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a person and a work of art are more or less the same type of thing; a whole that must be regarded as one to be understood, rather than something that truly makes sense regarding each part in isolation; this is why cloud storage services murder creativity; we'll elaborate someday

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cling to your creative software and hardware that works when never connected to the internet, never let go of it, do not buy Apple Inc products, they will stab you in the back eventually no matter how comfortably middle-class and able to afford Apple Taxes you might think you are

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and remember that if you have DRM on any kind of media you “own”, or if you own it only in the sense that you can “redownload” or “stream” it, no, you do not own it, and someday all your childhood memories will become inacessible to you, sorry, deal with it while you still can

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fight for a world in which creative works have the dignity that allows them to be controversial without being burned at the stake

fight for a world in which people have the dignity that allows them to be controversial without being burned at the stake

or we'll all suffer

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… that's easily the most lucid, succinct, clear, illustrative, etc etc etc way that we've ever been able to put our years-long fundamental neurosis about the modern world killing creativity and individuality. wow.

so it's a blogpost too, now: https://hikari.noyu.me/blog/2025-08-05-a-person-and-a-work-of-art-are-more-or-less-the-same-type-of-thing.html

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