Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦

Painting dinosaurs, robots, and femmes fatales since I was 14. #KHive #VoteBlue

[horse dentist @equine__dentist]

i bet it feels good as hell to be a fat bear floating down the river

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@PressSec I’ve got better things to do than watch a circle-jerk of sycophants fellate a corrupt, brain-rotted pedophile.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

HOLY SH*T! This new ad, when tested, moves swing voters 5 POINTS TO DEMOCRATS!

Because Republicans just cut Medicare. And Prescription drug costs are about to SKYROCKET for seniors.

SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE. #RepublicansCutHealthcare

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯

A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:

"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."

Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.

It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."

Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.

That's when they found the loophole.

Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.

One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.

Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.

If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.

They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.

And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.

The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.

They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most famous paintings in America, and most people have no idea what they are actually looking at...

The painting is Christina's World, made by Andrew Wyeth in 1948, and the woman was real: her name was Anna Christina Olson, Wyeth's neighbour in Cushing, Maine. Since childhood a degenerative condition had slowly taken the strength from her legs, until walking was no longer possible. She refused a wheelchair, and for her entire adult life she chose to drag herself across the ground with her arms instead, going wherever she wanted to go under her own power.

Wyeth saw her one afternoon from an upstairs window, alone in that vast field, crawling slowly toward the house on the hill. He said the painting was an attempt to do justice to her extraordinary conquest of a life which most people would consider hopeless. Her world, he said, was limited physically but by no means spiritually.

That is what turns this painting from a portrait of frailty into one of the most triumphant images ever made...

Look at it long enough and it stops being about what her body took from her, and becomes about what she would not stop doing anyway. The field is enormous and she is small and the house is far away, and still she goes, because the alternative, to be carried, to give up, to let the distance win, was something she simply would not accept.

There is one more thing: Christina loved this painting. Pink was her favorite color, and Wyeth had placed her exactly where she most wanted to be, out in the open, in her own field, under her own sky. Late in her life, when she could no longer even crawl out to that field, she said something that holds the whole meaning of art inside it:

"Andy put me where he knew I wanted to be. Now that I can’t be there anymore, all I do is think of that picture, and I’m there."

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@tedcruz Don’t be sad. You’ll see your buddy again in hell.

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@Elonspacemedia Forget your limited time on earth. You should worry about your eternity in hell.

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@DeptofWar Morons.

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@guyfelicella @agreatgadsby Elon Musk is a greedy bastard with no redeeming qualities. A worthless sack of shit in a skin suit.

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@WhiteHouse Morons

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@washingtonpost He can’t read this. He’s in hell.

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@AmericanAir @sundancekid2111 You ripped them off. That’s what happened.

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@FearedBuck Starring Jesus, no doubt.

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@JohnFugelsang Linus is dead?

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@MacFarlaneNews @dcpoll @siriusxmpotus Did he go to the Senator Collins School of Concern?

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@YourTaylorFarms Bullshit. How much did you pay them off?

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@USAttyEssayli @AAGDhillon Open up the Epstein files? What is there to hide?

[Pesky Blue Thorn in Red State Side 🇫🇷🇨🇦 @IcecoldSal]

@WhiteHouse The White House is for people who don’t rape kids.