Another point: I cannot say 100% certain but the quality of video changed drastically the day Sora was released. The videos look like they're Sora videos, and they follow Sora tropes (Walmart, McDonald's). The biggest, most "valuable" companies on Earth are enabling and pushing this shit on people

The ability of the tech bros to indoctrinate children while making them illiterate via genAI doesn't get enough discussion.

Take, for example, theologian Paul Tillich’s idea that everyone’s ultimate concern should be called god.

Choosing the term god for others is not engaging with the full range of religious and nonreligious vocabularies through which pluralism thrives.

The various supremacies that suffuse our cultures—along lines of gender, race, sexuality, religion, class, and others—have a habit of sneaking in around the edges even when we want to disrupt them.