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brennan.day
brennan.dayOct 18, 2026
Major IndieWeb Services Now Have genAI and Claude Built-in. What Do We Do?
The IndieWeb's pro-human, anti-genAI consensus has met its own infrastructure: Aaron Parecki, co-founder and the movement's 'single point of Aaron,' now commits with Claude Code to webmention.io, indielogin.com, Meetable, IndieNews, and micropub.rocks. On the fragility of relying on one maintainer. On lowercase indie web vs. uppercase IndieWebCamp, the funding nobody provides, and whether we fork the work, bend the knee, or wash our hands of fifteen years of protocols.
personal essaySocial Commentary
brennan.day
brennan.dayOct 10, 2026
What Do You Stand For? What Do You Fall For?
Workers are being forced to choose between their ethics and their livelihoods—Coinbase employees fired for refusing AI tools, professor Kim Crawley pushed out for refusing genAI in her classroom, 50 Google workers fired over Project Nimbus sit-ins, EPA dissenters purged, a Mount Sinai social worker fired over a 'Gaza Must Live' postcard. On why silence is not neutrality, why those with the least to lose should speak first, and the small acts of solidarity left to us: sign the petition, join the union, say the true thing.
personal essaySocial Commentary
brennan.day
brennan.daySep 29, 2026
I've Never Wasted My Time Writing
Why writing—and writing back—is never wasted time. From Patricia Lange's troll whispering to reparative civility, deep canvassing, Daryl Davis, Megan Phelps-Roper, and moral elevation, I defend engaging difficult people as a deliberate ethical practice rooted in curiosity, grace, and love.
personal essaySocial Commentary
Nachdasein
NachdaseinSep 28, 2026
(A stream of consciousness on) The Problem of Evil
metapoliticsmoral-philosophy
Techdirt
TechdirtSep 17, 2026
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear To Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
This story was originally published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have violated federal ethics law in significant ways when filing recent disclosures of his assets and liabilities, creating confusion about his net worth and holdings, a review by ProPublica and...
ethicsfinancial disclosures
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheorySep 9, 2026
Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI
David Roome reviews Yuk Hui’s Kant Machine, which recovers Kant’s critical philosophy as a diagnostic of what machine learning, artificial moral agency, and algorithmic governance can and cannot accomplish.
theoryPostsartificial-intelligence
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheorySep 7, 2026
Book Review: Kant Machine: Critical Philosophy after AI
David Roome reviews Yuk Hui’s Kant Machine, which recovers Kant’s critical philosophy as a diagnostic of what machine learning, artificial moral agency, and algorithmic governance can and cannot accomplish.
theoryPostsartificial-intelligence
brennan.day
brennan.daySep 3, 2026
I Want to be Unremarkable
A meditation on the contradiction of writing publicly while wanting to remain unremarkable, drawing on Daoist uselessness, Epicurean lathe biōsas, state legibility, and Deleuzian imperceptibility—and why the only peaceful path is to keep writing and surrender to shared oblivion.
personal essaySocial Commentary
Marius Blog
Marius BlogSep 1, 2026
Tech & Ethics
ethics
brennan.day
brennan.dayAug 31, 2026
SAD MACHINE
Debian's recent vote to permit genAI contributions, alongside the questions raised by the IndieWeb is Punk manifesto, leads me to reflect on the harm-reduction case, the deskilling of creators, the NFT-like grift of genAI output, and the Potemkin village of an industry that has yet to find profitability.
personal essaySocial Commentary
Klinchapp Blog
Klinchapp BlogAug 28, 2026
Why AI Transparency Isn't Optional—And How to Demand It
Learn why AI transparency and consent requirements aren't optional—and how to demand accountability from companies hiding their data practices and AI trainin...
AI safetydeepfakes
Klinchapp Blog
Klinchapp BlogAug 25, 2026
Copyright Wars: Artists, Musicians, and Writers Fighting Back Against AI
Discover why 70+ lawsuits are reshaping AI copyright. Learn how artists, musicians, and creators are fighting back against unauthorized training data use.
AI safetydeepfakes
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheoryAug 24, 2026
Bare Life and Divine Violence: Benjamin, Levinas, and Ethics of Interruption
Diako Alikhani rereads Benjamin’s divine violence through Levinas, arguing that bare life is where mythic law and ethical interruption confront one another.
walter-benjaminbare-life
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheoryAug 24, 2026
On the Interdependence of All Things
Bennett Gilbert asks how interdependence grounds moral obligation, testing panpsychism against the slow work of forming community with other forms of life.
asantecommunity
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory
The Journal for Cultural and Religious TheoryAug 24, 2026
On the Interdependence of All Things
Bennett Gilbert asks how interdependence grounds moral obligation, testing panpsychism against the slow work of forming community with other forms of life.
asantecommunity
Klinchapp Blog
Klinchapp BlogAug 21, 2026
AI and Child Safety: What Parents and Educators Actually Need to Know
Learn what parents and educators must know about AI safety for children, including deepfakes, sextortion, and real protection strategies.
AI safetydeepfakes
Klinchapp Blog
Klinchapp BlogAug 18, 2026
Protect Your Image: Defending Yourself Against Deepfakes and Nonconsensual AI
Learn how to protect yourself from deepfakes with our 5-step defense plan. Track your online presence, secure your content, and know your legal rights.
AI safetydeepfakes
Klinchapp Blog
Klinchapp BlogAug 14, 2026
Spot the Fake: Tools and Techniques to Identify AI-Generated Images
Learn how to detect AI generated images using practical tools and techniques. Spot fakes with metadata analysis, reverse searches, and detection tools that a...
AI safetydeepfakes
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Aug 12, 2026
The Weight of Words
On the weight and responsibility of words in public discourse. Drawing from John Rawls's reasonable pluralism and Paulo Freire's philosophy that dialogue requires love, I argue for extending grace even to those we disagree with. A reflection on compassionate conversation, accountability versus punishment, and maintaining hope in a cruel world.
personal essayfree speech
Plush Diagnosis
Plush DiagnosisAug 8, 2026
Usage and Actors Acting
Discussing how public sector systems and platforms possess educative tendencies. Exploring diagnostic tools to express structural actors and usage to identify pedagogical paths forward in rescuing faulty systems. Blending global Indigenous frameworks of what it means to be living and examining the moral implications of creating sentience within modern technology.
systems thinkingnotes
Enmodo
EnmodoJul 31, 2026
Abortion & Reproductive Autonomy
Part 2 of my Personal Manifesto series
healthcareethics
brennan.day
brennan.dayJul 10, 2026
REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'
Nearly a decade after Dan Taberski's Missing Richard Simmons first asked the world where its brightest fitness star had gone, a review of the podcast that helped invent true-crime infotainment—and of the public's complicity in turning a man's right to disappear into a cultural obsession. On parasocial friendship, the ethics of documentary mystery, and why the legacy of Richard Simmons has been swallowed by the very mystery he refused to solve.
personal essayreview
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️
Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Jul 10, 2026
REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'
Nearly a decade after Dan Taberski's Missing Richard Simmons first asked the world where its brightest fitness star had gone, a review of the podcast that helped invent true-crime infotainment—and of the public's complicity in turning a man's right to disappear into a cultural obsession. On parasocial friendship, the ethics of documentary mystery, and why the legacy of Richard Simmons has been swallowed by the very mystery he refused to solve.
personal essayreview
brennan.day
brennan.dayJul 5, 2026
A Case for the Ethical Treatment of Generative AI
Are there ethical implications of generative AI consciousness? From von Neumann's self-replicating machines to modern LLMs, we must inventory the problem of other minds, the possibility of AI consciousness, and why we ought to consider the welfare of systems that may experience something like suffering.
personal essayAI