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Harpreet Dhillon

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Londoner — Librarian — Books & Tea 👍🏽 — Artificial bintelligence 👎🏽

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 29/09/2026
Free newsletter: When will the AI bubble burst? When the money runs out. Raising debt for AI data centers is becoming untenable, infrastructure break-even points keep getting further away, and many of VC's AI investments look like dead money. www.wheresyoured.at/dead-money/
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Physicians' Gallery @physiciansgallery.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We've just launched a new digital resource! Almost 15,000 entries, covering every Fellow, Honorary Fellow, Member and Licentiate of our College from our foundation to 1926. Check it out 👉 www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/phy...
Promotional image. A composite image of nine doctors, text on image reads 'physicians database'
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Bar Standards Board @barstandardsboard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
⏪️ Recap: Watch our webinar covering responsible and safe use of AI at the Bar. Follow the link for more: bit.ly/4hbOFva #LegalTech #AI #Innovation
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Library of The Honorable Society of King's Inns @kilibrary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our example here is Covin fraud & collusion which means to collude with others deceive a third party. In ‘what avoided & not’ it says that it ‘Fraud and Imposition poisons every Transaction’ #Fraud #collusion #legalpractice
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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
chat is this good?
all construction dropping massively.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/09/2026
Joined the Times Tech Report to talk about the $200bn+ NVIDIA GPUs sitting in warehouses, and how Oracle issuing a force majeure notice over expected delays to its data center project in New Mexico is a wrench in basically every AI data center debt deal. youtu.be/1CbvhJO8Nfo?...
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Hyperscalers are hiding a massive secret about uninstalled GPUs | Ed Zitron
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 25/09/2026
In the world of “places it is good to lie down”, Floor is indeed better than Bed, new research has confirmed.
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Confirmed! Floor better than bed
In the world of “places it is good to lie down”, Floor is indeed better than Bed, new research has confirmed. Dr Mary Walker, 45, Clinical Trial Lead at The Institute for Floor Time Studies, broke…
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Dr Adrian McMenamin @adrianmcmenamin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Today, in UK Parliament, the parliamentary authorities have just emailed MPs to tell them that a whole class of documents, created by the MPs, will be permanently inaccessible to them after the end of October.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’m late to this corker of a longread by @willdalrymple.bsky.social on corporate empires from the East India Company to AI, but so glad I’ve caught up with it now. So much to chew on here www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/o...
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Opinion | What It Took to Dismantle the Most Powerful Company in the World
A playbook to curb the growing power of Big Tech.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026
As once-extinct diseases sweep through America, sickening, maiming and killing, the wild lunacy of anti-vax superstition grows ever more difficult to excuse.
A leaky drop ceiling with a large, dirty water stain.
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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
As I keep explaining to my students: federal judges have law clerks who pull the motion and immediately begin pulling the cites to read them. So, you will find an AI cite pretty quickly. The same thing is happening in law review land as well.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.
A lovely furry bench in the village of Manaton, on Dartmoor.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/09/2026
Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity theonion.com/physical-media-collect…
Physical Media Collector Pumped For Downfall Of Humanity
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Aaron - Thorgi's Haunted Arcade @thorgisarcade.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
We don't own the digital games we buy? Hmmm, in that case sounds like Sony should provide us with a way to buy copies of games that aren't digital. Like a, I don't know, physical game? Is that a thing?
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Caroline Bartman @cbartman.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Just passed the most existential door
Door says “not an entrance, not an exit”
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Mark Rothko @markrothko.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Caelan Conrad @caelan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Is the thing you're reading AI or human slop? That's the question everyone was asking about "Shy Girl" a book pulled off the shelves after accusations of AI Writing. Here's how you find out whether something is AI or just... bad. New Video: youtu.be/N-tME9IHBlU
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David Hulloween 胡大衛 @hushuo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
After a quarter-century of innovation prohibition,
there are dozens of lucrative, easily perfected
technologies just waiting to be made: the dongle that
jailbreaks your phone or console and installs a third-
party app store, the dongle that flashes your printer
so it takes generic ink; the dongle that lets your
mechanic install generic parts in your car and lets
farmers fix their tractors. Our whole digital world has
been wrapped in chains by rent-extracting monopolists
who gloried in their power to use hook IP to deprive
you of the right to use your property in ways you see
fit, writing private laws that made it a crime to
displease them.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026
They disinvented the VCR. You might think that the reason we don't have VCRs anymore is because VCRs were supplanted by DVDs, PVRs and streaming, but that's not the case. They had it in for the VCR from the very start, and they never stopped trying to kill it. Eventually, they succeeded. 1/
A 1960s family living room in which a mom, dad and two kids are mesmerized by a cabinet-style TV. The image has been altered. The TV has an early 1990s VCR atop it. The TV screen is displaying a cross-sectioned human head with brains and spine on display. A huge fist has materialized in the room, with bloody spiked knuckle-dusters, smashing into the VCR. The oil painting over the sofa has been replaced with a pulp image of a male head, its cranium removed and replaced by a dome. Inside the dome is a red eight-segment VCR clock, displaying 12:00. The background in the painting is a tangle of cassette tape. The whole image's colors have been boosted, giving it an overexposed look.
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Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The Victorians were great at railways and maps. 🚂 These show some central London lines from 'The District Railway Guide to London'. Published in 1888 by City-based printers Alfred Boot & Son Ltd.
Map showing train lines around Battersea and Clapham Junction. 1888.Map showing trainlines around Holborn, Whitechapel and Southwark. Shows London Bridge and Waterloo stations. 1888.Map showing train lines around Hyde Park. 1888.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Two bubble rings collided head on, and physicists have a name for what happens next: vortex reconnection
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Two Canadian Scientists Develop an Inhaled Vaccine Mist That Delivers Immunity Directly to the Lungs, Right Where Viruses Enter Two scientists, Fiona Smaill and Zhou Xing, developed AeroVax, an inhaled vaccine mist designed to reach the lungs in just 2 minutes.
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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The urge to keep all the tabs open is not a recent thing. Pictured: a 300-year-old library tool that enabled a researcher to have seven books open at once, yet conveniently nearby (Palafoxiana Library, Puebla) @unmlawlibrary #globalmuseum #library #libraries #reading #history
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/07/2026
Here's this week's Better Offline - I'm joined by Nik Suresh to talk about how AI mania is eviscerating global decision-making, creating a culture of fear that demands workers lie about the benefits of AI to coddle Business Idiots. youtu.be/OrKSaVDu8nM?... linktr.ee/betteroffline
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making with Nik Suresh | Better Offline
YouTube video by Better Offline
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/08/2026
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
A sepia-toned 1950s era boardroom in which men in suits sit around a circular table. The chair of the meeting has been replaced with a man in a straitjacket, making a funny face. The heads of the remaining board-members have been replaced with robots from 1930s pulp magazines. The image has been hand-tinted.
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/08/2026
An experimental mRNA vaccine allowed people with high-risk melanoma to live longer, cancer-free, in a large, closely watched trial, the pharmaceutical companies Moderna and Merck announced Wednesday.
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Moderna, Merck Say mRNA Vaccine Prevents Melanoma From Returning
Moderna and Merck say the experimental vaccine prevented the return and spread of the cancer in high-risk melanoma patients.
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Every single journalist in Britain should read this searing essay by Will Self
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Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
After the death of Jason Arday, Will Self asks what happens when the media machine mistakes what interests the public for the public interest.
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/08/2026
ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read the story by @jasonkoebler.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reminds me a lot of some of the claims that @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social has been making about what the real use of AI is -- deferment of responsibility and the broad filibustering of the basic functions of civil society.
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404 Media @404media.co · 18/08/2026
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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X's Algorithm Feeds Off Ragebait and Impacts Democrats More, Study Finds
X is driving engagement by making users fight in the replies.
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The Dock Brief gets a write up in The Times: The play’s the thing at Middle Temple fundraiser www.thetimes.com/article/5a80...
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The play’s the thing at Middle Temple fundraiser
The cases, the chatter, the chaos: what’s really going on in the law
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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 01/08/2026
Life, stripped of imagination, is a spreadsheet of events – born, worked, ate, slept, died but imagination turns that spreadsheet into a saga | Ian Kirke
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The power of imagination: the great human magic trick
Life, stripped of imagination, is a spreadsheet of events – born, worked, ate, slept, died but imagination turns that spreadsheet into a saga
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 01/08/2026
You probably weren’t planning to spend a few minutes reading about slime today. Trust us, you should. This astonishing organism has scientists questioning what intelligence really is. Genuinely one of the most fascinating things you’ll read today.
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The slime that may be smarter than you
Slime mould may look like an unassuming fungus but it’s far from ordinary
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/08/2026
Mental Health Experts Advise Struggling Americans To Try Crying About It Like Little Baby theonion.com/mental-health-experts-…
Mental Health Experts Advise Struggling Americans To Try Crying About It Like Little Baby
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 30/07/2026
NEW: Cambridge Analytica -- the company that pilfered tens of millions of people's FB data, causing a huge scandal that got Mark Zuckerberg dragged in front of Congress -- has returned as an AI slop zombie that's plagiarized publications ranging from Wired to the NYT futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Cambridge Analytica's Website Is Now an AI Slop Farm
Cambridge Analytica has returned, in a very 2026 way: CambridgeAnalytica.org is now an AI-powered content farm.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/07/2026
See what consumers have to say about DuckDuckGo's perplexingly analog sunglasses. Head to knockaround.com/products/duckduckgo… to purchase. #DuckDuckGo #knockaround #sponsored
Consumers react to DuckDuckGo's New Sunglasses
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Jason Scott @textfiles.com · 29/07/2026
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Harpreet Dhillon @hdhillon.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
This was always part of the roadmap for controlling information. Make it digital to make it easy to corrupt. The printed page has never been as valuable as it is now.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 12/06/2026
Man Hates How Pride Month Has Been Totally Co-Opted By LGBTQ Community theonion.com/man-hates-how-pride-mo…
Man Hates How Pride Month Has Been Totally Co-Opted By LGBTQ Community
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌓 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 31/05/2026
Love this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding
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Stephen Monteith, Author of "The Trials of Seffin Phel" @stephens.website · 29/05/2026
Why are public libraries worth protecting? So that knowledge itself does not become privatized. That's the *real* danger of pushing everyone to go to sites like Google or to A.I. chatbots for answers.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 30/05/2026
Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended
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Respect For Friend Drops After Reading Book They Recommended
EDMOND, OK—Saying she was now forced to totally reassess a person she had once held in the highest esteem, local woman Sara Vogler confirmed Monday that her respect for longtime friend Darci Strouse h...
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Ash Preston @theashpreston.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
NEW Marilyn Monroe, the Hollywood system, and the law of contract How Marilyn Monroe took on Twentieth Century Fox and defeated a major studio By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk, on Monroe's centenary www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7367...
his year marks the centenary of the birth of Marilyn Monroe. She was born on 1st June, a couple of months after Elizabeth II, and within a few weeks of David Attenborough and Mel Brooks, both of whom are still with us. But, of course, Monroe is fixed as a figure of the mid-20th century. 

She is also fixed as a victim. One standard history of the movie business says that she “was never in charge”. And because of her early (most likely accidental) death, hindsight makes her film career look as though it was always going to end in tragedy. The Monroe story is one that many people feel they already know: a morality tale from our parents’ and grandparents’ times.

But 70 years ago, things looked very different. In 1956, Monroe was very much in charge, having taken on and defeated one of the great Hollywood studios. According to Time magazine, she “had brought to its knees mighty Twentieth Century Fox”. In a campaign that began in 1953, Monroe forced the studio not only to abandon holding her to an unfavourable contract—but also to offer her, on 31st December 1955, the most lucrative and advantageous terms imaginable.

Far from the popular image of her as shallow and lightweight, Monroe was a highly intelligent participant in the movie business, with a solid grasp of how to use leverage in negotiations and an understanding of the economics of her trade.

Title and picture of Monroe with Ella Fitzgerald, who also benefitted from Monroe's negotiation skills.
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Miriam Cosic @miriamcosic.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
'Critics say folding AI deeper into search risks further muddying the waters around the provenance of information gleaned from the web, and could take agency away from users.' Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box - by John Ruwitch www.npr.org/2026/05/22/n...
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Ask AI or just Google it? Google makes a big change to a little search box
The search giant is updating its famously minimalist homepage. But what looks like a tiny design change is a very big deal.
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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