NixYO

»Slåss med troll, befria prinsessor, döda varulvar, det är att leva!«

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

Dog-cat relations have considerably deteriorated since the 15th century.

[Zoso🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic]

AI will further exacerbate this. I don't think medicine won't be effected by automation, it will be, but it will be FAR less effected than every other respectable white-collar(-ish) job, because:
a. The human factor is quite important
b. Doctors are very good at organising

[Zoso🇺🇳(🇮🇶) @MesoAnglic]

I think the stock of becoming a doctor will significantly increase in the world. Being a doctor has already seen significant status increases (despite already high status) in the Middle East; now if you say you want to study to become even an Engineer you get weird looks.

[NixYO @NixYO]

@BTCsessions @Rob1Ham @OpenAI @Kimi_Moonshot If you don't want to use Moonshot, there are for example @FireworksAI_HQ and @tensorx_ai.

[GeoInsider @InsiderGeo]

NEW | France is extending its foreign-investment controls over strategic companies.

Non-European investors will now need government approval to acquire 10% or more of a listed French company operating in a sensitive sector, regardless of whether its shares trade in France or abroad. The Finance Ministry will have ten days to decide whether a deal requires deeper scrutiny.

This is not a general ban on foreign capital. Paris is closing a gap that could allow investors to gain significant minority stakes in critical French companies and technologies without taking formal control. The rules enter into force later this month

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

The secret is that people have been relying on security via obscurity for so many years. Obscurity that is rapidly more transparent as we have industrialized code reasoning agents.

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

When all your global conquest excursions are going really well and you can't wait to keep the momentum going

[UEFA @UEFA]

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[Egbertiumus Nelly @MorrisNelly2]

@FistedFoucault The one time Europe stands up the US is when they mess with footy haha

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Some folks don’t believe that a “principled AI company” would destroy books after they suck out all the information for their models, even one-of-a-kind books and manuscripts.

Here it is admitted in open court.

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Anthropic are literally effectively burning books and want to be the exclusive source of truth in the future.

[Basedertarian🇻🇦🐍🇺🇸🗽 @Basedertarian]

This would be considered comically crude and vulgar to the point of completely breaking immersion in any world building context. Like, really, a place called *Sus Sex* that is divided into special territorial divisions called *Rapes* used no where else in the world?

[HSVSphere @HSVSphere]

future of transportation

[MT @MT_6226]

@Scholars_Stage My take. His argument is poor and will find no purchase among the public.

Nevertheless I’m sympathetic. AI is going to ruin a lot of fields whose position in society is based on the intelligence of their practitioners.

https://t.co/LdaO9y8Ibn

[Web Design Museum @WebDesignMuseum]

Windows XP wallpapers in 2001

[🏛 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 🏛 @nonregemesse]

Greeks

[Helmut @NEETdrangheta99]

Det är något intressant med att Frankrike ligger årtionden före övriga västvärlden i diskursen på flera sätt. Vår invandring/förortsdebatt under början av 2000-talet, USAs högerextremism ❤️ icke vit antisionism grej för 20 år sedan

[Helmut @NEETdrangheta99]

Var nyss en viral nyhet att Håland inte hade svarat på skådespelaren Tom Hollands DM då han inte visste vem han var eftersom att han (som en normal 25 åring) inte såg på film.

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

on the contrary, Huggingface should freak out about a world where OpenAI and Anthropic can fuck you up and agree to deny you any means of defense. Natural slaves will find this situation acceptable, perhaps, but it's really creepy