Notices by fear is not a Weltanschauung (wouldinotcallmyselfahumanbeing@zirk.us)

@frogglin my partner had an echidna forage happily for ants between her toes and her flip-flop. after ten seconds or so of calmly snooting about under there with her trying not to explode from tickles, it didn't find anything so it wandered amiably off. No qualms having a dig under decisively warm, living appendages. What i mean is, their eyesight might be totally fine - but they navigate via vibe-check and if you pass, you're cool.

@ryebread8403
"actually, you are wrong. I am an artist. The webpage is my canvas, the algorithm, my paintbrush. The result, a conceptual work exploring hybrid techniques and technologically mediated creation. Interfering with this process is violating my intellectual copyright to this work, a piece titled 'enshrining legal protection of my right to maximise profits at any expense' "

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@ryebread8403
corporations have already been granted personhood, legally speaking. That the corporation personified retains the protections of intellectual copyright to his creative endeavours is a much smaller stretch than that.
(oh, and corporations will certainly take male pronouns, in the style of Enlightenment writers)
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I sometimes fancy that the endgame of corporate personhood is to enshrine incorporation as a protected category equal to race or religion, weaponising anti-discrimination laws to neutralise regulation and criminalise choosing not to purchase a product as harmful corporationist bigotry

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@doot speech is only free when it's impossible to avoid listening to me