i cannot begin to describe how moving this was. someone i saw posting it said, "it was the most human thing they've read in a long, long time". seriously, stop what you're doing and read this:

https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence

> The "problem" was that creating art—real, human, meaningful writing—is slow. It is expensive. It is unpredictable. And it is diverse. It requires dealing with people. People with traumas, people with political opinions, people with voices that don't fit into a corporate style guide. Minority writers, specifically, are "high friction." We talk about queerness and transphobia and racism, and We talk about disability. We make the advertisers uncomfortable.
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> So the Tech Bros, in their infinite mediocrity, decided to bypass the human element entirely. They built a machine that scrapes our work—our pain, our joy, our very souls—without consent, grinds it into a mathematical slurry, and extrudes it as a flavorless, inoffensive paste that can be sold by the bucket.
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> They built a machine to gentrify the English language.
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> And the horror of watching my friend lose his soul almost eats me alive.