Pelin Ariner

[Pelin Ariner @pariner]

@susanabulhawa This tweet makes you suspect for me. Too bad. I value your perspective. But when you generalize by saying something like "their entire existence is predicsted on theft", I don't hear anything different than "all muslims arw terrorists"

[ali topuz @alidurantopuz]

Üsküdar Meydanı, Sinem Dedetaş için yürüyorlar

[Bülent Mumay @bulentmumay]

Komedyen Deniz Göktaş bugün itibariyle 26 gündür cezaevinde. Alışmıyoruz, Deniz'i unutturmuyoruz...

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

If they're turning engineers into activists they have been doing unfathomable evil behind the scenes

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This world isn’t collapsing because humanity became too compassionate, too equal or too free. It is collapsing because greedy fucking sociopaths converted governments into protection rackets for wealth and empire.

[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.

[Pelin Ariner @pariner]

Here's n ode to the one and only #vargas #fileninsultanları #volleyball @millitakimvb @f_sultanlari @abreumelissavr

[Pelin Ariner @pariner]

@f_sultanlari https://t.co/cnM5gae5jo

[Adele Shoko @AdeleShoko]

Settlers launched an arson pogrom in the village of Tuwani🇵🇸, nearly burning a young child alive and hitting a pregnant woman with stones.

Palestinian activist @MohammadHuraini , whose family home and vehicle were set on fire, shared what he witnessed and felt that night.

[🔻agitprop + absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty]

A months-long Sky News investigation into the US double-tap strike on a Minab girls' school found the Pentagon had tracked the site by satellite since 1987 and could still count children's shadows in the courtyard before firing anyway.

What the evidence shows:

Three Tomahawk missiles fired from the USS Spruance, 716 kilometers away in the Arabian Sea, hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab on Feb 28, the opening day of the US-Israeli war on Iran. Witnesses described a second strike hitting the exact spot where a teacher had moved surviving students for shelter, killing nearly everyone who had taken cover there. A third strike followed on the same site. Death tolls range from 156 to over 170, most of them girls aged seven to twelve. The school had been walled off from the adjacent IRGC naval base since at least 2015, had its own website, and was geolocatable through open-source materials any analyst could have pulled in minutes.

Built to fail:

The Pentagon's own machinery for preventing exactly this outcome had already been dismantled. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth slashed the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence workforce by roughly 90 percent and cut CENTCOM's civilian casualty assessment team from ten people to one, months before the war started. A May Pentagon Inspector General report found the office had become a shell on paper with no budget, no mandate, no real mission. A functioning warning system was defunded on purpose, then blamed for not warning anyone.

Accountability buried:

Four months on, CENTCOM's commander told reporters the investigation was near complete, yet nothing has been released. Asked in June whether anyone would face consequences, Trump called it a strange question, adding that mistakes are made and war is nasty. The mistake was choosing not to fund the office that exists to catch mistakes like this one.

My take: A military that surveilled a schoolyard for four decades didn't fail to see the children, it decided in advance that seeing them wouldn't change the targeting. Nobody in this chain lacked information.

[Değişim Yeni Parti @degisimyeni]

Congratulations to our Spanish friends! 🇹🇷🇪🇸

Ekrem İmamoğlu, sırf potansiyel bir Cumhurbaşkanı olduğu için tutuklandı. Partimize ise her gün hukuksuz operasyonlar düzenleniyor.

Böylesi bir dönemde Özgür Özel’in ve Ekrem İmamoğlu’nun yanında duran, dayanışmasını açıkça gösteren Pedro Sánchez’e teşekkür ediyoruz.

Pedro Sánchez’i ve İspanyol dostlarımızı Dünya Kupası zaferlerinden dolayı yürekten tebrik ediyoruz.

[Timur Soykan @timursoykan]

#DenizGöktaşSerbestBırakılsın

[Pelin Ariner @pariner]

@canitti New national anthem :)

[Renzo™ @fwrenzo1]

I miss when "The News" was just a guy in a suit telling you what happened, instead of a 24 hour panic machine designed to make you hate your neighbor so you don't notice your rent went up 30%.

[Pelin Ariner @pariner]

@ozngndgdu Bravo!

[Kara @UTDKarra]

Repost if you think Gianni Infantino is the worst FIFA president ever.

[umay umay @umay_umay]

Deniz Göktaş ı serbest bırakın

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

[Pelin Ariner @pariner]

@Recep73183 @sokakkedisitv Ben de çok üzüldüm bu kuzuya

[Pelin Ariner @pariner]

@JamieBonkiewicz @JohnCleese