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Renewing my petition to ban actors from speaking

In the wake of The Odyssey’s success, we feel more confident that our application to Telefilm Canada for funding for our production of Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis will be approved.

What kind of person decides to sell a lifestyle, personality, or face that doesn’t exist, all the while pretending to be “authentic”? Perhaps someone who is now worried about being replaced by AI… Well, good. I hope every “writer,” “content creator,” and “influencer” who has banked on their audience’s inability to differentiate between real and fake is shaking in their boots. I hope that video you posted of your botoxed face pretending to cry, while talking about “embodied truth,” followed by a video about manifestations which is actually a video of you doing a handstand in a thong, is replicated one million times over by an AI lady that’s hotter than you. I hope the creeps you make engagement bucks off of give their clicks to a man in Pakistan instead. I hope they sign up for his OnlyFans account instead of yours. That’s the thing about selling your soul—there’s a tradeoff. And those who chose profit over integrity and authenticity are perhaps seeing that the downside of this choice is that they are easily replaceable. We are now more attuned than ever to recognize the fake, which means the real now holds more value, and that (I hope) we will actually value the flaws of realness over the sheen of fakeness. Long live my typos.

I’ll never stop fighting to protect Ontario. If these tariffs proceed, Canada should respond tariff for tariff, dollar for dollar.