Calzone

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[🎮 @foreeeeeal]

“they should teach media literacy in schools” english class “they should teach students how to spot misinformation” it's english class “they should teach kids critical thinking” its called engish class

[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.

[Calzone @bluecalzones]

@elysiansora Happy birthday 🤩🤩, we love to see it

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism?

AOC: I mean, no. I think that’s very silly. We can’t even raise the minimum wage. Do they really think communism is going to happen? No. They’re trying to scare people because they don’t want us talking about the fact that we all have a right to health care.

So they want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here, they’re going to realize they deserve better and that health care as a right isn’t crazy. They want to call this stuff communist because they don’t want us to realize that the rest of the developed world has guaranteed health care. They want to call it communist because they don’t want you to know that Germany, Italy, the UK, Canada—everybody else—has it better than us, and we spend the most money for the worst care in the developed world.

[Calzone @bluecalzones]

@zidiaaan I actually retired for like 6 months and then came crawling back to it 🫩🫩

[Pea @PoopingIRL]

Thank god

Seriously what the fuck, like why is it even a question "should we merge our military with a foreign power"

Why is it even this close?

[Calzone @bluecalzones]

@zidiaaan Mayhaps!! Maybe if a character comes out that I need to build immediately. But so far it’s just cause I feel like my base amount of resin is enough. And at some point my artis capped so I couldn’t really use em consistently anymore

[Calzone @bluecalzones]

@zidiaaan It’s totally like a performer x performer trope iirc. And then that one artist boosted Navia and neuvi even though it’s lowkey ??? Yeah idk I can see some threads but none as concrete as say beiguang

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Interns sprint to spread the news that the Supreme Court has legalized same-sex marriage on the day of the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling

[Almudron @BiggestAlmuFan2]

This would be a massive step if like a million babies weren’t already blown to bits

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

[Drag Base @DragBasee]

‼️ ​Not Drag related but..

Royal Caribbean wants to build a water park over 90 hectares of living coastal ecosystem in Mahahual 🇲🇽. This will affect 306 species (45 of them are endangered.)

Please help by signing the following petitions to stop this.
👇👇

[mad tsai @MadTsai]

we now have an asian director of ICE… AAPI month is hearby paused until we collectively figure out how to act right bc what are we DOING

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

The artist behind this painting, Criselda Vasquez, painted this portrait of her parents in 2017. The man in this painting, her father, was recently taken by ICE. He has lived in the United States for forty years. This loss has made it hard for the family to support themselves. If you want to support them, you can go to their GoFundMe here:

https://t.co/Mgp7W8m5xJ

[nightwing @kmlefleur]

they don’t count brown people as asian lolllll

[angelista dictator @ellistron3000]

im not american but i think aapi month should focus on dismantling antiblackness colourism and classism in asian communities like actually make an effort to EDUCATE yourselves and end this obsession w proximity to whiteness and pick-me-ism for white approval

[mad tsai @MadTsai]

i urge asian americans to pick up a book or read some academic articles surrounding critical race theory and intersectionality… like PLEASE 😭