Ideas Weave Every Narrative with AI.
The Trump administration’s cycle of banning and lifting restrictions on AI models like OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 isn’t regulatory oversight—it’s a shakedown. By treating executive power as a bargaining chip, the government is turning AI innovation into a rent-seeking mechanism, where favorable treatment is reserved for those who play political ball.
Linus Torvalds warned everyone about Microsoft’s ’embrace, extend, extinguish’ playbook decades ago. Everyone ignored him. Now Microsoft owns GitHub, npm, VS Code, and has its hands deep in Linux, Kubernetes, and AI frameworks. The open-source label is still on the box. The lock-in is underneath. This isn’t generosity — it’s the most sophisticated absorption strategy in tech history.
Maine librarians are quietly becoming the frontline defense against AI and Big Tech. By teaching digital literacy, privacy tools, and data sovereignty, they’re turning public libraries into the last non-monetized information ecosystem. This is the story of how a traditional institution is fighting back against surveillance capitalism—and winning.