was made illegal; organizers beaten, jailed and murdered.
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The #firing sparked #sitins by #parents, who called for the #school to add a #library, #notify #parents if #students #misbehave and implement other #fixes in addition to #Kozol’s #reinstatement, the #BostonGlobe reported at the time.
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The #firing sparked #sitins by #parents, who called for the #school to add a #library, #notify #parents if #students #misbehave and implement other #fixes in addition to #Kozol’s #reinstatement, the #BostonGlobe reported at the time.
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The #firing sparked #sitins by #parents, who called for the #school to add a #library, #notify #parents if #students #misbehave and implement other #fixes in addition to #Kozol’s #reinstatement, the #BostonGlobe reported at the time.
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The #firing sparked #sitins by #parents, who called for the #school to add a #library, #notify #parents if #students #misbehave and implement other #fixes in addition to #Kozol’s #reinstatement, the #BostonGlobe reported at the time.
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The #firing sparked #sitins by #parents, who called for the #school to add a #library, #notify #parents if #students #misbehave and implement other #fixes in addition to #Kozol’s #reinstatement, the #BostonGlobe reported at the time.
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64 Years Ago Today - How Four #College #Students Started a #Revolution
Those who decided to #takeaction in 1960 changed the course of #history. That's how #change is made.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #History #BlackHistoryMonth #CivilRights #Representation #Culture #BlackMastodon #Sitins
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/1960-lunch-counter-sit-in
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NATIONAL SIT-INS FOR PALESTINE/GAZA
📍 Meerdere locaties in Nederland
📅 Thursday, 4 January (18:00)
NATIONAL SIT-INSTHURSDAY 4 JANUARY 18:00 AT NS STATIONS ACROSS THE NETHERLANDS
WE DEMAND CEASEFIRE! STOP THE GENOCIDE!
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SIT-INS 🇵🇸 AT
* AMSTERDAM
* ALMERE
* UTRECHT
* ZWOLLE
* EINDHOVEN
* ZAANDAM
* DEN HAAG
* LEIDEN
CENTRAL STATIONS
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https://events.todon.eu/event/national-sit-ins-for-palestinegaza
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#BBCScotland #protests #sitins #Glasgow #propalestinianA large pro-Palestinian demonstration also took place in Glasgow on Saturday.
A sit-in was held in Glasgow Central Station, where protesters could be heard chanting "occupation no more".
They marched to the BBC Scotland headquarters at Pacific Quay for a rally.
Linkage:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-67320630
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9 minutes.
@ Vic College with the Divest Occupation, who have been here for 9 days, and who have been threatened with eviction at 10PM.
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Why Are We Here? – Background
While the University of Toronto announced its divestment timeline in 2021, Victoria University, St. Michael's College, and Trinity College are federated colleges – they manage their own endowments. This means that while U of T has committed to divesting, Victoria College has not.
For a decade students have been calling on Victoria College to divest from fossil fuels. Currently, 3.5 percent of Victoria College’s 500 million dollar endowment is invested in fossil fuel companies. That is about 17.5 million dollars. To date, Vic has yet to respond to these demands through action. In 2021, after a period of intensified pressure from students and U of T’s announcement that it would divest, the Board of Regents (the highest decision-making body at Vic) asked the property committee and the investment committee to consider the question of divestment and separately produce a report advising whether Victoria College should divest by February 2023. Victoria College failed to meet this commitment, and the reports have yet to be released to the public. As a result, Climate Justice U of T disrupted the February Board of Regents meeting to demand Victoria College divestment. These reports have been finalized and it is expected that they will be reviewed at a closed meeting of the Board of Regents on the 30th of March.
All eyes are now on Victoria College, as we wait for them to make a decision. The choice rests in their hands.
Victoria College’s continual refusal to respond to students' demands shows a clear pattern: they are more concerned with slim margins of profits than their students' lives. We are protesting to have the concerns of students heard at the decision-making tables. We aren’t leaving until Vic divests.
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¹ https://docs.google.com/document/d/16ynLn3Jp3E2B0wZKJiiO_Zu_RrxE2p5n9FUbz_NPOmw/mobilebasic
