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   JNL (jnl@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 06:16:34 JST JNL

   Friends, if you had the opportunity to put an AI-critical reading in a list that otherwise is AI-curious (I did not have oversight of the list itself but I do get to add this one other thing), what would your one choice be? It can be a book, an essay, or something else.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 06:17:16 JST Rich Felker

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     • Baldur Bjarnason

     @jnl Probably something by @baldur, maybe the LLMentalist Effect.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 06:41:56 JST Rich Felker

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     @jnl Excellent point, and excellent choice!

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     JNL (jnl@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-May-2026 06:41:57 JST JNL

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     Thanks, y'all. Emily Bender it is--the list is otherwise just men talking. I am gonna mute this now; it was a quick-turnaround need, but I will loop back with it later because I also have a colloquium paper to write.

     I could particularly use pieces that make explicit the eugenicist underpinnings, and eugenics-furthering-uses, of AI as a techno-theocratic project of class-tied heteropatriarchy (not to, uh, give my paper away or anything 😂 ... I'm not writing it to be novel; I'm writing it because my damn ministry colleagues are inexplicably bewitched)