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rwasco··on Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
I disagree. Brewster demonstrated real courage.

The world locked down u necessarily precisely because the population has not been getting smarter the past 50 years because copyright has poisoned our information wells.

This is a fight worth having.

It's time to abolish copyright.

rwasco··on Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
We are communicating on a tech stack that TBL gave away freely.

Copyright is communism, it is the exact opposite of property rights.

Don't take my word for it: do the math yourself.

Or just repeat false slogans.

rwasco··on Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win
Copyright is literally the opposite of property rights.

Just because people call it "property rights" does not make it true.

It's as false a term as calling the events of 1939-1945 "World Peace 2".

rwasco··on Tech startup connects to two satellites in orbit from Earth via Bluetooth
How does it work?
rwasco··on The illusion of being stuck
> I impulssively bought a plane ticket to Panama:

> I cried. Haven’t done that in years.

> I had the uncomfortable conversation with my business partner to tell them I no longer have passion for it and am leaving them the decision to continue or quit.

> I forced myself to talk to strangers every single day.

These also could be explained by someone entering hypomania. How would you distinguish stuck/unstuck from depressed/hypomanic?

rwasco··on Pleasures by Aldous Huxley (1920)
This is a natural conseqence of copyright law. It is hard for local talent to compete against unnatural monopolies. We subsidized mass produced media at the expense of decentralized talent.