South Dakota Voices

Please join us as we discuss issues impacting South Dakota.

[South Dakota Voices @SDVoices]

Are we like all the republics before us?
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LOL

[Juliann Talkington @julianntalks]

Gotta love the subtitle. "Does Mr. Hollywood No Tech really think we are hicks?!" #SiouxFalls
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Is a new reality overwhelming us? #SouthDakota #disability #cost
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Why is South Dakota in love with poverty? https://t.co/F7txun2NaM

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Interesting piece on the insurance industry.

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

Nick is doing great work on the nexus of insurance, private credit and private equity. Mark Walter, CEO of Guggenheim, is allegedly under federal investigation and experiencing a margin call.

This Byzantine insurance world is starting to see the light of day.

Implications: the insurance piggy bank for private credit and private equity models is increasingly under the spotlight.

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Electric utility?

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

“Land, power, shell”…sounds like an electric utility company to me.

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Are we locked in financial slavery?
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Lots of discussion in South Dakota these days about good Republicans and bad Republicans. This seems to be a natural fall out when elected officials move against the citizens and try to cover their tracks. And the citizens get angry. Looks like we are there again. #SouthDakota

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Interesting piece on the Epstein cohort.

[Edward Dowd @DowdEdward]

Absolutely Surreal: Anthropic CEO's Wife & "Sounding Board" Once Pitched a Visionary Porn Company to Jeffrey Epstein https://t.co/vrPdUSmY5X

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Are Smooth Talking Shysters Keeping SD Trapped in the Past?
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Are mega dairies part of an exploitation machine? https://t.co/rIhPK01vWh

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"Rape" and pillage and take the spoils elsewhere. Do you agree? https://t.co/QbEftboJtU

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Has South Dakota been annexed by D.C.? #SouthDakota #WashingtonDC
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Public health debacle forcing people to take personal responsibility? https://t.co/14EweNJ9xC

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Is South Dakota an exploitation state? https://t.co/AGtrCuLTBR

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The 10K that became a marathon qnd the everyday voices that seem to have been lost in the noise. #SouthDakota #governor https://t.co/LObIRsmETg

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Confirmation of Anthropic’s BOOK BURNING for their AI: The Great Forgetting of the Amnesia Generation

In the quiet warehouses and shipping docks of 2024, Anthropic did not merely train an AI.

It staged a quiet erasure of human knowledge.

While the public was still dazzled by Claude’s fluent paragraphs and polished marketing emails, the company’s engineers and logistics teams were busy executing Project Panama—an internal campaign whose own documents announced the ambition to “destructively scan all the books in the world.”

The method was industrial and irreversible: buy the physical volume SOMETIMES THE LAST COPY, slice its SPINE with a hydraulic cutter, feed the pages through high-speed scanners, then pulp what remained.

Millions of books: scientific research, novels, rare technical treatises, obscure monographs, volumes that had already survived wars, fires, and decades of handling—were reduced to data tokens and then to wet mulch or burned.

They literally burn the evidence of this crime against humanity.

The company itself preferred the darkness. “We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this,” the planning memos warned.

A federal judge later blessed the slaughter. Because Anthropic had purchased the copies and then destroyed them, the court held, the act was “transformative” fair use. Ownership plus obliteration equaled permission.

The ruling handed every subsequent AI lab a legal license to treat the printed past as disposable feedstock.

That license is now being exercised at industrial scale. In 2026, companies like ISBNdb openly market pre-2022 books as the last pure reservoir of human language—text uncontaminated by the synthetic sludge that large language models themselves have already poured into the open web.

Orders arrive for tens or hundreds of thousands of titles at a time. Non-disclosure agreements are standard.

The preferred language is “digital preservation.”

The actual outcome is the same mechanical process Anthropic refined: spine cut, pages scanned, original shredded.

Rare and near-unique copies are disappearing into the same pipeline. Booksellers across continents report sudden, strange bulk orders for specialized, low-demand titles that no ordinary collector would ever buy in volume.

Once the pages are gone, they are gone forever.

A website can be re-uploaded. A bestseller can be reprinted.

The last three surviving copies of an eighteenth-century botanical text cannot.

This is not progress. It is the Great Forgetting.

An entire generation of machines is being taught to speak by consuming and then discarding the physical record of human thought.

The companies that profit from the resulting fluency call the process necessary, legal, and even enlightened.

They speak of curated knowledge and domain-specific expertise while the spines crack and the paper is carted away.

Anthropic did not invent the hunger for data, but it demonstrated openly in private documents and then under court seal how far a well-funded laboratory was willing to go to satisfy it, and how readily the law would ratify the destruction.

Just to gain a temporary AI benchmark advantage.

The amnesia is already here.

Future models will generate elegant sentences to beat Al sorts of tests about history, science, and literature.

They will do so on the ashes of the books that once contained those sentences.

The generation that built these systems will leave its children fluent machines and emptier shelves.

That is the real product of Project Panama and its successors: not intelligence, but a carefully engineered cultural void, papered over with synthetic prose and non-disclosure agreements.

We are left to forget to remember. We are The Amnesia Generation with our brains being put into a meat grinder and fed back to us.

[South Dakota Voices @SDVoices]

Someone has been sending me DMs about Rhoden fixing the prison system? We have seen data suggesting the opposite. Is there something we are missing? #SouthDakota https://t.co/a1vIlOt2WY

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Reacting to being #3 in the country in corruption. Is it rational? #SouthDakota https://t.co/gepCjLlNFn