This is a great policy, but done for a horrible reason. Corporatized universities run like hedge funds profiting off public research is a scandal and the feds should use march in rights to make a whole bunch of stuff public domain or easily licensed, but having the executive wield this power selectively as a way to punish political enemies isn’t the way to do it.
This is literally the one site whose journalism every Lemming should support
Greece is not identical with its government. Pedantry that collapses an important distinction is extra unhelpful.
The schismogenesis in the comments and downvotes here is wild: “dystopia is good when it hurts scumbags”—um, no, both can be bad??
That’s literally the point of the article?
Hamilton Nolan has made a similar argument
Maybe the paywall had something to do with it?
Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?
Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…
This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels
Let’s delve into the issue
This is the premise of Tom Maughan’s short story “Flyover Country”
Close: you do get banned from their supercharger network if you try to repair your own car
“[Generative AI] is the leaded gasoline of tech, where the boost to engine performance didn’t outweigh the horrific health impacts it inflicted.”
I love Ed so much.
Talk about hidden figures…
Credible strike threat gets the goods
That’s mistaking a structural problem for a personal one. Zeynep Tufekci has a great argument about why that wouldn’t work:
It’s reasonable, for example, for a corporation to ponder who would be the best CEO or COO, but it’s not reasonable for us to expect that we could take any one of those actors and replace them with another person and get dramatically different results without changing the structures, incentives and forces that shape how they and their companies act in this world.
Journalistic malpractice to repeat their “accidentally” claim without attribution or quotes
Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product