https://www.404media.co/podcast-amazon-is-destroying-rare-books-to-train-ai
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
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This reminds me of what John Henrik Clarke used to say:
FROM AI:
Dr. John Henrik Clarke famously stated that Europeans “not only colonized most of the world, they colonized *information about* the world.”
He argued that Western historians and institutions systematically distorted, omitted, or reinvented global history to justify colonialism and erase African civilizations.
Core Ideas of Clarke’s Critique
Control of Narrative: European powers controlled how history was taught, placing Europe at the center of human progress while reducing Africa to a continent without history.
Institutional Erasure: Mainstream academic and religious structures stripped people of color—especially Africans—of their actual contributions to science, religion, and philosophy.
Deconstructing Eurocentrism: Clarke dedicated his life to Pan-African studies, teaching that to understand global oppression, one must study how European frameworks deliberately excluded non-Western realities.
Drums in the Global Village 