it's as if there's contempt for people who experienced the past, a sense that it isn't fair—generative AI works to abolish the possibility of idiosyncratic experiences. No one has to be jealous of people who "were really there" because "really there"-ness will have been eliminated from all media

At a personal level two things are true at the same time

Criminalization has intended effect of deterrence - the process is the punishment - and going through legal system is always painful & draining.

And its also true that solidarity is stronger than fear, and in this time its all we have.

Beauvoir starts off The Ethics of Ambiguity showing how the entire history of Western philosophy is an attempt to offload the hard work of making decisions in ambiguous & arbitrary circumstances onto supposedly 'rational' systems - having chatbots think for you is effectively the same thing

Starting off w Laura Jane Grace covering Op Ivy’s “Soundsystem”

“How fast could he go for her throat, and why was she not afraid, why instead were her bare thighs wet?”

Intrigued to read Part II

have you read my new story? 🔪 Part 2 releases next week

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