Claire Thomas
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One Year of Clarity in Catastrophe
Reflections & What’s Next This post is different from my usual. Rather than an important societal issue, the topic I’ll be exploring here is what it has been like to pursue this passion project over the past year, and where… Continue reading
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How to Stop Big Tech AI In Its Tracks
And invest in the good kinds The mounting evidence overwhelmingly points to Big Tech’s AI efforts causing much more harm than good. The general American populace agrees. A recent Pew Research report tells us that more than half of Americans rate the societal… Continue reading
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Exploring the Ethics of AI: Part 3
Can AI be used ethically? Read Part 1: Understanding AI here. Read Part 2: The brew of ethical blunders here. I started this post with a simple question: is it possible to use AI ethically? This is where the distinction between different types of… Continue reading
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Exploring the Ethics of AI: Part 2
The brew of ethical blunders Read Part 1 here. This post outlines and explains the many ethical implications of generative AI. GenAI’s ‘original sin’ The ethical messes of this generative AI era commenced around 2018, when Big Tech companies began… Continue reading
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Exploring the Ethics of AI
Part 1: Understanding AI There’s no shortage of discussion around the ethical qualms AI has forced us to confront both as a society and as individuals. Many of us find ourselves asking if it’s okay to engage with any of… Continue reading
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Takeaways from the Latest Climate Film, The Lost Bus
The story of the 2018 Camp Fire has come to Hollywood. The Lost Bus has been described as a thriller, a real-life survival drama, and a disaster movie. It’s a zoomed-in story of the deadliest wildfire in California history to… Continue reading
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We’re Doing Conservation Wrong
We can do so much better, and we have to. When you think of conservation, what comes to mind? National parks? Wildlife? Charismatic endangered species? Theodore Roosevelt, Jane Goodall, John Muir? David Attenborough? (Notably, all white people…I wonder why?) It’s… Continue reading
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Tips for Reducing Plastic Exposure
Lies fed to us, & how we can protect ourselves Plastic lies we’ve been told It’s becoming an age-old story: manipulation of the public by industry, motivated by profits. We’ve seen this same playbook by the tobacco industry, the fossil fuel industry,… Continue reading
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Plastics are a Women’s Health Crisis
Pissed about plastic The global plastics treaty that isn’t The sixth round of negotiations on a UN global plastics treaty just wrapped on August 14, with absolutely nothing to show for it. Work on the treaty began in 2022 and… Continue reading
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How to Join the Native Plant Revolution
Even if you don’t have a yard A few weeks ago, I shared my brother’s story of turning our parents’ yard into a native prairie oasis. Native plants give us a sense of place, strengthen our food system, fortify ecosystem… Continue reading
Clarity in Catastrophe 