This World
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 • 3 min read
Copyright is supposed to give artists and creators ownership and control over their creations. Art and knowledge are intangible, merely bits of information, that can be copied and duplicated easily compared to tangible assets like money or real estate. Copyright was supposed to be the tool for protecting the small person. Yet, in all of its history copyright has only stifled creativity and commodified the commons of art beyond the reach of those who need it most: the poor, indie artists, and basically anyone who doesn’t hoard enough money to survive unemployment for six months without welfare benefits.
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Friday, July 4, 2025 • 5 min read
For a while now, I’ve been deeply interested in robots and sentient intelligence other than that of humans in general. At first, it wasn’t much of a conscious decision to surround myself with media that in one way or another discusses this topic. In part it was sparked by a class I took in my first semester of political science in which we studied AI from a social scientific perspective in which we looked at the impact of AI on society, how society interacts with AI, who plays an important role in the AI space, and lastly who largely benefits or loses from AI (everywhere – vertically in the hierarchy and horizontally across geography).
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025 • 1 min read
If an institution could succumb so quickly to an authoritarian power that theoretically threatens its existence, don’t you think that it’s most likely been part of that authoritarian movement for a while? Did it have to succumb to anything if it was the main actor in the demolition of the very thing that is its raison d’être which is freedom of thought and the freedom to question what is and isn’t?
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Friday, April 11, 2025 • 3 min read
This post is inspired a little bit by Ava’s sunday, 6th april 2025 where she shared how her RSS feeds have been dry and how the internet (including – but not limited to – Bearblog) is feeling stale lately. I thought this was just me feeling down or something, but this was a symptom of me disconnecting completely except for RSS and Bearblog and a little bit of Mastodon here and there, and not really keeping up with what’s happening.
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Thursday, April 10, 2025 • 6 min read
There is a ton of misinformation1 about various, mostly recent, events in Syria floating around, and I hear from relatives all the time – however “by the way” they mention it – that they don’t know a thing, actually. And it requires a lot of self-awareness that I’m surprised to see in said relatives to admit that while they know so many details, they nonetheless don’t grasp the full picture because their recounting of the story they’re telling has many contradictions they are aware of.
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Thursday, March 13, 2025 • 5 min read
I admire bad people and I’m not going to sit here and talk you into believing that that is any good. In my recent post talking about my current CD collection, I showed off CDs from morally very questionable people and expressed interest in buying CDs of other morally corrupt acts, like for instance Grimes.
Her music is genuinely good and I’ve been obsessed with her for a year. Miss Anthropocene was very obviously written about Elon Musk and I can’t unhear that.
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Monday, March 10, 2025 • 2 min read
My professor for cross-department business administration was having a full blown crisis today. She told us she had to strip stuff from the curriculum for this class because of how much had changed just in the last week. Elon Musk and Trump are basically – um, how do I put this nicely? – disrupting the post-WWII world order in a way that is putting things upside down.
For the people who had been keeping up and thinking ahead, this is probably one of those “I told you so” moments.
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Monday, February 3, 2025 • 2 min read
With the recent events happening across the Atlantic, I’m reminded once again how dangerous it is to overly rely on the US (or any one country for that matter) as much as we do in our digital lives. So much has gone down in just the last 24h alone. How can we confidently assume “the system will take care of it?” Simple: We don’t because it won’t.
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Sunday, August 25, 2024 • 4 min read
As the years go by, it feels like humanity is picking up pace to cause its own demise. Many fictional works try to visualize what our actions mean in the present and future; Some of them offer a glimpse of hope, others are more realistic and show a very possible future if we stick to our current trajectory.
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