THEY STOLE THE LAKE. NOW THEY ARE COMING FOR YOUR MIND.

They stole the lake once. The public took it back. Now the same fight is happening again, except the resource is not water. It is human creativity, labor, memory, code, books, art, and thought. This episode argues that the AI economy is being built from a public commons, then converted into private ownership before anyone names the theft. The legal answer may already exist: the public trust doctrine, the same doctrine behind Illinois Central Railroad v. Illinois, where the Supreme Court said ...