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Thu, Aug 20, '26 at 10:42 AM

is pretty much here.

AI companies are buying - and destroying - antiques books.

Fri, Aug 21, '26 at 5:51 PM

@SnoopDog wrote:

is pretty much here.
AI companies are buying - and destroying - antiques books.

thanks, i am going to hide all my Mills & Boons

and my B lines

Tue, Aug 25, '26 at 10:08 AM

@sudden wrote:

thanks, i am going to hide all my Mills & Boons
and my B lines

You will owned nothing and be happy.

Tue, Aug 25, '26 at 10:43 AM

The way of the future unfortunately i still prefer actual books

Tue, Aug 25, '26 at 1:01 PM

@velo wrote:

i still prefer actual books

Enjoy them while you still can.

Tue, Aug 25, '26 at 1:11 PM

@velo wrote:

The way of the future unfortunately

No it's not the way and shouldn't ever be the way.

But look easily we have capitulated to these tech billionaires. We have surrendered to their dystopian future by mindlessly volunteering to them all our personal and private data (without compensation) which they now happily sell back to us in the form of subscriptions and never-ending ads in our faces.

Techno Feudalism has now essentially replaced capitalism - Yannis Varoufakis

Tue, Aug 25, '26 at 2:16 PM

@SnoopDog wrote:

No it's not the way and shouldn't ever be the way.
But look easily we have capitulated to these tech billionaires. We have surrendered to their dystopian future by mindlessly volunteering to them all our personal and private data (without compensation) which they now happily sell back to us in the form of subscriptions and never-ending ads in our faces.
Techno Feudalism has now essentially replaced capitalism - Yannis Varoufakis

Nowadays, there's hardly a way to avoid your personal info being harvested

Tue, Aug 25, '26 at 8:54 PM

@SnoopDog wrote:

No it's not the way and shouldn't ever be the way.
But look easily we have capitulated to these tech billionaires. We have surrendered to their dystopian future by mindlessly volunteering to them all our personal and private data (without compensation) which they now happily sell back to us in the form of subscriptions and never-ending ads in our faces.
Techno Feudalism has now essentially replaced capitalism - Yannis Varoufakis

What is actually going to change the world even more is ai weaponry

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