As more and more social publishing platforms decide to sell user content to the hypercapitalist hyperfunded AI data ingestion machines, I'm seeing people in agonies over feeling the need to delete, for example, a beloved Tumblr blog with a decade's effort invested.

I feel their pain too keenly to say this at their faces, but all I can think of is my first rule. I coined it before this kind of AI was a thing, but that doesn't make me wrong:

http://www.erosblog.com/2013/06/11/bacchus-first-rule-of-the-internet/

#BacchusFirstRule #POSSE #AI

Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet - ErosBlog: The Sex Blog

Bacchus's First Rule Of The Internet: Anything worth doing on the internet is worth doing on your own server that you control.

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