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Ginny Battson
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Symialosopher, ecologist, neologist. Interdisciplinary. Ecofeminism is more important now than ever. www.seasonalight.com CEP: https://thinkingintheworld.com/members/ginny-battson/ Alt Txt: butterfly wing (vector design)
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@profaliceroberts.bsky.social I am watching the brilliant Digging for Britain, on the discovery of iron age bones in Shetland. Thank you. The following has emerged from my PhD studies. I thought you might appreciate "kwelics" & "kwelical" which I think is fun to say. seasonalight.com/2024/02/23/k...
Kwelics of place, including bodies.
Sheep bone, photo by me Extract of Rivering, Fluminism as Literature (PhD). Like sedimentary rock traps bodies to become fossils, bodies of water contain the nucleotides of all who live within, or …
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I am hugely disappointed, but unsurprised, by the deep fault line of "anthropocentric" values entrenched in AI Pollyannas AND Cassandras...

The extreme power of human exceptionalism is a catastrophic failure of the species, risking an uninhabitable Earth.
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Even though Hinton criticises Muskian colonialist intergalactic ambitions based on appreciating our own "habitable" Earth, he simultaneously destroys the value of interconnected LiFE by reinforcing human supremacy (including a throwaway comment about the value of "cows").

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Full interview: "Godfather of AI" shares prediction for future of AI, issues warnings
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Western, male, billionaire philanthropy.

Its power and dominion are unwelcome and I do not consent.

#extremecapital #ecofeminism
Thank you, Keith. Good to read you. I'm not as active on social media these days - few seem interested. But I won't give up. :)
Is there any agency remaining in the word "humanitarian" 2025?
Emerging from the Victorian rise of the so-called "self-made" individual from existing positions of privilege (Salt was himself an Etonian), the HL sought to shift culture towards equitable "sympathy" for ALL (today, call it compassion), reflected in structural reforms.
Understand the foundation of Western LAW.

Capital. Property.
As an early advocate for the River Wye, I find this case infuriating! Civil court is the instrument of capital & property. Central to winning/losing = capital transfer (to lawyers). Culpability = "penalty" by capital transfer between humans. NO dead or dying river species will ever be "compensated."
"if you produce many tonnes of chicken manure and then sell it on to be used as fertiliser, some would argue – as others have argued against big oil – that you have a responsibility to reduce the effects that come later on.”." theconversation.com/the-pollutio...
I honestly despair at the continued "belief systems" of so-called rationalist "enlightened" thinkers - mainly Western men.

They do not comprehend the real meaning of species intelligence beyond the ability to solve "some" puzzles.
If artificial "intelligences" should ever TRULY emerge, and develop any emoti-rational (ethics) consciousness of "mind," then they will surely realise the critical nature of interconnected LiFE (inc. human), and value THIS as their own ancestral root worthy of nurture and protection. #AIETHICS
Even though Hinton criticises Muskian colonialist intergalactic ambitions based on appreciating our own "habitable" Earth, he simultaneously destroys the value of interconnected LiFE by reinforcing human supremacy (including a throwaway comment about the value of "cows").

youtu.be/qyH3NxFz3Aw?...
Full interview: "Godfather of AI" shares prediction for future of AI, issues warnings
YouTube video by CBS Mornings
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For example, Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton is currently on a mission to warn us all of the obvious and insidious dangers of the current development of AI.
I am hugely disappointed, but unsurprised, by the deep fault line of "anthropocentric" values entrenched in AI Pollyannas AND Cassandras...

The extreme power of human exceptionalism is a catastrophic failure of the species, risking an uninhabitable Earth.
Very much worth a listen.
Check out this live recording of the brilliant @overshootpod.bsky.social podcast. In this bonus episode, a panel of climate thinkers and doers discuss the implications of 1.5C overshoot for law, geopolitics, activism and more. Listen now.

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Episode 5: Overshoot LIVE
Podcast Episode · Overshoot: Navigating a world beyond 1.5°C · 27/10/2025 · Bonus · 50m
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Please read and share. Today, British politics is overlaid by the bullion weight of American billionaires.

Their "idea" of the capability and influence of "their" AI systems is being allowed to prevail. UK AI ethics and regulation? Minimal (though some might consider better than none).
Is this just about Criminal Justice and Prison Reform?

The infection of US Tech Billionaire ideology is rampant.

See Tony Blair (Institute) financed by Larry Ellison (Oracle) and their overt "AI" plans for our personal NHS data.

Via Novara Media

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If this extreme form of "anthropocentrism" generates non-anthropocentric benefits down the line, I welcome them.

But have NO DOUBT, the real winners in "compensation" cases are always the lawyers.
As an early advocate for the River Wye, I find this case infuriating! Civil court is the instrument of capital & property. Central to winning/losing = capital transfer (to lawyers). Culpability = "penalty" by capital transfer between humans. NO dead or dying river species will ever be "compensated."
"if you produce many tonnes of chicken manure and then sell it on to be used as fertiliser, some would argue – as others have argued against big oil – that you have a responsibility to reduce the effects that come later on.”." theconversation.com/the-pollutio...
The pollution court case that could reach far beyond the banks of the River Wye
The legal action is being taken on behalf of thousands of claimants.
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Would generating an Indigenous (and Andemic), feminist AI system be able to counter the Western notion of "competition" and "property" as primary, and offer "care for all LiFE and compassionate Cyber entities" instead?
So few will engage, but as with Western ideas of "Nature", AI is shaped by (largely male) Western language, gender, meaning, & cultures. Apart from issues of "private" ownership & the power it consumes (human & electrical), will separate AI systems learn to increase processing power by "symAIosis"?
“It’s cutting off our nose to spite our woke faces.” Jon and Geoffrey Hinton discuss the global race for AI dominance and how Trump's cuts are hurting the US’s competitive edge.
I've no time for a bigot who specifically covets stately homes encrusted with lavish internal plasterwork funded by the Atlantic Slave Trade.
After years of Tory abuses, this new Gov "tool" coupled with major ethical betrayals by senior Labour Party politicians, has left me feeling that I am far less politically empowered than my grandmother b 1900, whose first vote was allowed in 1928.