Brendan

[Brendan @BrendanDaily]

hypocrites, babies, and losers

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

lmao! Bessent complains that Powell staying on the Fed board is a "violation of norms"

[Brendan @BrendanDaily]

@IMAX @FridleyTheatres get this at The Palms please! It would be amazing

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

"We can't take care of sick people or kids because we'd rather use the money on war" is a hell of a midterms pitch

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

President Trump spent five minutes of his Cabinet meeting boasting of his thrift with a story about negotiating for $5 personalized Sharpies.

The company that makes the permanent markers said the exchange never happened. https://t.co/87XzjYT8Dy

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now.

Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible.

Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it.

They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks.

The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory.

Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word.

Then it got worse.

The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else.

It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors.

One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked.

Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted.

Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher.

That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites.

Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights.

This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

[Rep. Ro Khanna @RepRoKhanna]

The problem is DOJ illegally redacted names without explanation and then refused to give context for the names once they redacted. This is why @RepThomasMassie and I have been pushing for the full release of the files with context and protecting survivors. Thanks for your reporting.

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

To those who consider themselves pro-life (as I do): if you remain in support of the party doing this and are not holding them accountable for these crimes against humanity, you need to reevaluate what pro-life actually means to you.

[Caroline @carolinekwan]

James Van Der Beek just passed from colorectal cancer, which has the second highest treatment cost of any cancer. Last year he auctioned off memorabilia from his tv and film career in order to pay for the staggering costs of his treatment

His family is now left to deal with the burden of his passing, both emotionally and financially.

US health care is THE most expensive globally and medical debt is still the number one reason for personal bankruptcy in this country. Millions of Americans (which include successful 90s television actors) are struggling every day under this for profit system that is designed to continuously reap enormous profits for the multi billion dollar companies within it. James’ family should not have to worry about staying financially afloat as they mourn his loss, just as no family or individual should face the reality of being one medical emergency away from losing everything.

[Jessiah @thepondering_]

fwiw Andy McCarthy — conservative lawyer, Fox News legal analyst, National Review contributor, professional hater of Biden, Obama, and Democrats — is diving into Trump's corruption and acknowledged the UAE-crypto scandal alone is far worse than anything alleged about Biden

[Jim Mustian @JimMustian]

UPDATE: We spoke with Alberto, the man whose 8 skull fractures ICE blamed on a brick wall

He says @ICEgov beat him with the same metal rod they used to smash his friend's car windows

"There was never a wall"

w/@NewsDudeAP @jack_brook96 @APCedar

https://t.co/gLxIdhRjmC

[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Research shows that 98% of women have been told to smile at work; 15% says it happens at least weekly. Senior & exec-level women were most often to told to smile, even though the average woman smiles 8x more than the average man.
https://t.co/kTUVZ3mSAU

[Self Made AO 💫 @KXNGAO]

HUGE “FUCK ICE” CHANTS TO START THE MAIN EVENT! #AEW #AEWDynamite

[Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9]

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

[Brendan @BrendanDaily]

@DenizCamp Awesome! Thanks for clarifying!

[good morning, bad news @GoodMornBadNews]

Lynwood, CA — Footage shows an ICE agent pistol whipping a 16-year-old boy in the face with a handgun as the teen appears to be raising his hands and unarmed. Other officers violently force him to the ground, kneeling on his back into a curb, in the presence of an attack dog, as local residents shout at the agents to stop hurting him.

via: @allinonemobilee

#goodmorningbadnews #ice #iceout #lynwood #trump

[Paul Farhi @farhip]

The president’s own ATM:

Step 1: Sue govt agency for taxpayer’s money while being in charge of agency.

Step 2.: Coerce agency into “substantial” settlement.

Step 3: Approve settlement despite being the plaintiff.

Step 4: Give taxpayers’ money to charity.

#Philanthropy!

[AT @primediscussion]

Possibly the biggest gap in the resilience of American Democracy is how much of its safeguards depend on “norms” and codes of ethics rather than actual laws. It’s a system assuming good faith, and finally ran into a person willing to ignore all norms and ethics.

[Brendan @BrendanDaily]

@atrupar It’s a listening technique!