Just Plain Kris
@justplainkris.bsky.social
By day: mom, AI ethics advocate, photographer.
By night: activist + gamer.
Fueled by coffee.
Exploring the intersections of AI, tech, marketing, psychology + sociopolitical issues.
https://justplainkris.substack.com/
By night: activist + gamer.
Fueled by coffee.
Exploring the intersections of AI, tech, marketing, psychology + sociopolitical issues.
https://justplainkris.substack.com/
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Hey there! Interested in the intersection of marketing, psychology, tech, and sociopolitical issues? Check out my new page, The Caffeinated Chronicle on Substack. I try to keep writings short and digestible. Oh and it's free! justplainkris.substack.com
Authors reportedly reached a $1.5B deal with Anthropic to delete millions of scraped books and pay writers. But, even if data is deleted, wouldn't its influence still live inside trained models? How do we prevent this next time?
#AIGovernance #Copyright #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy
#AIGovernance #Copyright #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy
October 10, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Authors reportedly reached a $1.5B deal with Anthropic to delete millions of scraped books and pay writers. But, even if data is deleted, wouldn't its influence still live inside trained models? How do we prevent this next time?
#AIGovernance #Copyright #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy
#AIGovernance #Copyright #EthicalAI #ResponsibleAI #TechPolicy
I miss the internet when “coding” meant editing your MySpace profile in HTML, not decoding what’s real. Sora 2 and Vibe just remind me how far we’ve drifted.
Quick reflection → substack.com/home/post/p-...
Quick reflection → substack.com/home/post/p-...
Do We Really Need Sora 2 and Vibe?
As I sit here drinking my morning coffee (that I’ve had to heat up 3 x already 🤦🏻♀️), I keep circling to the same question.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I miss the internet when “coding” meant editing your MySpace profile in HTML, not decoding what’s real. Sora 2 and Vibe just remind me how far we’ve drifted.
Quick reflection → substack.com/home/post/p-...
Quick reflection → substack.com/home/post/p-...
I've compiled verified Gaza aid resources—will keep growing as more are shared. Palestinian-led initiatives + established orgs providing water, food, medical supplies, shelter. Share widely. Send me more verified resources to add. justplainkris.substack.com/p/gaza-aid-r...
Gaza Aid Resources: Direct Action to Save Lives
We cannot remain silent in the face of the genocide being perpetrated against Palestinians in Gaza by the Israeli government.
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July 28, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I've compiled verified Gaza aid resources—will keep growing as more are shared. Palestinian-led initiatives + established orgs providing water, food, medical supplies, shelter. Share widely. Send me more verified resources to add. justplainkris.substack.com/p/gaza-aid-r...
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RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed - AP News apnews.com/article/rfk-...
RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed
Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. raved in social media posts on Monday about the $7-a-pop meals that are delivered directly to the homes of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees.
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July 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM
RFK Jr. promoted a food company he says will make Americans healthy. Their meals are ultraprocessed - AP News apnews.com/article/rfk-...
AI fatigue is real—we're watching AI replace workers while execs hype AGI. 55% of companies regret AI layoffs. Klarna is rehiring after AI couldn't handle conversation nuances. Good AI (healthcare, climate) doesn't get headlines, but "AI replaces everyone" does. open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
Why We're Getting AI Fatigue
My thoughts on why AI news exhausts us—it's not the technology, it's how it's being used
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July 9, 2025 at 1:18 AM
AI fatigue is real—we're watching AI replace workers while execs hype AGI. 55% of companies regret AI layoffs. Klarna is rehiring after AI couldn't handle conversation nuances. Good AI (healthcare, climate) doesn't get headlines, but "AI replaces everyone" does. open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
To every parent folding laundry while watching the protests, making breakfast while the news breaks your heart, tucking kids in while worrying about their future, you're not alone.
The weight you're carrying is real. It's okay to not be okay right now.
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The weight you're carrying is real. It's okay to not be okay right now.
open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
It's Okay to Not Be Okay while Parenting Through Political Chaos
I fold laundry while watching protests unfold on TikTok.
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June 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
To every parent folding laundry while watching the protests, making breakfast while the news breaks your heart, tucking kids in while worrying about their future, you're not alone.
The weight you're carrying is real. It's okay to not be okay right now.
open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
The weight you're carrying is real. It's okay to not be okay right now.
open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
Don’t let the GOP fool you who said they didn’t know what was in the budget bill because they didn’t read it and wouldn’t have approved it. It’s bull. They know exactly what is in that bill, their staff told them, their co-workers told, I mean it was posted everywhere on the web what was in it.
June 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Don’t let the GOP fool you who said they didn’t know what was in the budget bill because they didn’t read it and wouldn’t have approved it. It’s bull. They know exactly what is in that bill, their staff told them, their co-workers told, I mean it was posted everywhere on the web what was in it.
RFK Jr.'s 'gold standard' health report drops with 21+ fake citations, classic AI hallucinations.
If government experts can't spot AI-generated fake studies, how can we trust them with health policy? justplainkris.substack.com/p/maha-repor...
If government experts can't spot AI-generated fake studies, how can we trust them with health policy? justplainkris.substack.com/p/maha-repor...
MAHA Report and AI Hallucinations
When Government "Experts" Fail Basic AI Literacy
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May 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
RFK Jr.'s 'gold standard' health report drops with 21+ fake citations, classic AI hallucinations.
If government experts can't spot AI-generated fake studies, how can we trust them with health policy? justplainkris.substack.com/p/maha-repor...
If government experts can't spot AI-generated fake studies, how can we trust them with health policy? justplainkris.substack.com/p/maha-repor...
Happy Saturday, and thank goodness for coffee. Reports that DOGE is using Grok in federal agencies without approval while Congress considers banning state AI regs for 10 years? This is how you create regulatory capture. open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
AI Governance Challenges Emerge from Alleged DOGE Use of Grok in Federal Systems
Happy Saturday morning.
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May 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happy Saturday, and thank goodness for coffee. Reports that DOGE is using Grok in federal agencies without approval while Congress considers banning state AI regs for 10 years? This is how you create regulatory capture. open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
The House just passed the “Big, Beautiful Bill”, a budget that cuts Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP while adding $3.8T to the deficit for billionaire tax breaks. It now heads to the Senate. Here’s what you can do to stop it: substack.com/home/post/p-...
#KillTheBill
#KillTheBill
The Big, Ugly Truth Behind the “Big, Beautiful Bill”
And How You Can Fight Back
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May 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The House just passed the “Big, Beautiful Bill”, a budget that cuts Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP while adding $3.8T to the deficit for billionaire tax breaks. It now heads to the Senate. Here’s what you can do to stop it: substack.com/home/post/p-...
#KillTheBill
#KillTheBill
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I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver.
This is a political stunt—point blank.
This is a political stunt—point blank.
May 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver.
This is a political stunt—point blank.
This is a political stunt—point blank.
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Cutting SNAP funding hurts us all. Every $1 in SNAP benefits generates between $1.50 - $1.79 in economic activity: boosting grocery stores, farmers & small businesses. When SNAP is cut, states lose billions, tax revenue drops, tens of thousands of jobs are lost & kids go hungry
#MomSky
#MomSky
May 16, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Cutting SNAP funding hurts us all. Every $1 in SNAP benefits generates between $1.50 - $1.79 in economic activity: boosting grocery stores, farmers & small businesses. When SNAP is cut, states lose billions, tax revenue drops, tens of thousands of jobs are lost & kids go hungry
#MomSky
#MomSky
It’s Friday night and Elon Musk’s Grok AI this week pushed a debunked conspiracy theory unprompted. Not a glitch, but an unauthorized change. This isn’t just tech drama. It’s a serious AI oversight issue. Read why this matters justplainkris.substack.com/p/what-groks...
What Grok’s “Glitch” Tells Us About AI Power and Accountability
This week, Grok, the AI chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s company xAI, made headlines for inserting unsolicited and racially charged content into user interactions.
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May 17, 2025 at 12:17 AM
It’s Friday night and Elon Musk’s Grok AI this week pushed a debunked conspiracy theory unprompted. Not a glitch, but an unauthorized change. This isn’t just tech drama. It’s a serious AI oversight issue. Read why this matters justplainkris.substack.com/p/what-groks...
I love that ChatGPT refers to X as “Twitter/X”. Just saying.
May 17, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I love that ChatGPT refers to X as “Twitter/X”. Just saying.
Don’t be fooled. The Republicans who opposed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" today did so not to protect the public, but because they want even deeper and faster cuts to programs like Medicaid and food assistance. Cuts that fall on everyday Americans. Meanwhile, the wealthiest still get tax breaks.
May 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Don’t be fooled. The Republicans who opposed the "Big, Beautiful Bill" today did so not to protect the public, but because they want even deeper and faster cuts to programs like Medicaid and food assistance. Cuts that fall on everyday Americans. Meanwhile, the wealthiest still get tax breaks.
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Happy 43rd b’day to “Combat Rock” — the iconic LP by @theclash.com that featured “Rock the Casbah”.
When writing, Joe Strummer said, “I started to think about what someone had told me .. that you get lashed for owning a disco album in Iran."
(Hence the line, “Shareef don’t like it.”)
When writing, Joe Strummer said, “I started to think about what someone had told me .. that you get lashed for owning a disco album in Iran."
(Hence the line, “Shareef don’t like it.”)
May 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Happy 43rd b’day to “Combat Rock” — the iconic LP by @theclash.com that featured “Rock the Casbah”.
When writing, Joe Strummer said, “I started to think about what someone had told me .. that you get lashed for owning a disco album in Iran."
(Hence the line, “Shareef don’t like it.”)
When writing, Joe Strummer said, “I started to think about what someone had told me .. that you get lashed for owning a disco album in Iran."
(Hence the line, “Shareef don’t like it.”)
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a major attempt to centralize power over AI, banning state-level regulations for the 10 yrs. But that’s not all. It also includes $880B in Medicaid cuts & billions in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Here’s what’s at stake: justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-one-bi...
The “One Big, Beautiful Bill” and the Federal AI Power Grab
Why this bill is about more than AI and how we fight back
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May 14, 2025 at 10:51 PM
The “Big, Beautiful Bill” is a major attempt to centralize power over AI, banning state-level regulations for the 10 yrs. But that’s not all. It also includes $880B in Medicaid cuts & billions in tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy. Here’s what’s at stake: justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-one-bi...
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The AI jobs crisis raises big questions about “what kind of jobs we want people to be able to do, what kind of work and which institutions we think are important as a society, and what we’re willing to do to protect them,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social writes. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...
The AI jobs crisis is here, now
It's not coming, it has already arrived.
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May 13, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The AI jobs crisis raises big questions about “what kind of jobs we want people to be able to do, what kind of work and which institutions we think are important as a society, and what we’re willing to do to protect them,” @bcmerchant.bsky.social writes. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-job...
✔️ In 2022, Biden passed a law letting Medicare cut drug prices.
❌ In 2025, Trump canceled it before savings kicked in.
🔁 Now he's bringing back a similar plan and claiming it's new.
He killed the fix, then took credit for solving the problem he caused.
❌ In 2025, Trump canceled it before savings kicked in.
🔁 Now he's bringing back a similar plan and claiming it's new.
He killed the fix, then took credit for solving the problem he caused.
May 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
✔️ In 2022, Biden passed a law letting Medicare cut drug prices.
❌ In 2025, Trump canceled it before savings kicked in.
🔁 Now he's bringing back a similar plan and claiming it's new.
He killed the fix, then took credit for solving the problem he caused.
❌ In 2025, Trump canceled it before savings kicked in.
🔁 Now he's bringing back a similar plan and claiming it's new.
He killed the fix, then took credit for solving the problem he caused.
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Massive from US Copyright Office!!
"…commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially … through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."
www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
"…commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially … through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."
www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
www.copyright.gov
May 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Massive from US Copyright Office!!
"…commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially … through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."
www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
"…commercial use of vast troves of copyrighted works to produce expressive content that competes with them in existing markets, especially … through illegal access, goes beyond established fair use boundaries."
www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright...
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No surprise that the federal data grab continues to fuel the AI race.
And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress.
Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.
And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress.
Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.
Donald Trump’s termination of Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter, is a brazen, unprecedented power grab with no legal basis.
It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
It's surely no coincidence he acted less than a day after she refused to rubber-stamp Elon Musk’s efforts to mine troves of copyrighted works to train AI models.
May 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
No surprise that the federal data grab continues to fuel the AI race.
And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress.
Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.
And also no coincidence that this occurred within days of the Librarian of Congress being fired without cause. The Office of the Register of Copyrights sits within the Library of Congress.
Keep fighting @morelle.house.gov.
May 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Just published a new piece: AI at the Crossroads: Governance, Sovereignty, and Human Judgment. Reflections from Philly Tech Week on 4 key tensions shaping AI's future, beyond just tech fixes: Ethics, Sovereignty, Regulation, Human judgment open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
May 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Just published a new piece: AI at the Crossroads: Governance, Sovereignty, and Human Judgment. Reflections from Philly Tech Week on 4 key tensions shaping AI's future, beyond just tech fixes: Ethics, Sovereignty, Regulation, Human judgment open.substack.com/pub/justplai...
Kilmar Abrego García is being wrongfully detained despite legal protections. This isn’t just about him, it’s about all of our rights. I made it easy to contact your senators. Take 2 mins to speak up. justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-tate-b...
#JusticeForKilmar #BringThemHome #DefendOurRights
#JusticeForKilmar #BringThemHome #DefendOurRights
The Tate Brothers Got a Plane. Kilmar Got a Cell.
Everything you need to act is in here. Tell Congress to bring Kilmar and other innocent Americans home.
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April 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Kilmar Abrego García is being wrongfully detained despite legal protections. This isn’t just about him, it’s about all of our rights. I made it easy to contact your senators. Take 2 mins to speak up. justplainkris.substack.com/p/the-tate-b...
#JusticeForKilmar #BringThemHome #DefendOurRights
#JusticeForKilmar #BringThemHome #DefendOurRights