Emily Adams ⚒ 🦇

Aspiring animator and wannabe artist, also a DC comics, Zack Snyder, Arcane fan and Associate producer of Zack Snyder's Justice League

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Pope Leo XIV on AI:

“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

Oy. According to a new paper in The Lancet, the rate of made-up citations in biomedical papers has increased by more than 12x since 2023. https://t.co/apfYs7l8PJ

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Residents living within a half-mile of new AI data centers are reporting dizziness, nausea, vertigo, and sleep disruption from sound they can't hear.

The source is infrasound. Frequencies below 20 Hz sit beneath the floor of human hearing but not beneath human physiology. The body's vestibular system registers low-frequency vibration directly, triggering the same response as motion sickness. The cooling systems and gas turbines running these facilities 24/7 produce exactly this range.

Noise ordinances were written for audible noise. Decibel measurements start at 20 Hz. Infrasound doesn't appear. A 200-megawatt data center with tens of thousands of tons of cooling equipment can run around the clock with zero measurable noise violation under any existing zoning law in the country.

The developers know this.

They're not randomly selecting sites. Rural jurisdictions get targeted because they lack the legal staff, the engineering expertise, and the regulatory framework to mount any challenge. These facilities require new transmission interconnects that take 5 to 10 years to process through utilities. Building behind-the-meter with gas turbines bypasses that queue. Speed to power, zero delay, zero grid dependency.

Households who bought before the announcement have two options. Sell at a price no buyer will pay, or stay and live with symptoms their family doctor has no framework to diagnose as infrastructure-related.

That cost never appears in a hyperscaler's earnings call.

The regulation will catch up eventually. It always does. But the facilities will already be running. The permits will grandfather everything in place.

The turbines don't stop when the legal framework finally notices them.

[LeisureTime TV @Leisure_TimeTV]

Shocker. Graduates dont love AI as much as the boomers using it to replace their jobs.

[Rachel Karten @milkkarten]

for my newsletter about ai-obsessed bosses i commissioned custom cartoons from ryan cecil smith

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Hungarians are celebrating the ousting of Viktor Orban from power. Only Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and JD Vance are crying tonight. Let’s go.

[The Whizz AI @TheWhizzAI]

🚨BREAKING: Two Academics Just Proved That AI Training Is Copyright Infringement In The US And Europe.

And Neither AI Company Has A Legal Defense That Survives It.
In America, AI companies claim "fair use."

In Europe, they claim "text and data mining" exceptions.
A landmark interdisciplinary study combining law and computer science just argued both defenses are invalid.

Here's why.
Fair use in the US requires transformation.
The argument AI companies make: we're not copying books, we're learning from them. That's transformative.

The paper's counter: generative AI training is fundamentally different from text and data mining. The entire purpose of training is to encode the content not analyze it. When a model can reproduce 95% of a novel on demand, that's not transformation. That's storage.

The European TDM exception requires that the data not be retained after analysis.

The paper's counter: AI models retain training data in their weights indefinitely. By design. That's the entire point of training. The exception was written for temporary processing not permanent encoding.
Both defenses. Both invalid. By the same core argument.

And here's the number that proves it:
Researchers at Stanford extracted 95.8% of Harry Potter from Claude word-for-word.
Gemini output 9,070 consecutive verbatim words in a single response without a jailbreak.

These aren't patterns being recalled.
These are copies being retrieved.
The legal frameworks AI companies built their businesses on were written before this technology existed.
Courts in 2025 are starting to figure that out.

Two judges in two separate US cases ruled AI training was "transformative" and protected by fair use.

But that was before the Stanford extraction paper landed.
Before 95.8% came out of a model on a $55 budget.

The ground is moving. Faster than the courts.

[Wagner James Au @slhamlet]

Finally read @RonanFarrow & @andrewmarantz's OpenAI story. It's brilliant, but I began to worry they accept the very shaky premise that LLMs are genuinely transformational.

But then the article ends with this stiletto of a paragraph. (Do news articles need a spoiler alert?)

[Katherine Argent @effthealgorithm]

Meanwhile, the AIOs are killing small websites and causing larger ones to fire staff and use AI to churn out slop.

[하지Mara고✨@ FFXII @hajima_7]

what a fking loser. instead of advocating for better access to these things for EVERYONE, theyre justifying shit that poisons and kills mainly poc/poor ppl who have to live next to data centers, because these idiots wanna ask chatgpt what to have for breakfast...fuck off.

[✨💜 King 💜✨ @king_reinhardt]

Reminder that if you use generative AI for any part of the writing process, you aren't a writer, you're a loser. This includes cover art and brainstorming! 💜

[Chrisy | Homemade Hooplah @homemadehooplah]

While I love this I do wish people were making a bigger deal about AI basically being a *CRIMINAL* product, seeing as they STOLE all of their training data.

People shouldn't want a counterfeit factory or crime syndicate operating in their backyard, either.

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

I'm glad the media is finally waking up a bit to this. People keep pretending LLMs are just a threat to college essays, when they actual enable students (and faculty even) to skip all work in all classes and quite literally learn nothing.

[Hanner @GangstHannah]

I want more of this.

As Miyazaki said: We are losing faith in ourselves

Also, GenAI has been forced upon us so billionaires can steal more of our labor, our money and control what we say, do, where we go, etc

Don't do their bidding, fuck GenAI

[Abubaker Abed @AbubakerAbedW]

No words. Complete failure of humanity.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

Don’t look away. The president of the United States was involved in some horrifying, sickening crimes, as were many people in his inner circle and the current administration.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

DOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

After the U.S. takeover of TikTok was finalized on January 22, 2026, Bisant — one of the most influential pro-Palestine voices — permanently banned with over 1.4 million followers

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

⚡️🇵🇸🇮🇱JUST IN: According to recorded figures, Israel has killed every single member of 2,700 families, with over 6,000 families left with just a sole survivor.