I push people away and scare people off because my fear of rejection makes me want to put everything unappealing about me on display so people leave before I inevitably get attached. If they stick around after hearing how awful I am, maybe they won’t leave me all alone like I am now.

Oh I guess those guys from the Pirate Bay are in the clear and we can undo their prison sentences then!

1. Copyright should be a much shorter, more reasonable length, and then this whole issue would be a moot point because there would more than enough in the public domain for the corporations to train their AI while also not restricting access to individuals and open source projects to do the same.

2. The real issue at hand is that corporations like Facebook have literally billions at their disposal to fight this in court. The Pirate Bay admins did not, despite being charged with profiting wildly off their media sharing site. Facebook has arguably made so much more off of their AI offerings than the admins of the tiny Pirate Bay team could have dreamed of. For fucks sake Peter Sunde’s username was “brokep” which I always assumed stood for “Broke Peter” as in “Peter has no money.”

3. We have yet to see if the courts in the USA will make this a hypocritical outcome where small players like the Pirate Bay who legitimately did not make that much money went to prison, Aaron Schwartz was threatened with life in prison and committed suicide, but somehow it will be okay for giant corporations to do because they made so much money doing it. It’s definitely possible, America feels like a country where as long as you do the crime big enough, it stops being treated as a crime and instead people pat you on the back and reward for criming so hard you broke the justice system and instead it just gets labeled “good business sense.”

Well for one she’s a physicist, not a biologist or psychologist, and you can find plenty of threads online where people are pointing out that she is cherry picking her data, and seems to pretend that numerous other studies on the subject simply don’t exist.

Also, the person I originally responded to claimed:

She does it for the field is theoretical physics, the field she knows.

Well, shocker, she totally does it for other shit she has no relevant background in, like transgender studies, and feels like she has all the knowledge at her fingertips while conveniently ignoring other research.

I don’t need to watch it to understand that conflating academia with communism is fuck-stupid and that privatizing science is a fuck-stupid solution to academia’s very real problems.

Also other folks here are pointing out she rejects science she doesn’t like when it comes to transgender science, for example.

As I said elsewhere, she’s bringing real “you’re not wrong, you’re just an asshole” energy.

Oh so she’s a TERF, too? That tracks…

Right, academia has a whole boatload of problems, but her proposed solutions are a non-starter for for anyone with a brain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htb_n7ok9AU

Here’s her “Academia is Communism” video.

https://posthillpress.com/book/the-war-on-science-thirty-nine-renowned-scientists-and-scholars-speak-out-about-current-threats-to-free-speech-open-inquiry-and-the-scientific-process

Here’s where the pull quote she made for the War on Science book is listed.

From assaults on merit-based hiring to the policing of language and replacing well-established, disciplinary scholarship by ideological mantras, current science and scholarship is under threat throughout western institutions. As this group of prominent scholars ranging across many different disciplines and political leanings detail, the very future of free inquiry and scientific progress is at risk. Many who have spoken up against this threat have lost their positions, and a climate of fear has arisen that strikes at the heart of modern education and research. Banding together to finally speak out, this brave and unprecedented group of scholars issues a clarion call for change.

“Higher education isn’t what it used to be. Cancel Culture and DEI have caused many to keep their mouths shut. Not so the authors of this book. This collection of essays tells of threats to open inquiry, free speech, and the scientific process itself. A much-needed book.”

—Sabine Hossenfelder, Physicist and Author of Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions

And hey, Richard Dawkins was good at presenting science to people, too. Didn’t mean he wasn’t and isn’t also an asshole with some real stupid ideas like when he proposed we shouldn’t let children read fiction because they may not be able to tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

I mean, it sounds like she’s got some valid critiques in respect to her own field of study, but her offered solutions of privatization are pretty off the mark. She also really can’t speak for other fields of study but apparently feels comfortable doing so.

She’s bringing real “You’re not wrong, Walter. You’re just an asshole.” energy.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking-general-science/sabine-hossenfelder-asks-if-science-dying-its-not

While the Trump regime eviscerates science, Sabine Hossenfelder, a German physicist by training turned science YouTuber, published a video whose thumbnail states in large red letters, “Academia is Communism.” And an upcoming book called The War on Science, written by a coalition of grievance-mongers including Lawrence Krauss, Peter Boghossian, and Gad Saad, received a glowing, official endorsement from Hossenfelder: “Higher education isn’t what it used to be,” she wrote. “Cancel Culture and DEI have caused many to keep their mouths shut. Not so the authors of this book.”

In her February video thumbnailed “Academia is Communism,” Hossenfelder argues that the defunding of academic research will probably happen, whether we want it or not, and she cites Elon Musk’s, Marc Andreessen’s, and Peter Thiel’s vilification of universities: that they’re bastions of communism and the enemies of progress, with their researchers essentially on government welfare. She expands on the arguments in favour of moving basic research to the private sector: that government grants tend to be short-lived while entrepreneurs plan for the long term; that serendipitous discoveries could still happen within companies; that silly research ideas would no longer be financed; and that private investors are better at taking risks than national funding bodies.

Yeah, she sounds like an absolute fuckwit to me.

You’ve got the throwing up communism as an evil canard and labeling Academia as communist, which if anything, Academia is corporatist and being twisted by corporations funneling money into flawed science. Yet, that’s literally what she supports, the privatization of science and having corporations have private ownership over scientific progress.

You’ve got the “cancel culture” and “DEI” canards that she claims is resulting in some form of self-censorship. Which is just a load of horseshit, come on.

This is exactly the kind of shit that leads idiot MAGA fucktards to distrust science entirely.

This bitch ain’t helping, sorry, not sorry.

Please, OP, I implore you to re-assess your view of this situation. Academia is far from perfect and has a lot of issues to be resolved, sure, but it is not communist by any stretch, nor is privatization of science in any way a fucking solution. That’s just handing the billionaires of the world the cyberpunk dystopia they so desperately want on a silver platter. If anything, science needs to be more open, not less.

I had never heard of this lady, and now I both regret hearing about her and also feel emboldened to tell people not to trust this fucking corporate dick sucking swine. I wonder how much corporations are paying her to push this swill against open research that’s publicly owned.

It’s wild this is posted in Linux Memes because she’s basically arguing for Microsoft and closed source here, by proxy.

EDIT: One final note

argues that the defunding of academic research will probably happen, whether we want it or not

Never obey in advance. That’s what she suggests we do here.

I feel like in those places a good raincoat actually makes more sense than an umbrella.

Here in the Pacific Northwest we don’t use umbrellas. We are practically amphibious.

yeah but what if

then the labor class better fucking get their ass in gear and start fighting for their rights again.

I don’t usually say this but honestly if you are working at Oracle in 2025:

You deserve this. You’re working for pure evil. Be thankful you can now maybe get a job that doesn’t involve destroying humanity and democracy.

This is fucking amazing. I’m gonna go out and get a weed vape right now! I mean, for hosting a website on, yeah, that’s why, sure, let’s go with that.

Absolutely and it helped prove why they needed to do this security review to begin with as well as will teach them the nature of how this user script worked so they can put up guardrails for this specific type of attack. An unfortunate event but as long as they are using it to learn from and strengthen their security, overall it’s a good thing.

For sure, but that always gives advanced users the option to ungate it through the registry. The benefit to them of having it be “modular” would to be able to completely restrict even power users from being able to free their OS to use how they actually want to.

Once again, the original article was debunked, so we’re talking hypotheticals here anyway, a modular version isn’t coming.

I mean, I would argue that having to pay for access to different parts of Windows, like say access to PowerShell or access to more advanced features and settings has been part of the way they make money for a long time. That’s why their used to be “Home,” “Pro,” and “Enterprise” versions all with various levels of capability. So while it looks like the original article has been debunked, I would think that offering stripped-down versions of Windows would just serve as a way to push upgrades to more full featured versions the same way they press you to upgrade to Office 365.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3079754/we-messed-up-with-the-windows-12-article-what-we-got-wrong-and-how-it-happened.html

More importantly, it looks like PCWorld is retracting the article and has issued a post mortem on how it got published.