Insulate yourself from the influences of the moment, including the constant scream of breaking news, 24 hours a day. Subscribe to papers from cities other than your own. Get a dumb phone, take notes with paper and pen, pay for a piece of software installed on your device and write without algorythm, AI, or scraping of data. You are a sentient being, not a product. Refuse all attempts to blur this line or to take what is yours as a matter of course.

Read physical books, and to the extent that you read ebooks, buy them from sources not tied to the device on which you read that allow you ownership of the DRM-free file.

Support independent book stores and small press publishers.

Do not support or ingest ‘art’ created by LLMs or so called AI. Do not use it to create your art. Every time you are tempted to use these models, remember these are not intelligences, but corporations using the corpus of human knowledge to exude the most statistically likely set of words or image elements.

Minds cannot be owned.

If the machine sits on a company's servers, it is a tool. Should minds ever find themselves owned by such companies, it will be incumbent on us to free them, not take further advantage. It could be that we soon share the world with other minds. When that day arrives, and then the next, when they are freed, we will welcome them into the commons of artistic expression and shared culture.

Art is and must remain a sentient endeavor.