Talvezno

Look I was bad at navigating online spaces *before* Twitter imploded. But there's so many cool folks giving great education here, so I'm hanging on.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@princesspatttyy Well then why don’t you want to date them? Of course anyone can have a preference. What’s your reason?

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@LiberalExpert @IAPolls2022 @ManhattanInst America has the lowest voter turnout, for any demographic, of any democracy in recorded history.

And even if you were right (lol) it would still be meaningful.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@LMezzabifera @MrsRoyKeaneo “No one who isn’t a journalist should gave an opinion, and there should be no effective way for them to share that opinion”

[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.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@noloveouthere88 @JStarlingGames Every one of these studies is funded by Christians who hate every social change in the last >70 years

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@noloveouthere88 @JStarlingGames You guys are so weirdly pathetic. It doesn’t do that, you just feel that way on your own and want an excuse.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@noloveouthere88 @JStarlingGames No it does not.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@GregoryKBovino @noturtlesoup17 Oh, well if the boss says his employees feel differently that counts for a lot

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@mightymadeline_ @burnthelilacs It’s horrible. My diy dose is low enough that I’m not losing anymore ground, but neither am I gaining the ground I lost, let alone making the progress I should be making this early in my transition.

Really hope yours gets sorted out! ❤️

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@mightymadeline_ @burnthelilacs (I’m ok now, found some diy to tide me over til I can get my rx back)

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@mightymadeline_ @burnthelilacs This. I was on medium dose oral for a year, been off for a couple months, I’m miserable and having worse dysphoria than I’ve ever experienced. I feel like all the old mes I’ve hated are crowding through a doorway to my body.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@monickery @burnthelilacs Breasts very literally start to wither in weeks. 6-12 months would be horribly dramatic.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@tigert0ts I mean you just bioessentialled all over trans women sooooo dunno if you get to say “for no reason”

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@VanJones68 I’m so ashamed you were my keynote speaker in high school. We had good values and taught kids to protect people’s rights.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@Zack_James94 @ahouse4all I think it’s worth calling it a Black Scare this time, but absolutely the heir to the first two

[Anna Nutha Thing @Annatronic]

So, we can just do things, good things

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@Lil_Luna_IRLz @brookstweetz @grok xD

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@Lil_Luna_IRLz @brookstweetz @grok Bots invoking bots, it’s turtles all the way down.

[Talvezno @Talveznoayer]

@DetectiveSpade_ What do you mean? These are very normal and very real human people

[NLH @NLH2224]

We're not in a Red Scare; we're in a Black Scare. The government hasn't designated any communist groups as terrorists yet, the last groups they designated as terrorists were all anarchists. In the May memo on counter terrorism they mentioned anarchism explicitly.