Bitter Aquarian

29 years old adult female. Chaotic but good. Head in the clouds and a heart on fire.

[adamsmasher]

WE WERE ON JEOPARDY!!!!!!!!!!

[rouge-the-bat]

thank you for coming to my this #mythis

[qqchurch]

[thememedaddy]

[modelsof-color]

Chol Mabior at Robert Wun Couture FW 2026

[konoko]

[cognitohazardous]

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING ANT #5362 HOLD THE FUCKING LINE

[worldworldworldworld]

"Ace checking his email", 2008

[pmamtraveller]

East London Line by Ben Pearce

[depsidase]

[fred-erick-frankenstein]

[expressions-of-nature]

Ashikaga, Japan by ajpscs

[tendie-defender]

We should bring back forest green.

[physicsgoblin]

@harrowhound

[why-bless-your-heart]

Somebody tell me what style of sofa that's called in the upper right hand corner because it's the most comfortable and I need one

[omgtwilightoculus]

Blessing my heart doesn't do anything so you're a useless slave destined for eternity in hell.

[why-bless-your-heart]

I don't think that's what the sofa's called.

[fivepoint-12]

[fivepoint-12]

They should be thrown into the shredder

Not to glaze Elon but XAi is the only one who is preserving rare books and scanning them manually as not to destroy them.

[arizona-green-tea-absolutist]

Do you know if anthropic is doing this too?

[fivepoint-12]

Anthropic is the main culprit

[fivepoint-12]

@arizona-green-tea-absolutist

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.

[theragamuffininitiative]

A lot has happened with this case since last year when info about the amassing of books in print by Anthropic broke. I initially found the below updated article from the Authors Alliance (case file linked at the top of the article) published last month:

Anthropic Wins on Fair Use for Training its LLMs; Loses on Building a “Central Library” of Pirated Books

Yesterday, Judge Alsup released his decision on Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment in the fast-moving lawsuit it is defending, brought

Update in September of 2025:

Anthropic settles with authors in first-of-its-kind AI copyright infringement lawsuit

A U.S. district court is scheduled to consider whether to approve the settlement next week, in a case that marked the first substantive deci

Update as of yesterday:

Authors have mixed feelings about the $1.5B Anthropic copyright infringement ruling

Some say the $3,100 per title payout is small compensation for what they view as big, ongoing threats from the makers of generative AI model

Note: the legal conversation is all around copyright and fair use, not about the evils of mishandling the mere physical possession of books (according to Anthropic, the digital version of their scanned library exists within their company in the original scans) or any disregard of their value as such. I still hate that but yeah, there aren't laws about how to handle book collections.

[viralfrog]

[vampirefabio]

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

[kloechv]

Archaeologists Keep Finding Women Where Men Were Supposed To Be

Even when historical records already suggested they’d be there

History has a funny way of becoming decidedly less male-dominated the moment we stop assuming it always was.

The echoes — and the screams — of women occupying diverse, influential, and public roles, even within patriarchal societies like ancient Rome, were there. Yet only recently have we stopped treating them as background noise.

As long as humans have kept records, it turns out, there have been queens, empresses, pharaohs, priestesses, female warriors, keepers of knowledge, women who captained their own ships (the Red Sea matrons) and ran their own businesses (the ‘housekeepers’ who turned out to be winemakers), and other women who supported themselves, sometimes living free of society’s otherwise patriarchal bonds.

The surprising part isn’t really that women occupied all these various roles and positions, but that we continue treating them as exceptions to the rule, even as new archaeological methods challenge that idea over and over again.

To manufacture a story in which gender roles are the inevitable result of fixed biological rules requires an almost impressive amount of ignorance of the historical evidence and the messy, complex realities of human lives.

[anasabdin]

間

[bitchesgetriches]

Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes

Companies that rushed to replace human labor with AI are now shelling out to have IRL workers to fix the technology's screwups.

Delicious. We love to see it.

[tobaeus]

@ralfmaximus

[ralfmaximus]

Ultimately, she spent 20 hours redoing the copy from scratch — and with her $100-per-hour rate, that meant her client was shelling out $2,000 for copy that likely would have ended up being far cheaper had a human just written it in the first place.

I love stories like this.

[tacofriend]

Get peer reviewed!

[lierdumoa]