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Friday Nite Videos, June 19, 2026

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I Was Right About AI

In this episode, I follow up on a few of my predictions about AI from my recent video: "How AI Will Fail Like The Music Industry"

Academic Journals Are a Lucrative Scam

Arash Abizadeh The Guardian
Giant publishers are bleeding universities dry, with profit margins that rival Google’s. So we decided to do something about it. We started our own.

Open Source Licensing for Covid-19 Vaccines

Charles M Schweik and Timothy Ford The Conversation
If society needs to rapidly invent and deliver a vaccine – a global public good – with taxpayer money, why are U.S. federal agencies relinquishing the government’s ability to share and deploy these inventions and production processes with the world?
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