Nico Mara-McKay

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Nico Mara-McKay

Project Management | Strategic Storytelling | Community Engagement

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By honoring one another’s creation we honor something that deeply connects us all, and goes beyond us. – Joyce Carol Oates

-@parisreview, on Twitter

On the same day I read the above quote, I also read this excellent comic by Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal about how – one way or another – robots will kill us all, and it will always be our fault.

At the very bottom of the comic, Zach Weiner links to a flow chart created by Rosscott, Inc titled “So you found something cool on the Internet…” which either results in the awesomeness of sharing, or a Native North American kitten shedding a single tear, and then dying.1

Kids, I hope you’ve learned something important today. Every time you watermark over someone else’s awesome work, you kill not only the Internet, but also a kitten. So don’t do it.

Also, don’t build sentient robots. It will never ever ever be a good idea. Trust me.

Cite your sources. Save the kittens.
  1. I have no idea why the kitten is a Native North American, but still, it must be true. I read it on the Internet. []

Nico Mara-McKay

Nico Mara-McKay (they/iel) is a historian, writer, editor, and occasional curator whose work focuses on histories of gender and sexuality through lenses of embodiment and identity. They write about queer and trans history, culture, and community ephemeralrecord.com, and share updates on Bluesky @nicomaramckay.com.