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Excited to announce our next event in collaboration with Antiuniversity Now Festival 2026! 🗓️Wednesday, 14 October 2026 ⏰7–8:30pm 📍Pelican House Common Room, 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, London E1 5QJ 🔗 Link in bio to sign up Antiuniversity Now challenges academic and class hierarchy through institutionalised education, access to learning and the mechanism of knowledge creation and distribution. Antiuniversity Now Festival 2026 invites people to organise and share events in public spaces all over the country ⁉️ So what is this? Artificial Intelligence is increasingly shaping the way we socialise, work and engage with society, and experts worldwide have raised very real concerns that we could lose control of the tech to devastating effect. 🔌 In this 90-minute workshop, run by Pull The Plug, we explore what AI actually is and many of its darker sides. We will collaboratively consider how it is having real, negative consequences for us all at an unprecedented rate, contributing to environmental decline, dangerous misinformation, wealth inequality and many more social injustices, and how we can come together to imagine an alternate future. Questions explored in the session include: 1. Why is AI a political issue- not just a technological one? 2. Who benefits from AI, and who pays for the social, environmental and economic costs? 3. How can we organise to make AI serve our communities, rather than the interests of capital? This workshop is built to be accessible for all levels of prior engagement on the topic, and standing/walking is optional. We encourage anyone to let us know of particular accessibility needs, as we want to ensure everyone can take part. 🔗 Link in bio to sign up

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Inspired by Kylie Jenner’s Meta Glasses ad, we decided to tell the story of Grimy Jenner. She leads a life that Big Tech wouldn’t be keen to advertise.. Earlier this year, Meta released their new ‘smart glasses’ in partnership with Rayban and Kylie Jenner. The public rebranded them with the appropriate nickname - Pervert Glasses. The story of Grimy Jenner may be a dystopian POV (for now), but the real story of surveillance and control is a far more sinister one. Despite Jenner’s best efforts, we all understand that this is not a fashion statement. It is a piece of surveillance tech, quietly collecting vast amounts of user data and placing vulnerable individuals at risk. Big Tech does not value consent. Fuck Meta. Check out the linktree in our bio for ways to piss off Big Tech. 🔌 Sign our data centre petitions 🔌 Check out our local groups 🔌 Come to a student meeting #metaglasses #kyliejenner #surviellance #spytech

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Not by AI. Artist: Becky Vicars @becky_vicars We have the power to choose 🔌 Link in bio to get involved. For anyone new here, we're Pull The Plug - a non-violent grassroots movement set up by a small group of concerned, ordinary people. We aren't pulling the pug on AI, but on Big Tech's undemocratic control over it. Whether its data centres or digital ID's, we're building a movement to take back control from a handful of US tech companies dominating technology. Check out our linktree and our website to get involved with what we're up to! #piracy #retro #bigtech #privacy #data