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Of Apparatuses and Insurrections: A Critical Commentary on the Manifesto on “Algorithmic Sabotage”

June 24, 2025

Visual designed by Apsara Flury. Distributed under the CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication. 📝 Note The essay titled Of Apparatuses and Insurrections: A Critical Commentary on the Manifesto on “Algorithmic Sabotage” was authored by individualities and is grounded in—and owes gratitude to—the collective dialogue, exchange, and weaving that took place during the proceedings of the Communitarian Assembly on ‘Technopolitics of Fronts’, held in Berlin and Athens between February and March 2025. ...

Sabot in the Age of AI

January 28, 2025

A captured screenshot of a page generated by a tarpit deployed as part of the ongoing ‘Trapping AI’ operation. The tarpit, built on Babble — a standalone LLM crawler-tarpit binary — generates an endless stream of deterministic bollocks that traps crawlers on a single site and forces them to endlessly navigate a constantly expanding sea of pages 🌊. Each new page spawns additional layers of meaningless text and dozens of links, dragging them ever deeper into the tarpit 🕳️. ...