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Christa Dickson
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The Kill Switch
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The Kill Switch
How Bari Weiss handed the Trump administration a veto over CBS News
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December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Christa Dickson
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."

- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.

Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Reposted by Christa Dickson
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YES to that last repost from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social. Relatedly, I gave this talk all the way back in 2018.

(Back then, ‘AI movies’ meant movies about AI, not movies made with AI 🥴)
I want to draw especial attention to the treatment of AI—artificial intelligence—in these narratives. Think of Ex Machina or Blade Runner. I spoke at TED two years in a row, and one year, there were back-to-back talks about whether or not AI was going to evolve out of control and “kill us all.” I realized that that scenario is just something I have never been afraid of. And at the same moment, I noticed that the people who are terrified of machine super-intelligence are almost exclusively white men. I don’t think anxiety about AI is really about AI at all. I think it’s certain white men’s displaced anxiety upon realizing that women and people of color have, and have always had, sentience, and are beginning to act on it on scales that they’re unprepared for. There’s a reason that AI is almost exclusively gendered as female, in fiction and in life. There’s a reason they’re almost exclusively in service positions, in fiction and in life. I’m not worried about how we’re going to treat AI some distant day, I’m worried about how we treat other humans, now, today, all over the world, far worse than anything that’s depicted in AI movies. It matters that still, the vast majority of science fiction narratives that appear in popular culture are imagined by, written by, directed by, and funded by white men who interpret the crumbling of their world as the crumbling of the world.
December 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...
Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness
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October 29, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Mourn, or Else www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...
Opinion | Mourn, or Else
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October 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Civility Is a Fantasy www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...
Opinion | Civility Is a Fantasy
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September 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
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September 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.
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July 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Oh my heart. I love coming across kind, compassionate stories like this, especially lately when the world feels extraordinarily harsh wapo.st/41tCjor
Store owner relocates his shop for his best customer, a woman with Down syndrome
“I was crying so hard that I could barely talk to thank him,” said Toni Cavanaugh, whose daughter visits the video rental store three days a week.
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March 7, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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What One Mass Rape Case Shows about the Depth of Rape Culture
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December 5, 2024 at 3:52 PM