Jane Tynan
@janeym.bsky.social
Cultural historian - 20th C design & material culture | researching textile ecologies & the recent history of waterproof clothing | Design Cultures @VU Amsterdam | immigrant | 🇮🇪 in 🇳🇱
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Through their efforts, AI boosters are re-configuring and diminish how people understand the human, human flourishing, our capacities and potential, and why we bother being alive at all.
"By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
"By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
We’re Already at Risk of Ceding Our Humanity to AI
Machines It’s 2019. I’m in a bar in Providence, Rhode Island, chatting with graduate students and researchers with PhDs. One of them, who holds a PhD in Latin American literature, observed approvin…
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June 19, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Through their efforts, AI boosters are re-configuring and diminish how people understand the human, human flourishing, our capacities and potential, and why we bother being alive at all.
"By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
"By deciding what robots are for, we are defining what humans are." Excerpt from my HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY:
Totally agree that people in the north should be able to vote in Irish presidential elections. But the article says nothing about non-resident citizen voting practices in *other countries* which would highlight just how unusual Ireland is. Most countries offer some voting rights to emigrants.
October 5, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Totally agree that people in the north should be able to vote in Irish presidential elections. But the article says nothing about non-resident citizen voting practices in *other countries* which would highlight just how unusual Ireland is. Most countries offer some voting rights to emigrants.