Wanda Dawe

PhD Philosophy | Canadian, married to Luigi | Exploring Western culture, politics, faith, AI & ideas. Open to thoughtful exchanges and learning together. 🤔

[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

@TheTownSite @JamesLucasIT Yes...meant for @JamesLucasIT Thank you.

[FBI Director Kash Patel @FBIDirectorKash]

Any agency in Canada that doesn’t publicly reject this bastardization of history, and an insult to the souls lost during our largest terrorist attack in US history will no longer have friend in this FBI… Not to mention our heroes that responded in the aftermath 🇺🇸

WE WILL NEVER FORGET 9-11

https://t.co/xTWLW9Zz0v

[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

@TheTownSite @JamesLucasIT Thank you for being here...your account is one of the very best...so impactful for me that I can only follow the threads and posts for a short time at a time...grateful, hopeful and sad all at once.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

An Apple AirTag just tracked a shipment of rare books to a secret Amazon AI facility in Las Vegas, where texts are cut apart, scanned, and destroyed to train AI models.

A groundbreaking investigation has exposed how tech giants are quietly acquiring physical books to train artificial intelligence models—by literally tearing them apart.

Suspecting that bulk purchases of rare and obscure books were destined for AI training, journalists at 404 Media teamed up with an independent bookseller to plant an Apple AirTag inside a volume shipped as part of an anonymous 1,000-book order. The tracking device traveled across multiple states, eventually terminating at a high-security Amazon facility in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Inside this warehouse, a specialized unit code-named VGT3 systematically processes incoming books by slicing off their bindings, scanning the pages for digital intake, and destroying the physical originals.

This aggressive scanning pipeline highlights the extreme lengths to which tech companies will go to secure high-quality training datasets, particularly pre-2022 literature that is completely free of AI-generated content. While independent booksellers watch their inventories get shredded, legal and ethical questions are mounting over the practice of turning physical, copy-protected books into digital training data before disposing of the evidence. Amazon defended the operation in a brief statement, claiming it purchases books through commercial channels to improve its products and services, but the revelation has ignited intense debate over the systematic destruction of physical human knowledge to fuel artificial systems.

source: Maiberg, E. (2026). We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility. 404 Media.

[Cian McCarthy @arealmofwonder]

Weekend Blessing ✨️

May a stillness find you,
comfort you with solace,
and provide a launchpad
to many happy moments

where the mind
is unburdened,
allowing all
that you are overcoming
to dissolve into nothingness.

Evening in Eggedal
🎨 Christian Skredsvig

[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

@LawrenceBJones3 We missed you. Wishing you a successful surgery and speedy recovery!

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

PLEASE HELP MAKE THIS YOUNG MAN FAMOUS

Yotam Budnik is a 12th-grade student from Rehovot 🇮🇱 just won a gold medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics in Uzbekistan but was not allowed to compete under the Israeli flag.

When Yotam was awarded his medal 🏅 stepped onto the podium, pulled an Israeli flag out of his pocket and wore it in defiance of the Anti-Semitic discrimination.

While the medal 🏅 was revoked from him for his courage, he has no regrets

"The law that prevents me from waving the flag is based only on politics, and I thought there was no place for that in a scientific competition", he said.

The organizers demanded that he return his medal.

Yotam said no.

Organizers took away his certificate and removed his ranking from the website.

Please help make sure the world knows the name Yotam Budnik and that he is not only a world class computer science genius, but also a man of courage and pride of the Jewish people 💙

[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

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[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

@turn_bon_bon @zarahandley Truly, one of the highlights of that 3wk trip, of my life, really. I've been enjoying you feed...uplifting. Thanks for sharing your lovely rendezvous with Being in your world.

[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

Have you discovered your own special gift...yours alone to share?

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[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

@mayemusk @XFashion Beautiful, my dear.

[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

@zarahandley I visited once, a lifetime or two ago...during my University years. ('86-'98) Sweet memories still breathing in me.

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[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

We are praying for everyone in Hawaii dealing with the devastation as Lala moves through the state. Here’s a link to emergency resources for each island if you need help: https://t.co/B4LfC6Fusb

[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

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[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

@zarahandley Blissful!

[Wanda Dawe @DaweWanda]

@zarahandley You're most welcome, Zara. I'm enjoying your feed very much sitting here in my lovely garden for a few precious moments today. I hope it's ok for me to flow you here.