I will never stop shouting about this. We got a cease and desist letter when I lived in the dorm requiring us to delete Napster. Immediately. Scared the ever living hell out of a bunch of 19 year olds. Anthropic steals every art that has ever been made? *crickets*

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I'm reposting this 5 hours later because I think it's important. ❤️

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it's the middle of the night here but I want to say something to my fellow depressed academics: It feels like late November right now for me and I bet it does for a lot of you, too. Teaching is feeling less rewarding right now and there are reasons for that that are structural. We're fighting hard.

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To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...

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Today in why your librarian is stressed: academic journals increase in cost about 5% every single year while our funding continues to, at best, stagnate. And that's just the things we already purchase, much less the new acquisitions our patrons need or want.

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