At some point we're going to either recognize that using someone's likeness this way without consent is a form of violence, or we're basically going to lose all rights over our image and likeness. Either everyone has deepfake porn made of them or no one does.
That question probably won't be seriously tested until it happens to someone with enough money and power to matter, though.
flailing about birth rates + enclosure of the internet commons + increasing repression against queer folks (they're just going to define any depiction of a same sex couple or a trans person as "porn") + increasing surveillance + pushing online sex exploitation into deeper precarity for even greater exploitation (just like they did to drug producers and prostitutes) + punishing the few (very very few) women who managed to turn their exploitation into success + removing a source of potential supplemental income so people work harder + they just think it's yucky (even though they all watch porn)
Supply and demand. As long as there is demand for Russian rubles, and there are as long as Asia trades with them, then inflation will be kept in check. Inflation is caused when supply outpaces demand.
One of the roles of electeds is to act as public educators - teach people why we must globalize the intifada. They have a platform and a duty to use it to raise the consciousness of workers.
I think I am the masks. There's no one "under" the masks because I'm defined contextually, I'm a different person in different contexts (social, material, historical) and there's no True Self that exists beyond the masks I use to present myself to the world.
I transitioned because I like my woman-mask better, but I still only feel like I'm just putting on a show - for myself and everyone else.
Cuba didn't cause those clandestine projects, though? The CIA caused them.
You're seemingly blaming Cuba for CIA plotting. It's not Cuba's fault that they foiled the CIA's plots, it's the CIA's fault for plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro! Stopping the CIA doesn't make Cuba a sponsor of terror, it makes the CIA a terrorist organization.
Yeah, you'd be risking all of your social connections if you tried it by yourself. "Don't talk to me until you've read What Is To Be Done" would be a good way to not have friends. Only an organized effort would be able to socially enforce homework assignments.
"How do we get people to do their homework?" They don't really think it's posh and only for rich white college students, they just don't feel like reading. It takes time, it's work, and there's better things to do.
I was calling myself a leftist a decade before I finally started reading theory; ultimately it was the pandemic that forced me to read because I was bored. I kept up the habit after that.
The only idea I have is to ground them until they do their homework. "No investigation, no right to speak" but applied socially.
At some point we're going to either recognize that using someone's likeness this way without consent is a form of violence, or we're basically going to lose all rights over our image and likeness. Either everyone has deepfake porn made of them or no one does.
That question probably won't be seriously tested until it happens to someone with enough money and power to matter, though.