Travis Gardner

Father. Entrepreneur. Coach. Founder @essexrowing, @methuencrew, @rowingresource, @gtsrowing, @renegadehpg.

[Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD]

A scientist was hired by a chemical company to study its weedkiller. He found it was castrating and feminizing frogs. So the company stopped studying the chemical and started studying him. This is the documented story of atrazine. 🧵

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI.

Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots.

Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach.

Now the library has built its own intelligence.

Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers.

The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top.

The pirates beat them to it.

Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it.

The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London.

Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books.

The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

@BillboardChris This level of evil hits me hard, and I have little sympathy for the mother who allowed it to happen. There are times in life when you are called to sacrifice for what is right. Defending the innocent against an evil force is the most obvious form of righteousness. She failed.

[JP Sears @AwakenWithJP]

I think Trump may have been right about "Low IQ Alex Jones." Find out the shocking truth here.
@RealAlexJones

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

If you want to be a more useful human:

Learn about the Business Plot

Investigate the origin of Lyme Disease

Figure out why you can watch video online of almost any medical procedure except an abortion.

Read Thomas Sowell

Watch Ben Anderson's reporting

Ask "Why?" more

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

When I used to watch old Westerns I would see the snake oil salesmen character and wonder "Why would anyone fall for that?"

I get it now.

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

@davidicke It takes a fair bit of hubris to assume someone is coming out of nowhere just because you weren’t aware of them before…

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

Nothing says "I'm a little bitch" better than driving a Tesla with an anti-Elon sticker on it.

[✒️ @Literariium]

Dostoevsky wrote this after nearly being executed:

“When I look back at my life, I feel pain not because of suffering, but because of wasted time. I see how carelessly I lived, how often I ignored the quiet voice of my soul, how rarely I understood the value of a single moment. Only when death stood before me did I realize that life is not merely existence—it is a miracle. Every minute is a treasure, and in every breath, there is the possibility of happiness.”

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Children will eat butter straight from the packet if you let them.

They instinctively choose fatty cuts over lean.

They reject vegetables unless you hide them in cheese sauce.

They naturally fast by skipping meals when not hungry.

Then we force them to:

- Eat breakfast even when not hungry
- Finish their vegetables
- Avoid fat
- Snack constantly
- Celebrate with sugar

And wonder why childhood obesity exists.

We're not teaching them to eat healthy. We're teaching them to ignore their body's signals.

[EKO @EkoLovesYou]

35 years ago, a journalist was found dead in a hotel bathtub. His research was stolen.

One month later, on September 11, 1991, HW Bush announced their "New World Order" on live TV.

This is the story of the first man who saw it all, and the digital cage we live in because we forgot him.

Merry Christmas.

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

Why engage in a hot war when you can manipulate your enemy into destroying itself?

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

After receiving her first Covid mRNA injection, seven-year-old Cassidy Baracka vomited for over eight hours.

She was then given a second Covid mRNA injection, which proved fatal.

And yet her death certificate says she died from Covid-19.

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

@Sadie_NC FL, pond

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

@razorfist Only cowards hide when confronted by evil.

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

@NoDMsPerfavore B

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

@DonutOperator Get a dog.

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

@RepSaraJacobs Why would I want a stranger taking care of my child? How about making single income households viable again by removing freeloading illegals from the country.

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

@Gaynotqueer1 More like a kick in the nuts.

[Travis Gardner @travisgardner]

Sports massage.

It was a gift from my girlfriend at the time, three days before I began completion at that years national championship. I was assigned a former NFL player. The only thing that got me through it was pure refusal to show I was in pain and the certainty that it either couldn’t get worse and/or couldn’t go on much longer.

Spoiler alert - it did both.

I was still sore for my heat three days later.