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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.
Sometimes I feel like everything shit in the world can be traced back to like a dozen people and their parents and grandparents.
If you told me that dude was Reagan's nephew, I wouldn't even bother to check.
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There's a behind the bastards about him.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-robert-maxwell-how-ghislaine-274165028/
Are we sure that current events aren’t just one long behind the bastards episode?
It's bastards all the way down
ACAB but not ABAC
Bastards... what a bunch of bastards.
Behind the bastard is just another bastard standing in line
You mean a matrix style dystopian nightmare? One can only hope.
Fantastic episode
But all large presses were doing the same thing. Eslevier, Nature, Etc.
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.
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?
People that do well in wartime and during peacetime are different type of people.
hmmm… makes the hanging ~~suicide~~ murder of Aaron Swartz look extra funny
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.
If you're ever caught downloading knowledge, just say you're training a neural network and point at your head.