what should we do? should we lean into exercises or let them work out a peace deal that the sk leadership also wants? should we go fight a nuclear armed nation? we can’t even defeat iran? what’s your suggestion moron? why are you trying to outflank the republicans on war?!
Spain treated every single person with dignity and respect on this tragic situation.
We defend human rights.
We are not US. Of course we are not genocides as Netanyahu.
We are spanish and we are proud of who we are.
If you haven't listened to Kavinsky past Nightcall, you gotta put on his most recent album, Reborn. No less vibey, but full of energy. Like the lost soundtrack to an action cyberpunk classic that was never filmed.
Locals will get mass displaced by the fires and have to leave their destroyed homes forever and y'all will still be talking about how much tourists are gonna suffer because they can't go to the beach to get skin cancer and get drunk for like two weeks Be For Fucking Real
🦔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."
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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.
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🇮🇪 Irish universities are raising alarm after more than 20 Palestinian students from Gaza accepted onto fully funded scholarships were denied study visas, a sharp reversal from last year, when more than 80 were admitted and evacuated.
Refusal letters cite missing original bank statements, gaps in education, and insufficient proof students will return home, requirements lawyers and universities say are virtually impossible amid Gaza’s destruction and lack of postal service. More than 12 Irish institutions have offered places.
this is WRONG. they LOVED bureaucracy. romans invented the concept of a building inspector!!! augustus capped apartment blocks at 70 ft because they kept pancaking on tenants, nero wrote an entire building code after rome burned in 64 ad, including mandating wider streets…