Now they are litterally scavenging/destroying, almost even burning books just do digitilize them/feed then to AI.... Fuck these billionaires!

We still do. Libraries and parks and playgrounds today are sooooooo much nicer and useful and prevalent than when I was a kid. We still have these.

One frees knowledge for everyone. One steals knowledge and locks it behind a paywall.

We need to build a society of library socialism.

Books are expensive to produce and quite pricey to maintain, but nowhere close compared to digital computer draining water source dry, polluting soil and make loud noise disrupting entire neighborhood.

The only good thing that came of these copyright laundering machines is that everyone can see the systemic hypocrisy.

AI bots downloads pay walled articles and copies pirates hooks? It's for AI... No sue Common people like Aaron Swartz do it, sent to jail or exiled (sci hub)

this 24hr library in Sunway Square Mall in Kula Lumpur

https://thesmartlocal.my/the-library-by-bookxcess/

The people building the new data centers aren’t human tho

They’re transhumanists

Literally the enemy of humanity

Look it up

its also the datacenters that doesnt hallucinate on command, thats why the gop trying to destroy "truth areas"

And you're going to tell me this doesn't consume any water? It's just as bad as data centers!

Oh those are lamps. First I was thinking there’s a bunch of storm troopers reading at those tables.

We reached so high and now are falling so deep into capitalism..

i can't tell if this is slop or just a weirdly smudged photo and that scares me

won't be long before they get transformed into shopping centers. or convention halls! they are empty most of the time, and the small community ones are getting closed.

BASED

That's a pretty room, but it doesn't seem ideal for a library. If you're trying to study / concentrate it would be loud: too many people, a big open space with hard surfaces, etc.

If you were waiting to meet up with a friend at the library, that's a great room for that -- as long as when that friend arrives you're allowed to talk to them at a normal volume. But, you don't need a room that huge for just meeting up at the library.

If you were allowed to just hang out and chat at normal volume, that would be nice. Especially in places with awful, cold winters, a big, open space like that would be so nice when you're always stuck inside. But, with all those hard surfaces people would get louder and louder to make themselves overheard over all the other noise.

If the library hosted events of various kinds, that would be an amazing event space. Science fair type things, science demonstrations, a reading by an author followed by a Q&A, a charity ball, etc. It just seems not ideal for quiet reading, studying, etc.