TeGood

Self media. Self journaling. Hahaha always.

[devalopr @_devalopr]

It's completely unnecessary to destroy books when machines like this exist.

This book scanner by Treventus for example, can scan fragile books without destroying it.

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

This is a fantastic article about @Tesla's FSD by The Detroit News:

"Determined to maintain their individual transportation independence, they are using Tesla’s hands-free FSD system as a driver assist. Though by no means exclusive to seniors in its ability to add another set of eyes to the road, FSD helps elderly drivers maintain a cocoon around their car as their confidence in reflexes and eyesight naturally deteriorate.

92-year-old Leonard Kraus uses Tesla FSD (Supervised) for 87% of his miles. He recommended Tesla FSD to his 95-year-old brother-in-law. “I don't think I would be driving without it.”

“It's as good a driver as I am,” said Dick Amacher, 78, a retired General Motors engineer from Rochester Hills who drives his Model Y and Model 3 on FSD 98% of the time. “Here's the thing, it will not go through a red light. It will not go through a stop sign. Every once in a while, I've driven through neighborhoods where stop signs were partially obscured by low hanging branches, for example. . . and (the Tesla) sees them before I do.”

Driving into Detroit, FSD exited the expressway near Wayne State. “All of a sudden the Tesla pulls over to the curb. I'm like: ‘what is going on?’” said the 78-year old. “Turns out there was an emergency vehicle coming from behind. FSD saw that it was an emergency vehicle before I did. It has vision in every direction simultaneously. A human being cannot replicate that.”

Full article: https://t.co/bn099dJ8li

[Vad3r @vad3rt3sla]

This is all you need.

[SMX 🇺🇸 @iam_smx]

How did this camera filming beneath the Starship launch pad survive the massive heat generated by 33 Raptor engines?

[X Freeze @XFreeze]

𝕏 Money is officially rolling out and this is much bigger than another payment feature

Elon’s everything app vision is becoming real

𝕏 Money is becoming the complete financial layer of 𝕏 where people can save, earn interest, receive their salary, send money instantly, spend, pay bills and manage their financial lives without leaving the platform

Here is what makes 𝕏 Money so powerful:
• Up to 6.00% APY depending on subscription and eligibility
• More than 10 times the national average savings rate
• 3% cashback on eligible 𝕏 Card purchases
• Direct deposit with paychecks arriving up to two days early
• Instant transfers to anyone on 𝕏 with no fees or limits
• Bill payments, wire transfers and mailed checks
• Free ATM withdrawals worldwide through fee reimbursement
• No foreign transaction fees
• The 𝕏 Card accepted anywhere Visa is accepted
• Passkeys, custom transaction limits and advanced privacy controls
• Up to $10 million in aggregate FDIC insurance through its cash sweep program
• Fast dedicated support available around the clock

𝕏 Money combines savings, payments, direct deposit, bill payments, wire transfers and the 𝕏 Card inside one global network

𝕏 Money is currently rolling out to select users aged 18 or older in the United States with access expected to expand over time

𝕏 has already become the platform where the world communicates, discovers information, follows events, builds communities and creates businesses

𝕏 Money now adds the financial infrastructure that connects all of it

People will not merely discuss opportunities and conduct business on 𝕏
They will be able to move money through the same network instantly

This is the moment Elon’s everything app vision begins turning into reality

𝕏 Money is being built to become the financial operating system of the world’s most powerful network

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

𝕏.com card

1999 vs. 2026

[TeGood @tegood2022n]

Caution: Claude share

These companies tend to launch the easy sharing feature and deal with the privacy fallout once it embarrasses someone.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Shared Claude chats showed up in Google searches this weekend. Nobody got hacked. People used Claude's share button, which creates a public link, and those links drifted into search results where strangers could read them. A few contained things like crypto wallet keys and home addresses. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, fixed it on July 26.

My Take
Anthropic will say people clicked share, and they did. But the button sits one tap away and says "anyone with the link," which most people take to mean whoever they send it to. Anthropic told Google's crawler to stay out, then left off the small piece of code that actually keeps a page out of search, so Google indexed the pages regardless. I don't put that on the users.

This already happened to ChatGPT last year and to Claude back in September. These companies tend to launch the easy sharing feature and deal with the privacy fallout once it embarrasses someone. And the fix has a limit. Someone copied more than 11,000 of these messages to a public page before Anthropic patched it, so deleting a link now won't undo that. Anyone who has shared a chat on Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini should go into settings and remove the ones they don't need.

Hedgie🤗

[TeGood @tegood2022n]

주의: Claude 공유

쉬운 공유 기능을 먼저 출시하고, 누군가를 당황하게 만들 때까지 프라이버시 후폭풍을 처리하는 경향이 있어요.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔Shared Claude chats showed up in Google searches this weekend. Nobody got hacked. People used Claude's share button, which creates a public link, and those links drifted into search results where strangers could read them. A few contained things like crypto wallet keys and home addresses. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, fixed it on July 26.

My Take
Anthropic will say people clicked share, and they did. But the button sits one tap away and says "anyone with the link," which most people take to mean whoever they send it to. Anthropic told Google's crawler to stay out, then left off the small piece of code that actually keeps a page out of search, so Google indexed the pages regardless. I don't put that on the users.

This already happened to ChatGPT last year and to Claude back in September. These companies tend to launch the easy sharing feature and deal with the privacy fallout once it embarrasses someone. And the fix has a limit. Someone copied more than 11,000 of these messages to a public page before Anthropic patched it, so deleting a link now won't undo that. Anyone who has shared a chat on Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini should go into settings and remove the ones they don't need.

Hedgie🤗

[Farzad 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 @farzyness]

Self-Driving Cars

vs

Legacy Auto
Rideshare companies
Taxis
Trucking
Lawyers
City planners
Parking authorities
And more...

[TeGood @tegood2022n]

Real frontier!

[Yun-Ta Tsai @yunta_tsai]

A real frontier where there is no training data.

[TeGood @tegood2022n]

@elonmusk 의 놀라움:

프로젝트간의 연결성을 파악하는 능력과
구체적인 값의 이상함까지 발견해내는 정밀함/구체성

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A SpaceX engineer once described receiving an email from Elon Musk at 1:47am.

The email was one sentence long. Just a question about a valve pressure reading from a test that had happened nine hours earlier.

The engineer responded at 7am when he woke up. By the time he opened his inbox Elon had already sent two follow up emails. One with a proposed solution. One asking why no one had responded yet. It was 3:12am when the second email was sent.

The engineer said what disturbed him wasn't the hour. It was the specificity. Elon had referenced a data point buried on page 47 of a 200 page test report that had been distributed to the team that afternoon. He had not only read the entire report. He had found an anomaly in the data that the team who wrote the report had missed.

He said the running joke at SpaceX is that Elon doesn't sleep. The less funny version is that he sleeps but his brain doesn't stop processing. Engineers describe receiving emails that reference conversations from weeks ago, data from months ago, and connections between projects that nobody else had linked. As if his mind runs a background process 24/7 that never powers down.

The scariest part isn't the late hours. It's the precision. A CEO of six companies remembering a valve pressure reading from page 47 of one report among hundreds he receives weekly. That's not dedication. That's a different kind of brain. And the people who work for him either find it inspiring or terrifying. Usually both at the same time.

[Race 🕊️ @multiplanet1]

A SpaceX engineer once described receiving an email from Elon Musk at 1:47am.

The email was one sentence long. Just a question about a valve pressure reading from a test that had happened nine hours earlier.

The engineer responded at 7am when he woke up. By the time he opened his inbox Elon had already sent two follow up emails. One with a proposed solution. One asking why no one had responded yet. It was 3:12am when the second email was sent.

The engineer said what disturbed him wasn't the hour. It was the specificity. Elon had referenced a data point buried on page 47 of a 200 page test report that had been distributed to the team that afternoon. He had not only read the entire report. He had found an anomaly in the data that the team who wrote the report had missed.

He said the running joke at SpaceX is that Elon doesn't sleep. The less funny version is that he sleeps but his brain doesn't stop processing. Engineers describe receiving emails that reference conversations from weeks ago, data from months ago, and connections between projects that nobody else had linked. As if his mind runs a background process 24/7 that never powers down.

The scariest part isn't the late hours. It's the precision. A CEO of six companies remembering a valve pressure reading from page 47 of one report among hundreds he receives weekly. That's not dedication. That's a different kind of brain. And the people who work for him either find it inspiring or terrifying. Usually both at the same time.

[X @X]

make money moves on X

[TeGood @tegood2022n]

Books are the heritage of humanity

[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.

[TeGood @tegood2022n]

책은 인류의 유산

[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.

[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.

[TeGood @tegood2022n]

생각해볼 문제입니다

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@HedgieMarkets I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@HedgieMarkets I’ve asked the SpaceXAI team to preserve any rare books in a library and scan them the hard way vs just cutting off the spine and scanning

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

@elonmusk 🦔Thank you for doing this. The extra cost is tiny, slower scanning and a bit more storage, against budgets in the billions. You still get the training data, and the book survives. If SpaceXAI holds to it, that's a bar the rest of the industry should have to clear too 🤗

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗