One single failure point at any number of places you would expect them to account for and you’re in quite the pickle.

Too short for bitrot for sure. I just went and looked at their preservation policy though and it’s pretty bullshit, they put the entire onus on the user, so I’m not surprised they’re trying to fob you off here.

Bitrot is actually a significant problem we contend with in digital archiving, but they’re supposed to build redundancies for that shit.

That is a solid point

I want to email a screenshot to my professor to be like SEE SEEEEEE!!!

BUT IT COULDA MADE THE CONCLUSION SO GOOD!

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

Actually my takeaway from this that the computing industry and computer touchers are addicted to the idea of the computer as a means of social control and behavioral manipulation, but are blinded to this fact because it is so engrained in the culture of tech that they can reproduce it endlessly