bethany

Chemist/Toxicologist

[bethany @toxictorte]

Gary Moore
The Prophet
https://t.co/stpocIFVeT

[tern @1goodtern]

🚨HOLY SHIT.
They actually mention that Covid infection can make you vulnerable to Shingles.

In passing.
In tiny writing.
And they blame other stuff first and pretend it's a mystery.

But they still mention the actual cause for the increase:
COVID INFECTIONS

[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🤗

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

When I say “the system is rigged,” this is what I mean:

As Schwebel’s closes down operations, laying off 673 Ohio-based employees and withholding the pensions and benefits they’ve earned, the owners are cashing in.

Ohioans need a senator who will stand up to the CEOs and corporations screwing over hardworking Ohioans, not one that will give them tax breaks.

[Sammy Hagar @sammyhagar]

i'm looking rough, but who cares I'm serious with this post. I hope the news about Dave is not AI!!!!! if it is, my post is still coming from my heart and soul. It is so important that this music carry on especially with the AI music out there. those of us that can still go out and play. should do it as long as they can physically and emotionally carry that torch. @VanHalen was, should be, and hopefully always will be real live music, not just for our fans, but for the future fans of real rock music. ❤️

[Sigurdur Nordal @essenviews]

MITCH MCCONNELL IS ON ETERNITY LEAVE...
Cleveland, Ohio

[Manuel Ruiz @manruipa]

🔴⚠️‼️Have you heard a flood of news stories about Epstein-Barr virus and multiple sclerosis over the last few days?

Pay attention, because many headlines are telling the story incorrectly. Or, at the very least, they are telling you only part of it.

The news is not simply that “the mononucleosis virus activates certain lymphocytes.”

Nor have we only just discovered that Epstein-Barr virus is associated with multiple sclerosis. This had been suspected for decades and became extraordinarily well supported in 2022.

The real news is that we are beginning to understand how a virus that remains inside our B cells for life could keep the immune circuit that eventually attacks the nervous system switched on.

And that completely changes the therapeutic question:

Why do we continue limiting ourselves to suppressing the immune system without also trying to control the virus that is probably fueling the process?
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[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

This eighty seconds from Jon Karl was very, very strong on undermining faith in free and fair elections. By being so very clear, it allowed the audience and program to move past the ridiculous Trump falsehoods and focus on other important news including developments in Iran.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

He died. His sister got the Senate. A US Senator died. 48 hours later, his sister inherited his seat. No election. No vote. Just a phone call. Now she writes laws.

[Valerie Anne Smith @ValerieAnne1970]

This is insane...

Whitney Webb exposes the history of Palantir.

Palantir started as a DARPA project. It was going to completely destroy our constitutional protections so it was quietly taken out of government and rebranded as a private company to do the EXACT same thing.

[ProPublica @propublica]

THREAD: The boy is called a liar. He’s told not to defend himself.

Then the private school owner encourages all of his peers to attack him, one by one. She hits him, repeatedly, with a plastic pipe-like object.

How does this school still exist — and receive state funds? 🧵

[Dr Satoshi Akima FRACP 『秋間聰』 @ToshiAkima]

The surgical mask shown in this article will do almost nothing to reduce particulate inhalation because it's just a splash guard. Wear a well-fitted N95 respirator or better https://t.co/1RiH1ihmeZ

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Google just pulled off the biggest theft in the history of AI.

And their OWN documents exposed it...

Three of the largest publishers on Earth, Hachette, Cengage, and Elsevier, just sued Google in federal court, alongside best-selling author Scott Turow.

Their claim is that Google built Gemini, its flagship AI, on millions of copyrighted works it never paid for or licensed.

This is one of the biggest copyright cases ever aimed at an AI company:

Before they trained Gemini, an internal Google document allegedly spelled out the risk directly.

Using this material could expose the company to "$10Bs-$100Bs in potential fines." Google's own people put a number on the theft, in the tens of billions, but the company moved ahead anyway.

Then it allegedly tried to DELETE the evidence...

The complaint says Google stripped the copyright information off the works before feeding them into Gemini, so nobody could trace what the model had actually been trained on. Pull the fingerprints off first, and the theft gets much harder to prove later.

And there's a second betrayal underneath the first:

Most of this material was not scraped from some random corner of the internet.

Publishers had handed it to Google years earlier for a narrow purpose, to make their catalogs searchable inside Google's own services. The lawsuit says Google took that trust and repurposed the content to build a machine that now competes directly with the people who supplied it.

And that machine is the entire point.

The complaint describes Gemini producing a full-length substitute for a copyrighted work in about 20 minutes. Something an author spent years writing can now be cloned in an afternoon by the company that trained on the original. No writer or publisher survives that.

So why does this case matter more than the dozen other AI copyright fights?

Because most of them turn on a fuzzy fair-use question argued years after the fact. This one arrives with an internal document that allegedly SHOWS Google weighed the cost of getting caught and trained on the material anyway.

A jury does not need a law degree to read that.

The fight now moves toward discovery, where Google's internal emails and training records get dragged into the open. If those files back up what the complaint claims, that $100 billion will turn into a real liability.

Google spent years telling the world it was organizing information for everyone. Its own documents show it knew exactly whose information it was taking, and what the price of getting caught would be.

[Harvard Chan Environmental Health @HarvardEnvHlth]

How do you prevent pollution from wildfire smoke from getting into your home? @j_g_allen answers all of your questions about air filters and wildfire smoke in this video.

Watch here: https://t.co/fsXuhHxMt5

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: This is the unearthed video Senator Adam Schiff repeatedly demanded Todd Blanche to answer for during today’s hearing.

Blanche literally ADMITS he fired DOJ attorneys who prosecuted Trump, his own client - a staggering and obvious breach of ethics.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

If you're dodging fruits & vegetables to avoid illness, you might also consider wearing a well-fitting high-quality mask like an N95.

You are magnitudes more likely to get infected with SARS-CoV-2 than cyclospora. Long COVID & excess deaths from COVID remain considerable.

[Mike Hoerger, PhD MSCR MBA @michael_hoerger]

New from JAMA-NO: Child birthday parties spread COVlD to grandparents.

I have warned that children will someday piece these facts together.

[Jake Zuckerman @jake_zuckerman]

Four underground wastewater injection wells -- deep siloes that are dumping grounds for fracking waste --suspended as Ohio regulators fear a leak

Water officials in the area are calling for a moratorium on injections, especially near aquifers
https://t.co/AQEMIlrBAk

[Brendan Pedersen @BrendanPedersen]

this is jaw dropping. my jaw is dropped. I am having difficulty lifting my jaw back up into closed position.

[David DeWitt @DC_DeWitt]

Looks like all the notorious national billionaires are getting involved in the Ohio governor race.