namenlos

- observe the world and think -

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[namenlos @farblosgrau]

Why I Don't Vote Explained By George Carlin

https://t.co/WSkxKS4XYI

[Bexxy @Bexxy__19]

UPDATE ON GERALD AND THE CROW SITUATION:

Things have escalated.

I repeat.

THINGS HAVE FUCKING ESCALATED.

For those of you just joining us, yesterday I accidentally entered into diplomatic relations with a gang of crows after Gerald stole my good spoon.

Well.

This morning I walked outside and Gerald was waiting for me.

Alone.

Standing directly in the middle of my driveway.

No screaming.

No hopping around.

Just staring at me like a tiny feathered loan shark who had come to collect.

I said, “Morning, Gerald.”

He tilted his head.

I gave him a walnut.

He did not eat it.

Instead, this motherfucker picked it up, walked three steps to the left, PUT IT DOWN, and stared at me again.

Message received.

The offering was insufficient.

So I went back inside and got more walnuts.

When I returned…

THERE WERE NINE CROWS.

Nine.

Yesterday there were seven.

Gerald is fucking recruiting.

And they were arranged in a SEMICIRCLE.

This isn’t a bird friendship anymore.

I’m funding organized crime.

I distributed the walnuts because apparently I pay protection money now.

Everything seemed fine until one of the smaller crows tried taking two.

Gerald immediately screamed at him.

The little one dropped the second walnut.

I have accidentally created an economy.

Gerald controls distribution.

There’s a hierarchy.

There are consequences.

I’m pretty sure I witnessed a disciplinary hearing before breakfast.

Then Gerald flew away.

I thought we were done.

WE WERE NOT DONE.

Twenty minutes later I looked outside and there was something sitting where Gerald had been standing.

A bottle cap.

A shiny rock.

And…

MY FUCKING SPOON.

HE RETURNED THE SPOON.

Ladies and gentlemen.

I believe we have successfully negotiated a trade agreement.

Unfortunately, there is now a crow sitting on my mailbox.

So I still cannot get my fucking mail.

I tried approaching.

He puffed up.

I backed away.

That mailbox belongs to the organization now.

At this point I’m just a tenant.

Anyway, Gerald has officially been promoted to General Gerald, Commander of the Driveway, First of His Name, Keeper of the Good Spoon, Lord of the Power Line, Collector of Walnuts, and Regional Manager of Whatever The Fuck Is Happening Here.

I’ll keep everyone updated.

But if I suddenly stop posting…

Gerald found out I told you.

[Introvert Memes @introverts007]

Introverts are just the kind of people who prefer quality over quantity. Cozy over chaos. One good mind over 10 empty ones. That's all.

[Johhny K @hisjohnk]

The African crested rat chews the bark of the poison arrow tree and spreads the toxic saliva onto special hairs along its sides. When a predator bites it, the poison can make the attacker seriously ill or even kill it. It's one of the few mammals known to deliberately use plant toxins for defense! 🐀☠️

[Humanity First @Atomsmade]

George Carlin dropped a brutal summary of religion decades ago, and somehow it still reads like breaking news. 😂🔥

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I hate victims who respect their executioners.”

― Jean Paul Sartre

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

When I wake up and think I've missed the bus to school but it's Saturday and I'm 60.

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

There's always one..🦆🐤🐤🐤😅

[𝕐o̴g̴ @Yoda4ever]

Border collies when there's no sheep to herd..🐕🐾😅

[Ricky Gervais @rickygervais]

It’s quite a weird feeling to know that people all over the world are watching a cartoon about cats who think that all humans are cunts 😂

[We Assess and Draw Cats 🐾 @WeAssessCats]

This is the level of unbothered I'm striving for

[Paul Bronks @SlenderSherbet]

"How's your diet going?"

Me:

[PROTECT ALL WILDLIFE @Protect_Wldlife]

Crested Mynas, like many other birds, are born altricially, which means the young are underdeveloped at the time of birth, therefore fed by parents.

As they grow up, they have to learn that food doesn't simply jump into their beaks. 🙂

🎦 Credit: Rebecca Gelernter.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Little Stormzy came back to visit to say thats for help in his early days.

He is absolutely huge and it is probably the happiest I've ever been to see a dog!!

Look at him go!

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

This cave has waited a thousand years for this moment.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Some folks don’t believe that a “principled AI company” would destroy books after they suck out all the information for their models, even one-of-a-kind books and manuscripts.

Here it is admitted in open court.

[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.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Hard to believe it is the same dog.

Sienna has even learnt how to play already