As an artist, seeing a publication/podcast/whatever use AI art instead of hiring an artist is exactly like watching a scab cross a picket line
The reason we often feel that nothing we do as individuals is enough is because it isn't and because our actions are meant to be collective and cumulative. But for those actions to be collective, each of us must do our part.
Adults who bring their children at the crack of dawn to the โmuseumโ pls do anything else but that omg
Iโd much rather live next to the sort of person who would paint a house this color than the sort of person who would publicly complain about it.
What Ta-Nehisi Coates is doing, using his standing in the liberal mainstream to enter rarefied mainstream spaces to speak out on behalf of Palestinians, even though those spaces will be invariably hostile and even perhaps subsequently foreclosed to him, is incredible
Reading this latest Jack Smith filing, it occurred to me that people havenโt quite internalized the reality that in all three cases touching on the insurrection on January 6โby far the darkest day for our democracy since the Civil Warโthe Supreme Court sided with the insurrectionists in all three.
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