cody

[Matthew @OswaldsTopGuy]

"Indians are taking over Israel"

[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.

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

Today in 1776-

George Washington crosses the Delaware River to kill politicians in their sleep bc they taxed his tea at 3%,

[dollar store kirk hammett @olivesagan]

an entire species of orangutan may have been wiped out as a direct result of the flooding this deforestation caused. if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this unforgivable crime would be executed by firing squad.

[FinsXtra @FinsXtra]

🚨 Lamar Jackson would love to play for the Miami Dolphins if the Ravens were to move on from him, per @baltimoresun

Ravens and Jackson are reportedly at a crossroads and it could lead to a potential split. (@baltimoresun) #PhinsUp

[Indonesian Pop Base @iPopBase]

Sumatra deforestation shot by Mike Holston.

[Amity @amitylee13]

“At some point people will look at this body and say, ‘maybe we should get rid of all 435 members of the House and all 100 members of the Senate and start over.’ Because Congress is literally failing the American people.”

Yes, Mr. Roy, you are correct.

[Owen Shroyer @OwenShroyer1776]

The world you grew up in no longer exists.

[The Film Stage 📽 @TheFilmStage]

Netflix has officially bought Warner Bros. for $82 billion.

It's a dark, devastating day for the theatrical movie experience and the art form of cinema. See the full press release, in which "theatrical" is mentioned merely once: https://t.co/9HG2r3Z3C5

[Opera GX @operagxofficial]

@Culture3ase

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

‘WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY’ is certified fresh at 95% from 169 reviews and has an audience score of 94% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Now playing in select theaters. On Netflix December 12.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

yea, we’re cooked.

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

The 5 minute prologue of Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ is rumored to be shown on December 12 for the IMAX 70mm reissue releases of Sinners and One Battle after Another.

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

Last season, there were 7 head-to-head results among Top 25 teams who finished with the same record.

✅ (10-2) #5 Georgia ranked ahead of (10-2) #7 Tennessee

✅ (9-3) #11 Alabama ranked ahead of (9-3) #14 South Carolina

✅ (9-3) #11 Alabama ranked ahead of (9-3) #19 Missouri

✅ (9-3) #13 Ole Miss ranked ahead of (9-3) #14 South Carolina

✅ (9-3) #14 South Carolina ranked ahead of (9-3) #17 Clemson

✅ (9-3) #14 South Carolina ranked ahead of (9-3) #19 Missouri

✅ (10-2) #15 Arizona State ranked ahead of (10-2) #18 BYU

This season, as of right now, there are 6 head-to-head results between Top 25 teams with a same record.

✅ (10-1) #4 Georgia ranked ahead of (10-1) #7 Ole Miss

✅ (10-1) #5 Texas Tech ranked ahead of (10-1) #11 BYU

✅ (9-2) #8 Oklahoma ranked ahead of (9-2) #10 Alabama

✅ (9-2) #8 Oklahoma ranked ahead of (9-2) #15 Michigan

✅ (9-2) #10 Alabama ranked ahead of (9-2) #14 Vanderbilt

❌ (9-2) #12 Miami ranked 3 spots behind (9-2) #9 Notre Dame

If Miami beats Pitt and doesn’t jump Notre Dame, there’s simply an agenda to deliberately keep the Canes out.

[litquidity @litcapital]

This is unintentionally hilarious

[Christopher Nolan Archives @NolanAnalyst]

The prologue of THE ODYSSEY that will play before Avatar: Fire and Ash will show the siege of Troy and will end with a shot of the Cyclops.

[Dylan Ali @dylanali_]

conspiracy theorists rn

[Rick Davis @TheRhetorRick]

@LeadingReport

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Andrew Schulz: "It's just funny to me that there are people that were happy Charlie Kirk got shot because they disagreed on opinions and they're fighting for due process for people who are driving fentanyl into the f*cking country."

[Ilia Topuria @Topuriailia]

Jack needs an entire camp dedicated just to wrestling. What a disappointment of a champion. You should go to Georgia to learn something.
Islam, you need something you can’t train: emotion. You’re the most boring thing in this game. Every day I’m more certain I put you to sleep.