Friday Song: “Take Me Home, Country Roads”
Another song that almost didn't happen turns into one everyone has to sing to the end once it starts
Kent Anderson
The “Taking” Issue Heats Up
A top court finds that the deposition requirement for copyrighted works represents an unconstitutional "taking"
Two for Tuesday — Governance, Investment
How to fix society governance — and the ways in which we overinvested in OA
Friday Song: “Subdivisions”
A rooftop cover of a timeless Rush synth powerhouse gives the song an entirely different feel
Is ChatGPT All But Dead?
Courts, users, and authors have wised up fast, while the LLMs themselves continue to deteriorate
Let’s Have Some Irreverence
The political environment of access debates adds to the damage done to freedom, and irreverence may be just the tool we need
Coughing Up the Subscription
As with other things, you can't have a solution while embracing what caused the problem in the first place
“The Song of the Volga Boatmen”
A Russian folk song, a genre created to support a dance coming out of Harlem, and a timeless classic
AI Begins to Pollute the Internet
An expert in cognitive science has been documenting the drek coming online from LLMs — and, hoo boy!
#paywall
Trigger warnings don't work, and make us weak — so why do we have a trigger warning for a business model?