бојан

black and white. and grey.

[бојан @b0stan]

@hanslanda09 нестварни се момците, виртуози.

[бојан @b0stan]

најдоброто нешто од јуес ов еј у моментот, симфонија.

protomartyr • sounds we cannot hear
https://t.co/QKBJI3bqOg

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

For those magical Champions League nights. For the unforgettable Carabao Cup win. For making us believe again. For everything.

Thank you. 🖤🤍

[бојан @b0stan]

еди, засекогаш легенда на њукасл. 🖤🤍

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

We can announce that Eddie Howe has informed the club of his decision to step down as head coach.

The club has accepted Eddie’s decision and would like to thank him for his extraordinary contribution. 🖤�We can announce that Eddie Howe has informed the club of his decision to step down as head coach.

The club has accepted Eddie’s decision and would like to thank him for his extraordinary contribution. 🖤�We can announce that Eddie Howe has informed the club of his decision to step down as head coach.

The club has accepted Eddie’s decision and would like to thank him for his extraordinary contribution. 🖤�We can announce that Eddie Howe has informed the club of his decision to step down as head coach.

The club has accepted Eddie’s decision and would like to thank him for his extraordinary contribution. 🖤🤍

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore.

It now markets itself as the responsible lab.

One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.

Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.

One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.

A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.

[бојан @b0stan]

нема ден вија аи социопатите да не напраат злосторство против човештвото!

[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.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Finding this quite hard to stomach from a country that is bombing the shit out of other countries…

[бојан @b0stan]

@hanslanda09 🙌

[бојан @b0stan]

не можам сеа, ги лајкнуам коментарите на воа монструозно ремек дело на кралицата поли џејн.

pj harvey • voyager
https://t.co/74njQ9TrVF

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

BREAKING! US court ha suspended the US sanctions against me!
As the judge says: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest".
Thanks to my daughter and my husband for stepping up to defend me, and everyone who has helped so far.

Together we are One.

[бојан @b0stan]

khruangbin ▪︎ may ninth
https://t.co/TfZR683qw0

[бојан @b0stan]

добрутро, вечер е петок.

[бојан @b0stan]

да живее 1 Мај, вечна благодарност до сите шосе бореа за работничките права и посебна почит за оние кои ги дадоа своите животи у таа борба.

[Claudio Francavilla @ClaFrancavilla]

22 minutes, 1770 words, and not a single one of concern or sorrow for the millions killed, maimed, forcibly displaced in the region; nor any measure of accountability for those causing mayhem and the global energy/economic crisis

That's precisely why it's happening, @vonderleyen

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

This is only believable in the US, where many people haven't seen a doctor bc they don't have healthcare

[Gérard Araud @GerardAraud]

The agreement we reached with Iran in 2015 was the result of hundreds of hours of negotiations with the support of experts of nuclear energy. Negotiating with the Iranians is the equivalent of a diplomatic trenches war. Line by line, word by word.

[бојан @b0stan]

педро од крајчас е господин, класа недостижна за поданичката свита од типот на руте, стармер, фондер лајен, итн...

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Mr. Trump, believe me, the safest way to win wars is not starting any. Leave the world in peace. Thank you.
https://t.co/ogF3qgr9Pi

[Falastin Flip @TOliveFern]

Only Israelis make a point in saying “double-sided” ceasefire which’s different to normal ceasefires where Israel only continues to attack

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

On the anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher, let us take a moment to reflect on what a cruel, heartless sack of shit she was.

[Chlamydia Officinalis @Schiffer_PG14]

Шовика ЕУ? Изрази ли загриженост што Либанците ја ескалираат војната со умирање?