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[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

WTF

AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.

The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.

Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.

What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

The plan is to erase physical knowledge so they can monetize it.

[Milenka~ @MilenaAmit]

If you're a 40 year old guy, what the fvck do you have in common with a girl that just graduated high school a few months prior?

[— @sbgmmmm]

Idk man I can never take Zack Polanski seriously, he acts like he leads some student party at uni.

I feel like there’s a level of professionalism you expect from leaders and he doesn’t have it.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham has announced an apprenticeship bursary of up to £4,500 a year for Universal Credit households whose benefits would fall if a young person started one

[The Lesbian Pervert @babyknifespice]

my cat just stuck her tiny disgusting paw in my coffee and then yelped because it was too hot like girl now both our mornings are ruined

[Suzy Exposito @HexPositive]

I think I take fewer photos these days because the quality of an iPhone camera has gotten so yucky

[Zack Bornstein @ZackBornstein]

these photos are of her literally putting in effort

[turbomander @turbomander]

"we are close to creating an oil that can cure any ailment" - guy selling snake oil

[HayleyLDN @BlkNaCl]

if you are jealous of people with no job because they get a few discounts on things so their children aren't excluded from society im sorry but you are an unmitigated loser no other word for it

[Johnboy @Johnboyccrn]

“Nearly 20% of homeowners across the UK would be worse off”

Ok so over 80% of homeowners across the UK would not be worse off, in fact likely to be better off.

That’s the entire point, we need to stop making policies for the minority in London.

[Jonathan @jabberwock951]

The people who say it's AWFUL to expect someone with £2m in assets to sell any of them to pay their taxes tend to be the same ones who think you should have to sell your phone and TV before getting government help if you become disabled.

[‎ރ @_pakGPT]

Sell the house then👍🏽

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Don't know anything about Andy Burnham, but I recognize the room in the middle photo. That's Private White VC.

Let me tell you about them. 🧵

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Manchester proved especially good for textile production, as the local waterways not only helped power early mills, but also provided soft water to wash and bleach cotton. By the early 20th cent, the city produced so much of the world's cotton fabric, it was known as Cottonopolis

[adi @perfectcelebrty]

….. okay

[kiky☁️ @kikynium]

i dont understand where the stereotype that women talk too much comes from. like have you ever been around men???? they never shut the fuck up

[kayla says @KaylaSaysMore]

btw I don’t think you have to bring your large poodle to the coffee shop and let it sniff around where people are eating and drinking. I think you can just like. leave it home

[junie b. jonestown @elizabethbelsky]

Fun fact: children are young humans who are in the process of learning how to be adult humans and exist in the human world! Dogs, on the other hand, will never be humans and therefore do not need to experience "going inside a coffee shop" at any point in their canine lives.