In this machine I can scan 1000s pages a day and never destroy a book.
No guillotine spines, no ripped the bindings..
just a normal book ready to be treasured for centuries.
Any large AI company can afford this both financially and ethically.
WTF
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.
Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.
What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
In college I worked on a project to plant a vegetable garden for students to browse as needed on campus.
End hunger.
Encourage healthy eating.
What little grew was taken in bulk by a few people, mostly non-students. Someone would just show up and pick everything they could carry and leave.
At my synagogue I volunteered for multiple free food, clothing and donation events.
Anyone could come in and get what they needed.
One couple came in and just started hauling things to their car. Armloads of clothes and books and food items.
The people who might have really needed it were too embarrassed to come in. I had to convince an older woman it was OK to take a few cans of food and a sweater she liked.
It had to be turned into a small fee event. $5 for all you can carry in a paper bag or something.
The college garden was abandoned after multiple tries largely because people kept destroying it at night.
I worked for a charity that offered free cooking courses with a box of vegetables at the end and no one came. The shelter residents wouldn't participate. The recovery patients wouldn't participate. The lower income benefits recipients wouldn't participate.
I've worked on multiple free food box campaigns for vulnerable communities. Identify families or individuals and mail them boxes of meal prep foods. Most of the boxes were tossed out. No one wanted fresh vegetables. They wanted free bags of chips and mac n cheese. We asked for feedback and that's what they told us. They didn't like 'healthy,' foods.
All this to say, there are plenty of people in need and an abundance of resources that could be used.
I have just never seen a 'free,' system work. Not once. It is always abused into oblivion.
One of the most frightening videos you will ever see — and it should be a wake-up call to those who support “multiculturalism” over assimilation.
The young girl indoctrinated into the Islamic faith supports Sharia law — but ONLY while it remains illegal in Australia.
It follows that she will vote for political parties that want to change Australian law.
And when they have the numbers, Sharia law will be introduced into Australia.
The question Australians must face is this: Should we be importing people into our nation who support Sharia law and will seek to change Australia and introduce it?
And are there enough brave Australians who will speak out on this issue before it’s too late?
Only the Australian Labor Party could turn an Islamic terror attack into a moral lecture for Australians about being nicer and more tolerant of Islam.
The question is why Angus Taylor and the Liberals pander to the narrative.
Are they that desperate for votes that they refuse to push back against this re-writing of Bondi?
Anthony Albanese is set to blow millions of taxpayers’ dollars on “establishing an Islamophobia Education Taskforce” and “supporting Muslim communities through new multicultural grants.”
Classic Albanese.
Every single “problem” is solved the same way: create another bloated bureaucracy and shovel hard-earned taxpayer cash straight into the pockets of special interest groups.
And I wonder if this so-called “education taskforce” will actually tell the truth for once — that it’s not “Islamophobia” when you’re ducking for cover because an Islamic terrorist is shooting at you.