Moira

@moirathat.bsky.social

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DC/MD. Freelancer doing English review/copyediting for academic papers. Dance/art/language/bike life.

The Rumours album cover
The box of a game called PigMania showing pairs of dice-like pigs that have landed in different configurations, each of which earns a specific number of points.
A crowd in front of the Washington Monument. One woman holds a sign that says “Hands Off!”
Ink drawing of a long-haired man with eyeglasses and a lion-like face
It is hard, even futile, Mellor argues, to imagine a world where an advanced technology is put to the common good when it is erasing livelihoods right now. If dismantling the machinery ends an injustice and tips the scales toward equality, that should be the project. This dispute, too, remains as relevant and pointed as ever, two centuries later. It lies, I believe, at the heart of the matter of actualizing the laudable prescriptions put forward in Morozov’s essay: reimagining how we might develop and institute technologies like AI more democratically, more holistically, more attuned to amplifying humanistic and scientific pursuits—and decoupled from its current death drive to profit management at any cost.
Men’s’ faces drawn with a single line
A poster for the film Ginger Snaps features two young women and the tagline “they don’t call it the curse for nothing”
A poster from the film Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person featuring illustration of a young man and woman. There are also blood bags, a piano, a bowling ball, and bowling pins.
Dancing woman in gray and white striped jumpsuit
Battered pulp paperback cover of Attaque Invisible by Paul Kenny
Photo of a snowy backyard with a blue shed