Pull The Plug

🗞️ PULL THE PLUG FILES 🗞️ Pull The Plug Files features Tom Stoneham, Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, on the Director General of the IOPC's claims that there is a moral imperative to embrace technology that can 'benefit' us. ✍️ Link in bio to read! 🔗

🎥 NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO OUT! 🎥 In our latest YouTube video, Harry visits Slough to talk to Ambily - one of the organisers in the Slough Against Data Centres campaign - about how it feels to live amongst Europe's largest collection of data centres. Link in bio! 🔗

📣 RAVE AGAINST THE MACHINE 📣 🗓️ Friday 13th November ⏰ 8.00pm - 2.00am 📍 Avalon Cafe, London 🔗 Link in bio to sign up/scan the QR code!

📣 If you're an organisation who believes in greater democracy and regulation over AI, then join us on the 5th of December to March Against The Machines! 📣 Join us to make history and add your logo to our protest 🔌 🔗 link in bio to sign up! ✉️ Get in contact with queries: media@pulltheplug.uk

The next time you get told that Anthropic is 'one of the good guys' just remember that you and 49 of your mates would have to die/be maimed before a lawmaker can even consider blocking one of their models released. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

🎥 NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO OUT! Full video linked in bio! Harry interviews Nick Couldry - Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory Emeritus at LSE. Nick's new book Predatory AI is available for pre-order with 20% discount if you use the code PAI20 At Polity or Wiley!

Pull the Plug Universities next network meeting will see Professor Nick Couldry introducing his brand new book 'Predatory AI', shortly followed by an open discussion! 🗓️Tuesday 20th October ⏰4:00-5:00pm 📍Online 🔗 Link in bio or scan the QR code to sign up! See you there!

🔌 Pull The Plug Manchester Public Meeting 🔌 📆 Thursday 22nd October ⏰ 5:30pm 📍Methodist Central Hall, Mosiac Main Space, Manchester 🔗 Register via QR code/link in bio Manchester! Do you want your voice back? Join us and bring power over AI back in the hands of people in Manchester.

Your support will help us: 🔌 Host meetings, workshops, and actions 🔌 Develop resources, videos, and publications 🔌 Organise our national demo this December. 🔌 Help everyday people concerned about the impacts on AI on the environment, society, and livelihoods get organised. Link in bio to donate!

Sam Altman says that "the world should accept some bad things happening" for the benefit of AI. We say: no fucking way. Pull The Plug is fighting for a future where people, not profit, shape our future with technology and AI. Help us piss off Big Tech even more, donate to us via the link in bio!

🎥 NEW YOUTUBE VIDEO OUT! In our latest YouTube video, Harry explores Meta and OpenAI’s new digital agents, and the sinister context behind these ‘cute’ characters. 🔗 Watch the video by checking out the YouTube page linked in bio!

Excited to announce our next event in collaboration with Antiuniversity Now Festival 2026! Our Power, Their Profits: Organising Against the AI Boom 🗓️Wednesday, 14 October 2026 ⏰7–8:30pm 📍Pelican House Common Room, 144 Cambridge Heath Rd, Bethnal Green, E1 5QJ 🔗 Link in bio

The phrase 'Digital ID' through the backdoor' simply doesn't feel right anymore. 'Digital ID comes crashing through the glass window' feels much more appropriate now. Remember what real political democracy felt like? Not this. Join us to reclaim that feeling.

Sam Altman has said the world ‘should accept some bad things happening’ with AI. Why must we shoulder the responsibility of being the collateral damage for this technology, because God forbid our resistance gets in the way of making their pockets heavier?

#BackTheBreakClause ✊✊✊

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In our latest YouTube video, Harry chats to Hannah from Take Back Big Tech about the power of attention strikes to topple the Big Tech monopoly. Check out the link in our bio to watch the full video!

Want to get involved but not sure where to start? Come to Pull The Plug’s welcome call! 🗓️Wednesday 7th October ⏰ 12:30 - 1:30pm 📍Online 🔗 Link in bio to sign up Pull The Plug is a non-violent grassroots movement. If you’d like to get involved the link is in our bio!

Last night, hundreds of NHS patients, health workers and activists gathered outside Palantir’s HQ to demand that the government cut Palantir’s £330m contract with the NHS. Palantir - the international spytech company working with ICE and the IDF - has no place in our NHS ❌

Labour Ministers met with Big Tech more than 200 times in the past two years. London, do you want your voice back? 🔌 Pull The Plug London Public Meeting 🔌 📆 Wednesday 7 October ⏰ 6:00–8:00pm 📍Kobi Nazrul Centre, 30 Hanbury Street, E1 6QR 🔗 Register via QR code/link in bio

We just disrupted a NVIDIA themed elite AI network dinner - featuring keynote speaker Ross Verrall, who leads NVIDIA’s Enterprise Services business across EMEA. Pull the plug on Palantir, pull the plug on NVIDIA 🔌

Find your local protest here: www.amnesty.org.uk/people-vs-pa...

We’re joining the People vs Palantir England day of action! ✊ Protests are happening all over the country, but you can find us at the London rally: 📅 Thursday 1st October ⏰ 6:00pm 📍Palantir HQ, 20 Soho Square, London W1D 3QW

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“We shouldn’t be trying to find ‘AI proof’ assessments but instead addressing the reasons why students – who by and large do not want to cheat– are using LLMs.” Pull The Plug Files features Prof Tom Stoneham discussing the use of AI in academic tests ✍️ Link in bio to read now!

📢 NATIONAL DEMO ANNOUNCEMENT! March Against The Machines! We are co-organising with PauseAI a major national demonstration in London, demanding greater democratic oversight and immediate regulation over AI 🔌 🗓️Saturday 5th Dec 📍London, BBC Portland Place ⏰ 12:00-4:00pm 🔗 link in bio

📢 NATIONAL DEMO ANNOUNCEMENT! March Against The Machines! We are co-organising with PauseAI a major national demonstration in London, demanding greater democratic oversight and immediate regulation over AI 🔌 🗓️Saturday 5th Dec 📍London, BBC Portland Place ⏰ 12:00-4:00pm 🔗 link in bio

Bristol! If you're sick of being silenced when it comes to AI, come along and check out our first Bristol local group meeting! 🔌 🗓️ Wednesday 30th September ⏰ 7:00 - 9:00pm 📍Hamilton House, Stokes Croft 🔗 Link in bio to sign up!

🚨 REMINDER: EMERGENCY AI PROTEST 🚨 We’re keeping this momentum up because now is not the moment in history to hesitate, join us tomorrow for an emergency AI protest🔌 🗓️Saturday 19th September ⏰ 1:00pm-3:00pm 📍Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade 🔗 Link in bio to sign up

🚨 EMERGENCY AI PROTEST 🚨 We’re keeping this momentum up because now is not the moment in history to hesitate - join us this Saturday to maintain the pile on of pressure 🔌 🗓️Saturday 19th September, ⏰ 1:00pm-3:00pm 📍Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, 🔗 Link in bio to sign up

We just disrupted AI Vision, hosted by Canva in London 🔌 Join us this coming Saturday for an emergency protest in London, demanding that the Minister of AI listen to the public, not Big Tech billionaires. 🗓️Saturday 19th September ⏰1pm-3pm 🔗 Link in bio for more info

The situation is escalating. In light of all of the recent AI news, we're joining Pause AI's emergency protest THIS WEEK, and we want you there with us. 🗓️ Wednesday 16th September ⏰ 10am-2pm 📍 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA 🔗 Link in bio to sign up

The situation is escalating. In light of all of the recent AI news, we're joining Pause AI's emergency protest THIS WEEK, and we want you there with us. 🗓️ Wednesday 16th September ⏰ 10am-2pm 📍 10 Downing Street, London, SW1A 2AA 🔗 Link in bio to sign up

We're looking for testimonies from people who have been impacted by Big Tech's control and implementation of AI in the UK. Get in contact: 📧 media@pulltheplug.uk ✍️ 50 - 200 words detailing your experience or opinion 🔌 Include a name/nickname, occupation, and a picture (optional)

Tomorrow is National Data Centre Day (gross), and to celebrate it in style we are joining the No Leeds Data Centre campaign at Millennium Square to protest the rise of hyperscale data centres. 🗓️ Saturday 12th September ⏰ 12:00 📍 Millennium Square, Leeds

Yet again, Big Tech's demands have been placed atop the pecking order, drowning out the voices of the local communities that this government pretends to serve. This is not democracy, and this is not true representation.

We’re joining the People vs Palantir England day of action! ✊ On Thursday 1st October NHS patients, health workers and activists across England are taking action to demand that Palantir’s NHS contract is scrapped. Find your nearest local protest here: www.amnesty.org.uk/people-vs-pa...

I'd laugh if it wasn't so absolutely tragic.

Are Big Tech (and our pathetically obedient government) intent on ruining anything infused with fun and joy? Privacy is becoming a luxury that we aren't privileged to. Waiting for the "virtual festival" experience costing £3,000 any day now.

Mega big thank you to everyone who came along to our public meeting last Wednesday on what collective action at pull the plug looks like. We're hosting an online follow up to this meeting next Wednesday - exciting stuff planned! 🗓️ Wednesday 9th September ⏰ 6:30-8pm 📍 Online 🔗 Link in bio!

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Claude, ChatGBT and Grok all going down last night sets a worrying precedent for humanity if we continue to rely more and more on AI infrastructure. If AI ends up in our hospitals or police stations (a mortifying thought in and of itself) and a similar AI power outage occurred, what happens then?

These CEOs are so out of touch with society it is insane. They'll claim the most ridiculous arguments to justify their pervert glasses.

If this makes you mad - we are too. We're calling for a moratorium on data centres in London, Wales and Oxford. Link in bio to sign our petitions 🔗

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A FOI (freedom of information) submitted by Global Action Plan has found that the UK government doesn't even know what all these data centres will be used for. Whilst 3/4 of the UK exists in drought, and we have over 500 operating data centres, there is simply no justification for this.