SushiBeast

I like sushi.

[Rep. Zoe Lofgren @RepZoeLofgren]

Happy National Intern Day! We’re grateful to have the help of Estevan, Ethan, and Owen in our DC office this summer. They’ve done a wonderful job making sure #CA18 constituents get the assistance they need.

[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.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

⚠️The Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza had been organizing public screenings of World Cup matches for displaced families across the Strip. About an hour before today’s Egypt-Argentina match, Israel killed the committee’s public relations director in a strike on his vehicle. Two others, including a child, were also killed.

[SushiBeast @Sush1Beast]

@vacantvesselsc @hedhedthe @oldfriend99 I don’t get it lol, can you explain?

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

I make the Transformers sound when I change into sweatpants.

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

Oh no. Not a nuclear power plant.

[Pubity @pubity]

A Chinese court has ruled it illegal to replace human workers with AI purely for the sake of cost-cutting.

The court decided that companies hold a social responsibility to treat workers fairly and pay them what they're worth.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

We need to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove Trump.

Threatening war crimes is a blatant violation of our constitution and the Geneva Conventions.

[conar @subtoconnorpls]

gay of hormuz

[icarus @sarterei945]

A beaver dam cannot threaten nearby land. The beaver is the land experiencing itself

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Just got off the phone with President Trump.

In our meeting earlier, I shared my concerns about Columbia student Elmina Aghayeva, who was detained by ICE this morning.

He has just informed me that she will be released imminently.

[Angelina @decodelee2]

men actually like it when youre mean to them ive noticed

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Profoundly evil administration

[SushiBeast @Sush1Beast]

@yanniversace Horrible take

[SushiBeast @Sush1Beast]

@ostonox @Eagles Hi ostonox

[William Murphy @420GHz]

If capitalism is so great, why does it completely rely on violently stealing wealth from other countries?

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Greta Thunberg was arrested in London under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign that said:

“I support the Palestine Action prisoners. I oppose genocide.”

[santos-inistas @JDabknee]

CVS employees when you ask them to unlock $2 of toothpaste