

Despite what publishers would like you to think, it’s not illegal to sell or donate used books.
Despite what publishers would like you to think, it’s not illegal to sell or donate used books.
Things can be immoral without being illegal.
They chose to destroy these books, because it would have been more expensive to non-destructively scan them.
They also chose to simply trash the loose pages after they were done with them.
Palantir, Meta, and OpenAI(ChatGPT) execs are now officially members of the US military.
Are we forgetting that the US has JROTC in schools? Literally training kids for the military…
Technically, it’s the brains (image processing and recognition) that uses most of the power, not the eyes (camera sensors), but okay.
You could try armbian, they recently added official support for R6S.
Maybe ChatGPT isn’t a good source?
The US will never cease using 9/11 to push for expansion of the police state, and as an excuse to throw more money at private arms manufacturers. These demons are salivating at the prospect of another major attack, because they want to sell more weapons.
It’s only been 10 years since XP stopped getting security updates, they’ll be fine.
Even if every book had copies readily available, trashing millions of books is immensely wasteful.
People decry mass book burnings, but when tech bros do the same shit, they don’t even blink.