Vivian RODDE

I'm a guy on the Internet. Naturally what I say is fact.

[Bolanle Osadolo @BolanleBanwo]

You’ll complain that companies aren’t paying real artists, but when companies actually hire and pay real artists, you take the artist’s work, feed it into AI, and then claim you recreated it in a few minutes.

Make it make sense.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

We've been getting a lot of questions lately about how the Internet Archive digitizes books.

The short answer: page by page, by hand.

You may remember our viral 2021 video of Eliza Zhang scanning a book. That's still how we do it.

Meet Eliza, and learn how we scan books: https://t.co/gt9s5lbPE4

[Antigone Journal @AntigoneJournal]

Google Books is becoming a desert. Its regress is real: the knowledge we were assured was both safely stored and freely available, which led libraries and schools to get rid of their books, has retreated into the shadows. The internet of 2026 knows less than the internet of 2010.

[Dexerto @Dexerto]

A PBS station has taken legal action after losing access to more than 50TB of programming and archives spanning 70 years of television history

It claims its files became trapped after its cloud storage provider apparently went out of business

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

It's really easy for me to compete with resellers because they're offering my content for $18 a pack and I'm offering the same assets for free! @ArtStationHQ

[It's FOSS @Itsfoss]

AI companies are buying rare books by the million, cutting the spines off, scanning them through industrial machines, and shredding the originals.

No... not bestsellers...not reprints.

Rare books.

Books with hardly two-three surviving copies in the world.

Books that outlasted wars, fires, and centuries of handling.

A federal judge ruled this is fair use because destroying the original means only one copy exists at a time.

So it is legal and so it will accelerate.

As per 404 Media, the service that facilitates this openly bragged that "AI company destroys two million books" is not a headline that generates sympathy, and built an entire anonymous pipeline anyway.

NDAs are offered as a product feature.

Clients are coached to call it "digital preservation."

AI companies scraping the web, torrenting libraries, and ripping music is not new but this... this is different.

You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller.

But you cannot replace the last copies of an 18th-century botanical manuscript once they go through the shredder.

These greedy AI gaints are permanently erasing pieces of human knowledge so that AI can write better, human sounding marketing emails.

And they have the audacity to call themselves 'anthropic'.

[devalopr @_devalopr]

It's completely unnecessary to destroy books when machines like this exist.

This book scanner by Treventus for example, can scan fragile books without destroying it.

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

The current state of AI companies; they're aware they can't create game assets as good as ours so they just take them and then claim they were generated using their slop machines. A new low, every single day.

@higgsfield_ai - any comment?

[Erin Catto @erin_catto]

I’m happy to announce the release of a new open source 3D physics engine called Box3D. I’ve been working on this project for a few years now, but it represents over 20 years of experience writing physics engines for games. Read more here: https://t.co/2d9aVuUsxj

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

Dear sound effect and music asset creators;

Please stop using generative AI for your thumbnails. You're putting a giant label on your work that gives the impression it's low effort slop, even when the actual content might be excellent stuff!

[PC Master Race - PCMR @OfficialPCMR]

But you said any button!

[Thomas Jardinet @ThomasJardinet]

La bombe du soir. @Scaleway récupère le health data hub!

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

Video games must always have an offline mode🚀

[PC Master Race - PCMR @OfficialPCMR]

If you can revoke it, it wasn't a purchase, it was a subscription or whatever you pretend to call it these days.

https://t.co/cKkY0ooOfC

[☠ Bluetouff @bluetouff]

@ClaraChappaz SVP, vous pouvez arrêter ce massacre... vraiment, et faites le vite avant que ça parte vraiment en production avec les données personnelles de vrais gens.
Des gens compétents vous ont démontré que vous n'êtes pas prêts et que si l'EUID passe en production, ça va être une boucherie.
Suivez @Paul_Reviews et @csmproject et pitié... lisez ça
https://t.co/HVUonvQS1R
Un moment il faut admettre que vous allez nous faire une HADOPI 2, un truc inutile qu'il va falloir recycler parce que c'est un échec par défaut, une mauvaise solution technique à une maladie mal diagnostiquée.
Mes DM sont ouverts, SVP arrêtez le massacre, nous sommes ridicules.

[⭕ Brock Pierson @brockpierson]

Vibe coding a fully functional web site in 5 minutes is cool and all.

But THIS is the original vibe coding web builder.

[Microsoft experiences Business @experiencesbiz]

Encore quelques petites retouches et ce sera bon !

[pikuma.com @pikuma]

Turbo Pascal 3.02's EXE (39KB) was smaller than:

• The minified version of jQuery 1.6 (88KB)
• The Yahoo home page (215KB)
• The zlib.h file in the NCBI C++ ToolKit (97KB)
• The 'touch' binary on macOS Tahoe 26.3.1 (99KB)
• The Wikipedia page for C++ (214KB)

[George Crudo @GeorgeCrudo]

Something that's worth highlighting about the DLSS 5 fiasco....this was NVIDIAs tech demo. This is them displaying the product in the most favorable way where they have all the power to make it look as good as possible and curate the result. And it STILL looks this bad.