Using #figma and anything you wanna do has a paywalled plugin. Was experimenting with a warp plugin, now it says i have 2 free tries left?? How about never
Land theft is nothing new, nor is it confined to a single country, it is a global phenomenon that underscores the interconnectedness of our struggles. Tactics tested in one nation are often subsequently implemented in others, compelling us to resist all forms of colonialism,
‼️ Anthropic was hiding a secret internal project to destructively scan every book in the world, irreversibly damaging heritage. The company spent billions of dollars to slice the spines off millions of books, even very rare ones. This means no other AI, and no human, can access this knowledge anymore.
It now markets itself as the responsible lab.
One bookseller told 404 Media his inventory is full of rare, foreign-language and low-circulation books, meaning that if they are destroyed in the process of becoming training data, they will be even harder to obtain.
Second-hand booksellers across Europe are sounding the alarm, because rare books are being destroyed. They have received random lists of thousands of titles. Books too obscure to resell at a profit. Requests arriving overnight from companies nobody in the trade has heard of.
One email came from "Nataly" at 2077AI, a Singapore company. Attached: 3,000 English titles grouped by ISBN. A 1999 geomechanics monograph. A 2018 study of laser shock peening on ceramics. A 2021 academic book on Irish folk tales.
A German dealer watched the orders arrive every night between 3am and 5am. Canadian company Zoom Books, buying systematically, titles with nothing in common. Zoom told Swiss broadcaster SRF that this is a regular recycling and trading model.
Happy Sunday and I hope there is a worse version of hell that Carl von Linné is rolling in.
Fuck him, fuck eugenics fuck all the doctors and anthropologists who have internalized his racist pseudo-science to this very day. #Eugenics#Sweden
Women are not safe anywhere in this planet, online or offline. We endure violent misogynistic rhetoric every second of our existence but if we respond fairly, we're stalked, harassed, threatened by a mob of vile men desperately holding onto their pathetic patriarchal structures.
❗️ A lenticular spoof ad at a bus stop near Meta's London headquarters flips TV personality Kylie Jenner's smart glasses campaign into a skeletal surveillance warning depending on where you stand.
The design borrows from They Live, the 1988 film where special sunglasses expose the manipulation hidden inside advertising.
The underlying concern is real, since the latest Ray-Ban Meta generation records up to three minutes of continuous video, has stealth mods and researchers have demonstrated again and again that footage can be matched to names and addresses using facial recognition.