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Rebecca Williams

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Writer, lawyer, and artist exploring the internet. Privacy @ACLU.org, Board @MuckRock.com, Teaching @Pratt.edu. rebeccawilliams.info, rebecca.411 on Signal
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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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I made jokes about this on twitter years ago and now it’s actually happening www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

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one of the best examples and Zuboff was right to fixate on Pokemon Go so much after all arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/p...

Pokémon Go players unwittingly contributed to tech with military drone uses arstechnica.com
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  • Over 30 billion player-submitted images reportedly trained Niantic's Visual Positioning System, a camera-based model for navigating without GPS.
  • In December 2025, Niantic Spatial partnered with defense contractor Vantor, formerly Maxar Intelligence, targeting GPS-denied drone operations.
  • Vantor landed a U.S. Army contract worth up to $217 million in February 2026 for military 3D terrain work.
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AI agents submitting all sorts of gov requests (as they should!) and gov not being able to keep up and considering more admin burden speed bumps arxiv.org/pdf/2608.16603

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AI submitting FOIA requests: www.muckrock.com/news/archive... AI answering FOIA requests: fedscoop.com/dhs-foia-pro... What could go wrong?

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I’ve definitely been using em dashes more since the introduction to ChatGPT, because I see it everywhere constantly, but now I’ve become a problem just putting it in any time I want a run on sentence, not just in formal writing also texts, I love this new tool to just go on and on

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in an uber hydroplaning en route to the “what is the socialist approach to AI?” event, what a life

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I think Bernie should run again with AOC as VP; they should do their Fighting Oligarchy Tour but forever, they should bring up the harms of data centers & the AI sovereign wealth fund; it should be the New Green Deal & New Tech Deal; it should be the opposite of technofascism

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