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The Commoditization Fallacy: Understanding the Open Source Debate
Efficiency multiplies compute—it does not replace it. The CCP budgets a ¥2T AI grid, buys U.S. training data, harvests American models, and recruits the NSF grant desk while every Ohio gubernatorial candidate now wants data-center restrictions.
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Dis-Alignment: How Guild Monopoly Broke
Marshall, Kellett, Vardi, and Derry on English guilds, London Corporation control, French abolition, and the 1814 repeal of Elizabethan apprenticeship clauses.
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From Cotton to Compute
Forced labour, surveillance racks, and the fight over who builds AI infrastructure— UK BEIS, C4ADS Hardwired Repression, and US data-centre politics.
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