When I read non-academic essayists + critics I sometimes 🤔: did they do any *research* on this topic, or do they think theirs are all original ideas? This post from Brandon, whose work I admire greatly, confirms that contextualizing one's ideas + acknwldgng interlocutors isn't a universal practice

Unsurprisingly, all of my books have been ingested into Meta's AI systems

The joke's on them, though — it means the Luddites are in there, too