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AAAaaaaaaaaAAahaaaaahHHHHhH!!!!!

[miamaimania]

≋ Matthew Cornell — Brown goes down first, then the ocean appears

[loveridden1999]

finally some real fucking journalism

[drops-of-universe]

poetry fans be like i love that poem it made me feel fucking awful & horrible & scared

[jo1sstuff]

@hauntieannes

[kocalls]

[beef-on-weck]

[foreverfandom50-50]

[bobdylanyaoi]

i still can’t believe “our age of bronze is collapsing” is a line from the odyssey. bro i can’t believe we’re in the middle age right now. it’s such a nice day in feudal japan rn. i’m so glad we are having this agricultural revolution.

[whitepeopletwitter]

Daily grind

[girlwhoisgoingtobeokay]

me when i accept

[bongjoonhoe]

Paprika (2006) dir. Satoshi Kon

[fiollaigean]

how to cover letter:

polite greeting (it's me, boy)

introduction (i'm the ps5)

establish credentials (speaking to you inside your brain)

establish purpose (leave the girl, we don't need her)

describe what you can bring to the organization (cowboy times in space)

[bebewrites]

genAI companies are now buying up rare and antique books so they can scan them and use them to train their AI. then they're destroying the books afterward.

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almos

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

they're taking water, power, natural resources for their data centers. they steal. they're book burning, essentially. i'm just so angry, i'm at a loss right now.

[portentous-offerings]

There will be people who think that the books are being "preserved" or that many of these books are not valuable enough to care about, or too old. But if these books had no value, genAI companies wouldn't want to take them, copy them, then charge people for the copies.

I read somewhere that the Library of Alexandria wasn't just lost to a single devastating fire, but went through many stages of neglect before anyone mourned it's loss.

I don't want the future generations to mourn what we might lose to these companies.

[smute]

This process took advantage of a legal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder’s say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physical texts into digital ones — rather than redistributing them as new copies — a judge found this to be “transformative,” and therefore protected by fair use.

how training AI models on books is fair use when the models are used to produce texts that directly compete with those books is beyond me

[kropotkindersurprise]

wow can you imagine?

[kropotkindersurprise]

[apas-95]

the year was Two Thousand and twenty-four. I took a puff of my Electronic-Cigarette, inhaling the vapours. my mobile terminal buzzed in my pocket, a flat slab of microchips and glossy touchscreen. I ignored it....... probably another Electronic-Mail

[steampunkforever]

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

[kraken17]

"That is Signal, the Last Follower of the Old Law."

[skoomabong]

sure

[ellynneversweet]

Darcy’s introduction in Pride and Prejudice is really ‘what if you had just had the worst month of your life because your ex-bestie tried to lover boy scam your baby sister out of her share of your dad’s life insurance and your friend dragged you to a shitty party in a dive bar in the neighbourhood where he’d just signed a short term lease, and you decided to let your bad mood show because you were never going to see any of the assholes in this stupid shitty bar EVER again. And your friend ended up making out with a girl he’d just met there while you were stuck talking to her sister who was less cute and then her mother appeared and started trying to matchmake and started saying how if she was twenty years younger she’d clime you like a redwood and ooooh is that a black Amex, guess the next round is on you hahhahahahaha, while her other sister (how many fucking sisters does she have?!) flashed an obviously fake ID at the bar and ordered six vodka-diet red bulls and no one in her family except the less-cute sister even tried to stop her. And you went home and consoled yourself that you would never see any of these people again but then you met them over and over again because they live next door and your friend and the cute sister keep meeting up to make out but not actually date and then. You fall in love with the less-cute sister because it turns out she’s really witty and charismatic but she already knows and remembers and resents the fact that on a day when you were in a shitty mood you called her mid out loud in a dive bar.’

[meanbuddhist]

*turns my attention inwards* mmmmm. no *turns my attention back outwards* oh god