Notices by Christopher Batty (topher_batty@mastodon.acm.org)

@drahardja isn't this likely to just make them annoyed at FOIA and stop processing them altogether? I'm leery of strategies based on the assumption that they have to follow "the rules".

Reflecting on what it says about the world that Aaron Swartz is the tech visionary we might have had, and Sam Altman is the one we got.

Further to this point, it belatedly occurs to me that Swartz was railroaded for downloading scientific papers that he ostensibly had a right to access. Meanwhile Sam's OpenAI business model is more or less predicated on downloading the entire internet, licensing be damned.