Every racist is a coward who quickly jumps to say they were “hacked” because they can’t handle confrontation and will only ever have confidence behind a screen. Pathetic.
Friend making $20/hr as a server: “Don't worry, bro, this one's on me, and you'll get the next”
Friend making $470k as a senior software engineer: “Can you Venmo me $9.62 for your share of the Uber ride?”
We spent years calling people misogynistic for saying “periods are disgusting” only to arrive at “pregnancy is gross.” Surely, this is what progress looks like.
They say books won’t change the world. Tell that to every colonizer who burned them. To every enslaved person who was punished for reading. Literacy is resistance. Literacy is liberation. The library is a battlefield.
WTF
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.
Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.
What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
Do you want to know why the arts are declining?
High art like opera, ballet, theater never made money. They used to be supported by an elite made of wealthy patrons who spent a fortune on those things because they liked them.
This is your “elite” now. Tasteless, gauche.