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not rly active on here anymore

[✿ @withinasea]

@glassmix like... their creative team is CRAZY!?!!??!?!?

[chefkids @girlflopping]

this is why we need to bring back the mtv movie awards.....

[tyler oakley @tyleroakley]

this will be used against student protesters before it will be used to protect students from school shooters

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

People also forget that Nicole Kidman has two kids with him, but she hasn't seen them in decades because, after they divorced and she left the cult, the kids stayed and were forbidden from speaking or seeing her, since she was labeled a suppressive person and enemy of the church as well. Those kids are full-grown adults in their 30s, and the last time she was seen with them publicly was in 2007. Allegedly, she has tried to reconcile with them, but I do believe they are still members of the church, so I do not think they are able to contact her. Tom doesn't even talk about his kids, and they are never seen together publicly. It is such a bizarre and fucked up situation.

Scientology is one of the most deranged cults, and Tom Cruise has completely destroyed his kids' lives because of it.

[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🤗

[✿ @withinasea]

@tinychaogarden it's perfect

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Data center project committing fraud by impersonating residents to manufacture consent.

Unreal levels of corruption, you don't hate AI and these robber barons enough.

[bawbagstauner @bawbagstauner]

What really fucking boils my piss is that we had the opportunity to change the world after Covid. The pandemic produced a fascinating real-world experiment. It demonstrated that human activity can alter emissions and local environmental conditions extraordinarily quickly

[miss boston @rhonjuyeon]

Everyone fr into astrology been saying that app is bullshit

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

Keep calling them pervert glasses, say it to people you see wearing them, never stop.

[Plant trees•destroy lawns•decommodify food @FoodForestNetwk]

Ecological caring labor needs to be like 50% of the economy if we’re gonna get through this

[italymystery 🦢👑 #SwanQueen forever🦢👑 @italymystery]

'Don't mention the children'

Written in 2014 by the children’s author, poet and activist Michael Rosen after the Israeli government banned a radio advert naming children killed in Gaza

[Wonderkitty, Cetacean Defender of Taco Bell 🏴‍☠️ @TehWonderkitty]

If I had her resources I would make this my life's mission too. I'm so fucking impressed by her, fr. She could've had an easy life filled and instead she protests around the world against the oligarchs killing us all, KNOWING they will single her out every time & want her dead.

[J. J. Ellis @jjellisart]

I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.

[bob appetit @flugenhof]

the problem with AI isn't just that it's ugly and lazy, it's indicative of a culture uncaring about everything. you have to care about something. you have to care about what you're putting out in the world. you have to make effort somewhere so people can perceive it.

[✿ @withinasea]

there won't be any future historians 😹

[Shafeeq @Y2SHAF]

future historians are going to have a nightmare trying to explain why we ran out of drinking water because we needed to cool down the machines generating 4K AI fruit videos

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Dutch intelligence agencies got caught training AI on citizen data they weren't supposed to have.

the CTIVD, the Netherlands' official intelligence oversight body, published a report finding that AIVD and MIVD staff accessed and retained massive bulk datasets in ways that violate Dutch law.

names. phone numbers. location data. social media. communication content. millions of entries. some from government sources. some commercially purchased. some stolen by criminals and bought on the dark web.

and then Bits of Freedom, the Dutch digital rights organization, flagged something buried in the report: the agencies appear to be training their own AI models on this data.

this is not the first time.

in 2020, the same watchdog found the same agencies had retained citizen data far beyond legal limits. after complaints, they were ordered to delete it.

six years later: same report. same finding. same agencies.

but now with AI in the loop.

the data that was illegally retained is now reportedly being used to train models that will make future surveillance faster, more accurate, and more autonomous.

you cannot opt out. Unlike commercial AI companies, there is no settings menu. no privacy center. no right to delete that you can actually exercise.

Bits of Freedom put it directly:

"They seem to be buying data from criminal data breaches. aren't they supposed to be protecting us from those?"

[✿ @withinasea]

@glassmix HELPFJSJHHEHHJKFJHJ

[✿ @withinasea]

@glassmix can i see too......

[violet ݁⋆⭒˚.⋆ @violetnyann]

democracy is so awesome, 607 out of 450,380,300 got to vote for whether the EU can scan _all_ of your non e2ee encrypted messages until 2028