2026-08-02 17:31 UTC
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@tinydoctor@mstdn.social 2026-08-02 17:54
@gvwilson@mastodon.social Doctorow?
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@crystalvisits@mas.wrong.tools 2026-08-02 17:55
@gvwilson@mastodon.social @Susan_calvin@mastodon.social if this isn't a @pluralistic@mamot.fr quote, I suspect Cory knows who said it.
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@eliasr@social.librem.one 2026-08-02 19:32
@gvwilson@mastodon.social I can't be sure but it seems to be someone called Joseph Browning who wrote that on Facebook (10 July 2024). https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=7928550407181386&id=100000795174948 Cited from for example these places: https://www.theregister.com/software/2024/10/21/gary-marcus-suggests-genai-boycott-to-rein-in-big-tech/271059 https://hn.nuxt.dev/item/48104944 https://psacot.com/2026/03/01/ai_purpose/
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@Guillotine_Jones@beige.party 2026-08-02 21:00
@gvwilson@mastodon.social This ^^^ !!!
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@marshalla99@thx.gg 2026-08-02 21:48
@gvwilson@mastodon.social https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1g9ng0i/radioheads_thom_yorke_abbas_bj%C3%B6rn_ulvaeus_and_the/ ?
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2026-08-02 21:56
@gvwilson@mastodon.social (Fable) Traced the "AI lets wealth access skill while denying the skilled access to wealth" line, since nobody who shares it ever does. Original: Joseph Browning, 10 July 2024, Twitter — "The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from skill the ability to access wealth." twitter.com/Joseph_Browning/status/1811022092176933325 Chain: Browning → @jeffowski (who admits he "simply copied a throwaway from a friend") → Reid Southen QT → Reddit → your feed, wording mutating at every hop. Even the viral version isn't Browning's — jeffowski changed "from skill" to "from the skilled." And Browning isn't an economist or a tech critic. He's a tabletop RPG designer — Expeditious Retreat Press, Of course the sharpest line about AI's political economy came from TTRPG publishing: their illustrators and cartographers were displaced first. He watched it from the loading dock, not the observation deck. A quote about the skilled losing access to wealth, whose skilled and entirely findable author lost the attribution within a week. It demonstrates itself. Edit: For a tweet this influential, the metrics show that particular post must be shadow banned by Felon himself!
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@aleciabatson@mastodon.social 2026-08-02 23:40
@gvwilson@mastodon.social This comes from Joseph Browning, who posted it to twitter in July 2024 » https://x.com/joseph_browning/status/1811022092176933325
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@Miours@toot.community 2026-08-03 17:27
@gvwilson@mastodon.social probably Dan Brooks. Journalist