Fun (random shit I heard on the internet): the enshittification of journals mostly started with Pergamon Press which was founded by Ghislaine Maxwell’s father.
He was indeed a badass… and a war criminal (although I admit dude was incensed about Germany killing his Jewish family, so I get it) But seriously, a mayor?
And a few years later rich folk start mass downloading the same databases to train LLM models using the exact same methods to sell access to those. No FBI.
Fun (random shit I heard on the internet): the enshittification of journals mostly started with Pergamon Press which was founded by Ghislaine Maxwell’s father.
There’s a behind the bastards about him.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-robert-maxwell-how-ghislaine-274165028/
Are we sure that current events aren’t just one long behind the bastards episode?
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Bastards… what a bunch of bastards.
Behind the bastard is just another bastard standing in line
You mean a matrix style dystopian nightmare? One can only hope.
Fantastic episode
If you didn’t know this, it’d be weird how many academics are in the Epstein files. Once you do know it, it’s obvious.
Oh, and Robert Maxwell was legitimately a badass in WW2. Everything terrible about him starts after that.
People that do well in wartime and during peacetime are different type of people.
He was indeed a badass… and a war criminal (although I admit dude was incensed about Germany killing his Jewish family, so I get it) But seriously, a mayor?
The best villain origin stories start as heroes. Robert Maxwell is essentially Magneto if his power was greed and pedophilia instead of magnetism.
Sometimes I feel like everything shit in the world can be traced back to like a dozen people and their parents and grandparents.
🌏👨🚀🔫👨🚀🌌
If you told me that dude was Reagan’s nephew, I wouldn’t even bother to check.
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And a few years later rich folk start mass downloading the same databases to train LLM models using the exact same methods to sell access to those. No FBI.
If you’re ever caught downloading knowledge, just say you’re training a neural network and point at your head.
But all large presses were doing the same thing. Eslevier, Nature, Etc.