Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.

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It's really infuriating to be trying to do research and constantly ambushed by "are you human" things or simply denials of access because a site thinks I'm AI scraping. I just want to read and cite this paper! I am a real person!!

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the lesson of the Civil War is that aesthetic warrior-cult societies get their shit rocked by schoolteachers and store clerks who'd much rather be doing anything else

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The loss of living memory of the Second World War is absolutely catastrophic

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