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E. T. Young Profile picture
E. T. Young
@emverse
Aug 21, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
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Hope to see lots of you this afternoon at the corner! We can do this together! #SaveTheOA #WatchTheOA #TheOAisReal PART V - THE OTHER ANSWER

The preventable deaths of tens of thousands of people a year to mental and physical health issues should be seen as absurd, but it's not. It's part of the background noise of how our system functions. It's mundane.
Aug 21, 2019 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
The time has come for the fourth movement. #SaveTheOA #WatchTheOA #TheOAisReal

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The story concludes tomorrow morning. PART IV - THE OUTSIDER'S ANGUISH

Sometimes, a TV show is the best thing you have.

Most television is just meaningless entertainment. Once in a while, a show comes along that speaks to people.
Aug 20, 2019 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
A new day, a new movement in the fight to #SaveTheOA.

(To begin from the beginning, go here: )

#WatchTheOA #TheOAisReal PART III - THE OVERT ANALOGY

Crucial to the development of benevolent artificial support systems is a lesson I like to call #ThePomegranate. It's a small bit of science fiction that has to do with calculating priorities when dealing with humans. It goes like this:
Aug 20, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The day is ending, but the protest is just beginning. Here is my second movement, examining @Netflix. #SaveTheOA #WatchTheOA #TheOAisReal PART II - THE OVERARCHING ANIMUS

I must briefly address corporate capitalism. I can already hear the groans; I'll try to make this relatively short and painless.
Aug 19, 2019 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
My protest to #SaveTheOA has five movements. This is the first. I'll be posting the rest as I can. PART I - THE OBLIGATORY ABSURDITY

To all the people thinking it is absurd to hunger strike over a TV show: I agree. But you want to know something even more absurd?