Don’t love this.

Do Lexington next! Also, Flock’s statement is so gross.

I hate that I get this joke, but it’s also very funny.

One of the things I’ve had to wrestle with while engaging more and more with Jacques Ellul is that Ted Kaczynski thought he was pretty cool, too.

This Mauro Lubrano quote in the piece sums up a lot of my same feelings:

While anti-technology violence is unacceptable, it should not be used as an excuse to securitize AI and emerging technologies, thereby silencing those who are critical of the current trajectory.

This piece hits hard.

Another good take on Leo and Tolkien.

What wild times we live in that it sounds plausible that the pope might me throwing shade at a billionnaire with LotR references.

If edtech doesn’t include this horrifying monstrosity, the field isn’t being broad enough in its inquiry.

Necessary reading.

Check this guy out:

He compared the current era of AI to the Tower of Babel, saying society must “avoid the ‘Babel syndrome,’” which he defines as “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 performance.”

I think I like this pope.

There are so many bad things going on that it’s hard to keep up with them all.

We’ve got all the money in the world for war, but none for peace, it seems.

Hate reads are a thing; what about petty reads? Loved this article so much.

Ugh, gross.

Bookmarking this for my own future reference.

I definitely don’t agree with everything in here, but it made me think in productive ways, and that’s important.

The purported inevitability is one of the most frustrating things for me about AI, and I think this shows that I’m very much not alone in that feeling. (Also, mandatory Ellul reference).

I apparently haven’t been watching enough video content from The Onion, because this was a treat.

Stories like this should take a prominent place in every discussion about generative AI.

Good for them.

Very glad for 404 Media’s podcast, because I somehow missed when they published this horrifying story.

I hate reading news like this because it just makes me depressed.

I will (almost) always post articles that make me angry about NCII.

It’s telling when you have to wait to grow a spine until you know your term is over, but better now than ever, I guess.