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  • Elizabeth Warren: "There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own" - CBS News
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    Warren rejects the concept that it is possible for Americans to become wealthy in isolation. "You built a factory out there? Good for you," she says. "But I want to be clear: you moved your goods to market on the roads the rest of us paid for; you hired workers the rest of us paid to educate; you were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory, and hire someone to protect against this, because of the work the rest of us did." She continues: "Now look, you built a factory and it turned into something terrific, or a great idea? God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."
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  • ChatGPT is not ‘artificial intelligence.’ It’s theft. | America Magazine
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    But in calling these programs “artificial intelligence” we grant them a claim to authorship that is simply untrue. Each of those tokens used by programs like ChatGPT—the “language” in their “large language model”—represents a tiny, tiny piece of material that someone else created. And those authors are not credited for it, paid for it or asked permission for its use. In a sense, these machine-learning bots are actually the most advanced form of a chop shop: They steal material from creators (that is, they use it without permission), cut that material into parts so small that no one can trace them and then repurpose them to form new products.
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  • Article: The Boeing scandal is an indictment of Trump’s corporate America
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  • wayneandwax.com » Songs as Shared Things
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    "Songs have always been shareable and shared. People, young and old, share songs with each other – by singing or playing them - in a variety of ways and settings, through a variety of technologies and media or other manner of accompaniment (as well as a capella). Songs as recordings are not fundamentally different in this respect. Since the advent of recorded media, people have shared songs in this form as well: played for each other in private and public settings, on personally distributed mixes (mixed tapes / CDs), and, in the age of mp3s, as files sent via email, IM (instant message), torrent, third-party hosting site, or any manner of online sites and services. "
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  • Why ‘too big to fail’ is too much for us to take
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    "There should be a clear distinction in public policy between the requirement for essential activities to survive and the continued existence of particular companies engaged in their provision."
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  • McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Atlas Shrugged Updated for the Current Financial Crisis.
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  • DNA Lounge: ATM Subversion
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    "``Destroy Capitalism'' but charges him a $3 service fee. Irony is hard, let's go shopping!"
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