• spujb@lemmy.cafe
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    7 months ago

    literally the modern burning of the library of alexandria is going on and no one* is talking about it

    *ok probably not no one im just being overdramatic

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        7 months ago

        there’s just so much value to historians being accessible to the public. there’s a reason universities pay them tenure despite not bringing immediate material benefit to the local community or economy, and reddit seemingly magically allowed for a forum that was even more open and accessible than a university.

        and now that’s being fucked over by IPOs and LLMs.