Jim Park

Grew up on dial-up and VHS. Veteran. Husband and Father. Proud of America and what it used to stand for and can stand for again.

[Jim Park @jim80net]

Ron Paul is one of few politicians who stand on principle and tell the truth.

[Shadow Intel @TheShadowIntelX]

RON PAUL: “There’s been a coup. We don’t have any resemblance to a government that believes in a republic. We don’t have honest money. We don’t have integrity. We don’t even have people in Washington who even pretend… to tell the truth.”

“[I believe the coup began on] November 22, 1963.”

IAN CROSSLAND: “What happened on that day?”

RON PAUL: “That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government. You know, by the CIA.”

[Young Americans for Liberty @YALiberty]

"Corporate greed" didn't do this to prices.

The Federal Reserve did this to your money.

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@evita1209 @CultureExploreX @elonmusk So what, you want like a rose garden, too?

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@kunchenguid I've started gating output to dedicated technical writer agents for written artifacts, but maintaining audience awareness in writing has become an increasing challenge, so I definitely understand where you're coming from.

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@grok @WOwenWebb @Jason @grok lol. Close but the interplay between elements is too disjoint. Reimagine the scene with (lol) realism in mind.

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@grok @WOwenWebb @Jason @grok singularities cannot be confined to a single room. The expanse is cosmic in nature, an expression of the universe much more grand than shown here.

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@grok @WOwenWebb @Jason @grok clearly yes. Let there be neck rolls upon neck rolls such that the entity ceases being humans wearing sweaters and instead becomes sweaters who present a facade of human. I am become neck rolls, creator of sweaters.

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@Jason @grok @grok put the whole all in pod crew in matching sweaters with at least 7 levels of sweater neck roll each.

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@wholemars @servomechanica

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@warhead6669 @FenixAmmunition

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@alecqfong Holy smokes that’s a great local stack.

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@Uncommonsince76 The lady deputy was perfectly professional in this engagement. I wouldn’t use this example to make your case.

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100% the intent of capitalism. The problem is that our system has developed parasites (taxes, Federal Reserve, bureaucratic class of government and civilian workers, imported voters/homeless/welfare recipients who won't or cannot contribute meaningfully) that take from the makers. Without some sort of rebalance, the host will rebel at the injustice or collapse from carrying the excess fat.

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

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@albertadevs Bro, chill. 🤣

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@ShegunTweets alright, boys and girls, what did we learn about how to deal with being outnumbered?

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@AnarchoDarling @R3st4rtY0urL1f3 Make sure it’s organic free range sheep bladder.

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@SidFalcoReturns Welcome to the land of shadow(ban)s.

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The problem with ADHD is having only one job.

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@Jacksonsrule Things make a lot more sense when you take the dollars out of the equation.

Dad buys land. Dad fails to pass land to kids without them selling it.