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Seems like a reasonable ask

There’s no world in which the courts will legitimize bullshit like LibGen

Well, yes; which was a totally reasonable ruling under existing copyright law.

That one was so good!

The original Google Library project was the smarter, better quality version of what the AI hyperscalers are doing now. We’ve replaced something that was designed to have high quality information from the best sources with massive raw compute and slop.

Can confirm, have worked at new and rare booksellers (as well as a library); book destruction is quite common.

I know (or think I know) a fair amount about the U.S. right, happy to learn more as time allows

Any particular one you’d recommend as an intro?

I looked it up, seems interesting; Moyn affinity is a red flag though

I think that was when states finally decided to tax them at a level where they were price-elastic instead of depending on people smoking for revenue

Like Mark Carney and Mohammed El-Arian like him, and they know what they are talking about.

Yeah, he honestly doesn’t seem to be the doofus he’s been portrayed as, at least not yet. Trump’s pick of Powell turned out to be (accidentally) great. www.reuters.com/commentary/r...

What is disingenuous about any of these questions?

Is there someone in the bounds of the debate here who thinks that hungry people should starve? This seems pretty clearly a set of good and pointed questions about this particular plan for feeding them.

The worse problem is those who can read but choose not to

I don’t know who those guys are but I highly suspect there’s additional infuriating stuff

Dorks with axes to grind pretty much describes the C Suite of most of America’s largest companies at this point

I do love that this isn’t means-tested, which is the brain worm of social welfare policy in the last several decades

But I mean the reaction to Wilson’s LRB piece among film fans is somewhat comical to me-if y’all think that’s savage, wait until you see what humanists write about each other’s work!

That quality would also keep me out of the field, most likely