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Can’t believe we’re eventually gonna have to burn down the data centers.
Everyone is bought and paid for. They’ve bribed em all. No one is coming to help.
The midterms are the fascism finish line btw. America’s Putin by 2028 if they hold congress.
Trump: "Only I can make this promise to you: If the Republicans win the House and Senate, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000"
This is propaganda paid for by billionaires
Ivy league grads when they realize their plumber is clearing $250k-$300k/year with no college debt or unpaid internships.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
While some plumbing business owners can earn high incomes, the claim that a typical plumber makes $250k-$300k is inaccurate.
According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the median annual wage for plumbers is $62,970, with the top 10% earning over $105,150. bls.gov/ooh/constructi…
I would like to sign up to the inevitable groups that’ll be formed to burn down the data centers
🦔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."
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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🤗
Imagining what the world would be like if we were currently in year 6 of Bernie Sanders’ presidency.
How bout we shut the shit down forever
Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to authors in the largest copyright settlement after stealing books to train their AI models
They will literally spend money to make sure your quality of life doesn’t improve
House Speaker Mike Johnson says the Pentagon is requesting another $350 billion for “fighting communism on our own shores”
Boomers: you’re 18 now, you need to move out
Me as a kid: that’s probly normal
Me as a parent: wtf is wrong with you you’re literally the worst generation