Performing Personhood

I’ll be real I don’t know much about Phoenix Wright. But! I do know a lot about birds.

The mighty ptarmagin! Practically a feathered rabbit, these magnificent creatures are built for the snow.

Look at those boots! Wonderfully feathered. They spend most of their time as little snow lumps.

In fact, they’re very well known for the above phenomenon.

Like when Gandalf spent literal PAGES trying to figure out why the vibes were off in Moria and Legolas chimes in with just "it's a balrog :) that shit's evil :) we're so fucked :)" like what do you MEAN you knew already and just didn't tell him??

Or at the beginning of Two Towers when Aragorn thinks there's something nearby so he puts his ear to the ground to listen, and then like 10 minutes later is like "hmmm i hear horses" and Legolas is just like "mm yep. there are 105 blond bitches with spears" like you just let your friend put his face in the dirt and you can SEE them??

gandalf is scratching his head in moria, and legolas is thinking "oh man, the wizard noticed something off *besides* the obvious balrog that we all are aware of??"

...photos have always been easy to fake, and they're easier to fake now. And people have spoken on his behalf, but they're people who have vested interest in lying and not actual press outlets. Voice is easy to fake now, too. So is video.

And theres probably a larger conversation about the erosion of credibility, AI, conspiracy theory, and why a cover up like this is believable.

It does make me feel like I ought to have tinfoil on my head when I say this, but I have come to the conclusion that the erosion of credibility is not as much a symptom as it is the whole point of the AI push. Because, you see, if anything can be faked with AI then suddenly nothing is concrete proof of anything.

The current governmental administration has a vested interest in undermining the once-irrefutable proof credibility of things like, photographs, video and audio recordings. The current governmental administration has world's biggest tech tycoon on its payroll. The current governmental administration has a plenty of taxpayer money to funnel into its own special interests and nobody (with the power to do so) willing to stop them.

The fact that they can also use this tech to convincingly postpone McConnell death date (perhaps artificially) - thereby preventing a special election in Kentucky that the GOP would almost certainly lose - is simply a bonus.