⚠️ Adult content is being sanitized and squeezed off the internet in a way that it never has been before.

You should care, you should talk about it, you should know why it is different now and a big deal.

THREAD 🧵1/ Over the last month or so, sites that creators, SWs, writers, and artists use have been drastically updating their TOS.

Patreon, Gumroad, JustForFans, Pixiv Fanbox, and others have cited pressure from payment processors in these changes.

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Explorations with Ch*tGPT and hypnosis:

- Very limited in its knowledge about hypnosis
- MUCH BETTER results talking to it about poetry
- I fed it all of Ch1 of HYPNOTIC REALITIES
- There are implications for the hypnosis community

🧵 1/13 Initially, I spent some time asking it questions about hypnosis and correcting it when I felt it was off (hypnosis doesn't necessarily involve trance or relaxation and etc). Still, while it was agreeing with my corrections, we weren't getting very far. 2/

❌ "Induce trance to make suggestions"
✅ "Make suggestions based on a person’s psychology in order to hack them"

THREAD ABOUT HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIONS 🧵 1/ Trance is not what makes suggestions happen. (Suggestions are what make trance happen.) Basing suggestions in truth/reality is part of what actually makes them effective.

Hypnosis is more about making suggestions than it is about inducing trance. 2/

I really think confusion in hypnosis is really misunderstood. There's this idea that confusion is a goal, and to get there, you want to say nonsense. But this isn't it. If you're completely nonsensical, the listener won't engage; they dismiss it.

Here's a better way. Thread: 1/ Confusion in and of itself isn't what makes trance happen -- it's not the end goal. What you want is someone who is engaged but thrown subtly off-kilter so that they are seeking a way to reconcile what is happening. THAT is your opportunity for hypnosis. 2/