Kenn Leonard @kenis

Great context for why the national conversation was steered towards shoplifting / stealing food by big corporations as they raised their prices, said that the hikes were temporary, and then kept raising them. And then tried (some succeeded) to use dynamic pricing for food.

Camryn @dancingofpens

24 hours ago

this graph from the AP stunned me into silence

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Many are focusing on the fact Boy George was jailed for chaining a male escort to a wall and beating him with a metal rod, as Israeli soldiers often do to prisoners, and are ignoring that this is a historically terrible song in a particularly Israeli white guy reggae way

Politics Global @PolitlcsGlobal

2 days ago

🚨🇬🇧 NEW: Boy George has released a song in solidarity with Israel One of the opening lines is “You say genocide, I said war, when you’re attacked that’s what the army is for”

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btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.” it was called project panama. here's exactly what happened: 1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.” 2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy. it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.” 3: that piracy created a massive legal risk. so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.” 4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs. those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers. 5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months. 6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them. a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling. 7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data. the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

Hedgie @HedgieMarkets

2 days ago

🦔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

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How is there 900 of these guys? Charles Koch funded “liberal” insists social welfare is Bad Politics. See, it’s not ideological (or b/c of his billionaire backers) he’s just Super Concerned About Winning Elections. No one makes arguments anymore, everyone just plays Nate Silver!

Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle

2 days ago

Leftists live in an alternate reality. Virtually everything he said here makes him more electable. You can disagree with some of his positions (I'd like to see him back abolishing ICE, for instance), but the idea that running to the far left is a winning strategy in this

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@RalphSmorra the official death count for Ukrainian children per their government and the UN is 803 in 4 years. At least 21K killed in Gaza in less than 2 years. Kindly shut the fuck up and stop doing genocide laundering by invoking Gaza when talking about Azov Nazis: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…

☀️👀 @zei_squirrel

4 years ago

reminder that the current Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine Andrij Melnyk is an openly avowed Nazi and Holocaust denier. He used to be ambassador to Germany, but after he expressed his Nazi Holocaust denying views Zelensky promoted him to his current position

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can you imagine any legacy media outlet writing a profile praising a person who said this about Jews? Try to imagine it. It's inconceivable. Because they would never allow you to say about Jews what they say constantly about Muslims. See Elon Musk: x.com/zei_squirrel/s…

☀️👀 @zei_squirrel

2 years ago

what would happen if Elon Musk said about Jews what he constantly says about Muslims, Pakistanis, black people, Palestinians, any other minority? We don't have to imagine, we know. He said it, then went crying to Ben Shapiro and Netanyahu to beg forgiveness. Let that sink in.

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Because the US regime is not actually a democracy. It's an authoritarian capitalist oligarchy that maintains a bloody, anti-democratic global empire. The fact that so many people still believe the US is a democracy is a testament to the success of the extreme brainwashing.

Bruno Maçães @MacaesBruno

5 days ago

Something that has puzzled social thinkers for decades or longer: why are Americans who live in a formal democracy more brainwashed that peoples that live under authoritarian regimes. I tried to provide an explanation in my History Has Begun

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Our dystopian reality 1.4 BILLION Mistakes a Month?? youtube.com/shorts/BSO-zDF… via @YouTube

Never forget when Israelis, who all live on stolen homes, gathered up their families and headed to Sderot hill with snacks and food to watch israel mercilessly bomb Gaza. They do it till today.

Chinese drone: Tells you to stop breaking the law so you don't drown Israeli drone: Plays audio of babies crying to lure civilians to their death

NEXTA @nexta_tv

2 days ago

👀 In China, a drone wouldn't let a man enter the sea after dark Footage from a beach in the city of Qingdao shows a drone approaching a beachgoer and ordering him through a loudspeaker to leave the water, enforcing a nighttime swimming ban. Big Brother is watching you.

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Two militaries, one monster: House passes a $1 trillion bill critics say would integrate U.S. and Israeli militaries. Human rights groups warn as it heads to the Senate. @Mondoweiss

Farm workers stand in solidarity with the ILWU picket line in Crockett, California. C&H Sugar must negotiate a fair contract that protects workers’ overtime pay and retirement benefits. From the fields to the sugar refineries, we demand dignity for all workers.

Since our report on the Trump administration’s “boat strikes” went out on Friday, two journalistic reports added outrageous new pieces to the puzzle. wola.org/analysis/killi…

Missouri commissioner Ike Skelton banned Flock cameras in his town, took a saw to one, cut it down, got slapped with two felonies and a misdemeanor, and walked away with a $500 plea deal. TYFYS, Ike! 💪 If only we had more "city officials" like you.

They called it the American Century. What they meant was: one hundred years of acting without consequence. Not one hundred years of superior ideas. Not one hundred years of harder work or better values or more civilized governance. One hundred years of being the only economy standing after two world wars that destroyed every competitor. One hundred years of a military large enough to make the bill unpayable for anyone who tried to send it. One hundred years of controlling the currency that everyone else needed to buy oil, which meant controlling, at the foundational level, whether other economies breathed or suffocated. That is not a century of greatness. That is a century of operating without a referee. Anyone looks bold when no one can call the foul. Anyone looks strong when the other team has no legs. The American Century was not won. It was inherited from the rubble of a world war and maintained by the threat of nuclear annihilation. Call it what it was. A very long winning streak by a team that got to write the rules, hire the officials, and threaten to burn down the stadium if the score didn't go their way.

@BrianRoemmele @EYE_KILL_IT The legal system can’t keep up with the tech world’s tendency to “move fast & break things.” Anthropic wanted to train its LLM without paying individual authors. They used the law that enables the sale of used books to accomplish their goal futurism.com/future-society…

For the “@DeBunkers”, Anthropic admits in open court. You may love this company but don’t defend the indefensible. Know what you are voting for…

Some folks don’t believe that a “principled AI company” would destroy books after they suck out all the information for their models, even one-of-a-kind books and manuscripts. Here it is admitted in open court.

Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele

a day ago

Confirmation of Anthropic’s BOOK BURNING for their AI: The Great Forgetting of the Amnesia Generation In the quiet warehouses and shipping docks of 2024, Anthropic did not merely train an AI. It staged a quiet erasure of human knowledge. While the public was still dazzled by

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Last Saturday in the Bronx, we packed the room to fund independent, working-class power. Free from AIPAC. Free from the two-party machine. Free from the whole rotten system. Ritchie Torres is funded by AIPAC and big real estate. We're funded by you. andreforthebronx.nyc/donate

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