🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾

Everybody is pulling gotchas instead of noticing that the AI lobby and the FREAKING CATHOLIC POPE both think the way to win is to speak DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE and not just in theory but grounded HISTORICAL REALITY www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va

Good. We need more of this . If you want to use I ? You are responsible for the output. The desire is power , without accountability and this is the first part of actually equaling out www.wired.com/story/a-cour...

A Court Has Ruled That Google Is Liable for False Statements Generated by AI Overviews wired.com

Every signatory of the Harper’s Letter . Every person who refused to acknowledge the power imbalances around 230 You disgust me. You absolutely disgust me and your silence now should shame you every day futurism.com/future-socie...

Trump Moves to Deeply Censor the Entire Internet futurism.com

A lot of the “AI” discussions are entirely about creating a technocratic class that debates the fate of everyone else not the technology, not truth, not innovation and they are LYING about it to do so www.firstpost.com/tech/ai-hall...

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This hit me two hours later … but also note that this is happening while the head of Palantir openly admits the people he e pecks to be most harmed are college educated women futurism.com/artificial-i...

CEO of Palantir Says AI Will Seize Power Away From College-Educated Women futurism.com

And of course AI feels creepily familiar to a lot of us as problematic It’s the rich jerks pushing and their sycophants With a dash of teh women’s role in the abuse being underplayed Where they give us “advice” about inevitability that’s really them creating slut shaming smear campaigns

Finished a proposal to argue that McLuhan was wrong about media using responses to three of his Understanding Media examples … as a way to study AI/ social : and streaming media

AI runs like gossip Can Gossip be useful a la a “whisper network” yes but only for situations that already have deeply problematic inequalities In any situation with actual rigor you are ALWAYS better served by going directly to the source AI explicitly prevents that

AI to me is almost all linguistics and communication … But everybody things being understood OR understanding should take no work

Part of the reason even talking about AI discourse or security pisses me off even though it fascinates me Because folks will be loud and wrong while only citing Lenin/ Marx or whatever white guy they hate But the actual COMMS of AI is all people centered or going back to ancient philosophy

What is the difference between AI and the racialized discourse economy so many of you have set up erasing Blackness and Black contributions and Indigenous systems BESIDES the fact the harm isn’t localized?