Sometimes I feel like everything shit in the world can be traced back to like a dozen people and their parents and grandparents.
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ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 1 day ago
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.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 day ago
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
But all large presses were doing the same thing. Eslevier, Nature, Etc.
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
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.
thevoidzero@lemmy.world 1 day ago
People that do well in wartime and during peacetime are different type of people.
unphazed@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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?
ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
hmmm… makes the hanging
suicidemurder of Aaron Swartz look extra funnyJason2357@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
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.
eah@programming.dev 7 hours ago
If you’re ever caught downloading knowledge, just say you’re training a neural network and point at your head.
Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 23 hours ago
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 day ago
There’s a behind the bastards about him.
iheart.com/…/part-one-robert-maxwell-how-ghislain…
zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Are we sure that current events aren’t just one long behind the bastards episode?
Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s bastards all the way down
Mac@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
ACAB but not ABAC
SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Behind the bastard is just another bastard standing in line
cRazi_man@europe.pub 1 day ago
Fantastic episode