Intersectional art proposal
Static Documentation 
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In object oriented programming an observer pattern describes a pattern "in which an object, named the subject, maintains a list of its dependents, called observers, and notifies them automatically of any state changes, usually by calling one of their methods."
In blockchain, NFTs refer to nonfungible tokens: digital objects that are verified on the blockchain and hold features, such as uniqueness and non-interchangeability, relevant to data and logic linked to off-chain economies.
Q: And babies too? A: And babies too.
I began minting images of embryonic activity with machine learning software on June 24, 2022, when the humiliating effects of the Heartbeat Bills saw the sweeping fall of the legislation that provided my mother, an immigrant, and those of her generation, their civil and economic opportunities.
'Choice or Consequences' proposes financing the display of artificial sonography in public spaces on urban billboards with NFT sales. This project focuses on the atomicity observed between a technologically-saturated domestic status quo and cities characterized by the segregation of transportation from foot traffic.
Eighteen until conscripted
Creator's choice
It's a girl
Eighteen to life.
We don't kill babies. We shoot tresspassers.
Bring the war home
Get a life.
Uncle Sam isn't your uncle anymore
Uncle Sam wants YOU
Cut it out
Life is an inside job
The executioner's face is always well hidden.
The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner -- George MacDonald
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Free Will is Not
To do without is power
Speak now or forever hold your peace
Annihilation itself is no death to evil
Love is the opener as well as the closer of eyes
Defeat is not the worst of
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The first thing in all progress is to leave something behind
We'd kill for country, too
The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner.
The only way out is through
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Profits are made in public.
When "decentralization", "autonomy", "encryption" and "tokenization" are the watchwords of the day, this is a metaphor. Connect wallet
Life goes on
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Be yourself.
>"The flickering that we're seeing on the ultrasound that early in the development of the pregnancy is actually electrical activity, and the sound that you 'hear' is actually manufactured by the ultrasound machine." - Nisha Verma, an OB-GYN who specializes in abortion care Wikipedia
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Not Yet
The Heartbeat Acts that began with the Texas Heartbeat Bill ban abortion at the moment embryonic and fetal cardiac activity can be visualised. In doing so, the political and aesthetic designations of life and personal sovereignty, will and have shifted.
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Start creating
Having sensed some metaphorical resonance between the ways that sonograms were being tokenized as evidence of life, and the ways that NFT's were speculated to be the end all, be all of digital sovreignty, I minted "Roe" on the Ethereum blockchain the day Roe vs Wade fell. Then I got kicked off DALLE with no explanation as to why.
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Enjoy yourself – it’s later than you think. Socrates
The act authorizes members of the public to implement the law by filing action against anyone suspected of performing or facilitating the termination of a pregnancy, including but not limited to personal support. This means that the person who drives a woman to the clinic has the same criminal liability as the doctor who provides for her.
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You’re only here for a short visit.
Feel free
Free choice, no refunds
This will have been first abortion restriction to rely solely on enforcement by private individuals through civil lawsuits, totally disintermediating the role of the state: "cutting out the middleman", as they say.
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Free love, no refunds
The textual content in the NFT's hash echoes that of the Bitcoin Genesis Block.
Don’t spend so much time thinking about your choices you forget to make a life.
Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. Hillary Clinton
How do you suppose time works? A slippery succession of long hours adding up to ever-shorter days and years that disappear like falling dominoes? Dani Shapiro
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Life is short. Smile while you still have a choice.
Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor. Muhammad Ali
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Oscar Wilde
The average men consume. The wise create. Maxime Lagacé
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Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have. Epictetus
It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it. Seneca
The willing are led by fate, the reluctant dragged. Cleanthes
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You have power over your mind — not outside events.
The limit is not the sky
No human thing is of serious importance. Plato
You are only one defining decision away from a totally different life.
The best math you can learn is how to calculate the future cost of current decisions. Wesley Snipes (Source)
What you are not changing, you are choosing. Unknown.
Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.
One day, or day one, you decide. Unknown
Decisions are nothing without execution
Ask yourself at every moment: is this necessary? Marcus Aurelius
If it's not your choice, it's your life
If you don’t say yes in the first 5 minutes, say no. Shane Parrish
The more reversible decisions you make, the fewer perfect decisions you need. James Clear
The thing that cowardice fears most is decision. Søren Kierkegaard
You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions. Robert T. Kiyosaki
Nobody’s free until everybody’s free
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The age of the Creator is here
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