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James J. Donahue
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I am a human Rube Goldberg machine.
I teach. I write. I help raise three wonderful little humans with my amazing wife.
I am my cat's emotional support human.
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I just got a 4-volume copy of 1,001 Nights. Maybe I'll check to see if there are short chunks to do this kind of slow read. (I just don't always read every day anymore.)
December 15, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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I would love to teach 3-3.
December 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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I wonder where poultry factory farms would fall on that chart.
June 15, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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idk if you've seen this, but it's the clearest definition I've read
ali-alkhatib.com/blog/definin...
I think we should shed the idea that Al is a technological artifact with political features and recognize it as a political artifact through and through. Al is an ideological project to shift authority and autonomy away from individuals, towards centralized structures of power. Projects that claim to "democratize" Al routinely conflate "democratization" with "commodification". Even open-source Al projects often borrow from libertarian ideologies to help manufacture little fiefdoms. This way of thinking about Al (as a political project that happens to be implemented technologically in myriad ways that are inconsequential to identifying the overarching project as "Al") brings the discipline - reaching at least as far back as the 1950s and 60s, drenched in blood from military funding - into focus as part of the same continuous tradition.
May 3, 2025 at 2:49 PM