I never thought someone so banal and stupid could be a monster, but here we are. I thought our monsters would be smarter and more incisive. No, we get the dumbass monsters we deserve, apparently. The banality of evil indeed. Hannah Arendt was right.

Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.

(I’m in a bad mood ignore my Baudrillardian theology please)

Micah hates playing dress-up he tears any and all collars off with extreme prejudice

an underestimated threat AI poses is not convincing you that fake things are real, it’s convincing you that real things are fake

"WHY'S SHE DOING THAT?? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT, I'M BORED" well the cool thing about following a narrative is that eventually if you keep watching or reading or listening, magical bits of information are doled out