Dr. Lindsay Ruiz
@humanasusual.bsky.social
Founder, human as usual® | Author of “The Case for Scaling Humanity — Human Literacy in a World of AI, Power & Accelerating Systems.” (Substack Essay Pinned Below; Book Late 2026) #ProHuman #ProDemocracy Substack: https://lindsayruiz.substack.com
@LULAC is seeking signatures demanding an independent investigation into Houston ICE shooting of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo who should be alive today. If you do anything to resist the abomination of the Trump regime, please make it be this. 📌 Link: lulac.org/advocacy/ale...
My Birthday Wishes to America I celebrate the people who refuse to surrender their principles to fear, who choose courage over cynicism, and who understand that patriotism is not silence but the willingness to care enough to hold your country accountable to its highest ideals. 📌 Link in comments
Looking for the helpers ❤️🩹 Humanitarian orgs are mobilizing with urgency to assist victims of the twin earthquakes in Venezuela. Any and all donations are extremely welcomed. Sharing and reacting to this post also helps tremendously with reach on this platform. Links in comments with deep thanks.
We need deeper leadership in the world. The leadership bar is extremely low, and it is our responsibility to expect more of our leaders, and to develop ourselves into leaders that can move humankind forward. It’s an emergency.
I recently learned that as concern grows over the human cost of AI, a new “The Human Movement” is emerging in response. We definitely need a strong, genuinely focused pro-human mobilization. But is it? Some versions of this early movement seem remarkably uninterested in ALL humans.
We are destroying the environment, affecting people's livelihoods, raising energy costs, making people lose their jobs, launching a techno-fascist surveillance state, but hey, looks like at least we’re winning the AI race
We are told that AI is here to stay. That we either “ride or die.” That the future is already decided. That our only responsibility is to adapt quickly enough to avoid being left behind. But perhaps we have mistaken the tool for how the story ends… humanasusual.substack.com/p/you-know-w...
Hi! I'm the author of "The Case for Scaling Humanity. Human Literacy in a World of AI, Power, and Accelerating Systems" (Upcoming release, Fall 2026.)
Someone, somewhere, may eventually have to live with the consequences. If executives, founders, and investors privately understand the risks, what obligations do they have before asking millions of ordinary citizens to buy into the inevitability story? 📌 open.substack.com/pub/humanasu...
The debate is no longer occurring between AI optimists and AI doomers. It is occurring between people who believe we still have meaningful choices and people who have already accepted technological inevitability. Whether humanity ends up in a deep moral debt. The window is shrinking. 1/2 Link👇🏼
Human in the loop. A role in the AI process perfectly reasonable as an engineering practice. But far less compelling as a philosophy of civilization... 📌 Link to my newest Substack: humanasusual.substack.com/p/the-human-...
Steve Jobs never started with technology. He started with experience, feeling, and the invisible relationship between a human being and the thing they touched. That was the design principle. My newest Substack: humanasusual.substack.com/p/the-highes...
This media capture rewards the least mature and most anti-human ways of relating to truth and shared reality. Our current divide is not a battle over “who owns the truth,” but whether we will still be able to engage with reality without it being turned into an identity or a weapon.
What if skepticism is actually collective discernment? What makes these moments culturally significant is that these are not anti-technology protests in the traditional sense. Something deeper is happening. Link to article: open.substack.com/pub/humanasu...
The world is not designed for this pace. Intelligence without moral maturity destabilizes civilizations. 📌 open.substack.com/pub/humanasu...
From the venture capitalist who stated in March that he aims for "zero" introspection in his life… introducing: custom prompting 🤦🏻♀️
A stunning critique of "blind patriotism” and fanatism. No matter where it comes from. Politics, ideology, religion, entertainment. Identity and nationalistic loyalty always leads followers into great danger, and the rest of us with them. Remarkable role of the Arts during defining moments.
I have a dilemma: I’m hoping AI fails. This topic feels binary to me. Like racism. Like xenophobia. You don’t get to stand in the middle while harm scales. Continue reading here: open.substack.com/pub/humanasu...
We can actually live in an effortless society. Where the law is unwritten but deeply understood: protect what is fragile, nurture what is growing, and defend what is just. Because in this society, to be human is to be valued. open.substack.com/pub/humanasu...
Narcissism isn’t leadership. It’s time we take these patterns of behavior with the maturity the situation requires. Humanity is at the brink of suffering in irreparable ways because of it. P.S. I left you a few links in the comments.
Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...
Before we accept a future where intelligence is measured, priced, and distributed like a utility, we should explore our willingness to neglect the most important part of our very existence. ...Continue reading my new article on Substack: humanasusual.substack.com/p/the-race-f...
