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be good at stuff • e/cap

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

I am a capitalist.

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

@nikhil_palsingh Historically capitalism + racism are interlinked, which is why I call them the conjoined twins + historians like me call them “racial capitalism” in the singular. But some self-described forms of “antiracism” are not anti-capitalist, which in my book means they’re not antiracism.

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@ThePsychZach @TooWhiteToTweet You want to give free money to a family that produced THAT?

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@mr_cho86 @Kharmdierks @tjm585 Surveillance cameras are not a new concept, my guy.

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@eigenrobot @PeteHegseth PLZ FIX

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@AngloAwesome @epstienspilot @junker_jo Unlike some people, dogs can be trained to behave properly without a leash

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@_brinked @valigo *gestures broadly at everything*

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@DavidDPaxton Why the retarded application of background music?

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

The eye movement sleep hack in the recent @tferriss @hubermanlab podcast is literally the Konami code

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@default_friend I’m starting to think that 1 vote-per-child-bearing-stable-marriage might be the only workable democracy. The founders never imagined that people would stop wanting to get married and have kids.

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@lotekdan @jordanreviewsit This is entirely what’s happening here. Slack+giphy addon needs a lot of re-rolls to get through the prime time tv slop

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@WodenWanderer @PeteHegseth plz fix

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@TheHumanDurag Unironically how it goes down in the MindGeek (double) Teams meetings.

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@hyperdiscogirl One must imagine LLMiphus happy

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

I blame copyright law.

That said if any of these were really 1/1 they were priced incorrectly.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@n13 @niemerg It’s a good point. I would think you could design a disk encryption scheme that is completely opaque to the number of users on the system until one authenticates. The way these systems work currently I believe is to delete a user-specific partition encryption key.

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@TobyTurner INtro of DARKness then REDness then…

He was referring to himself the whole time?

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@tenobrus Maybe this is gaming an adversarial google algo

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

Oops my ISP isn’t happy with my router anymore. Choose:
A) Buy a new router
B) Buy a new switch, build a redundant L2 RSTP topology, make a management vlan, auto collect metrics, WiFi controller redundancy, improve firewall rules, pcap the unhappy router packets, TBD…

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@TobyTurner She is acquitted of the count towards the 9-year old (not 5) and guilty of disorderly conduct towards this person filming, who approaches her and yells at her and says nigger while demanding she say it and follows her. He collected over a quarter million dollars from gofundme

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@aUSUualsuspect @TooWhiteToTweet I think the only moral assessment here would be about how the timing of fundraising related to news about the issue. I’m sure the full amount didn’t all arrive on day 1. She clearly suffered reputational harm and doxxing almost immediately.

[boxxy and elsewhere @Harmonicritik]

@TooWhiteToTweet For purpose of illustration, what would be an example of a situation where fighting words doctrine would legitimately apply?