My best take on this is that all they really desire is control. Same reason the billionaires are going to such length to fight a tax in CA that will barely affect them in material terms. They only want to be told they're brilliant and right, and everything else feels like an unbearable risk.

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This is why billionaire altruism is not actually a solution for a collapsing creative economy.

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I probably have a different perspective than most on the "why don't men read more" thing, which is that I believe masculine eyeballs are too powerful for the page; when a man concentrates very hard on a book his eyes burn literal holes into it, and this can actually be quite dangerous for bystanders

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I really do not get into hero worship of politicians and, honestly, outside of my work I tend to keep my distance even though I'm often in the same spaces as they are. But one of my rare exceptions was to thank Ilhan for her continued advocacy for children everywhere, including the children of Gaza

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For 2028, I'm looking for a candidate that will pledge to regulate AI, figure out how to remove bots from the internet, and prosecute everyone involved in this administration to the full extent of the law. I feel like it's life or death at this point.

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