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Echoes in the Holler, Visions in the Code

A collection of essays, meditations, think pieces, etc., on philosophy, Ethical/Responsible AI, Appalachian culture, and visual culture. All open, never behind a paywall, and looking for discourse among the transdisciplinary.

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  1. Issue · Jul 13, 2026

    Code and one's philosophy (opens the original)

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    The JourneyI was not an early adopter of ChatGPT when it became publicly available in 2022. I was still doing a lot of career pivoting after the Pandemic’s academic reduction-in-force move and trying to understand where my skill set might work best after nearly 15 years in one position.Visual Resources Curator was my title, and even while working in that role, the title was changing. People were retiring, universities were cutting, and technology was changing. In the early 2000s, the field was s

  2. Issue · Jul 11, 2026

    Code and one's philosophy (opens the original)

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    I ended the first part with: “First, a foundational point: AI is a tool, not an authority.”Then my nod to Weizenbaum, but I also have to nod to Arendt, Ellul, and others who warned, in different ways, against confusing technical capacity with wisdom, judgment, or moral legitimacy. I nod because, well, I’m still learning (always learning).The JourneyI was speaking with my Mama again yesterday, and I said: “AI is a tool, like a hammer is a tool; use it properly, drive nails, build a house. Use the

  3. Issue · Jul 10, 2026

    Code and one's philosophy (opens the original)

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    When I started doing gig work 4 years ago (2022), evaluating Meta’s new AI model, my now elderly parents were aghast on some levels. AI, a boomer’s latest boogeyman, was being reported on the six o’clock news, a chyron on CNN scrolling through their consciousness, and Facebook posts about how AI is the end of all things.When I started working full-time as a contractor for a Big Tech company to pretrain their LLM and VLM, my parents, especially my mother, believed it was the end of the Arts.“How

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