The witch hunt vibes seems apt, the maleficarum got really grim in the wake of the printing press and we've got new meme makers now and the pitchforks are being sharpened.
The article kinda hits it home, it's generic hysterical slop and a solid treatment of the matter will likely be available to the public for £300 from an academic press in a year or three if they promise not to share it. Then an llm will eat it and I will be able to get a summary, mixed in with lemmy comments, for my daily token ration from China: the circle of life.
Afaiu it's somewhat easier to wreck the book and one would imagine there's a few books cutting about that whilst not yet fully digital are also not on the endangered species list.
Sharing the knowledge for the greater good is a no go I think, especially in the USA. Me or you can do it on slsk but if a rich corp tries to do it they'll get shafted fast & hard and the massive academic presses will not tolerate upskilling the poor.
I don't think they are devouring the Garima Gospels, Cuneiform tablets and deleting hieroglyphs from granite but the worry is if we don't stop them now it's a slippery slope and the VHS tapes will be next.
people are going to the movies as people have enjoyed going to the movies for over 100yrs now
it's also possible that that covid thing might have had an impact
"The trend isn’t confined to the West, either. Under-30s make up more than half of the Hindi box office in India, according to Ormax Media, a consultancy."
'Harry Potter publisher' seems more the clickbait:
"Bloomsbury, which is home to the bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the settlement, with a proposed compensation of about $3,000 a title."
He pops up in briefly in Marcion's first New Testament in around 140CE and then becomes some kinda patriarch figure in the later 27 book Catholic New Testament and via St Irenaeus.
Scripture is awesome but for the love of God don't be reading the Catholic 27 book NT's like they are history textbooks.
We have no idea who St Paul was or what he wrote either, it's fine.
Things were looking really grim for a decade or so of l33t h@zz0rs installing a window manager on Arch BTW and wanking over it but nature is healing and even the stupid & lazy no longer need to just copy and paste wiki lipstick onto pigs and instead create cool stuff instead of just being consumers.
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