Mike Cimerian
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Mike Cimerian
@CimerianM
Freethinker. Follower of 天命. In an age of engineered information warfare, the highest rebellion is epistemic sovereignty.
Katılım Kasım 2022
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This is so embarrassing. In two years no one will ever admit to supporting this deeply damaged man.
The White House@WhiteHouse
Finish this fight.
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@thinkingwest I have spent days sorting my sci-fi and I am running out of shelf space. Vaults can cover history like train stations. Less redundancy and a wider catch. :)
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Once again , here’s a reminder you need to be stacking *physical* books. Why?
-they can’t be changed
-you can pass them on to your children
-they’re a break from a screen
-they make great decorations
-they smell amazing
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🤗
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@sethharpesq It remains gigo. LLMs like any instrument require practice at the user end. It is an invitation to find LLM power levers. The deeper we dig into etymology the closer we come to semantic roots in use.
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Mike Cimerian@CimerianM
Grok I would like to have a list of all meta-concepts like pneuma, telos and logos, for instance, with a small footnote about the nature of their power in expressing ideas. Those that you Grok paradigmatically. x.com/i/grok/share/B…
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It’s been five years since ChatGPT was released, AGI is not coming, not even the most modest AI predictions will ever become a reality, and there needs to be some of severe criminal sanction applied to everyone who trafficked in these ridiculous false promises
Chief Nerd@TheChiefNerd
SAM ALTMAN: “We are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish.”
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@SJ_Murray Sorry, I haven't. Copyright covers the first purchase. It seems that secondhand books are legal orphans.
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@CimerianM That’s not what I found in reading the case. But if you have a court case on that, please pass it along.
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As someone who has studied and read ancient manuscripts and rare early books since I was a graduate student in my early 20s, in collections around the world, and who still loves to “rescue” forsaken books from estate sales and second-hand book vendors who “foster” them, I have to say the enthusiastic response here reminds us all that there IS some good in the world, and it is indeed worth fighting for.
Sarah-Jane (SJ) Murray@SJ_Murray
I can’t even. Why are we shredding and pulping books? Often rare ones? In the name of AI. Are you kidding me? If the alarm bells haven’t sounded yet, they should now. And this coming from me, someone who is tech-forward. Good grief!
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@SJ_Murray The loophole.
If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”
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@CimerianM This is something that has come up a lot and I agree it presents its own challenges. I imagine we’ll see an update soon. I’m still doing research to try and understand what a good update might be. And what judges might weigh in precedent.
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@HappyNacho73 Grok I need the publisher notice about a book without a cover and obligations under copyright law.
The copyright law has to be amended.
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A hard copy library will be the bedrock of our revolution.
Keep your books safe, people.
All of them.
♥️📚✊📚♥️
Joel Jenkins@boganintel
This is the future of AI: a war against the human essence and collective memory.
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@_devalopr First sale copyright law and the loophole for secondhand books.
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@_devalopr If you purchased this book without a cover you should be aware that this book is stolen property. It was reported as “unsold and destroyed” to the publisher and neither the author nor the publisher has received any payment for this “stripped book.”
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@CimerianM @BBHerodotus Many years ago, I happened on a dumpster full of paperback books like that. Thousands of them, with covers ripped off. Took home a couple dozen of them.
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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.
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@SFFAudio Lovecraft H. P. «At the Mountains of Madness» (Final cut)
youtu.be/jW_G7cGxCWY
YouTube
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Lovecraft's stories are not all equally easy to read - his stories can be difficult
strangely, many of the stories that are mostly highly recommended as Lovecraft stories are the hardest to get into
THE CALL OF CTHULHU
AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE
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This is the magnificent library @AnthropicAI amassed, before pulping it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.
These people do not understand Civilization.
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🤗
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Opium poppy cultivation was legalized that year. Overturning the Taliban's prohibition on planting drug crops was among the first official acts of the Afghan client state installed by JSOC and the CIA.
Special Ops Magazine@specialopsmag
Delta Force operators in Afghanistan during a reenlistment ceremony, 2002.
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@EvaLovesDesign This is fake. The photo was taken by Louis Wu in Ringworld. :P
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An aerial view of Porcupine Rim in eastern Utah reveals the dramatic geological boundary where the Colorado Plateau rises abruptly above Castle Valley.
Erosion over millions of years.
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@Jonatha60007393 Heureusement que les agriculteurs et les volontaires n'écoutent pas cette quiche en guise de préfet... Leur efficacité sur le terrain est une aide précieuse pour les pompiers et leur permet de se concentrer sur les choses importantes. personne incompétente dégage!
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🚫 La préfète de la Gironde demande aux intervenants qui aident de remplir une feuille d'autorisation pour pouvoir le faire.
Et ils devraient ensuite attendre son approbation ! La blague !!
📬 VOUS VOUS FOUTEZ DE LA GUEULE DE QUI EXACTEMENT ??
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🔥Gregory Prats, commandant de bord en chef sur Canadair, revient sur sa punchline sur l'eau de la Seine à 2 milliards qu'il a écopée, il vide son sac sans filtre :
"Il va falloir que je m'applique pour le larguage parce que c'est quand même de l'eau qui a coûté deux milliards d'€ aux Français. Quand j'ai appelé mon État-major et que j'ai supplié d'avoir deux avions supplémentaires avec moi et qu'on m'a répondu que ce n'était pas possible, ce jour-là, il n'y avait que 5 Canadairs valides sur la France!
Effectivement, c'est une punchline, je sais très bien que les lignes de Canadairs ont été arrêtées, néanmoins cet argent aurait pu être dépensé avant que ces lignes ne s'arrêtent en 2015.
La France était dotée de 16 Canadairs dans les années 2000, il n'y a pas si longtemps que cela, nous en avons perdus quatre dans des conditions tragiques, avec la perte des équipages, ils n'ont jamais été remplacés. Alors que les lignes étaient encore en œuvre au Canada."
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🔥🦌 Moment de pure émotion en Gironde !
Une biche s’échappe des flammes de l’incendie… et les pompiers l’arrosent pour la rafraîchir et la sauver 💦❤️
Regardez cette scène de courage et de tendresse !
Merci du fond du cœur à nos héros en uniforme. Vous sauvez des vies… humaines ET animales. 🚒🙏
#Gironde #IncendieGironde #Pompiers #FeuxDeForêt
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🚨 BREAKING: French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez confirms the massive wildfires advancing on Bordeaux have developed a life of their own.
The flames exhibit completely erratic behavior. Over 40,000 hectares are obliterated as thousands flee to shelters in sheer terror.
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