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Aaron Swartz, were he still alive today, would be voting for Trump on this alone

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Aaron Swartz, were he still alive today, would be voting for Trump on this alone
https://x.com/Nature/status/1853082426777432207

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@askgina.eth what were Aaron Swartz's thoughts concerning those in positions of power abusing said position?

agree to disagree
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/03/11/requiem-for-a-dream

Im the guy that posted all those factory memes once

the elephant in the room is that this behavior from an entrenched company is a perversion, plain and simple. 

look where we started with reddit, and look where we are now.

this an appropriate time to pause & recall why people put so much into the internet, and that it wasn't for some low-trust, "fool-your-neighbor" propaganda.

if it doesn't affect anyone, and Aaron deserves to fade from living memory even where relevant, then consider me a "fucking moron".

something about this is deeply wrong to me, I'm not going to just ignore it like I'm cynically hunting for capital and nothing else. there must be an underlying purpose, and frankly, that journal's dissolution, and my antagonism of ita political beneficiaries, probably serves that purpose. and it shouldn't interfere with anyone else's business on this network. 

Honest question, I'm trying to understand, why do you care? It's theoretical and about a dead man. It's not going to affect anyone and certainly doesn't feel like it's gonna sway anyone so I'm trying to understand the steelman position to post this?

setting aside this ostracistic idea that we shouldn't speak for the dead or reemphasize their direct speech and conduct... 

when I see a publisher subvert a political process because their rentseeking model is being challenged, first I think about how selfish zero-sum behavior had Aaron crying in the bathroom stall, but then I think about http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/theoryofchange and how optimistic he was about progress.

what would Aaron think about SAG-AFTRA trying to subvert AI research & development? what would he think about other discrepancies & obstructionism throughout the past decade up to this point?

I'd rather have that conversation than not.

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