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[victoria ♀️ @fatfabfeminist]

seeing the way mandani moves reiterates just how fucking intentionally useless all of our other elected officials have been

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

WTF

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.

Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.

What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.

[Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkesMMA]

You know what’s really crazy? Some of us realized this without even having to go to the rallies.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯

A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:

"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."

Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.

It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."

Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.

That's when they found the loophole.

Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.

One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.

Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.

If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.

They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.

And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.

The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.

They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.

[Chris Jaxon Speaks @RealChrisJaxon]

I genuinely do not remember food being recalled so often throughout my life.

Deregulation does not work. Science and inspections matter.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Some folks don’t believe that a “principled AI company” would destroy books after they suck out all the information for their models, even one-of-a-kind books and manuscripts.

Here it is admitted in open court.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”

[nacho @nachoeveryday]

I wish it was more common knowledge that almost all regulations exist because companies weren’t doing these things on their own and bad things were happening because of it.

[Mo Khan @mokhanhim]

> goes to Israel
> creates a digital ID app
> sells your information to the jews

“I’m not into politics”

[Boochie is the Name @stoppfeenin]

32/35 students failed this professor's midterm using AI because he secretly hid some white font in his text.

[Marc Lamont Hill @marclamonthill]

Please read this carefully.

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

Every single person involved must spend the rest of their lives in the Hague

[danisha carter @danishacarterr]

i hope everyone in the current administration dies

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

This is just locking up your political enemies, and violating their 4th, 5th and 14th amendment rights. This is what fascist governments do.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

This is fucking insane. It’s the most corrupt administration in American history.

And you don’t even know the half of it .

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

So the next time you’re shitting yourself to death, remember the actual cause of the explosive diarrhea outbreak had been found but they were let off the hook because they bribed the trump regime. Talk about a shithole country. Under trump, everything literally turns to shit.

[Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike]

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. F**K??!!!

You mean for members of THE F**KING US CONGRESS, who handle classified information at ALL LEVELS, including the HIGHEST LEVELS...have STAFF in their offices who not only do NOT have security clearances to SEE or HANDLE this classified material...

...they don't even get a background check?

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. F**K??!!

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The constitution provides that states run elections. The federal govt does not. There is no legal authority for Mullin to take over elections, issue mandates & rules, or threaten elections officials with prison for failure to comply with unlawful orders. https://t.co/DYLOt47jAS

[Leah Goodridge @leahfrombklyn]

I respect WIRED so much.

Tech companies are FUMING because they thought it would be positive PR for their products.

Instead WIRED is publishing articles which expose the downsides of AI and tech surveillance. And now they’re getting sued for it. Support them!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"