Mél Hogan / The Data Fix

Canadian critical media studies scholar and podcaster interested in the meanings we make of perpetual tech promises. Bilingue. Focused on the environment. I typo a lot. 😷🏳️‍🌈 🎙️ thedatafix.net 📝 heliotropejournal.net

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

"We must avoid the 'Babel syndrome,' the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performa…

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com

these gentlemen are very very unwell and need to be excised from the body politic like a testicular cancer

Peter Thiel: The pope is ‘working for the Chinese Communists’ by criticizing AI | CNN cnn.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • At the Aspen Ideas Festival, Peter Thiel said Pope Leo XIV is 'working for the Chinese Communists' by calling for international AI regulation.
  • Leo's May encyclical 'Magnifica Humanitas' declared that artificial intelligence 'must be disarmed' and pressed for stronger international oversight.
  • Thiel spoke on a nonrecorded panel with political scientist Francis Fukuyama; the audience reportedly received the characterization with laughter.
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
  • The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
  • Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Self harm bot can now also empty out your accounts.

OpenAI now wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts | The Verge theverge.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • OpenAI now collects bank transaction data via Plaid, marking its first direct entry into federally regulated financial data.
  • The integration is opt-in but gives ChatGPT read access to checking, savings, and brokerage accounts simultaneously.
  • Privacy and regulatory exposure is heightened because financial data carries distinct legal protections under GLBA and state laws.
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Recent commentary

the thing is i don’t hate people who use ai or bitcoin etc lol what..why would anyone make a list like this i just can’t be convinced that these things (ai etc) have redeemable qualities

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has anyone compared gen ai to hypnotism specifically? i was thinking how some folks can and some can’t be hypothesized. and while the mechanism of hypnosis is real, the tap dancing and alien speak that comes from being under is made up

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social media psychosis to ai psychosis pipeline

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