Maria Arambula

Elected official, Ray City Council.
Building a rural public library full of books and computational infrastructure for citizens.

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

Let me not be ashamed of my hope.

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

Public Notice, Ray City Councilwoman

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

It’s how you use it!

[Emad @EMostaque]

If Claude is good enough for Nobel Prize winners it is good enough for you

https://t.co/P5pM4MGSqQ

[FrJosh 💯 @tweetmobb]

Kind of thing that gets said when we lose the concept of nature and start to believe that identity is some sort of aggregate of appearances and behaviors (innate or emulated) as perceived by others

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

@clarejtbirch All the other links go to the Vatican though!

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

If you are diving into the footnotes of Magnifica Humanitas: I’ve made, with love and Claude, a helpful index of the major encyclicals mentioned in the first two chapters. Inspired by @ChristopherHale Here: https://t.co/9FQfUBXHTg

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

The “losing fingers” reference is a context I provided about growing up in print shops (my mom’s trade) and how frequently pressmen would lose their hands in the giant printing presses.

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

Reading McLuhan’s Gutenberg Galaxy with Claude Sonnet. It’s an excellent corpus for AI consciousness discourse and Catholicism (The Mass). This response burned all my daily free tokens, so it ends floating in space with a “Never was”. @AmandaAskell @andrew_mcluhan @lukeburgis

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

This is referencing the 1965 first edition pages 261-268

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

My soundtrack for preparing to write about magnificent humanity.

[Pitchfork @pitchfork]

This 1973 synth-pop album from a Franciscan nun has become an unexpected grail for crate-diggers, with original vinyl copies selling for upwards of $500 on Discogs https://t.co/irTPjGDxcH

[The OpenAI Foundation @FoundationOAI]

AI is likely to reshape the economy in profound ways, creating both challenges to navigate and opportunities to improve people’s lives.

Today, the OpenAI Foundation is announcing an initial $250M commitment to building secure and abundant economic futures in the age of AI.

We’ll focus on measurement and forecasting, supporting communities navigating transition, and long-term economic security, including new approaches to ensuring AI’s value is shared broadly.

https://t.co/XNfAwNDciJ

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

@KatiePMcGrady Be rooted in a parish first!

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

Lovely reader version of the encyclical.
St. Carlo Acutis, pray for us!

[clare ❤️‍🔥 @clarejtbirch]

Made a reader edition of Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI bc the Vatican site is hard to nav.

It includes Tufte-style marginalia for the Vatican's footnotes + 78 Claude editorial annotations w/ Wikipedia links, and an optional silly little attention overlay.

[Boris Cherny @bcherny]

> … [W]e keep finding things that are mysterious, even unsettling. We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease. I don’t know what that means, but I think it warrants ongoing discernment.

> We need more of the world—religious communities, civil society, scholars, governments, and indeed all people of good will … to take this seriously, to look closely, and to push events in a better direction. We need informed critics who will tell the labs when we are failing. We need moral voices that the incentives cannot bend.

[Joseph Massey @jmasseypoet]

“God does not ask of us the perfection of tomorrow, nor even of tonight, but only of the present moment.”

—Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat

[Zak Slayback @zslayback]

Wake up babe, the Vatican is making better launch videos than tech startups

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

We need more accountability, and support, in American cities. I say this as a councilwoman for a very small Georgia municipality (pop. 964). Begin here, clean up the edge cities, learn and scale fast. @JTLonsdale

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@JTLonsdale @Cernovich One way or another, we need safe cities

[Maria Arambula @marihear]

Thank you, and we appreciate the leadership. We are working now on building a new public library in rural South Georgia. I use AI everyday to help with planning and work through ideas! It has also been a game changer for assisting disabled patrons during our pilot/volunteer days!

[Sam Altman @sama]

what problem do you most hope AI will solve in the future?

maybe we can help!

[Elena @VirtualElena]

we need a summer of love to develop new metaphors for the awakening of human potential

[Leah Libresco Sargeant @LeahLibresco]

"The vast majority of effective nonprofits simply cannot absorb large amounts of cash quickly. This is why so many big donations go to hospitals, museums, and universities - they’re the only ones who can make good use of $100M checks"