After experiencing the full arc of Gabriel's argumentation, robust in its profundity and vice versa, you may wonder why things have resolved as they did. That is because Smokey The Bear and Yogi The Bear are neither - they are simply Smokey Bear and Yogi Bear. So what he did was technically crimes. But I've never been effected by a Mandela so hard in my entire life.

A conversation that Mork and I have often is that if someone wants to be president, under no circumstances should they be allowed to be president. It is the earliest and most robust test; even seeking it out is disqualifying. I don't have a good answer for how we should seek one out, but the harms are so great I'm willing to set that aside for now while we figure out what is even going on.

If it were possible for me to do this job fully from within a hermetic bunker I would, and arguably the early Internet allowed for something similar. There was a little slot people could send me messages through, but I was not observed regularly and that was a huge plus. Being known is the exhaust of what I do - the externality, the irreducible toxin. I tolerate it because it allows me, on occasion, to give people jobs they don't hate.

Generally, the harm that I see enunciated around streaming is the potential for Parasocial harm, the manufacture of false realities. But we're on a couple weeks now of seeing actual abuse on stream, by streamers, and in a Kingmaker system like Twitch you risk your job whenever you speak frankly about your own abuse. We have to consider that there are no ethical extroverts.

(CW)TB out.