Hug Niceman

Catch ME outside? It's more unlikely than you think.

[Lila @PyramidSongGirl]

fascinating things are happening in this spider's web

[🦀.MJ™ @Feelgasm_]

dealing with my fear of rejection by never asking for anything and my fear of being a burden by doing everything alone

[🌈🧇Zombi🥞🍬 @sleepizombi334]

I am painfully aware that I am no ones favorite person.

[A Forbearing Merchant @ChillToPower]

Noooooo don’t kill yourself you have so many shifts to clock in for

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

If they're turning engineers into activists they have been doing unfathomable evil behind the scenes

[Rusty Shackleford @Gr33nOnions]

It was a really beautiful testament to the human spirit that during a global pandemic we all turned against each other, abandoned the environment, and decided to price gouge everyone

[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.

[audrey @phlegmme]

My sci fi novella takes place on a strange alien planet where there are 3 genders. The Xle’xlox are powerful warriors, the Glxlodoroplons like to go shopping, and the Zprfliixxoigrgr’px all have tattoos of Frog and Toad riding a bicycle

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

🚨Americans should know this: There are around 800,000 to 900,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and none of them work. They live off government funding — free housing, free healthcare, free everything.

And your tax dollars pay for it.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

He’s talking about a spending bill that’s $75 billion for military expenses in Iran.

It has a $10 billion bribe to states for election security: NOT the SAVE Act.

They’ll include it in the Rule for the NDAA (w/ section 219!) to force Republicans to vote yes. Don’t fall for it.

[The Hills Out Back @HillsOutBack]

@WallStreetApes Flock Safety's major investors
👇👇
~Andreessen Horowitz, Menlo Park, CA
~Greenoaks Capital, San Francisco, CA
~Bedrock Capital, Los Angeles, CA
~Meritech Capital, Palo Alto, CA
~Matrix Partners, Cambridge, MA
~Sands Capital, Arlington, VA
~Tiger Global Management, New York, NY

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

House will vote on NDAA this week!

American pressure stopped it in the Senate. Now we need to do the same in the House!

FLOOD THE PHONE LINES! Tell your House Rep to remove Section 219 from the Bill!

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

"a Flock vice president logged into the Dunwoody PD’s Flock system and looked at a camera in the children’s gymnastics room of a private community center here in Dunwoody.

He did not look at any other cameras in the entire 400-camera network that day."

https://t.co/CwhLqOMwvz

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I was the only Republican to vote for my amendment to cut $3.3 billion of welfare to Israel. The GOP can’t seriously claim to be America First.

[Hug Niceman @HisEggscellency]

@beepening I gotchu

[Owen🦋 @Nebraskademsoc]

U.S House vote on Thomas Massie's bill to end all military aid to Israel

[The Backrooms Online // BackroomsMovie.com @backroomsonline]

I just found out that it’s not just chevron wallpaper. They are going after “Backrooms” in general.

I was looking for the thread below on reddit and came across another person with an issue. I asked them to post their artwork and they posted the takedown request (no chevrons to be seen).

This is bad. Really bad.

I love the movie so much but seeing this I’ve lost respect for A24. The Backrooms doesn’t belong to anyone and definitely not a film studio.

Link: https://t.co/bFrKdDRr6S

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

So, now we know the score. As things stand now, there are 104 Americans in Congress and 314 Israelis.

[Action Bronson Arroyo @JBrink90]

LAWD HE STOMPIN