Protect your Womanhood

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Art for Housewives

Women need to take themselves seriously or nobody else will.

Just think of it, the history of every human begins inside a woman’s body. It may have been provoked by a male orgasm, but the responsibility of the new life will be a woman’s, not a man’s. What took a man just minutes will take a woman years.

Before there were gods, there were goddesses. Many cultures worshipped the Great Cosmic Mother. Because adoring a mother meant adoring life itself. Then warlike patriarchal cultures took over and attempted to destroy women’s sacredness. Men, to feel superior, placed women in a subservient role. But this need to feel superior alienates men from the needs and struggles of others. This need to feel superior alienates men from women. And, in the end, this need to feel superior alienates men from themselves.

Man is superior if and only if he does not consider himself as such.

Women, thanks to their biology, are wired for empathy, the capacity to recognize and understand the feelings of another. Empathy permits women to protect and better care for their offspring. For example, how could a mother and her tiny baby communicate otherwise? Thus, empathy and maternal instinct are often entangled.

Empathy, a means of inter-relating, is fundamental for our survival and evolution. It is an awareness that we are all dependent one upon the other. Empathy is the basis of a sense of community, of a healthy society. Without it, there is nothing civil about civilization.

Being maternal does not necessarily mean being a mother. Being maternal means nourishing and protecting the lives of those who cannot defend themselves. Being maternal is listening when someone needs to talk, to hug when someone needs affection, to make someone smile when they are fatigued from frowning. Being maternal means respecting the lives of others even if they are not part of your family or your social milieu.

Today we live in such a conflictual world that’s constantly fragmenting itself. So, Ladies, please, do not underestimate yourselves. Remember that we are the glue that keeps the world together.

For my American lady friends getting ready to vote, please remember your role as a woman. Remember to maintain your maternal instinct towards all the babies of the world–yours and everyone else’s. Please, please, please, do not underestimate your importance!

Below our balcony is a Madonella shrine. It depicts Mother Mary holding Baby Jesus. The inscription reads “Mater Divini Amoris, Ora Pro Nobis” that translates as “Mother of Divine Love, pray for us.”

Tiny urban street shrines portraying the Madonna such as the one above are known as “Madonelle” and there’s an abundance of them in Rome.

Madonelles were created to protect people on the streets. Generally, there were placed at intersections because that’s where demons often hid hoping to trap a passerby who, deciding which way to go, was temprarily distracted.

There’s also the popular belief that people are less likely to commit a crime or misbehave if Mary, the mom of all moms, is watching.

So don’t let mom down.

Pussy Hats

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Related:

Ecofeminism, Barbara Mor and The Great Cosmic Mother +

The Great Cosmic Mother by Barbara Mor and Monica Sjoo + Monica Sjöö: The Great Cosmic Mother +

Watch Out For the Madonnelle street shrines +

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Evolution & Decadence 3

Posted on October 13, 2024 by Art for Housewives

Primates began to appear 60 million years ago. During the last 7 million years of this time, the first “hominids” evolved into being.  Thanks to these hominids and all the efforts they made to survive, we sapiens exist.

But in our brief existence of c 50,000 years, homo sapiens have come to dominate the Earth. How did sapiens manage to survive when the other species didn’t. Why do sapiens feel the need to impose themselves on others as well as on nature? How did we evolve to become who we are?

Author Yuval Noah Harari writes that Homo sapiens are the “deadliest species ever in the 4-billion-year history of life on earth.” Spooky, no?

So just a few notes on our evolution from Harari’s book Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind.:

The foragers

After their fall, finding food became a problem. Adam and Eve, once kicked out of the garden, became mankind’s first foragers. Eve, already an expert in picking forbidden fruit off trees, now had to learn food mining. That is, digging in the dirt looking for something edible.

For much of our species’ existence, we lived as foragers. It’s only in the past 200 years that we’ve become dependent more on others than on ourselves to produce the food we eat.

Evolutionary psychologists believe that our long pre-agricultural era left its imprinting on us. In Sapiens, Harari writes of the “gorging gene” and modern man’s instinct to gorge himself into obesity.

In prehistoric times, if, for example, a woman foraging for food came across a luscious fig tree full of fruit not only would she pick as much as possible to take home, but she’d also eat as many as she could right then and there because she couldn’t be sure to find such figs, or any other food, again soon. The motto was “Gorge yourself while you can”. Unfortunately, our DNA still thinks food is scarce, so we continue to stuff ourselves.

Foraging represents the original fast food, just pick and go.

Paleoanthropologists, after examining fossilized skeletons, summarized that foragers were less likely to suffer from starvation or malnutrition than their peasant descendants. The secret of their success was variety. Later, when farmers came around, they ate only what they produced thus a limited and unbalanced diet.

Ancient foragers lived in nomadic communities that had no concept of private property. They were able to interact with the world around them in a way that today’s sapiens can’t emulate. When sapiens foraged for survival, they obviously depended upon their knowledge of the natural world to obtain food. But today a person does not need this information to survive. All he has to do is go to the grocery store.

Technology has made us arrogant. And unappreciative. Our hubris will take us to hell.

Animism.

The world does not evolve around humans. And the ancient forager knew this. It’s commonly assumed that these foragers had animistic beliefs. That is, that every living thing and every natural phenomenon has awareness and feelings that can be communicated to humans. The world around the ancient foragers was animated and very much alive. Feelings were everywhere. Even rocks had feelings.

Dogs.

Living nomadically limited the number of possessions a clan could have.  But from about 15,000 years ago, even before the Agricultural Revolution, humans had dogs. Dogs helped in the hunting and fighting and protecting. So, there’s no surprise he’s considered man’s best friend.

Conflict.

Although there’s little physical proof of prehistoric wars, there was obviously conflict. Especially in relationship to territorial domain and access to food.

When sapiens invaded the territory where Neanderthals had been living for generations, problems occurred. Although they began their evolution over 400,000 years ago, much earlier than sapiens, Neanderthals had not developed the sapiens capacity for abstract thought.

Neanderthals, whose population was much smaller than that of the sapiens, lived mainly in isolation. Therefore, they were prone to inbreeding as opposed to interbreeding. This meant that their genetic pool was not as varied and animated as that of the sapiens who enjoyed mixing and matching.

Being too genetically distant from each other, in theory, Neanderthals and sapiens couldn’t produce fertile children together. So why do we all have a slight percentage of Neanderthal DNA in us?

Neanderthals have been unfairly typed casted as slow witted. But that’s not the case. These archaic humans, more muscular than sapiens, had survived for more than 360,000 years before becoming extinct 40,000 years ago.

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted for thousands of years occasionally interbreeding (that’s why most of us have Neanderthal genes). But the Neanderthal’s population progressively diminished until none were left at all. Why?

What caused the Neanderthal’s extinction? Many scholars believe 45 thousand years ago, the first act of human genocide was the massacre of the Neanderthals.

Dr. Yarin Eski, criminology expert, claims that “Genocidal violence and mass exploitation are perhaps the defining characteristics of being human…superior weapons and hunting strategies allowed sapiens to control food sources thus starving out Neanderthals.

Not all scholars agree with this theory. Some believe in the replacement theory claims that sapiens replaced all the other human species without merging with them.

The Neanderthals could not successfully compete with the sapiens’ organization and more advanced technology. This may have been the main reason for their extinction.

There’s always so much speculation when dealing with the past, especially the prehistoric past. New discoveries are being made all the time that often obliterate previous theories. Therefore, like a French film, there is no conclusion to this existential post.

Donut Hole

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Bibliography:

Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind. Penguin Random House. London. 2011

Related: Gorging Gene: How Our “Hunter Gatherer” DNA Is Making Us Fat Now +

Yarin Eski: Unraveling Space Criminology + Space Criminology stands as an academic pursuit, committed to fostering a scholarly environment in the exploration of space-related crimes, policing, security, and justice. Our aim is to contribute to the academic understanding of this field, offering a nuanced perspective on the complexities inherent to the cosmic frontier.

How Much Neanderthal DNA do Humans Have? Our ancestors interbred with Neanderthals, and evidence of these ancient liaisons can still be found in the DNA of people living today. +Adam and Eve were the first foragers. For most of our “species” existence, we lived as foragers.

When Did God Create Adam and Eve? + **Early Hominin Childcare: A Community Effort** +

When Farmers and Foragers First Met +

Study: At Least Five Dog Lineages Existed 11,000 Years Ago +

Why Is Homo sapiens the Sole Surviving Member of the Human Family? +

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Evolution & Decadence 2

Posted on October 10, 2024 by Art for Housewives

If you could really use a time machine to go back to the past, would you? Not me. Just how much would I have in common with someone, for example, from the 1800s? Just how out of place would I feel? How strongly would I feel the differences between myself and people from the past?

This post is a continuation of yesterday’s post regarding evolution and Harari’s book Sapiens. I’ve focused and commented on a few points of interest from the chapter “The Tree of Knowledge”.

Upright.

The most durable species ever (surviving for almost 2 million years) was one of the first: homo erectus (upright man). But before homo was walking around, he was living in trees. Living in trees was safer for him and his family than living on the ground where they could easily be attacked by predators.  That’s why they built big nests to sleep in and moved around by swinging from tree to tree.

Brachiaton is the term used for arm swinging arboreal locomotion.

When the climate began to change and subsequently modify the environment, these early humans were forced out of the trees and onto the savannah. Once on the ground, they metamorphosized and started walking upright. With the development of bipedalism, our evolution took a big leap forward.

Hands now had a new role. The more hands did, the more humans learned thus helping the brain to evolve. The increased use of the hands brought about the concentration of nerves and haute couture muscles in the palms and fingers. Hands could now make tools that would facilitate labor and make us more productive.

Hands also changed our rapport with one another. Desmond Morris, in The Naked Ape, explains that walking upright dramatically changed our bodies. Male shoulders became wider as did females’ pubic bones. Upright, the sexual organs became more visible. The female breasts became more evident especially as they started getting bigger in size.

Hands could now permit us to hug and hold and caress. Upright, males and females could mate while looking one another in the eye. Eye contact made the rapport even more intimate. Walking upright changed our sexuality.

Fire.

Once upon a time, only gods had fire. Zeus, afraid that humans would become too powerful, forbade humans from having it. But the altruistic Titan, Prometheus, thought it unfair and decided to give humans fire anyway. Zeus, whose ego was bigger than his heart, punished Prometheus by chaining him to Mt. Caucasus where every day a vulture would come daily to eat the Titan’s ever-regenerating liver. 

The gift of fire provided a significant step in human evolution. Fire made it possible to cook plants such as rice, potatoes, wheat that were not edible if raw. Cooking also helped kill germs and parasites in food.

Not only was cooked food more digestible, it took less time to chew. A chimpanzee can spend even 5 hours a day chewing food whereas a human, thanks to their food being cooked, spends only an hour. Furthermore, the way we chew affects our teeth and our jaws. New eating habits led to genetic modifications.

Large brains and long intestines consumed a lot of energy. Eating food that’s easily digested shortened the intestine permitting more energy to go to the brain. and this, too, helped humans evolve.

Immigrant, migrants, and emigrants.

About 70,000 years ago, sapiens from East Africa began migrating towards the Arabian Peninsula and the rate of evolution picked up speedNow there are two conflicting theories as to how human evolution continued:

1. Interbreeding Theory claims that as African immigrants moved around, they bred with other humans. People today are the result of this interbreeding.

2. Replacement Theory claims that the differences between species (including different mating practices) provoked incompatibility and revulsion. So, the species remained distinct one from the other.

We would not have evolved as we have had it not been for humans on the move.

In the end, we are all immigrants, no?

TO BE CONTINUED…

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Related: Neanderthal extinction + Neanderthal Extinction Was “Genocide” Committed By Humans, Argues Researcher + Ancient DNA Reveals a Tragic Genocide Hidden in Humanity’s Past + The original mass genocide +

Desmond Morris and Surrealism +

From Hunters to Settlers: How the Neolithic Revolution Changed the World +

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Evolution and Decadence

Posted on October 9, 2024 by Art for Housewives

Not all evolutions are the same.

“Homo” is a genus of great ape (family hominidae) that we’re a part of. This genus, that’s produced several species, began its evolution in Africa about 2.5 million years ago. But our species, the sapiens, began its evolution only 300,000 years ago. Although we sapiens are the only remaining species of the homo genus, our existence and subsequent evolution was possible because of those who came before us. Sapiens walked on their paths to make super highways.

Our evolution was gradual and slow. At a snail’s pace, we evolved from a simpler to a more complex being. We were sapiens, we were smart. But look at us now—what went wrong? We are no longer behaving intelligently. We are no longer evolving. We are, instead, degrading. Why? Why is humanity so carelessly destroying everything that took so long to evolve into existence?

There’s no need for me to give examples of what I’m talking about. All you need do is watch the news or read comments on social media.

This feeling of being surrounded by decadence is overwhelming. Suffocating. Alienating. Debilitating.  And I need an explanation as to how we got here so I can take another road.

At present I’m reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (2011). Harari takes us on an odyssey through human history covering 13.5 billion years of prehistory and history.

“There were humans long before there was history” says Harari and these prehistoric humans were insignificant animals who had little impact on the environment. But that would all change with their evolution. And that evolution got a booster when different species began interbreeding thus increasing their genetic pool.

Humans evolved from the genus of apes known as Australopithecus aka “Southern Ape”. They evolved according to the environment they were in and how they were able to adapt to it.

When it comes to dating the past, timelines are always changing. Because new discoveries are being made, because new technologies help facilitate these discoveries, because new approaches in interpreting the information occur. Initially it was said that the homo habilis (Handy Man) came before homo erectus (Upright Man) because man likes to have everything easily categorized. But the evolution of man did not follow some kind of precise sequence with one species evolving directly from another. It’s more than likely homo habilis and homo erectus co-existed in in Eastern Africa for almost half a million years.

We are overlapped and juxtaposed.

Regardless as to what species came first, the transition from walking on all fours to walking in an upright position gave a big jump start to our evolution.

(from Bebina Bunny’s Cabinet of Curiosities)

I’ve written about the importance of hands many times here. Because hands help us accomplish things.  They can help create new mental pathways. They make it possible to better observe things because we can bring them closer to our eyes and because we can touch, manipulate, and explore them. Hands help us explore the world in a way that our eyes can’t. Hands help our brains to grow.

However, the body is built on a budget and big brains are heavy and a drain on the body. Having a bigger brain meant, says Harari, that more time was spent searching for food to feed that hungry brain. It also meant that muscles atrophied as humans diverted energy from biceps to neurons.

Big brains need big skulls, and big skulls are a problem during childbirth. So, for humans, natural selection favored earlier births making babies small enough to come out of momma. But this also meant that babies had to have extra care after their birth for a long time. Giraffes, zebras, horses, and pigs are just a few examples of animals whose offspring can stand up and walk the same day that they’re born. Human babies, however, are dependent and needy. Raising children requires constant attention thus, in prehistoric times, “it took a village to raise a child”.

Evolution is not just about bodies.

So for today, Harari’s book can take a rest and I can take a walk.

TO BE CONTINUED…

Donut Hole

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Related:

Art for housewives and Hands:

In Praise of Hands + Lying with your Hands + The Case For Working With Your Hands + IN PRAISE OF HANDS: Knit yourself well. + Extend your hands with Needles and Pins and huipiles +

Bibliography:

Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind. Penguin Random House. London. 2011

Other:

An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens +  What does it mean to be human? +

The 7 Homo Species Close to Present Humans That Existed on the Earth +

Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years, The art was created long before modern humans inhabited France’s Loire Valley +

La Roche-Cotard prehistoric site +

World’s Oldest Cave Art Found—Made by Neanderthals? +

Discovery of cave paintings and decorated shells reveals Neanderthals were artists, Artwork found in Spanish caves suggests ability to think symbolically and creatively was not unique to modern humans +

THE HAND, HOW ITS USE SHAPES THE BRAIN, LANGUAGE, AND HUMAN CULTURE book review +

Related: An Evolutionary Timeline of Homo Sapiens +

The 7 Homo Species Close to Present Humans That Existed on the Earth +

Oldest Known Neanderthal Engravings Were Sealed in a Cave for 57,000 Years, The art was created long before modern humans inhabited France’s Loire Valley +

La Roche-Cotard prehistoric site +

World’s Oldest Cave Art Found—Made by Neanderthals? +

Discovery of cave paintings and decorated shells reveals Neanderthals were artists, Artwork found in Spanish caves suggests ability to think symbolically and creatively was not unique to modern humans +

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Facebook and Me

Posted on October 4, 2024 by Art for Housewives

I’m writing this post for my Facebook friends to explain my absence. If I try to access to my FB page, I get this message:

It begins with “As part of laws in your region…” I live in Italy where, after a major investigation, the Guardia di Finanza (fiscal police) calculated that Meta should pay around 22 million euros in sales taxes. Furthermore, the European Union also fined Meta €1.2 billion for privacy violations. This lack of respect for my privacy that’s violated just so they can make more money is not something I want to be a part of.

Now Meta is giving me two options: either pay $9.99 monthly or give Meta free access to my private data that they can then use for their own needs. Obviously, I have no intention of paying them anything at all. Nor do I plan to let them have liberal access to my personal information.

Therefore, after reading FB’s Privacy Policy, I decided it would be best for me to avoid using Meta. It’s a long read but there are a couple of things that stood out:

“Information and content you provide. We collect the content, communications and other information you provide when you use our Products, including when you sign up for an account, create or share content, and message or communicate with others. This can include information in or about the content you provide (like metadata), such as the location of a photo or the date a file was created.”

It’s like being spied upon and that throws my biorhythms in a spin.

“Networks and connections. We collect information about the people, accounts, hashtags and Facebook groups and Pages you are connected to and how you interact with them across our Products, such as people you communicate with the most or groups you are part of. We also collect contact information if you choose to upload, sync or import it from a device (such as an address book or call log or SMS log history), which we use for things like helping you and others find people you may know and for the other purposes listed below.”

Facebook is also using private photos (also from Instagram) to train their AI team. In other words, your private photos are being used to feed the AI vortex. Who knows where your personal images could end up.

And the spying continues. Facebook, served with a warrant, gave chats between a mother and her daughter to Nebraska police who were investigating into an illegal abortion.  And now a 17-year-old girl and her mother have been charged with a series of felonies and misdemeanors.

Then there’s the algorithm manipulation. Algorithims can spread fake news with ease and pilot the posts that are seen. They are not democratic and censor your own wants so that they can impose their own. You see what they want you to see.

All this collected data needs to be stored. And that storage is anti-ecological. But that’s for another post.

To abandon FB is not easy because it is the main means of communication I have with friends and family in the U.S. But, then again, there are always emails, no?

Hopefully, I will be able to post this on FB thanks to the WordPress “share” button. But if you wish to comment, write via Messenger (that, for some reason, I still have access to) because, as I can’t access to FB, I won’t be able to see your comment.

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Related: Social Engineering and Emoticons

How to Opt Out of Instagram and Facebook Using Your Posts for AI, Instagram and Facebook are using your photos and posts to train AI, and only European users can opt out +

Meta Uses Your Instagram and Facebook Photos to Train Its AI—Here’s How to Stop It …. Meta is using your public Facebook posts, Instagram photos and captions, data from third-party services, and your chats with the Facebook AI chatbot to train its AI.  If you live in the UK or EU, you have the option to stop Meta from using your personal data. As a US citizen or resident who does not belong to the UK or EU, you can only raise your voice against Meta using your information present on third-party platforms +

Facebook Gives FBI Private Messages Of Users Discussing Capitol Hill Riot +

How Facebook Shapes your Feed +

Meta FB loses EU on anti-trust crackdown…Meta Platforms Inc.’s Facebook lost its European Union court fight over a German antitrust order that homed in on the US tech firm’s power to cash-in on a vast trove of users’ data…EU slaps Facebook parent company Meta with record fine for privacy violations + Meta fined record $1.3 billion and ordered to stop sending European user data to US +

What Data About You Can the Government Get From Big Tech? The revelations of a leak investigation started in the Trump administration are a reminder that Big Tech companies often hand over information about their users.

Facebook Admits It Gave Netflix, Spotify Special Access to User Messages, Social network says it only gave access to messages after users had consented by logging in with a partner’s app +

The Scary Truth About the Facebook Messenger App and Your Privacy (from 2020) +

Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal + FTC Sends Refunds to Ring Customers Stemming from 2023 Settlement over Charges the Company Failed to Block Employees and Hackers from Accessing Consumer Videos +

Did you know this?  Facebook users can apply for their portion of a $725 million lawsuit settlement + 

Meta slapped with record $1.3 billion EU fine over data privacy +

How to Control your privacy on Messenger +

Facebook gave teen’s private messages about alleged abortion to Nebraska police +

Meta gave police access to private Facebook messages that allegedly detailed a Nebraska teen’s plans to get an illegal abortion, bolstering local authorities’ cases against the girl and her mother… Meta complied with a search warrant from Norfolk, Nebraska police in early June, according to court records +

Facebook let Netflix peek into user DMs, explosive court docs claim +

Reed Hastings is an American billionaire and co-founder of Netflix who supports using public money to help finance public schools +

Stink!

The “PayPal Mafia” is a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and/or developed additional technology companies based in Silicon Valley. These include amoung many others: Tesla, Linkedin, and YouTube+

Pay Pal co-founder, Peter Thiel and JD Vance: What To Know About The Relationship Between Trump’s VP Pick And The Billionaire +

The billionaire who fueled JD Vance’s rapid rise to the Trump VP spot — analysis

Who’s Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be + Peter Thiel Is Taking a Break From Democracy +

JD Vance and Mr. Paypal = Rachel Maddow says JD Vance’s rise is thanks to gay billionaire’s influence, not skill or merit + The name of JD Vance’s venture capital firm is a homage to fantasy author JRR Tolkien — and billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel +

Tech billionaire Peter Thiel had already donated a record-breaking amount of money to support J.D. Vance in the Ohio Republican Senate primary …With that previously unreported donation, Thiel had given $15 million in total to bolster Vance — the largest amount ever given to boost a single Senate candidate.

Vance and Thiel’s relationship dates back to 2011, when the senator met Thiel following a talk the venture capitalist gave at Yale Law School that Vance has characterized as “the most significant moment of my time” at the institution, according to a blog post he wrote for Catholic magazine The Lamp + The Seven Thinkers and Groups That Have Shaped JD Vance’s Unusual Worldview +

The Rise of the American Oligarchy, What targeting Russia’s wayward billionaires revealed about our own…Peter Thiel has used a loophole in the tax code to stash $5 billion in a Roth IRA. While the IRS targets working-class Black Americans, the list of billionaires who have paid no income tax in recent years is long

Paypal user agreement + PayPal to launch AI-based products as new CEO aims to revive share price +

Yucky Ducky!

From Facebook/Meta Terms of Service… (legal terms)

Permission to use content you create and share: Some content that you share or upload, such as photos or videos, may be protected by intellectual property laws.

You retain ownership of the content that you create and share on Facebook and other Meta Company Products you use, and nothing in these Terms takes away the rights you have to your own content. You are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want. To provide our services, though, we need you to give us some legal permissions to use that content.

A Consumer Reports study found that thousands of companies contribute to Facebook’s data stores on each person.

Algorithms, Manipulation, and Democracy PDF by Thomas Christiano: Algorithmic communications pose several challenges to democracy. The three phenomena of filtering, hypernudging, and microtargeting can have the effect of polarizing an electorate and thus undermine the deliberative potential of a democratic society. Algorithms can spread fake news throughout the society, undermining the epistemic potential that broad participation in democracy is meant to offer. They can pose a threat to political equality in that some people may have the means to make use of algorithmic communications and the sophistication to be immune from attempts at manipulation, while other people are vulnerable to manipulation by those who use these means. My concern here is with the danger that algorithmic communications can pose to political equality, which arises because most citizens must make decisions about what and who to support in democratic politics with only a sparse budget of time, money, and energy. Algorithmic communications such as hypernudging and microtargeting can be a threat to democratic participation when persons are operating in environments that do not conduce to political sophistication. This constitutes a deepening of political inequality. The political sophistication necessary to counter this vulnerability is rooted for many in economic life and it can and ought to be enhanced by changing the terms of economic life.

Anyone Can Turn You Into an AI Chatbot. There’s Little You Can Do to Stop Them | WIRED



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