Benn Jordan did exactly this in his recent video on AI police cameras (at the 31:00 mark)

Cory Doctorow refers to this as the Anatevka problem.

Another word for paywalls is chokepoints

Conks!

This is basically all previously released and public domain stuff. They dumped these so that they can point to this and claim they’ve already released them whenever anyone demands they do so in the future.

r > g

Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product

This is a great policy, but done for a horrible reason. Corporatized universities run like hedge funds profiting off public research is a scandal and the feds should use march in rights to make a whole bunch of stuff public domain or easily licensed, but having the executive wield this power selectively as a way to punish political enemies isn’t the way to do it.

2021

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Attacking Trump from the right is a losing battle. Fuck war and fuck memes that glorify conscription.

Maybe the paywall had something to do with it?

Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?

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George Lucas saying exactly this

This is the best definition of how a word is actually used I’ve seen in a while

Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…

This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels

AI art tho…

The Intercept has been consistent for years about not declaring it case closed prematurely