Philosophy PhD | Toronto
Organizing in churches against imperialism. Teaching at the Institute for Christian Studies (www.icscanada.edu). Author of Enough Is Enough: Degrowth, Capitalism, & Liberation Theology w @mattbernico.bsky.social
Dean Dettloff
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Never change AI
Truly can't understand how people see this stuff and think whatever niche use case or personalized app or query session is worth the cost.
Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu says the term "narco-terrorist" has been weaponized—just as the word "communist" was in the past—to crush left-wing opposition in Latin America.
u.afp.com/SzSX
I think there's still room for big and, for lack of a better word, abstract questions in the humanities and theology. One real change though (and why I'm teaching Dussel) is that locating those in a horizon of liberation, related to concrete struggle, has become less common since the 90s especially.
"Repent while there is still time, for God’s mercy can reach even the most hardened sinner, but it enters only through the narrow gate of truth, justice and conversion."
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
I love the idea of a Catholic publishing house supported by a bespoke US missionary order run as a ministry for social justice looking at this and being like "yes we need to get this out there."
Me in my 70s, looking like Stephen Root in Widow's Bay, getting dragged away by the local sheriff after slapping a phone out of the hands of the mayor of the last town on earth to have mobile data reception: Don't open the app, Tim! You don't know what you're doing! What it could do to you, to us!
Reading Dussel for class and he has such a knack for hitting you with an amazing rhetorical point that ends up grounding a whole systematic philosophical approach.
This is from Philosophy of Liberation, and it's so wild that it was also first published in English by Orbis rather than a university press. Like these missionaries were out here making sure Anglos could read super dense engagement with continental thought from Latin America before it was cool.
I'm gonna rebrand as a Satanic Panic guy for LLMs. Everything people said about Ouija boards is actually true about AI.
Dean Dettloff
Seth Masket
“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
