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Science and technology are not “capitalism.” They are not capitalist “ways of synthesizing information,” except in the sense that they can be useful to capitalism, which is certainly true, but the humanities are also useful to capitalism. You think companies can’t use people who know how to read?

i don't actually think you should get a free pass for whatever you want to do with your data center, or using the stuff in it, as long as you can prove that it doesn't use up that much water. that's because every data center can prove that.

Copyright is a middleman. It says: you get paid if you successfully enforce artificial scarcity on infinitely copyable files. That's a precarious, adversarial way to fund creative work!!! To me, the problem isn't insufficient *ownership*. It's inadequate direct support for creative labour.

This is why I ultimately have about as much patience for mid-2000s “GET RELIGION OUT OF POLITICS” shrieking as I do for MAGA’s shrieking for racial holy war

Mamdani should not be expected to apologize to anyone for his religious beliefs or those who claim to share them as a shield for atrocity