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Ethical AI

By David Shimomura • April 25th, 2025

There is not an ethical use for a product built on theft.

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I Want to Ask Your Forgiveness for What I Will Inflict on You: Red Rooms (2023) and the Abjection of Obsession

By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2024

How much difference is there, after all, between watching a murder take place, and reconstructing that same murder through your favorite true crime series, book, or podcast?

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True Crime for Beginners

By Amanda Hudgins • March 23rd, 2020

I’ve got a reputation. Let me put it to work for you. There’s a lot to true crime, and if you’re truly interested there’s some good stuff out there. ACAB, let’s watch some true crime!

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American Vandal Feels More Real than True Crime

By David Shimomura • November 20th, 2017

Is the truth worth it and at what cost, especially when exposing it leaves those who sought it with little more than a story to tell.

Binge Watching Making a Murderer, Duty over Escapism

By Megan Condis • January 11th, 2016

Maybe the first instance of binge watching feeling like an obligation to society over lazy indulgence.

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