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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 the 2026 midterms rebuffed data centers in every local ballot measure but one, 21 of them in Ohio, and Amy Acton won on a conditional moratorium.
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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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