I want to talk about generative AI because of the defeatist impulses chronicled in this article. While simply expresssing a defiant attitude cannot always change lived-in reality, in certain cases it definitely can. This is in part because, early on, a conflict can exist at a perceptions level. 1/?

the scenario we all feared

One way to tell if you've got too many mannerisms, hand movements, sighs, and the like in a scene: Have your friends act out just the physicality of a scene. If they're all doubled over laughing by the end, you know what you did.

My mind has rebelled against the cascade of bad things the Trump regime has done lately by insisting that I pay attention for a little while to just one of them.