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silver cross

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

As the Earth gets hotter, the seasons get more extreme, & the disasters get closer to your home, there will be an increased focus on convincing you these conditions are the result of the many’s existence, instead of capitalism, which loots the world to line the pockets of a few.

[Commie Trucker @commie_trucker]

This is how capitalists will address climate change. Instead of placing the slightest restrictions on billionaires, the ruling class will propose murdering half the world’s population.

[❥ hazel ︻デ═一 @BluebriarArts]

Earth absolutely can provide for more humans. It’s just that a certain harmful subspecies of human known as the “billionaire” contributes 1,000,000% more to the uninhabitability of the planet than the average human

[ᢉ𐭩.ᐟ fhí is playing cyberpunk @wondercrfts]

how the beginning of phantom liberty feels

[Nutribun Republic @NutribunRep]

“Babantayan” daw ng DENR ang Pax Silica—eh ang legally protected at bahagi ng UNESCO Global Geopark na Chocolate Hills nga, pinabayaan ninyong tubuan ng resort at kinailangan pang mag-viral bago kayo nagising.
🤡🤡🤡

[sasha 🌕 @sashamirae]

Foreigners can use our land for free for their AI data centers while our local farmers are about to lose their lands. Nakakagalit.

#NoToPaxSilica

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

‘WALA PONG PUBLIC CONSULTATION NA NAGANAP’

Nasa 92 pamilya na nakatira sa Bgy. O’Donnell, Capas, Tarlac ang kasama sa inisyal na listahan ng Bases Conversion and Development Authority o BCDA na maapektuhan ng itatayong Pax Silica Hub sa lugar. | via @jessiecruzat

[Cyberpunk 2077 @CyberpunkGame]

Stairs, bloody stairs everywhere…

V by: @ELLIOT0203669

[Marie Rivera @MarieRi57435041]

walang motivation ang @meralco habulin ang mga jumpers, kasi hindi naman sila ang apektado.
wala din motivation to be more efficient kasi hindi sila ang sumasagot sa mga tapon.
grabe ang kapal ni pangilinan. kaya pala yumaman, dahil sa pagsasamantala sa consumers.
@DOEgovph

[Philo⁷ ⊙⊝⊜ is seeing BTS in 2027 @borahaetk__]

Instead na sa Pax Silica i-invest. Sa healthcare, education, risk reduction and disaster management, agriculture pagtuonan ng gobyerno yung pondo

[༊·˚ @ritualsofdeath]

ai in movies, ai in shows, ai in ads, ai in music, ai in photography, ai in art, ai in all social media platforms, ai in memes. ai everywhere. I HATE IT HERE

[isabelle💫 @bubblemunne]

#asaden

[Marcus is Fighting @CosmonautMarcus]

When they’re mean to winter lamb in Sheep Detectives

[Charlie D. Becker @charliedbecker]

I'm a second-generation bookseller. My family runs Houston's largest used & rare bookstore and I'm building an AI tool for used bookstores. We got hit by exactly these orders, including a single order for 70 obscure books that made us pause online sales entirely. So I dug in. I don't think this connects the way people want it to.

Every ingredient of the viral story is true. ISBNdb really does advertise sourcing books for AI companies. Anthropic really did destructively scan millions of books though they were mostly acquired through things like library deaccessions, not bookstore inventory. And booksellers really are getting bizarre bulk orders. But "rare" here isn't what you're picturing. It's The Insider's Guide to Metro Denver (1995) and how-to-use-WordPerfect 1991 manuals. Obscure, but often not precious.

When we combed through our orders, nearly every book bought from us was either unavailable on Amazon or listed there at 5, 10, 20x our price on the platform they were purchased on. And the shipments are going to FBA prep companies: which is what you do with a book you're about to resell, not one you're about to cut apart. There is more than circumstantial evidence that this is a well-funded company running algorithmic arbitrage, buying underpriced or out-of-stock books to relist on Amazon at markup. This evidence includes an official denial that they are selling to train AI but I don't want to mention them for several reasons. You can Google it.

That's more mundane than the shredder story. The actual risk is worse, though, because it's quieter: books that don't sell via FBA eventually get liquidated. If we really hold the last copies of some of these (and comparing platforms, it looks like we might) we're feeding them into a portal they may not come back from. No AI company required.

Everyone assumes the internet preserved everything. It didn't. Many of these books have almost no metadata anywhere, just a scattered listings across proprietary databases then nothing. That's what my project is for: building better bibliographic records for these books than exist anywhere else, so we at least have a map of what we stand to lose. So the Library of Alexandria is still burning, just more slowly, and kore from “who cares” than from some cinematic villain.

(I am open to being corrected.)

Full writeup: https://t.co/tHXMH0L3us

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We went from “reduce your carbon footprint” to “let’s build a Death Star data centre in every field.”

[aoi @1NINE0MARTINI]

unlimited land, water, and power for ai data centers, but zero urgency when our own farmers are begging for basic irrigation and support. the priorities are completely rotten 🙃

[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.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We’re not doctors. We don’t work in the ER, and we’re not defusing bombs. We work in spreadsheets. Nobody needs a response within the hour. The fake urgency in corporate needs to stop.

[SAINTE IVES @santomaria_]

Destruction of Environment and Natural Resources

[⋆ ada :꣓ @stilla6eliever]

things that are worth your attention as a filipino 🇵🇭

- pax silica
- vp sara duterte impeachment trial
- turning aeta’s ancestral lands into an illegal dumpsite
- flood control controversy
- china’s new claim about batanes
- logging and quarrying in sierra madre