CMYulaKra

“The powerful can kill one, two, or 100 roses, but they'll never stop the arrival of spring.”
- Lula da Silva

[CMYulaKra @CMYulaKra]

My response to most things.

[DSA @DemSocialists]

Trump and Fox News want to convince voters that socialist policies are the stuff of nightmares. But we know that socialism is practical and popular!

Hear from @CoriBush and @OliverALarkin tomorrow @ 6:30 PM ET as we demystify DSA and fight back against the scare tactics! RSVP: https://t.co/0gfIZAp9MZ

[nacho @nachoeveryday]

I wish it was more common knowledge that almost all regulations exist because companies weren’t doing these things on their own and bad things were happening because of it.

[The Gnome 💙💛 @42Gnome]

After the bees disappear, humans have fours years of survival left.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Darializa Avila Chevalier: “I do believe what’s happening is a genocide and it’s a moral injury to the American people that our tax dollars are being used to enact this genocide. If you cannot stand against a genocide, it makes me wonder whether you can stand for the things working people need whether that’s healthcare, housing, a Green New Deal”

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

One of the most evil things imaginable to me

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

My frontal lobe fully developed, and I realized that spending five days a week working a 9 to 5 until I’m 60 just so I can finally “enjoy life” for a few years at the end is one of the worst deals we’ve ever been told to accept.

[hanza is tiiiiiiired @darlingmothman]

"the human brain has yet to adapt to our world" is a weird way to say "the system we set up to make a handful of people extremely rich generally sucks for everyone else"

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Farmers are reporting that data centres are destroying their bees. I don't think people understand how important this is. Bees pollinate about one in every three bites of food we eat. They're far more important to humanity than any Al tool or data centre.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Someone said America has become a torture chamber for smart people, and I couldn't agree more.

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

We need to abolish private equity. Many countries have already done this, or at least have legislation in place to make sure they don't destroy everything

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

Some of you are in the bathroom right now because of cut regulations

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

They 100% know how unconstitutional this is and a violation of every core right Americans have.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

I don’t know who needs to hear this but if the government has the power to freeze your personal financial accounts simply because you express a political opinion that they do not like, then you are neither free nor living in a democracy.

[Strewth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @StrewthQueen]

That's because it wasn't a war on drugs, it was an exercise in slave catching

Forced prison labour in the US generates around $11 billion a year in goods & services

[Anon @Greynxgga69]

Maybe we should make the modern world adapt to us instead of forcing ourselves to adapt to it

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[alyssa :( @yuhhlyssa]

We need a general strike so bad man. I’m so sick of the shrinkflation. The poison in our produce. The recipe changes to cheaper ingredients that are borderline toxic. IM TIRED

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

Among Democrats - "Which economic system do you prefer?"

White:
🟡 Capitalism: 40%
🔴 Socialism: 38%

Non-White:
🔴 Socialism: 38%
🟡 Capitalism: 27%

Echelon / July 13, 2026