Jason Wolk

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Senator are you wittingly or unwittingly throwing shade at @realDonaldTrump?

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

What a strange thing to say

[Ingrid Guthrie @IngGuthrie]

SMDH

[LPC @landpalestine]

Ms. Rachel didn’t even mention who she was talking about. Yet, that’s who responds

Wonder why the state of Israel account thought this post was about them

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

As Measles cases hit a 35 year high, as a senseless war rages on with no exit plan, as gas climbs to record highs, and the Epstein files remain secret, the U.S. Senate is holding a hearing today to yell at Dr. Fauci and again push horse dewormer on the American public.

[dane 🚩 @buckadeath]

Type of shit you can do when you don't have to fund and defend Israel in their 7 wars of choice

[woke marxist liberal leftist feminist extremist @themelonwizard]

The parallels dude. Fucking chills...

[Covie @covie_93]

Do these people not hear themselves??

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Mamdani: I want people to be able to afford to eat.

MAGA:

[vibes sedai @VibesSedai]

The Colorado river is at a critically low level right now btw

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 NEW: The US economy has now shrunk by $300 billion as a result of Trump's economic policies.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration is ending Medicare Part D subsidies, raising prescription drug costs for more than 11 million Americans.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

This is getting ridiculous. Politicians are supposed to make life harder, not cheaper.

[Dan @dannah__montana]

this is one of the most depressing charts I’ve ever seen

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Is anyone else fucking exhausted by how overwhelmingly stupid everything is?

[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.

[Animalitos en aprietos. @Animalesaprieto]

Víctima de su propia ira

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

It's literally one dude holding a sign lol