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Opossum lover, not opossum fighter. I have been on this crazy ride called Earth and have currently ridden it 29 times!!!
North Pole in Russia Katılım Kasım 2016
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Nine years ago I planted 14 trees (4 species) as a privacy fence. People laughed saying it’ll take forever to grow. Two years ago I planted two apple trees in my yard. People laughed saying it’ll take forever to grow apples. Last year I spent 12 weeks rooting a fig cutting and my friend called it silly.
Our privacy fence is now 16’ tall and i can swim in my pool naked if I want. We got a handful of apples this year-it’s a start. The fig cutting is now 30” tall and wide w 8 figs on it. I suspect we’ll have jam next year.
I bought a dwarf lemon tree this summer. It won’t bear fruit until late winter. But it will make me happy.
I think I’ll plant another apple tree this Fall. It might take 5 years to bear fruit but I’ll be 5 years older either way. And, with apples.
Teevirus Spinks 🏳️🌈🚌🔋🚴🏿♂️@teevirus
The best time to plant trees in anticipation of hotter summers was 20 years ago. The next best time is today.
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"the Republican Party is ideologically committed to impregnating as many teenage girls as possible" is an objectively true statement that is taboo to admit in mainstream politics
Brianna Turner@_Breezy_Briii
The report opposes the inclusion of women/ girls in high intensity sports and instead recommends they stick to moderate intensity sports to maintain optimal fertility levels. This method also seeks to increase opportunities for male athletes and sees them as victims of Title IX
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Nobody seems to understand this but I cannot stress enough that a judge told Anthropic that training their AI models didn't constitute copyright violation as long as they 'transferred' the text instead of 'copying' it, legally necessitating the destruction of the books
devalopr@_devalopr
It's completely unnecessary to destroy books when machines like this exist. This book scanner by Treventus for example, can scan fragile books without destroying it.
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multiple people have informed me that YES, Gardevoir CAN learn Sing! 🎙️✨
(it's just convoluted and no longer actually possible in current formats)
girbo@gribberoni
a bit too strong of a performance
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Dont call yourself a deltarune fan if you dont have your ringtone set to second or third sanctuary
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The fifth amendment protects you from “being a witness against yourself” which courts have interpreted as meaning “using your brain to help the prosecution”
It does NOT protect from using your body to help the prosecution
Therefore, the law as it stands today, and I’m not kidding, is that cops can subpoena your face to scan and open your phone, or your thumb print, but they cannot ask for your password, because that would require you to use your brain
Remove biometric unlocks from your devices, just have a password, and worst comes to worst, you can always just say “I don’t remember.” It’s not illegal to forget your password
Smartphones sans Google (GAFAM)@Sans_Google
First known US case: American charged for using a “duress” password Samuel Tunick, an Atlanta resident, is being prosecuted for allegedly giving border agents a passcode that wiped his phone. The feature comes from GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android OS. Entering the duress code triggers a full factory reset. This is believed to be the first time federal prosecutors have brought such charges. The incident happened in January 2025 at Atlanta airport. Agents demanded access to his phone without a warrant, saying he hadn’t yet officially entered the US. When they entered the code, the phone wiped itself. Tunick has pleaded not guilty. His lawyers argue the seizure was unlawful and that agents were investigating his activism against “Cop City.” The case raises big questions about digital rights at the US border. What do you think? Article: techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-… #Privacy #GrapheneOS #DigitalRights
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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
🦔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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🦔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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