Rex

The sum of my mom, dad, friends, exs, and everything pleasant. Anything awful is my own creation.

[Rex @Rextituts]

Snapchat scans your messages.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

A 22-year-old student teacher in Illinois sent a private Snapchat message to her boyfriend and two roommates.

A student had walked up to her laptop and deleted her lesson plan mid-class. frustrated, she typed something like "should I shoot him" with a gun emoji. venting. four people. private group chat.

An hour later, police walked into her school and arrested her.

here's what happened in between.

Snapchat's AI scanned the private message. flagged it as a potential threat. automatically reported it to the FBI. the FBI forwarded it to local law enforcement. deputies arrived at the school within the hour.

she cooperated immediately. handed over her phone. when shown the message she said: "oh yes. okay. yeah. i'm realizing that was a bad joke. i did not mean it at all serious at all."

police determined she was not a threat. school officials determined she was not a threat. prosecutors reviewed and issued a disorderly conduct charge. she was released the next morning. she lost her student teaching placement.

This means:

Snapchat scans private messages.

Not just public posts or stories. private group chats between you and your closest contacts. automated AI. no human reviewed it first, got flagged and reported.

Snapchat AI → FBI → local police → school → arrest.

in under an hour.

Snapchat's privacy policy says it may share your information with law enforcement when it believes there is a risk of harm. the definition of "risk of harm" is determined by an algorithm.

you are not told when a message is flagged.
you are not told when a report is filed.
you find out when the police arrive.

the message was private.

it wasn't.

[Rex @Rextituts]

@cnnbrk Aug. 29, 1997 is here 🤖 💀

[Rex @Rextituts]

@inquirerdotnet Last year it was “Mahiya naman kayo”
Quote for 2026 is “Bumigay na yata” 😭

[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.

[Rex @Rextituts]

@PhilippineStar Naks

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Rex @Rextituts]

@Super70sSports

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

"I think, marami din 'yung hindi nakakaalam [sa] maraming ginagawa ng pamahalaan."

Ahead of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.'s SONA, former Vice President and Naga City Mayor Leni Robredo highlights national government support for local units, noting improved accessibility to the Local Government Support Fund (LGSF) for housing, flood control, and community programs. | via @punongmhistrado

[Rex @Rextituts]

@twigsswift @mondaycleaners IMAX in sm north is a rip off. Never IMAX there.

[Rex @Rextituts]

@tribunephl Common sense right? Why was that type of construction allowed in the first place? Look around you, still happening today.

[Rex @Rextituts]

@archeohistories Someone start a Go Fund Me page, or is there one already?

[Crypto Jargon @Crypto_Jargon]

THIS IS INSANE. 🤯

India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.

By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.

Here's what happened:

• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch

The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.

It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.

Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.

India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.

You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.

Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

watched the odyssey last night. film ruined by everyone speaking english instead of ancient greek.

[Rex @Rextituts]

@Osinttechnical Would have been awesome minus the music.

[Rex @Rextituts]

@T3chFalcon Use an old pc that cannot upgrade to Windows 11.

[Rex @Rextituts]

Bye bye VPN, anonymity.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows includes a Global Device ID (GDID), a permanent identifier automatically assigned to a PC during installation.

According to Microsoft, the GDID is used for security purposes,The company says it is not used for advertising or tracking users across apps and websites.

Unlike advertising IDs, the GDID cannot be disabled or reset by users, as it is designed to remain tied to the device for its lifetime.
Microsoft publicly acknowledged the identifier only after it appeared in court documents related to an FBI investigation.

[Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamags]

Keep taking Tate. #tate #tiny #politicalcomedy #politicalsatire #keeptalking

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

It looks like Liberace and Saddam designed a 19th New Orleans century whorehouse, without the taste and elegance.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🇷🇺 "Officially Broke Today." Russians Break Down After Strike on Wildberries Warehouse

"I'm going home now, I'll pay my taxes with the last money I have left — and that's it. I honestly don't see any way out of this situation," says a now-unemployed businesswoman through tears.

Today, she lost her entire inventory in the fire.

When Russian forces bombed Kyiv's Okhmatdyt children's hospital, there were no tears. The tears came only now — when the bills are due and the money is gone. Maybe now, at least, something will finally get through to them.

[Rex @Rextituts]

@_Daily__fitness “Do not recommend this channel” , or something like that in the settings. Bye!