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Siddhant Gupta
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I love movies I guess
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The stage of capitalism where a company increases its market cap by $50 billion on a report that its CEO will talk to the president.
June 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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heck of a one-two punch here
December 13, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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just from a folklore point of view, "attractive hooded man kills billionaire head of hated business with bullets inscribed with political slogans and then vanishes" is narratively breathtaking
December 7, 2024 at 9:54 AM
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im just saying if you pitch me a dystopian novel and describe it like "oh the climate is fucked and corporations have taken over and there's a virus" like you have to explain to me what makes that sci-fi. at this point what makes that different from reality. i'll wait.
October 3, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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This is not a reversal of copy left but rather bringing class politics to copy left. In India, Honeybee Network made a patent license thatet farmers below a certain income freely use each other's intellectual property. 👇 Culture workers are sick of their work freeloaded by corporate tech.
Fascinated by the “edgy internet” turnaround on copyright law from 2005 to now. Even a decade ago, this kind of transformational use would have been seen as acceptable or even affirmatively good in many circles. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...
OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free
OpenAI is begging Parliament to allow it to use copyrighted works because it's "impossible" for the company to make money without them.
futurism.com
September 4, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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Repeat after me: Humanity invented tools to augment our capabilities and succeed in a competitive ecosystem. Chimps and other primates continue to use minimal tools and have successfully defended their niches within their ecosystems. If I put down my tools, I am fucking around and will find out.
Guys who think they could win a fight with a chimp: a case study
September 15, 2024 at 2:47 AM
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The alien franchise is the most exciting sci fi property that is mostly about the importance of workplace safety regulations
August 26, 2024 at 2:30 AM