My Articles on Medium
I publish one article every Wednesday. Click the image to be taken to my Medium profile. The list of articles is below.
- by Christine RoseThere’s a category of harm we don’t measure.It doesn’t make headlines. It doesn’t produce lawsuits. It doesn’t get congressional hearings.It happens quietly.Someone is alone. Something feels wrong in their body. They don’t have money for an insurance deductible, or to pay cash for an emergency visit. They don’t have transportation due to cost or disability. They don’t […]
- by Christine RoseWhat AI Age Verification Reveals About Presence, Responsibility, and the Work of CareIt started with a conversation at dinner. My teenager had just learned about Roblox’s new AI-driven facial age verification system — the kind of safety feature that sounds responsible on paper but moves like surveillance in practice.“This is bullshit,” they said, pushing food around their plate.I asked why.“Because […]
- by Christine RoseRecently, I read Emma Bennett’s article Questioning Religion, encouraging readers who are questioning their religion to embrace uncertainty. The author writes with compassion and clarity about the destabilizing experience of losing faith. She reminds us that not all claims can be proven, that historical accounts do not equal certainty, and that comfort is not the […]
- by Christine RoseThis is not a one-time declaration. It is a living foundation.I’ve published this same framework on my website as a permanent reference point; something I can link to, return to, and refine.While I refer to it as “set in stone,” I do so knowing that even bedrock shifts over time. If anything in this foundation changes […]
- by Christine RoseClosing: Turning On the LightRecursive curiosity about ourselves and our world requires turning on the light, illuminating even the rooms we avoid.Seeing does not obligate. Awareness does not demand agreement. Understanding does not prescribe action. What this article series offers is a mirror — not to replace judgment, but to illuminate it.You have glimpsed the patterns that shape institutions, […]
- by Christine RoseArticle 9: SystemiaRegardless of intent, when multiple systems converge, patterns become reality.When you look across the chapters of human history — our institutions, our beliefs, our structures — patterns emerge. The same dynamics repeat. The same assumptions recur. The same hierarchies reassert themselves in different forms.Power circulates through abstraction. Norms appear neutral. Loss goes unacknowledged. Fear is misdirected. Optimization masks exclusion. […]
- by Christine RoseArticle 8: The Fear Beneath the FearWhat we are really afraid of when we say ‘AI’ isn’t AI at all. It’s ourselves.At first glance, fear of AI looks straightforward. People worry it will replace jobs, deceive us, render us obsolete, or escape control and take over. Headlines and science fiction have for decades drummed up visions […]
- by Christine RoseArticle 7: Grief, Loss, and the UnnamableWhy are humans allowed to grieve some losses but not others?Change often arrives without ceremony. It comes as new software, new policies, new systems, new ways of thinking — and sometimes, it leaves a hole in its wake. For those attuned to rhythm, cadence, and continuity, that hole is tangible. It has […]
- by Christine RoseArticle 6: Control Systems That Don’t Look Like ControlModern authority feels invisible, and therefore unquestionable.Power used to be easier to recognize. It had names, uniforms, offices, pulpits. It issued commands. It punished dissent. It could be pointed at and resisted, even if resistance was costly. Authority had a face, and because it had a face, it […]
- by Christine RoseArticle 5: The Illusion of NeutralityCommon sense is the most biased position of all.“Neutrality” is one of the most comforting words humans have ever invented. It suggests fairness without effort. Balance without struggle. A position above the fray from which one can observe without being implicated. To call something neutral is to imply that it is […]