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Jeffrey Vagle

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Law professor | Privacy, AI*, Cybersecurity, Technology and Society | Veteran | There is music yet to play | https://tractatus.org
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"Disinformation did not begin with AI, yet today it finds a powerful amplifier in AI...Only the shared pursuit of the veracity of facts, perceived as a common good, can provide a solid foundation for just communication." -- Pope Leo XIV www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • 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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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Instead of railing against the latest “I asked Claude” article in a mainstream publication, I’ll just post this.

How to talk about buttondown.com
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  • The guide covers six language categories: cognition, emotion, communication, agency, human-role analogies, and biological metaphors.
  • Proposed substitutions include 'probabilistic automation' for 'artificial intelligence' and 'conversation simulator' for 'chatbot.'
  • Rephrasing 'ChatGPT assisted students' as 'the students used ChatGPT' is given as an example of restoring human accountability.
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On today's pod: - Google Employees Internally Share Memes About How Its AI Sucks - Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal: Watch now:

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid; and more! Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/06/23/d... #Pluralistic 1/

Pluralistic: Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid (23 Jun 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
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  • Cory Doctorow argues age-verification mandates create the same surveillance infrastructure they claim to protect children from.
  • He warns the identity data collected to verify age will be reused by agencies like ICE for immigration enforcement.
  • Doctorow flags reported UK moves toward VPN bans as the predictable next step once routine online privacy is made illegal.
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I recommend @doctorow.pluralistic.net's book on the subject. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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At a campground and the folks in the neighboring site (with the $500k+ RV) are loudly playing an AI* booster podcast.

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OpenAI commercial using the “faster/harder typing == super productive” trope that shows up so often in bad hacker movies.

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