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Alleged technician

[Rowan @Rowan_Connell]

Caught in 2015, frozen in ethanol in the -20C freezer for 4.5 years and somehow STILL alive.

[amanai @Markus7Red]

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

[Shahanshah of the Internet Age @ChazakielDoremi]

Nobody seems to understand this but I cannot stress enough that a judge told Anthropic that training their AI models didn't constitute copyright violation as long as they 'transferred' the text instead of 'copying' it, legally necessitating the destruction of the books

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

They are.

This reminds me of one of the saddest stories on the internet, the years long effort to offer 25 million books, including many thought long gone, for free for every person, available at every library.

They got sued into oblivion, and it’s dead on a server.

[Ben Kentish @BenKentish]

To put the £2.8 million Jodrell Bank budget in context, £7.2 million is currently allocated for “bespoke stationery” for MPs.

[B 🧡 @iambri_97]

you can’t get PIP just for anxiety but even if you could, the most you get on PIP is £194.60 a week, which is £778.40 a month

may i suggest people use their brains and clock if that’s more than teenagers are earning on minimum wage, perhaps the minimum wage is the problem

[John Poyner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🦌🌲🇺🇦 @rothiemoon]

Yet again ridiculous propaganda to fit an agenda. No mention of the fact the UK’s biggest ever fire on Dava moor was on yep, you guessed it, traditionally managed Grouse Moorland. Not an environmentalist re wilder in sight.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

Things that should be fucking illegal:

1. Fake grass.
2. SUVs.
3. Having your phone on loud speaker in public.
4. Foil balloons that take hundreds of years to breakdown.
5. Releasing helium balloons at a funeral.
6. Sneezing into your hands and carrying on as normal.

[V @virrals]

saw this in the uk and nobody in the audience made a sound the whole way through because it’s a movie and not a sports game.

[Zarish @Zarish5062]

Me at 9: We should just give everyone food, homes, and medicine if they need it.

Me at 19: It's complicated because we need to incentivize hard work.

Me at 39: Yeah I was right the first time around.

[🧡Lulu🌾; @ItsLulu_7]

Socialism will improve society!

[Soiled Ballot @soiledballot69]

Every pupil at my school in 2010 was very aware of how this shit would turn out and the guy who betrayed us all over it is pretending to not have realised until now

[John Nichol ✈ @JohnNicholRAF]

Dear @thameswater, as you ban me from watering my lawn, could you repair this 'leak' on the New River (N London water supply) which has wasted MILLIONS of gallons of fresh water in last few years?

[Cal @wyattyhalpert]

“They should have special screenings that prohibit phone use in cinemas!”

We do. It’s called every single one of them, until you weirdos forgot or decided you were above that basic and very functional agreement

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Let your flowers die - screw the bees that were visiting them - we need that water so creepy boomers can make ai images of a white woman crying in a tube carriage full of bearded men👍🫠

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

The revelation that Sunak has paid £1M in tax in the last 3 years 0.13% of his £720m wealth.

While the average person has paid about £45k or 14%, 100x as much.

Should open your eyes to just how much and how blatantly the rich dodge tax

[Daisy @DaizyZeeX]

Men who beat their wives/girlfriends should be barred from any and all law enforcement or first responder type jobs, for life. They should also never be allowed to work with children or young adults. Ever..

[Zoe Gardner @ZoeJardiniere]

Nigel Farage:
Andrew Tate is an "important voice" for young men - 2024

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I'm not intimidated by Al. I'm repulsed by it. I'm not jealous of Al art. I know it's predictive rather than creative, and built on stołen content. I'm not scared of new technology. I'm scared of a world without trees, bees, fresh air, and clean water.