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[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel dropped a bomb on a medical warehouse in Gaza.

The explosion carved a crater more than 10 meters deep.

This was not a military target.

This was a warehouse storing essential medical supplies — needed to keep civilians alive.

[Yugi Now @YugiMarzipan]

@H0NIS0IT @AmirAminiMD @BrianJBerletic I can see that happening.

[Yugi Now @YugiMarzipan]

@fOrGiVeNcHy I'd say you're overdue for a walk in the woods, hon.

[Kerry Burgess @KerryBurgess]

Yeah, I think that's me out...

[Yugi Now @YugiMarzipan]

@EastEndJoe Merrily merrily merrily merrily.
Life is but a dream.

[Yugi Now @YugiMarzipan]

@FranceskAlbs Wow your hubby is hubba hubba ♥️🇵🇸

[Yugi Now @YugiMarzipan]

@wariocolosseum This sucks. And. They're using this to distract us from their f****** wars.

[Barbarian Herodotus @BBHerodotus]

After seeing a post on it yesterday, I’ve looked more deeply into Anthropic’s purchasing and destruction of millions of used books.

They spent tens of millions of dollars acquiring and destroying books to train their AI model, Claude.

They knew, from the beginning that it would be unpopular. They knew what they were doing, was wrong.

An internal memo from 2024 stated:

“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”

“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”

Why used books?

Companies like Anthropic and Meta found it impractical to gain permission from authors and publishers to use their work.

So instead, they stole their work to train their product through mass purchases of used books and through pirating them from the internet.

The authors of these works, didn’t receive a dime for their efforts. These companies stole the hard won literary talent of others to train machines to replace the victims of their theft.

Anthropic cofounder Ben Mann personally downloaded countless books for this purpose from LibGen, a book pirating website.

When a new book piracy website debuted in 2022, Mann sent an email sharing the link with his employees stating: “just in time!!!”

Meta employees were wary about the piracy of books, with one engineer writing, “Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right.”

Anthropic purchased millions of books, in batches of tens of thousands from Better World Books and U.K.-based World of Books.

They then used a “hydraulic powered cutting machine” to slice off the spines of these books before scanning them. Finally, the remains of these books were picked up for recycling.

Feel free to use AI, it’s a free country.

But remember that, if you use Claude, that Anthropic has committed a great wrong, and they knew that they were doing it from the beginning.

Below is an image, from a court case, of a warehouse full of used books, that instead of being held and read by you and your children, have been destroyed forever.

AI is inevitable, but spend your money on the companies who do good, and do not knowingly commit evils.

May the most moral company win.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Let's be precise about what "uniparty" actually means, because the word gets dismissed as a conspiracy theory by people whose careers depend on that dismissal.

It does not mean Republicans and Democrats agree on everything.

It means they agree on the things that matter to the people who fund them both.

They disagree on abortion.

They disagree on gun control.

They disagree on immigration framing and tax rates at the margins and which pronouns to argue about this week.

They do not disagree on defense contractor budgets.

They do not disagree on pharmaceutical industry immunity.

They do not disagree on bank bailouts.

They do not disagree on surveillance expansion.

They do not disagree on protecting their own members from accountability when the crimes are serious enough.

They do not disagree on the fundamental question of whether the people who write large enough checks should have direct access to legislative outcomes.

They perform disagreement on the issues that divide voters.

They maintain consensus on the issues that protect donors.

The performance is the product.

The outrage you feel at the other team is the mechanism by which your attention is kept away from the things both teams are quietly agreeing on while you watch the fight.

You are the audience.

You are not the constituency.

There is a difference.

Understanding that difference is the beginning of political clarity.

[Yugi Now @YugiMarzipan]

@dmp267 @SecKennedy @SenRandPaul @SenRonJohnson You're an idiot. Russia has nothing to do with any of this but you have no real arguments to defend Fauci so you just use stupid smears.

[Shia Notes @Nasirpeer110]

Protesters Disrupted Amazon’s VP As He Spoke At UN-linked AI Summit

Project Nimbus’, a $1.2 billion deal struck between big tech companies - including Amazon - & the Israeli military, aiding the army committing a genocide with the tools it needs to continue committing war crimes

[Gen EL 𓈐 𓆄 𓋹 @ReginaAustralis]

@AssalRad Sundeep 'translates' 😈yahu's ludicrous denials & lies about "settler" terrorist attacks in the West Bank when asked on US Zi✡︎ media why his government doesn't stop them 🙄:
https://t.co/KrJIV85rHr

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

This Man makes it Really Easy to Understand what is going on with Flock Cameras! This should be the Post of the Day! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Yugi Now @YugiMarzipan]

@zei_squirrel I'm surprised the CIA let him make movies

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

POGROMS
against defenseless civilians
all over the West Bank (while Gaza is under fire).

Israeli civilians and army joining forces.

It is not just Nethanyahu and few "rotten apples".

THIS IS ISRAEL

ARMS EMBARGO NOW - STOP TRADE NOW

This is what intl law requires.

[Yugi Now @YugiMarzipan]

@Tom_Daraki12 Evidence free accusations. The Grayzone suppies receipts. actual evidence. Show your evidence Of Syrian govt using chemical weapons. It was a hoax proven by OPCW whistle blowers. Lies don't work when real journalism has revealed the truth.

[Truthout @truthout]

While the Trump administration has made waging a civilizational war against the left under the guise of counterterrorism a key goal, Rubio has increasingly transformed the State Department into a tool for political repression. https://t.co/qCGP8Uizwy

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Solidarity with the journalists at @BTnewsroom as they face the Trump administration’s totalitarian assault on press freedom

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is burning the Berachit Nature Reserve in South Lebanon.

Not military targets.

Forests, wildlife, and protected land.

One’s of Lebanon’s natural treasures.