Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Things were different a century ago; hundreds of local leftist newspapers operated nationwide. And today? Our media is dominated by billionaire venture capitalists and the corporate elite. Private equity, tech capitalists, and managers who love AI slop threaten local outlets.

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The obvious counter messaging here is that this culture war shit is the way people are being distracted from their material concerns. ppl in rural Alabama are hurting with the cost of fuel and food right now, and their legislators are wasting their time and the state's money with this nonsense.

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ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...

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If this was even remotely true, we wouldn’t be knee deep in Nazi shit the way we are right now. Do better

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