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@anildash@me.dm
2026-01-09 16:26:50

I've been working on this one for a while. The multi-trillion-dollar AI industry? Their *most advanced platforms* are controlled by a plain text format that John Gruber made up for his blog, and then bounced off of a 17-year-old Aaron Swartz, before sharing it with the world for free. *That* is the internet. Here's the amazing (true!) story of how Markdown took over the world.

How Markdown took over the world
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@tiago@social.skewed.de
2026-03-08 08:03:28

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.
13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.
The law didn't change.
torrentfreak.com/uploading-pir…

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak
In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

@tecnijota@laterracita.online
2026-01-11 12:53:51
Content warning: Suicidio

11 de enero, dediquemos un momento a recordar a Aaron Swartz, asesinado por la instrucción salvaje de los fiscales Stephen Heyman, Scott Garland y Carmen Ortiz (con la complicidad pasiva del MIT, su universidad) por el delito de descargar papers científicos. Delito por el que la fiscal anunció que pediría la mšxima pena, 35 años de prisión, poniéndole bajo una presión que no soportó.
Perdimos a una de las personas mšs brillantes de nuestra generación.
No olvidemos su nombre.