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PATRICK

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2. Cory Doctorow article in The Guardian Jan 18 2026
Fri Jan 23, 2026, 10:20 PM
Jan 23

I am not very sure about linking, but that is an article to read about the AI bubble, the strength of copyright laws, the unique humanness of the creative kernel, "reverse centaurs" where the talented only exist to try(vainly) to clean up AI slop. Needs a little more general insight to the fact that corporate management and investment has been in the wide path to destruction from every point of its inception.

We(USPS) have handwriting and code reading machines that are capable of the wildest errors a human could never commit with fewer people and zero inclination to correct the mess. More "waste mail", unexamined, heads for the pulp and incinerator, more postage unverified(swallowing revenue losses in huge swaths), more jobs disappeared into the progressive failure. Creative writing, one would think, if one was not a fraudulent AI program, might have been the unmistakable line under the slim protection of our current copyright laws. It might be part of the rock where the whole scam- that NEEDS to swallow ALL copyright unto itself- will flounder, along with the real world it cannot successfully interface with. A self-driving world where the the people trapped inside are to be held liable and blamed- even killed.

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