Free speech is when you let people say controversial things.

Free speech is not when the world’s richest man builds a CSAM generator, hooks it up to the world’s largest public photo database, and gives 4chan a subscription service.

I’ve written thousands of words defending people’s right to be wrong on the internet.

I don’t need thousands of words for this. I have eight: what the fuck is wrong with these assholes.

Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language–It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It’s Now Free Online

https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/dictionary-of-the-oldest-written-language-free-online.html#google_vignette

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RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032

The sleight of hand – or the fundamental flaw – of this observation, is that it took their team a year to understand the problem by actually building a thing. Once you deeply understand a problem, it's trivial to get the dumb code vomit machine to produce code.

But producing the code is not the hard part, and using the code vomit machine is not a great way to build a system you understand from scratch if you haven't already solved the problem.

So the shortcut is a mirage.