#free knowledge

I totally understand boycotting arxiv now. I can't afford that, but great names, like Olivier Debarre, can... and once they start doing it, arxiv will scatter across HAL, personal webpages, researchgate, and ultimately the idea of free access to most up-to-date research will die? I was aware that existence of arxiv was essentially hacking capitalism (there was an xkcd for that) and a testament to how uniquely chill and no-nonsense mathematics is... But being born and raised in the world with arxiv, I cannot imagine a world without it.

librarians and archivists under socialism will perform even greater roles of human emancipation, knowledge creation and preservation because they will be freed from copyrights and intellectual property rights in how they preserve and distribute knowledge.

before some idiot says 'but what about artists and authors losing income!?!?!' yea, you're talking about this through the lens and realities of capitalism, in which artists have to sell their art to survive. socialism and communism aim to meet all the material and cultural needs of their people regardless of class (which will wither away), so that each can be their best selves. artists will not need to survive off of selling art under socialism. they will materially supported by a state that creates material super-abundance and universal material safety for all. it is capitalism that reduces artists to profit off of their labour of art in order to survive. art under socialism will be unprecedented and ever deeper expressions of human consciousness, free from being chained to intellectual property, profit-motive and inaccessibility, paywalls and as a means to earn a bit extra money to support a self structurally reduced to poverty under capitalism.

why the fuck did wikipedia get so demonized in grade school. i was always told by teachers “yeah its soooooo unreliable and information on there is false dont use it.”

wikipedia editors out here doing the work of god by constantly updating the pages. wikipedia is run by experts on many topics. wikipedia is free knowledge.

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