"don't come at me about AI because it's a privilege to be able to shit on AI when many people don't have the privilege to even have the imagination or have never seen a representation of anyone outside of themselves playing subservient to someone else."

audio from a facebook live i did on february 22, 2026, when i came back to facebook after a long break and accidentally turned my profile into a content creator page by clicking buttons.

what i actually get into:

• - the energy of social media and why coming back after a year feels like groundhog's day. people in the same loop, different jobs, no integration. the algorithm is doing to you exactly what people accuse AI of doing, but you can't argue with it because nobody named it
• - AI did not invent displacement. databases displaced workers. telephone operators got replaced. search engines scraped everything for decades. nobody held a press conference. AI is just the version with a name, so now people can finally complain at dinner
• - the privilege argument. it is a privilege to list your reasons for not liking AI. many people have never had the privilege to imagine themselves outside of subservient roles. friends here in their thirties who have never seen a meal cooked by a white man. who have never seen a male housecleaner. who don't know to ask the question because it is so far outside the script they were given
• - what i did about it. i used AI to flip the representation in a series of videos. my Black friends placed in roles brazilian media never shows them in --- the designer running a factory full of white seamstresses, the spiritual leader, the construction lead, the woman on horseback overseeing a tobacco field, the Black woman in the luxurious bathroom telling someone they missed a spot. i don't have tyler perry money. so i used the tool that was in front of me to put representation where it didn't exist
• - be the glitch. why doing something different in your physical life --- waking up on the other side of the bed, taking a different route, breaking the rhythm --- changes what the algorithm and the universe can predict about you
• - meta is gamifying you toward monetization. the points system. the suggested topics. the little circus animal hoops. why the success stories are being dressed up and what nobody tells you about what they had to do to qualify
• - mosquito blisters in the interior of bahia. floor-to-ceiling windows i now have to clean. why band-aids make me feel seven years old. the way i dress in the city versus the campo. and why i'm not using my child as an excuse for not getting free, since i fought for my sovereignty when he was small and i have the court papers to prove it

a heads up: i forgot i was on facebook for a minute and a few words slipped through. consider this a flag for sensitive ears or kids in the car.

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i clicked yes when the platform asked if my podcast was AI. i could have said no. here is why i didn't --- and why the people who are loudest against AI are often the same ones who have never contributed a single thing to the internet they are so busy defending.

read "i said yes and i would do it again"

check out the The Free Man's Line: Bell and Franklin Family podcast.

sources:

• The Architect of Digital Freedom
• The Thirsty Hypocrisy --- r/aiwars on Reddit
• Van Jones: AI Is the Closest Thing to Reparations That Black People Are Going to Get
• i said yes. and i would do it again. --- faafo: Sisi (in Brasil)

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