humanness

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Human-created cultural products like film and writing will be positioned as most valuable, and priced accordingly as luxury goods and artworks, while elevated synthetic content will be “humanwashed” to create a veneer of faux humanness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

A chief draw, World says, is that people can verify their humanness at an orb without providing personal information, such as, their names, emails, phone numbers and social media profiles.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025

“You feel their humanness, because what’s more human than feeling that you don’t belong?”

From Seattle Times • May 25, 2024

It's a way of refusing our humanness, and with it our animal nature.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024

Rather than shaming and condemning an already deeply stigmatized group, we, collectively, can embrace them—not necessarily their behavior, but them—their humanness.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander