Clay

Perspective: We look up at the same stars and see such different things IG:ClaysDimension

[Clay @SimulatedDreams]

But I know what I have to do.

[Clay @SimulatedDreams]

I don’t know how to feel.

[How To AI @HowToAI_]

OpenAI and Google are about to have a massive legal problem and nobody is talking about it.

Every major AI lab has sworn to courts that their models do not store exact copies of copyrighted books.

They claim their safety filters block verbatim regurgitation. They use this as their primary legal defense against copyright infringement.

Researchers proved it is entirely an illusion.

They published a paper called "Alignment Whack-a-Mole" exposes a vulnerability that could destroy the foundation of fair use in AI.

They use a complex jailbreak or a malicious hack. They just fine-tuned the models.

They trained ChatGPT, Gemini, and DeepSeek on a simple, benign task: expanding plot summaries into full text.

The safety filters instantly collapsed.

The models started reproducing 85% to 90% of copyrighted books word-for-word. Single verbatim spans exceeding 460 words.

They did this without ever seeing the actual book text in the prompt. Only semantic descriptions.

But here is the detail that will terrify AI executives.

You don't even need to fine-tune the AI on the specific book you want to extract.

The researchers fine-tuned a model exclusively on the works of Haruki Murakami.

That single action unlocked the verbatim recall of over 30 completely unrelated authors.

Fine-tuning doesn't teach the model new text. It acts as a skeleton key. It reactivates the latent, word-for-word memorization hidden deep inside the pre-training weights.

And it happened across three different models from three different companies. They all memorized the exact same books in the exact same places.

It is an industry-wide vulnerability.

[Ben Swann @BenSwann_]

🎯"Everyone is implementing digital ID... All governments are coming with central banking digital coin, which is nothing else than controllable money, so they are really working hard to take away our liberty.

We have this huge boom in the defense industry and I always say most likely these weapons are not going to be used against the enemy, they are going to be used against us, with Palantir implemented in different European nations."

-@ClaudioGrass

[Brandon Weichert @WeTheBrandon]

Fuel shortages are for peasants.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

In a 1988 interview, Pablo Escobar said co*caine wasn’t the real problem...hypocrisy was.
He argued that drugs spread because of demand, just like alcohol, and that the US only saw co*caine as dangerous because Colombians controlled the trade.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

In 1879, JP Morgan paid a man to invent the lie that is the foundation of modern economics.

A billionaire who helped start Amazon just exposed the whole thing on Diary of a CEO, and once you hear it you will never look at paychecks the same way again:

146 years ago, a guy named Henry George wrote a book called Progress and Poverty.

It was the first mainstream book about the rich systematically stealing from the poor, and It literally became the bestselling book in the history of the United States at the time.

The working class was reading it everywhere, and the people at the top of the economy completely lost their minds.

So JP Morgan personally brought a man named John Bates Clark to Columbia University, which was essentially the intellectual headquarters of Wall Street, and told him to fix the problem.

Clark wrote a book called The Distribution of Wealth. In it, he invented something called the "theory of marginal productivity," which claims that because markets are perfectly efficient, the amount of money you earn reflects EXACTLY the value you contribute to the economy.

If you make $15,000 a year, that's because you're providing $15,000 of value. If a hedge fund manager makes $500 million a year moving money around, that's an accurate reflection of the value he creates in the world.

And Clark literally said the quiet part out loud IN HIS OWN BOOK.

He wrote that they had to prove to working people that no matter how much they make, whether it's a little or a lot, it accurately reflects their value, because if workers ever concluded that their labor was worth more than they were being paid, they would revolt and destroy the entire system.

That was the whole point. The theory was built to prevent a revolution.

And it worked so well that it got absorbed into mainstream economics and is STILL taught as a foundational principle to this day.

Every time a CEO tells you "the market decides your salary," they're repeating a framework that was literally commissioned by JP Morgan in the 1800s to convince you not to ask for more.

Nick Hanauer, the billionaire who told this story, also shared the numbers that prove why it matters right now:

The median full-time worker in America earns about $60,000 a year. If that same worker had maintained the same share of GDP they held in 1975, they wouldn't be making $60,000. They'd be making $120,000. That gap goes all the way up to the 90th percentile. If you earn $180,000 today, you'd be earning $250,000 under the old distribution.

The ONLY people who benefited from 50 years of economic growth were the top 10%, and the vast majority of that went to the top 1%. That is trillions of dollars every single year that used to be wages for ordinary working people and now sits in the accounts of the wealthiest people on the planet.

This happened because of policy. Tax cuts for the rich, deregulation for the powerful, and wage suppression for everyone else, all justified by an economic theory that was invented specifically to make you believe you deserve exactly what you're getting.

And the craziest part is that GDP growth rates in America were 4 to 4.5% for decades when workers were included in prosperity. As soon as the neoliberals took over in the mid-1970s and implemented these policies, GDP growth fell to 3% and eventually to 2%.

Including people in the economy doesn't slow growth down. It's literally the thing that CREATES growth. And the theory that convinced the world otherwise was a hit job paid for by one of the richest men in history to keep workers quiet.

What do you think?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! Top congressman Thomas Massie confirms US fighter jets were launched to save the USS Liberty from the Israeli attack, but Washington inexplicably recalled them.

The Pentagon intentionally abandoned their own men for 17 hours to protect Zionist regime! Total betrayal.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Inflation is officially rising faster than wages, per BLS.

[Mo @atmoio]

This may be the best synthesis I’ve heard of the entire AI situation, from Palantir CEO:

“There’s a myriad of problems these models solve, and an even bigger amount of problems they create.”

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

If you're wondering why Edi Rama is selling his homeland off to Kushner, here is his Knesset speech from January 2026.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I will deliver this speech Monday at approximately noon. I’m honored to report that some survivors have already indicated they will attend as my guests in the gallery. If you’re a survivor and would like to attend, please contact my office, or talk with leaders in your group.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

Money to feed hungry Americans: $0

Money for Israel: $300,000,000,000

[Sam Tripoli @samtripoli]

Sam Harris is a fucking garbage person!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

What?!?! Why???

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

All the reports from the Platner rally, plus the videos circulating, show a raucous crowd and multiple standing ovations. The NYT calls it “relatively sedate.”

If you get your news from the Times, stop being stunned when events don’t turn out the way you think they will.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Elon Musk explained on Joe Rogan why old Twitter felt like “Pravda”, a state publication.

He said it was effectively an arm of the government, run by a far-left ideology concentrated in a tiny 10-mile radius of San Francisco/Berkeley. Republicans were suppressed at roughly 10 times the rate of Democrats. From that bubble, even moderates looked “far right.” Now it’s shifted back toward the center, and zero far-left accounts have been banned.

We cannot overestimate how important Elon’s acquisition of Twitter (now X) really was. As someone who was censored and suspended under the old regime just for stating basic facts, I can say without exaggeration: without that change, we’d be in a much darker place, where only opinions approved by a small group of authoritarians would be allowed. There are still forces trying to claw back that level of control, but the tide has clearly shifted. The genie is out of the bottle.

One narrow ideology nearly captured the planet’s biggest public square through technology it didn’t even build. Restoring neutrality opened the information flow for millions.

What’s your experience been with content moderation on social media before and after the change?

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This isn’t Lebanon.

This is Gaza right now.

Israel is dropping bombs on tents packed with families in the middle of the night in Khan Younis.

This is what they call a “ceasefire.”

[illuminatibot @iluminatibot]

USPS Employee Ethan Pease:
"I'm not a Trump supporter. I'm not a Biden supporter either, but something profoundly wrong occurred in Wisconsin during the Presidential election and the American people have a right to know about it!"

We need more people like this.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇮🇱🇺🇸 BOMBSHELL: The Pentagon raised Israel's counterintelligence threat level to "critical," the highest possible designation, over concerns Israel is aggressively spying on top U.S. officials.

According to U.S. officials, the Defense Intelligence Agency issued the assessment in recent weeks because Israel is making "a particular effort to surveil top U.S. officials to get information on the Trump administration's internal deliberations and decision-making" on Iran and Lebanon.

Yep, read that again.

America's "closest ally" is now rated a critical counterintelligence threat, the same tier as hostile foreign powers, because it's spying on the President's inner circle to find out whether he'll resume bombing Iran or sign the deal.

The details are stunning.

U.S. officials already use burner phones and avoid speaking in hotel rooms when visiting Israel.

A CSIS expert calls Israeli intelligence "hyper-aggressive" and "exceedingly interested in what we are up to."

Now stack the timeline.

Trump screams at Netanyahu, "you're f***ing crazy."

The Axios leak that enraged Levin.

Netanyahu's letter designing permanent military integration.

Section 224 linking the two countries' military systems and data.

And now the Pentagon formally designating Israel a critical espionage threat, in the same weeks Congress moves to wire Israel directly into America's defense industrial base.

The two stories are happening simultaneously and almost nobody has connected them.

The Pentagon says Israel is spying on America at a critical level.

Congress is responding by giving Israel deeper access to American military systems than ever before.

At what point does Washington admit this relationship is not what Americans were told it is?

Source: NBC