i do feel bad for rene baterbonia like imagine dying because of your universityโs incompetence and then youโre reduced to a lolcow after death because your mom wants to capitalize off of your death like
WTF
AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp.
The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded.
Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell.
What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.
things that are worth your attention as a filipino ๐ต๐ญ
- pax silica
- vp sara duterte impeachment trial
- turning aetaโs ancestral lands into an illegal dumpsite
- flood control controversy
- chinaโs new claim about batanes
- logging and quarrying in sierra madre
things that are worth your attention
1. pax silica
2. vp saraโs impeachment trial
3. the illegal dumpsite and aeta ancestral land dispute in subic
4. livelihood crisis of filipino farmers and fisherfolk
and so much more. being informed is our responsibility, not a choice.
About Pax Silica:
This is about a US-led tech hub generating semi conductors and AI facilities using OUR resources in New Clark City.
This facility is as big as 1.6k hectares (the size of 38 MOAs). AI facilities can drain our Luzon elec resources and consume millions of water
Actually, requiring Doctorโs notes to excuse sick days is inherently classist in a country without universal healthcare, and it is wild how little that is discussed.