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October 20, 2026
Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs
Meta argues nobody “decided” to pirate books to train AI.
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October 19, 2026
Black bear breaks into California library to raid snacks and eat jar of honey
Bear wandered into Mono county free libraries branch ahead of opening, snacking before wandering new releasesA California library on Wednesday had a visitor worthy of a story book on the 100th anniversary of Winnie-the-Pooh: a black bear that wandered…
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May 22, 2019
Gilded Rage
To put our new age of extreme inequality in perspective, we look back at Andrew Carnegie, who gave America a huge number of libraries so they’d forgive him for his brutal steel mills. We ask: Is the same thing happening in 2019?Richard White’s history of…