Sam Altman is one of the dullest, most incurious and least creative people to walk this earth. This is, after all, the person who once tweeted 'i am a stochastic parrot and so are u', in response to Emily Bender's (entirely incisive and absolutely brilliant) critique of what his large language models are *actually doing*.
But how can I say what needs to be said? How can I go into work and say with a straight face that I'm having difficulty because I'm terrified that my friends are going to lose the healthcare that they so desperately need? How can I face the fact that if I did that, I'd likely be met with blank, incurious faces and the *a priori* assumption that I'm just being dramatic? How do I face the fact that, to make the money to keep myself alive, I need to exist in an environment that denies that anything about me or my life could *possibly* hurt that much?
I am fundamentally done with defending my right to exist and thrive to people who speak and argue in bad faith. No, what I want to ask is the following: Dear fascists, how exactly do you think you're going to win this fight?
To that end, I've written this article, which contains things you can do to protect trans people in a hostile environment. I've not written a great deal about basic allyship stuff about pronouns and stuff: this has been talked to death and honestly, it's of questionable value. What I've discussed here is largely practical interventions that you can make to keep trans people surviving and thriving as much as possible when the regime is dead-set on preventing this from happening...
As much as this regime is a fascist one, it's *also* an extension of modern corporate management to the state: all fascist regimes are. 1930s Germany was, in many ways, a reflection of 1930s corporate culture, and an awful lot has been written about how corporatist ideologies are one of the major drivers of fascism...