Allan Harding

videogames, art, teslas. Prev at @Adobe @EA. Member Team Canada. 🇨🇦 2014 Glasgow 2015 Pan Ams. 4x National Champion

[Allan Harding @allanharding]

Tesla Cybertruck! ordered! tri-motor awd w/fsd

#tesla #cybertruck @Tesla @elonmusk

[Allan Harding @allanharding]

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[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[AstroScroll @astroscroll]

The patterns of trigonometry.

[Allan Harding @allanharding]

Canada’s top trap, skeet shooters to compete in Cookstown @BarrieToday

https://t.co/8SqZcX4o6f

@CCFR_CCDAF @issf_official

[Allan Harding @allanharding]

@stevenelliott @tomorrowland I wish! 😊Maybe next year

[Allan Harding @allanharding]

Love that @tomorrowland visuals in the day colour match the sky to create a transparent effect 🔥🤯

#tomorrowland #visuals

[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

If you love gardening you can't miss these grafting techniques.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Science has confirmed that a weekend spent forest bathing can increase the activity and number of disease fighting cells in the immune system by as much as 80 percent with benefits that can last for an entire month.

The challenge is significant. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency the average American spends approximately 90 percent of their life indoors a habit that contributes to growing health problems.

In our screen filled and high stress world a centuries old Japanese practice supported by rigorous modern research offers a simple and effective natural solution. For more than two decades Dr. Qing Li an immunologist at Nippon Medical School has studied Shinrin yoku also known as forest bathing. His work has translated the calming experience of being in nature into measurable biological effects.

Dr. Li has demonstrated that trees release phytoncides antimicrobial volatile organic compounds that form part of the forests natural defense system. When people inhale these compounds during walks in the forest the chemicals enter the bloodstream. This process reduces stress hormones and helps shift the body from a chronic fight or flight state into a restorative mode.

The physiological benefits are both powerful and remarkably long lasting. Dr. Lis research shows that exposure to phytoncides significantly boosts the number and activity of natural killer cells. These white blood cells are essential for destroying virus infected cells and tumor cells. A three day two night forest bathing trip can increase natural killer cell activity by up to 80 percent. These protective effects do not disappear immediately upon returning to daily life but can persist for up to a month.

This evidence makes a strong scientific case for incorporating regular time in nature as an important element of preventive health care.

[Li, Q. (2022). Effects of forest environment (Shinrin-yoku/Forest bathing) on health promotion and disease prevention: The establishment of 'Forest Medicine'. Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine, 27, 43]

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

We’re bringing Codex and ChatGPT together in one desktop app.

The same powerful coding agent, now alongside ChatGPT Work, with new coding workflows, a new Chrome extension, revamped in-app browser, and faster Computer Use powered by GPT-5.6.
https://t.co/9hOtxyDEw5

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The skyscrapers of Vancouver vs the mountains

[📸 sgt_salt]

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

A history-making goal for Canada 🇨🇦

#FIFAWorldCup

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 2015 a writer named Tim Urban sat down and counted the days he had left with his parents. He was 34, healthy, both parents alive and well. The number came back around 300. Less time than he spent with them in any single year of his childhood.

The post is called The Tail End, on a blog called Wait But Why. The idea is to stop counting your life in years and start counting it in events. Reach 90 and you get about 4,680 weeks, and every one of them fits on a single sheet of paper. Maybe 60 more winters after that. If you read five books a year, that is 300 books, picked from every book ever written.

Those things at least spread out evenly. A third of the way through life means a third of the way through your pizzas. Time with the people you love does not work like that. Almost all of it sits at the very start. Then it is gone.

For your first 18 years you are around your parents nearly every day. Then you leave for college or a job in another city, and a normal adult sees their parents maybe 10 days a year. So the day you move out, you are already at 93 percent. Urban was living in the last 5 percent and had no idea until he drew the chart. He called it the tail end.

It does not stop at parents. His two sisters, after a whole childhood in the same house, had around 15 percent of their time together left. The four friends he played cards with most days in high school were down to their last 7 percent. Nobody had a fight. Nobody moved away angry. Life quietly spends the time for you while you assume there is plenty left.

You do not have to be old to be near the end with someone. If your parents are alive and you live in a different city, you have probably already used more than 90 percent of the days you will ever spend in the same room as them.

His one instruction is about that last stretch. When you are down to the final days with someone you love, treat that time like what it is, which is almost gone. The rest is the tail end, and it is much shorter than it feels.

[IOC MEDIA @iocmedia]

Today we celebrate Olympic Day! 🤩

Let’s move, get active and play sport together with people around the world. 🌍

🔗https://t.co/1x4JY4I78y

[Allan Harding @allanharding]

@DougBlessin @BradWestPoCo That's awesome Doug! Congratulations

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Here’s everything you need to know about the Enhanced Games… 👇

I am Live commentating and analyzing the athletes protocols and measurements.

+ 42 athletes, many olympians
+ swimming, track, weightlifting
+ performance-enhancing drugs allowed
+ only FDA-approved substances
+ every protocol individualized
+ all athletes medically supervised
+ athlete enhancement optional

Substances used:

+ 91% testosterone
+ 79% human growth hormone (HGH)
+ 62% stimulants (Adderall, modafinil)
+ 50% metabolic modulators (Anastrozole)
+ 41% EPO
+ 29% anabolic steroids (Deca-Durabolin)
+ 5% hormonal support (hCG)

This is from aggregate data from a 12-week clinical trial of 36 of the 42 athletes.

Some of the athletes…
+ James Magnussen
+ Fred Kerley
+ Ben Proud
+ Kristian Gkolomeev
+ Thor Björnsson

The medical monitoring is unprecedented…

+ cardiology imaging
+ respiratory testing
+ organ health imaging
+ body composition analysis
+ musculoskeletal assessment
+ neurocognitive screening
+ genomic sequencing
+ biomarkers (blood, urine, saliva)

Enhanced Games may be the most quantified sporting event in history.

Compensation:
+ $25M in total athlete compensation
+ $500K prize purse per event
+ $250K to first place
+ $1M bonuses for breaking world records in the 100m sprint and 50m freestyle

I’ll be broadcasting Live as the Human Enhancement Expert.

I’ve reviewed:
+ their biomarkers
+ how their health changed
+ what their ‘enhancement’ is
+ their wearable data
+ their protocols

Most people think Enhanced Games is about unregulated drug taking. It’s the opposite: it’s possibly the most quantified and medically supervised sporting event.

See you tomorrow night.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Breathtakingly Beautiful

[Allan Harding @allanharding]

@bingfish Nice! Looking forward to this!

[Noah @NoahKingJr]

Me helping Claude code review the code that written by Claude:

[Allan Harding @allanharding]

@CivilAdvantage1 🤣🤣