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Call for contributions: Pagan, Heathen, animist, and/or polytheist responses to AI
A call for contributions to an anthology of Pagan, polytheist, Heathen, and/or animist responses to artificial intelligence.
Call for contributions: Pagan, Heathen, animist, and/or polytheist responses to AI
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Disabled People in Fiction
It’s Disability Pride Month, so I thought I would take a look at books written by and for disabled people.
Disabled People in Fiction
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TBT: Eco-spirituality
A Throwback Thursday post Eco-spirituality is a new name for a set of ideas that goes back a long way. Baruch Spinoza and Giordano Bruno both viewed the universe as divine. Their ideas were broadly pantheistic. The implications of the idea that the universe itself is divine are explored by Sam Webster, who prefers immediacy to immanence. The universe is a theophany, the…
TBT: Eco-spirituality
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Disability Pride Month
People celebrate disability pride in July because it was the month when the United States passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to protect the civil rights of disabled people. Northern Ireland released similar legislation in 1995. England, Wales and Scotland passed disability legislation in 2002. In Canada, each province has disability legislation, introduced from…
Disability Pride Month
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TBT: Exercises and Endnotes
A Throwback Thursday post I can’t be the only person who starts reading a Pagan book, gets to an exercise in the middle of the chapter, thinks that I don’t have time to do the exercise right now, and either puts the book down, planning to come back later (and never do), or skips the…
TBT: Exercises and Endnotes
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TBT: Fictional and constructed religions
A Throwback Thursday post What can fictional religions tell us about real religions? Are constructed religions just as valid as ancient ones? What about real-world religions based on fictional ones? One impetus for creating constructed religions is for use in jurisdictions where religious activity is imposed by the authorities – but people often find that their joke…
TBT: Fictional and constructed religions
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Indigenous resistance to AI
I was researching and writing a post about Indigenous people in tech when I discovered an amazing company called Animikii and their resources about data sovereignty and resisting generative AI (thanks to this article, Celebrating Indigenous Tech).
Indigenous resistance to AI
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Indigenous History and the Land
Vox Clamantis Books is located on the Haldimand Tract, part of the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. So let’s unpack what that means.
Indigenous History and the Land
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TBT: Imagining Other Possible Worlds
A Throwback Thursday post Science fiction, particularly the writings of Ursula le Guin, explores hypothetical alternative societies, cultures, futures, and histories. I am currently watching Babylon 5 again on DVD, and would highly recommend it as an exploration of what happens when a totalitarian and xenophobic government takes over, and how people come together to resist.
TBT: Imagining Other Possible Worlds
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Ethical dilemmas around religious exemption
In a previous post, I looked at the possibility of being granted a religious exemption from using AI. This raises a possible dilemma: if people of conscience can get religious exemptions from harmful activities like war and other forms of causing suffering to others, how is that different from allowing bigots to opt out of…
Ethical dilemmas around religious exemption
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Religious Exemption from using AI
If you have an ethic of avoiding harm to the environment and other people, AI and its associated requirement for data processing centres which guzzle water and electricity, and slave labour (or very poorly-paid labour) to mine the minerals needed for the devices it runs on, definitely qualifies as the sort of harm that we…
Religious Exemption from using AI
Blog Archive
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Call for contributions: Pagan, Heathen, animist, and/or polytheist responses to AI
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Disabled People in Fiction
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TBT: Eco-spirituality
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Disability Pride Month
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TBT: Exercises and Endnotes
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TBT: Fictional and constructed religions
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Indigenous resistance to AI
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Indigenous History and the Land
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TBT: Imagining Other Possible Worlds
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Ethical dilemmas around religious exemption
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Religious Exemption from using AI
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