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Super partes.
I like honesty & brutality in communication.
Don't be afraid to reassess your POV.
I only offer the Truth, nothing more.

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@AryJeayBackup It would be nice for X to have some sort of space for thematic communities, sort of reddit-like. I dont use reddit anymore since 2016.

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@AryJeayBackup Lmao they very clearly are studying the terrain.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

After seeing a post on it yesterday, I’ve looked more deeply into Anthropic’s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books.

They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.

They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.

An internal memo from 2024 stated:

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”

“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Why used books?

Companies like Anthropic and Meta found it impractical to gain permission from authors and publishers to use their work.

So instead, they stole their work to train their product through mass purchases of used books and through pirating them from the internet.

The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.

Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann personally downloaded countless books for this purpose from LibGen, a book pirating website.

When a new book piracy website debuted in 2022, Mann sent an email sharing the link with his employees stating: “just in time!!!”

Meta employees were wary about the piracy of books, with one engineer writing, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”

Anthropic purchased millions of books, in batches of tens of thousands from Better World Books and U.K.-based World of Books.

They then used a “hydraulic powered cutting machine” to slice off the spines of these books before scanning them. Finally, the remains of these books were picked up for recycling.

Feel free to use AI, it’s a free country.

But remember that, if you use Claude, that Anthropic has committed a great wrong, and they knew that they were doing it from the beginning.

Below is an image, from a court case, of a warehouse full of used books, that instead of being held and read by you and your children, have been destroyed forever.

AI is inevitable, but spend your money on the companies who do good, and do not knowingly commit evils.

May the most moral company win.

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If IRAN only counterattacks, and doesnt contnue the attacks when the US is not attacking, these interceptor stockpile numbers dont matter, because hypothetically the US can stop attacks for 6 months, then re-attack again. Iran must expell them from the middle east.

[Patarames @Pataramesh]

Wow.., didn't expect so few interceptors remaining for the U.S.

If the report is true (-10 PAC-3 last night):
➡️ Frankly Iran is highly incentivized to not enter a ceasefire

Massive concessions can be demanded if your opponent is unable to defend itself against your firepower

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@Pataramesh If IRAN only counterattacks, and doesnt contnue the attacks when the US is not attacking, these interceptor stockpile numbers dont matter, because hypothetically the US can stop attacks for 6 months, then re-attack again. Iran must expell them from the middle east.

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@yarbatman @imetatronink

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@citrinowicz God bless Iran!

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@RL__2022 @imetatronink There's a book titled BODYGUARD OF LIES about WW2 allied deception tactics. Must read.

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@ajadi_jadi @MenchOsint Thats how the devil works...

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@awbitcoin @imetatronink @s_m_marandi Great question.

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@naasvzyl @SprinterPress Irak too

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@US_did_911 @RyanRozbiani Israel did 9/11 you dirty jevv

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@JLimebrook @S_Mahendrarajah @araghchi fu jevv

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@chrisgrayson @MarcoArkhad @DropSiteNews @GeneralClark Any Rand was a rabid zionist apologist.

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@Globalsurv @Alex_Oloyede2 how will they make money otherwise, traficking children and organs from dead bodies gives you so very few money...

[Andrey X @the_andrey_x]

This is Sheikh Farouk Ramadan.

Yesterday afternoon, he and his family were attacked by settler-terrorists on their own land. Farouk managed to disarm one of the attackers. He took the settler's rifle and shot and killed two terrorists in a clear act of self-defence.

In response, Israeli soldiers murdered him and three of his family members. Israeli government and media portrays him as the terrorist, and the actual terrorists as the victims.

Don't let them push this narrative. Farouk had the full legal and moral right to resist against the genocidal terrorists who invaded his land.

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@Alex_Oloyede2 the entirety of that post is aimed to convey the threat to Russia and China.

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@RoofeDodger @MenchOsint Ngulo a te e tua mader imbecile

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@llanwitmajor @DanielLDavis1 OP wants to reach imbecle Trump supporters. Still ... the entirety of that post is aimed to convey the threat to Russia and China.

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the entirety of that post is aimed to convey the threat to Russia and China.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

This is not an insult or unkind comment, but IT IS NOW CLEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SUFFERING GENUINE COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT.
In the TruthSocial post shown in this video, President Trump flatly declared that we are not selling weapons to Ukraine, and that he has no idea what NATO does with the weapons we sell them.

That was *directly* and explicitely contradicted by SecState Rubio @marcorubio in Senate testimony last month, confirming we very much DO sell weapons to Ukraine and we know *exactly* what NATO does with them.
Not that we needed to prove something so self-evidently true, but this alarming claim by the President, in public, when the whole world knows the reality, is evidence of genuine cognative decline; no one thinking straight would ever so painfully expose themselves to a lie of this magnitude.

With this man at the helm of our Armed Forces, and making decisions that impact the financial and national security interests of our country, it is time for the Cabinet officials and members of Congress - regardless of party affiliation - to explore (immediately) Constitutional remedies for conditions like this.  Failure to act now could prove catestrophic to our intersts later, when no remedy will be available.