Jonfarmer.eth

guacamole lover, bourbon novice, cheese hater, and proud West Virginian! #bitcoin

[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.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Those of us bitterly opposed to communism fall into two different groups.

A) Those who argue that it must be abandoned because it has show us that it doesn’t work.

B) Those of us that are so bitterly opposed to collectivism applied to dissenting individuals that we are relieved that it *cannot* work. A happy accident. Those who don’t care if it *could* be made to work: we’d continue to fight it. Working or not working is irrelevant. It’s just bad. Period. The end.

If Communism could actually be shown to deliver stable high levels of growth and innovation, broadly distributed, with low inequality,
I believe I would still fight it to my dying breath.

My opposition to communism has little to nothing to do with the fact that it doesn’t work as an economic system. So, it’s merely a relief that it doesn’t work. A convenience for its opposition.

Communism and collectivism are intrinsically soul killing for people who are hyper-individualistic . So let’s stop hiding behind the fact that they don’t work as economic or governance systems.

Some of us who aren’t the biggest fans of naked capitalism red of tooth and claw, hate communism not because we think capitalism is intrinsically fair. It isn’t. We oppose it because communism hunts the individual.

For us, It’s not communism vs capitalism. That is a businessman’s argument. Instead, it’s communism vs individualism for me. Show me a system that fights harder to let a dissenting individual thrive more than brutal market capitalism (which also barely works), and I am all ears.

Not everything is a market after all.

[WVU Golf @WVUGolf]

“Is West Virginia and the Mountaineers becoming a nice story in men’s golf?”

[zerohedge @zerohedge]

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[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Oh, to have this kind of spirit and bravery “In Congress” again!

Happy Independence Day!

[Daniel McAdams @DanielLMcAdams]

Sorry Trump, America has spoken. We prefer @RepThomasMassie !

[Jonfarmer.eth @JonathanDFarmer]

@TaraBull808 💯

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

No stone will be left unturned in our effort to end chronic disease. The health of our children is a higher calling for all of us. Watch my message to America and join me in this effort to Make America Healthy Again.

[joshua steinman (🇺🇸,🇺🇸) @JoshuaSteinman]

That a KGB officer would betray The Party, defect to America, and his grandson would help lead the charge to deconstruct the edifices of the communist party in the west is what enrages the Left the most.

[Tim Pool @Timcast]

If we hire a dude to come and do some plumbing for us and he pops by once a month to do maintenance then thats an employee of ours??

Get the fuck out

Fucking scumbags

[Patrick Morrisey @MorriseyWV]

.@RocketOTD Just enjoyed a terrific Rocket Mortage ad during the #SuperBowlLIX highlighting wild and wonderful West Virginia!

West Virginia is coming! Get ready for our comeback! #CountryRoads #WestVirginia

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

This 2021 post explains what USAID does with U.S. taxpayers' money.

[Bitcoin Magazine @BitcoinMagazine]

RT if you want America’s Digital Asset Reserve to be #Bitcoin only 🔥

Say NO to crypto 🇺🇸

[College Basketball Report @CBKReport]

College Basketball Week 11 by Category 👀🔥

[Jonfarmer.eth @JonathanDFarmer]

@leadlagreport 💯

[Jonfarmer.eth @JonathanDFarmer]

@krystalball 💯

[Dee @HodlDee]

How to lose your reputation in 48 hours…

1) Launch your own shitcoin
2) Wait 48 hours
3) Have your wife launch her own shitcoin

[Robert ₿reedlove @Breedlove22]

$TRUMP is a shitcoin.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

$TRUMP coin represents the exact type of system Satoshi Nakamoto designed Bitcoin to resist: centralized control, lack of transparency, and the potential for corruption.

Bitcoin was created as a decentralized, peer-to-peer currency, free from the influence of governments, corporations, or individuals who could manipulate its supply or value. By contrast, $TRUMP coin is highly centralized, with 80% of its supply owned by Trump-affiliated entities, giving them significant control over its market and revenue streams. This setup aligns more with traditional systems of power and influence that Bitcoin was explicitly meant to challenge

[Ignas @DefiIgnas]

MELANIA to $0
$TRUMP to $0

We've had enough of being taken for fools.

This latest MELANIA grift made it very clear.

We now see your games.