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Sam Altman needs enclosure of the digital commons to make AI slop into money but the Internet Archive can't lend books for free, what an embarrassing timeline

a humiliatingly precise depiction of me from a documentary interview I did last week

seeking good reads on business and/as celebrity—sort of about the "personal brand" of it all but also the idea of the celebrity founder as avatar of brand

I know why this happens but am nonetheless annoyed by an open call for artist residency program critiquing "individualism and binary thinking" in which collectives are not eligible to apply

do I still know anyone in boston who would put up with me staying on their couch for a few days later this month to go do archive research

Since todaybor day is Labor Day, I spent a few minutes freshening up the page for YOU DESERVE A TECH UNION. Nothing fancy, but I added some more options for buying the paperback, added *long*-overdue links for the ebook, and cleaned up some tiny design things that’d been bugging me.

https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/

#1u #unions #YDATUbook #bookstodon

The conference on "mine tailings" is not I repeat not a furry thing

Kitty's neighborhood dog best friend is moving to Michigan (her family bought a house) and I am more sad than I probably should be

Looking at subway ads for a skincare brand that are just black Helvetica on a white backdrop, Dr Zizmor would weep

buttondown.com/perfectsentence this week in sentences: sheep, the future, the citadel, single standing spray, vagaries of various, least weird guy, cat phonology, hog blood day, $200 million TV shows

uspol 

once again remembering how Aaron Sorkin wrote in the big boy newspaper that the DNC should nominate Mitt Romney for president

Rebranding the nation state as a subscription service

wares.lifewinning.com/products these postcards are definitely the best deal among the stuff I sell if you want something small and not necessarily requiring framing!

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Also happy to negotiate discounts or do commissions of specific landscapes and stuff, love to Make Plot

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love to send my university money to cover debts they incurred building a gym I've never seen in my life but apparently is there for me lol

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Back to school season means I have to pay some ridiculous fees to my grad program and money's tight so a gentle reminder I sell beautiful plotter drawings and they make nice gifts wares.lifewinning.com

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Horsin' Around

This is a hometown instance run by Sam and Ingrid, for some friends.