Tim Bartel

Hardcore Wiki(pedi)an

[Tim Bartel @avatar]

@juvior @Apple @MacGeneration Same problem here…

[DJ P.R.  @djpr]

„Aber entweder ist das Polizeigesetz verfassungswidrig oder nicht. Das hat ja dann letztlich mit der Klage der Grünen nichts zu tun, oder?“

Söder: „Doch. Wenn es keine Klage der Grünen gibt, dann gibt es auch sozusagen keine Diskussion vor dem Gericht.“

Ein Rechtsstaatsverständnis direkt aus der autoritären Hölle.

[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.

[Tim Bartel @avatar]

Ach guck: Ich hab mir nach Jahrzehnten mal wieder eine persönliche Website gebaut: https://t.co/KnkBIIJv9L
Und dazu, etwas anachronistisch, ein Blog. :-D

Grundsätzlich ist die Idee, dort in Zukunft über Themen zu schreiben, die mich beschäftigen: Self-Hosting, AI, Netzpolitik...

[DJ P.R.  @djpr]

„Wenn jetzt umgekehrt das Wahlergebnis anders gewesen wäre und die CDU mit Manuel Hagel 13 Stimmen Vorsprung gehabt hätte – und man hätte diesen Vorschlag gemacht –, dann würde ich gern mal wissen, was Jens Spahn dazu gesagt hätte.“

Voigt: „Ich glaube, so einfach ist es nicht.“

[David K 🎹 @DavidKPiano]

Before AI coding agents, I'd constantly have 2 or 3 side-projects that I would struggle to finish

AI completely changed the game

Now I have 15-20 unfinished side-projects

[Tim Bartel @avatar]

@simonfranglen @andyeah20133 @a_gleckman No worries, I'm used to it :-)

[Tim Bartel @avatar]

@davey_juice @PeterSweden7 As the top foreign nationalities in Brussels by percentages are from France, Romania, and Italy - I somehow doubt that they're very much interested in building an Islamic caliphate... but hey, YMMV.

[sky @notsky]

the time picker on iphones alarm app isn’t actually circular it’s just a really long list

[Tim Bartel @avatar]

@kitkatxxoo @P_Kallioniemi What a weird country.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Well, it wasn’t easy, but Trump did it.

He ended the several hundred year friendship between the US and Canada — our neighbor and closest ally.

Isolationism is a dumb idea, but going out of your way to get countries around the world to actually hate us is even stupider.

[Ben Steiner @BenSteiner00]

I’ve seen a lot of the Toronto running community, but this guy wins.

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

Until 2015, before @NASANewHorizons, this was our highest-resolution picture of Pluto:

[nolen @itseieio]

At the height of One Million Checkboxes's popularity I thought I'd been hacked. A few hours later I was tearing up, extraordinarily proud of some brilliant teens.

A thread about my favorite story from running OMCB....

[Scotty Cameron @twitscotty]

After 41 years we did it congrats everyone

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Cat doorway challenge
https://t.co/WAC1o1XnOt

[Akiyoshi Kitaoka @AkiyoshiKitaoka]

The left face appears whitish and the right one blackish, but they are the same luminance.

左の顔は白く見え、右の顔は黒く見えるが、同じ輝度である。左の画像は80%の等黒色画像であり、右の画像は20%の等白色画像である。等黒色画像では、無彩色が一番明るくなる（知覚としては白となる）。等白色画像では、無彩色が一番暗くなる（知覚としては黒となる）。

[DJ P.R.  @djpr]

Robert Habeck erklärt hier der Lobbyistin Marie-Christine Ostermann noch mal ganz ruhig und sachlich, wieso Atomkraft ökonomischer Schwachsinn ist. #Lanz

[Sam Altman @sama]

here is sora, our video generation model:

https://t.co/CDr4DdCrh1

today we are starting red-teaming and offering access to a limited number of creators.

@_tim_brooks @billpeeb @model_mechanic are really incredible; amazing work by them and the team.

remarkable moment.

[Jonathan Ware @ReassessHistory]

So, here it is.

Can the IWM *really* claim © on Crown Copyright images etc where copyright has long expired?

Surely these images should be out of copyright & free to use, right?

Right? /1
#History #Heritage #Museums