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Tonia Sutherland
@toniasutherland.bsky.social
thinker. writer. lover. scholar of archives, community, & technology @ ucla. island girl. hoper of hopes.
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I've written about "disordered counterpublics" groups that reinforce shared delusions Here, the LLM becomes a 1 person counterpublic. It mirrors assumptions, absorbs contradictions, & provides the sense of a responsive, confirming audience.
It is the architecture of disordered discourse, automated.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Tonia Sutherland
Guess who was ready to feed a starving infant?

The mosque. They just wanted to know what brand and where to bring it. A Black church. A Buddhist Temple. A little family church run by a great-grandpa in the Appalachians. Multiple Catholic Churches.
November 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM