Start today’s Rabbithole game with this question inspired by Shan Wang’s exploration in The Atlantic's archives of the challenges female sports fans have long faced.

Is AI scaling wealth and opportunity gaps into a permanent divide? The asymmetry in how the law is applied is staggering. Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta reportedly downloaded at least 81.7 terabytes of data from shadow libraries such as LibGen and Anna’s Archive to train its Llama models—amounting to a massive unauthorized transfer of copyrighted material. By contrast, in 2010–2011 Aaron Swartz downloaded roughly 70 GB of academic articles from JSTOR via MIT’s network—a tiny fraction of Meta’s scrape. For attempting to liberate scholarly knowledge, federal prosecutors pursued charges carrying a maximum penalty of a $1 million fine and 35 years in prison. We are witnessing a massive consolidation of power in which a handful of incumbents have captured the entire AI stack. Today’s founders face a harsh reality: to build anything meaningful, they often must rent compute, data, and infrastructure from the very giants they hope to challenge. We lost Aaron Swartz—the Reddit co-founder and one of our generation’s most brilliant architects—in 2013. The system seemed optimized to protect legacy institutions rather than nurture the open, decentralized future he championed. The world wasn’t ready for that vision, and we are now living with the consequences in today’s increasingly closed AI economy.

Spain has blocked Archive today and six of its mirror domains, cutting off access to a popular website used to save copies of webpages and preservation The service lets users take snapshots of websites and access them later, even if the original page gets deleted or changed. It’s often used by journalists, researchers and people who want to preserve information online. The block was ordered through Spain’s Intellectual Property Commission under the country’s copyright enforcement system. Authorities claim the service facilitates access to copyrighted material. The affected domains include archivetoday, archiveis, archiveph, archiveli, archivemd, archivefo and archivevn.

Today marks 35 years since The Prague Post published its first issue, on October 1, 1991. Today the historical archives are starting to be released at The largest, and historic, English-based expat newspaper was a widely read and prestigious source of news after the fall of communism, when the English speaking community swelled in Prague to many tens of thousands. At its peak, the newspaper hired nearly 100 people to run its operations. But during difficult economic times in the 2008+ period, digital shift, etc. The newspaper crumbled and went into bankruptcy. I stepped into the bankruptcy process in 10-years ago to help find a way to keep the past alive and maybe create a future. The capital and time commitment, challenges were too great, so I was pleased to connect with a former Prague Post employees who supported the efforts of preserving the historical period. I donated the physical archives to Mimi Rogers of Blue Owl, who is doing the difficult job of digitizing in Northern Bohemia. Today she is announcing the launch of more than two decades of publications, a costly project ( For those interesting in helping see this project progress, please consider even a small donation. $60 helps to adopt a founding issue!

A little birthday mail from the archives 💌 As we celebrate Secretary Hillary Clinton’s 79th birthday this month, we’re looking back at some favorite moments from her decades of public service — charitable work that continues today through the Clinton Foundation. Help us celebrate Secretary Clinton’s birthday by signing her birthday card here:

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