Reading through your comments, leaves me feeling deeply sad, Jasmine. I’ve lived a whole lot longer than you have with an anthropological perspective about tech and the American experiment in democracy. There’s a burnt on crust of adolescence in your critique of Dario’s valiant attempt to run a business with principals intent on not knee capping the democratic struggle against authoritarianism.

This is not your every day authoritarianism that Don Don and his mafia henchman are attempting to use to annihilate this nation’s freedom.

It’s the kind that we-the-people were groomed to capitulate to in ways that only those of us who were narcissistically abused by parents before we were old enough to realize what was happening were forced to capitulate to.

I wasn’t alive in the 1930s when organized crime was running rampant here in the US but I certainly studied it while fighting tooth and nail to reclaim my agency after having it lacerated daily by narcissists.

What we are experiencing right now as a nation is truly like nothing our experiment in democracy has ever run into. This is organized crime taking over the media and all the agencies of government that took 200 years to build so we could together take care of one another.

You’re a smart girl, Jasmine. But the smugness and contempt in your voice aren’t making your case. The only possibility of a solution to this is if people who can think as deeply as you do take our thinking into our hearts. This isn’t a chess game. They’re employing the same tactics on all of us – including Anthropic – that Epstein used to exploit the girls he trafficked.

This is the Epstein administration.

And as a survivor of narcissistic abuse, I applaud every word that Dario utters as he refuses to be taken to the island.