Rob

28. Sheffield Hallam University Journalism Graduate. @nufc ⚽️ / @ScuderiaFerrari🏎️ / @yorkshireccc 🏏

[Yorkshire CCC @YorkshireCCC]

Was it ever in doubt…? Yorkshire win by 5 wickets in a last over thriller!

[Rob @Rob_Green97]

Caught the Metro Bank Fever 🤒

[Rob @Rob_Green97]

@YorkshireCCC @Johnlay_1

[Joel Heritage @joalhe1997]

I retweeted this at the time, but this extends to village cricket teams. I get they're all volunteers and so time probably is restricted, but it looks so naff and it's almost every team I'm seeing, including my own

[Medic Kim @medickimw]

I had less peer pressure to try drugs than I do with AI 😒

[Zealand @theoldzealand]

The most telling thing about Fabrizio Romano is not this whole Diomande mess

It’s the fact that he hasn’t mentioned the FIFA sell off fiasco one time

[` @mayer_xbt]

destroying books for ai is almost literally the plot for Farenheit 451. what the FUCK are we doing

[Marc Duffy @MarcSDuffy]

I’ve followed Matthias Jaissle’s career very closely since I first heard of him 22 minutes ago

[Tejas Kumar @TejasKumar_]

can’t believe i live in the timeline where we willingly burn our own library of alexandria

[UEFA @UEFA]

Statement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National AssociationStatement on behalf of UEFA and its 55 National Associations

[Matty @mattylufc_]

I’m in tears at this man, the journo contacting him at work and him refusing to comment, the local Indian owner dropping his sponsorship of him because it’s ruined the reputation of the restaurant. Sensational. Can’t believe it’s real

[amanai @Markus7Red]

FUCKING NATIONALISE THE WATER INDUSTRY ALREADY. THEY WASTE NEARLY 3 BILLION LITRES A DAY BECAUSE THEY INVEST FUCK ALL IN WATER INFRASTRUCTURE.

[Rob @Rob_Green97]

Shame it had to end this way, thank you Eddie

[Keith Downie @SkySports_Keith]

🚨 BREAKING: Eddie Howe has left his role as Newcatle United manager.
🚨 More to follow…
#NUFC

[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.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The fact that animal life on earth has been reduced by 70% in the last 50 years is not making enough people sick

[Club des Cordeliers @cordeliers]

Once books exist only in digital form, ruling class will find it easy to revise and censor them.

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

You’re not angry enough at the people in the media who told us for decades climate scientists were lying or exaggerating…

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Anthropic are literally effectively burning books and want to be the exclusive source of truth in the future.

[Ben Mummery @ben_mummery]

@Saltburncc First slip clicks his fingers to imitate an edge, bat nowhere near it and given out.
This is about the worst case of cheating I’ve ever seen in cricket.
Apparently, their keeper has a huge amount of catches this season.
@talkSPORT @bbctms @SkyCricket
@TailendersPod

[Abby Stein - 𐤀𐤁𐤉𐤂𐤉𐤋 𐤇𐤅𐤄 𐤔𐤈𐤉𐤉𐤍 @AbbyChavaStein]

We have literally set the world on fire, and climate deniers are still screaming "don't look up!"