> Naming and Shaming Food Barons: A Q https://ips-dc.org/naming-and-shaming-food-barons-a-qa-with-austin-frerick/

Interview with the author of the book 'Barons.'

#BadEconomy #corruption #exploitation #BigAg #BigBusiness #RobberBarons #books #reading #Bookstodon

All of this is just a pretext,
but also: a precedent.

The way #progressives can weaponize this is by targeting school books for children that whitewash the #history of #slavery, #colonization, #genocide, the #RobberBarons & texts glorifying the #American #elite.

In a common law system, all this is fair game. I just so happen to think that common law is a rickety Rube Goldberg machine.

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives
https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/

“Well Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” asked Elizabeth Willing Powel of Benjamin Franklin.
“A republic,” replied Franklin. “If you can keep it.”

#democracy #freedom #trump #robberbarons #oligarchy

https://spawningfish.substack.com/p/the-freedom-twins?r=473d8h

We don't hate #England enough.

It's basically the #USA of #Europe. A whole country built on some of the worst atrocities in human history.

Literally created the #USA and #Israel, built its #wealth on forced #labor and #land theft, and is turning full #fascist now even under #Labour.

#Enclosures of the #commons, the #Atlantic #SlaveTrade, #financing the US #GildedAge #RobberBarons, the #Bengal famine, the #BalfourDeclaration, #TERFIsland... all England.

The evil bastard tech aristocrates. They all deserve to go to prison for life.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/12/musk-bloomberg-bezos-americas-aristocracy-of-tech-robber-barons-lives-by-its-own-rules

#aristocrats
#techbillionaires
#techaristocrats
#eviltechbros
#robberbarons

#OpenAI is different. unlike #RobberBarons of yore, they didn’t #enslave masses, to pick cotton, extract oil or steel. They mined something more diffuse — every thought ever written, every photo ever shared, every line of code ever posted — and turned it into private property.

As #Altman run OpenAI establishes its supposed #charitable arm, the question is does the money these "philanthropists" offer outweigh the permissions we give the system to keep taking?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/openai-just-became-americas-biggest-foundation-now-what-justin-steele-owhoe/ #ArtificialIntelligence #IntellectualProperty