Bang

act accordingly 💋

[aether @bluewdrift]

Keep your problems smaller than your life. A flat tire is a flat tire. A bad meeting is a bad meeting. A canceled flight is just an extra two hours. These things become catastrophes when you let them. But they stay manageable when you remember the depth of your real life- the people you love, the work you care about, the beautiful years still ahead. Zoom out. Fit your reaction to the size of the problem.

[Prezi Banks. 🐻🇬🇭🇯🇲 @AfrikanKing_]

Reminds me of this clip. 🤣😭

[Bang @mossthebanger]

I do not like that funny looking Rachel woman in #TheDrama 🙄

[Shayla @sportsbyshayla]

one of the most useful skills to have in life is learning how to pivot QUICKLY. more life is on the other side of whatever isn’t working out.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who alleges the hospital system concealed its AI tool's 67% error rate at the expense of patients, per Futurism.

[Hillcrest Card Company 🔥🍉🇨🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇻🇪🔥 @HillcrestCardCo]

Not only is Taylor Farms serving you up a diarrhea parasite with your summer salad, they use forced labor to pick the lettuce. They pay the Arizona Department of Corrections $4.75/hr for prison labor, and the workers make $1.50/hr.

They are truly an evil.

[𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾 @reset_by_peer]

Because high speed rail reduces reliance on cars, which reduces demand for gas, which would reduce gas prices, which would reduce prices of goods and services, which would cut into profits of the ruling class.

Data centers on the other hand are instruments of AI financial fraud.

[rick carlisle @4theluvoftennis]

everyone needs to get more pissed

[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

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Just a friendly reminder that Sarah Connor was committed to a psychiatric institution after attempting to destroy AI data centers, a decision made because authorities believed her warnings about the future were the result of delusions.

[Brittany Renner @brittanyrennerr]

The confidence is admirable. Never in history have you been any woman’s dream guy, you short, wide-mouthed bitch.

[˖ ᡣ𐭩°🎀blkcat 🎀°ᡣ𐭩 ˖ 🌺*boost pinned* @Cherrybae333]

This story is beyond fucked up. Not only should this be shared around but everyone sharing should link the woman’s Gofundme asking for help to get legal representation.

https://t.co/NXdIuUwnkc

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We went from “reduce your carbon footprint” to “let’s build a Death Star data centre in every field.”

[Boston George’s Ghost @GhostFreeOr1056]

They found a fake record label in Baton Rouge that’s signing niggas just to get em killed and collect the insurance money.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Niri ⭐️ @NIRIEST]

this shit is genuinely fucked up. they have the CHIEF of Namaygoosisagagun asking canada for recognition of her home. its clear that the government doesnt give a shit about us. go donate and spread awareness PLEASE IM BEGGING

https://t.co/MLKaQEZ8UD

[Youtube_Hides_Genocides @KTumbleweed1]

@martinez_j7902 He and five others ICE nazis tackled a seventeen year old American citizen, kidnapped him and dropped him off in the middle of nowhere.

[Wes - Madison DSA 🇵🇸🌹 @wes_dsa]

His name was Corey Ruiz, 41.

He was murdered in broad daylight by Kiel Batinger-Peterson, a Madison Police veteran.

Ruiz leaves behind a daughter.

This is not the first execution by the MPD. Tony Robinson, an unarmed Black man, was killed only one block away in 2015.

[Strewth! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @StrewthQueen]

That's because it wasn't a war on drugs, it was an exercise in slave catching

Forced prison labour in the US generates around $11 billion a year in goods & services

[Prello @DPrello]

It’s worth noting that Taco Bell identified the source before the FDA did and promptly pulled it. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA