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John P Slattery

@johnslatteryphd.bsky.social

Exec Director, Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Sci & Tech at Duquesne Univ. Historian, theologian, ethicist with a penchant for baking bread, playing chess, and critiquing society.

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J Moral Theology@jmoraltheology.bsky.social · 5h ago

Brianne Bell Jacobs @briannejacobs.bsky.social opens v.15.2 with her incisive theological critique of AI in "Infinite Generation, Infinite Consumption: Theological Anthropology & Human Relationships with Artificial Intelligence." As she argues, while promising... doi.org/10.55476/001...

Infinite Generation, Infinite Consumption: Theological Anthropology and Human Relationships with Artificial Intelligence | Published in Journal of Moral Theology

By Brianne Bell Jacobs. AI chatbots promise infinite generation and connection, but when we turn away from human relationships toward AIs as companions, we undercut the generative context through whic...

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Molly Crabapple@mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 7d ago

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John P Slattery@johnslatteryphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

i really love the act of expanding and specifying the technocratic paradigm in this letter. 185 "The modern Babel can be seen not only in the globalized technocratic paradigm, but also in the remote clash between opposing imperialisms, between powers that wish to preserve their supremacy...."

Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ@padresj.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Imagine being forced to subsidize the water and power costs for a data center that will generate NO continuing staff positions, all so that a billionaire can take your job.

Lee West@whodat35.bsky.social · 3mo ago

At least 3 major data centers are coming to #Louisiana, the largest being the Manhattan-sized Meta “Hyperion” project in Richland Parish that will take 10 new natural gas plants to power. Its registered water use of 23M gallons per day would nearly double water withdrawals of the entire parish

Ashok Dadhwal@ashokdadhwal196.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Seven countries now generate 100% of their electricity from renewable sources, proving the transition is not theoretical but already operational. The barrier is no longer technology, but political will, investment priorities, and the courage to move faster.

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Victor Ray@victorerikray.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I would like some of the folks who signed the Harper’s letter or spent years yammering about the threat to free speech posed by Oberlin undergrads protesting eugenicists to bring an ounce of that energy to the state censoring entire disciplines.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4mo ago

This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 4mo ago

This is how disciplines die. Now that Sociology courses don't count for GenEd credit, far fewer students will take them, let alone choose Sociology as a major. And so, Sociology department budgets will shrink, meaning fewer faculty and fewer courses offered. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Florida bans sociology from core curriculum at state universities

For years, Republican lawmakers and education leaders have argued that sociology — especially high-enrollment introductory courses — has been overtaken by progressive ideology

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