Dominique D-Lefebvre
@domlefebvre.com
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Reposted by Dominique D-Lefebvre
It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives
July 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives
James Ferguson - one of the most influencial Anthropologists in Anth of development, from Expectations of Modernity to the Anti Politics Machine... His later work on dependence was critical to my own ways of thinking about emergent hierarchies and how people often seek out dependence
James Ferguson, a guiding light in the anthropology of southern Africa, has died.
His prose and analysis offered a model of clarity and insight. He was only 65. Very very sad.
His prose and analysis offered a model of clarity and insight. He was only 65. Very very sad.
February 18, 2025 at 5:35 AM
James Ferguson - one of the most influencial Anthropologists in Anth of development, from Expectations of Modernity to the Anti Politics Machine... His later work on dependence was critical to my own ways of thinking about emergent hierarchies and how people often seek out dependence
A brilliant article detailing the deliberate dismantling of the US State. - "The heartlessness, of course, is the point." - "Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work" -
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
The Private Equity Hatchet Man Leading the Lost Boys of DOGE
If Tom Krause is looking for government waste, ‘he should look in the mirror,’ says an ex-employee.
prospect.org
February 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A brilliant article detailing the deliberate dismantling of the US State. - "The heartlessness, of course, is the point." - "Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work" -
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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My article on David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities is now published by @Boundary2:
read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities
Abstract. This essay offers a close reading of David Graeber's posthumously published magnum opus The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (2021), which he co‐authored with David Wengrow. The...
read.dukeupress.edu
November 26, 2024 at 2:31 PM
My article on David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities is now published by @Boundary2:
read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...