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kevin mccauley
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words to live by: 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓇𝑒𝓅𝓁𝓎 youtube.com/@capturingthemachine capturingthemachine.substack.com
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Not mentioned in the article is how much of that valuation comes from stolen labor, i.e. the mass slurping of copyrighted and protected content from around the net, without permission or remuneration. And they are getting rewarded for it.

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Post from tumblr user cornsnoot reading ““i asked chatgpt-” ohhh ok so nothing you are about to say matters at all”
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There used to be one in rough shape sitting outside an Austin BMW shop. I think the shop owned it and sold it as-is eventually

Austin BMW m1 in 2017
Austin BMW M1 in 2017
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I saw this plate on a BRZ last week, but couldn’t get a decent (legible) pic

BRZ
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😭

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😆

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(obviously there are bigger problems in the world, but I feel like this indicative of so much. Choosing a compromise for selfishness and vanity, only to have it still be… that)

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I was behind this Buick yesterday. What a shitty little world we’ve built for ourselves, where the we’ve ’improved’ on the worst and most popular car form factor by also making it less practical

Buick E….something
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They’re not even trying to hide it anymore. “Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train Al models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter.”

Screenshot from the Verge website. A picture of Mark Zuckerberg at the top. Below the text reads:
“Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says there are complex copyright questions around scraping data to train Al models, but he suggests the individual work of most creators isn't valuable enough for it to matter.”
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kevin mccauley
@kmccauley.bsky.social
words to live by: 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓇𝑒𝓅𝓁𝓎 youtube.com/@capturingthemachine capturingthemachine.substack.com
148 followers161 following405 posts