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 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.
âYâknow, my wife was telling me the other day that time is a flat circle. Everything weâve ever done or will do, weâre gonna do over and over again. Pretty crazy, huh? Like one of those philosophers or something. And hey, Iâm real sorry for bothering you, but thereâs just one more thingââ
this post and all its wonderful additions (look in the notes) is circulating again. these photos and many of the ones added in the notes come from the US Southwest.
right now the trump administration is attacking the public lands in the Southwestern US. most recently (July 2026), in Utah the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments have been cut by over 90% to allow for mining. these lands are sacred to multiple Native nations in the area and contain irreplaceable archeological sites. additionally, the commission of Native representatives who aided in management of these lands has been dissolved leaving Native people without a voice in caring for the remaining land. (read more here)
here in New Mexico, the 10 mile buffer zone surrounding Chaco Canyon preventing oil and gas drilling is under attack. Chaco Canyon contains incredibly old and incredibly fragile archeological sites sacred to Pueblo people. these sites are threatened by mining and drilling. (read more here)
The attack on the Chaco buffer zone is currently in a public comment period open until July 29. PLEASE leave a public comment to save these irreplaceable places.
some people have cut this addition off of their reblogs and quite frankly that's disturbing.
you can't appreciate the desert and also erase the fact that these places are under attack.
and I'd even say it's downright racist. this isn't "just" the desert, these are sacred locations to multiple Native nations and they are under attack because they are sacred to many Native people. the least you can do is reblog to raise awareness to the attacks on these lands. there is no going back from mining and drilling. there is no way to repair these ancient archeological sites when the vibrations in the ground topple them and when they are bulldozed.
submitting a public comment is the absolute bare minimum you can do and if you can't be assed to write 1 sentence saying you don't support removing the Chaco buffer zone then at least leave the reblog encouraging other people to do so attached.
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnât care which VPN you use, only that itâs still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows âsurveillance softwareâ.
Two things back that up:
Thereâs no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleâs advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidâs works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereâs activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: âItâs impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].â Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?
I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.
I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods.
The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"
The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.
HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.
So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.
"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.
Oh, another thing that I personally discovered after bottom surgery: vaginal odor changes for trans women during our periods too. I was not expecting that because I always thought it was just from menstruation. But nope, the ph levels of a trans woman's vagina are the same of as a cis woman's vagina, and it changes during our periods just the same.
For now Meagan and Autumn Hill are at Johnson County Jail, as the state of Texas is trying to double-jeopardy them. If you want to send mail to them, use these mailing addresses:
for Meagan:
Bradford Morris 202502011
Johnson County Jail
PO Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131
For Autumn Hill:
Cameron Arnold 202502023
Johnson County Jail
PO Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131
Books have to be ordered through Barnes and Noble, they go to the same names and booking numbers, but to the physical address of the jail:
[Deadname / booking number]
Johnson County Jail
1800 Ridgemar Drive
Cleburne, TX 76031
You can also contact them via the GTL app, though it requires registration and costs 25 cents a message. To get to them in the facility lookup , you would select Texas > Johnson County > booking number (for Meagan 202502011 , for Autumn Hill 202502023). You will need to put funds in the "my messaging" account. The upside is that you can send immediate messages and pictures to them.
If you want to send them commissary, you have to go through the Connectnetwork website at https://web.connectnetwork.com/ . Like with GTL you have to look them up by Texas > Johnson County > booking number.
Anyway. I want to say thank you to everyone who's been supporting Meagan and Autumn through this awful time, and that they've really benefited from everyone's support: the letters, commissary, phone calls, everything that helps them keep a hold of their community outside. One day they will be free, but until then thank you all for supporting them <3
The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.
"Democrats and Republicans in Congress have struck a deal on a bill they say will help keep children and teens safe online. The KIDS Act could pass on the House floor as soon as next week; if enacted, it would fundamentally change the way everyone â not just kids â accesses the internet.
At stake is your ability to use many social media platforms without revealing your identity.Â
Thatâs because the KIDS Act at least strongly incentivizes â and, for some services, outright requires â age verification. Many platforms will turn to age verification to avoid potential liability under the law. Companies like X, video-sharing services like Vimeo, and others with a history of usersâ populating social feeds with edgy content may be required to verify usersâ ages because they host a certain amount of content deemed âsexual material harmful to minors,â a term that the KIDS Act defines broadly.Â
Thatâs a big problem for people who need to be able to use the internet anonymously, since, as Taylor Lorenz has previously written about in The Intercept, âthereâs no way to reliably verify someoneâs age without verifying who they are.âÂ
Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalistsâ confidential sources. [...]
Mandating age verification effectively hands Big Tech and the government a skeleton key to the identities of every whistleblower, dissident, and investigative reporter who uses online platforms, not to mention everyone else, including children. This kind of surveillance on steroids that surrenders our right to speak, report, and read the news anonymously wonât make anyone safer."
Hey so I've barely heard any buzz here about this but literally Internet privacy might be at stake TODAY. The house of representatives is trying to push through a bundle of "Internet saftey bills" Like KOSA or COPPA. Which will put the age verification checks you've all been seeing in the UK, on Youtube, on Spotify and whatnot and apply them to ALL social media sites, NSFW sites and to a lesser extent AI Chatbots. Across the ENTIRE u.s.
PLEASE if any of you are from the U.S. PLEASE call your representatives to tell them to not go with these new internet bills. These bills are going to harm so many people. Isolate so many young folks from their online friends. And so much of this shit is going to leak so fast like all the above examples.
The leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will unveil a bipartisan deal Monday on guardrails for protecting kids against online
KOSA is a censorship bill that wonât make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr
Our lawmakers should be protecting all of us by passing privacy legislation to rein in Big Tech abuses. Instead, theyâre pushing dangerous a
I canât believe this is the first time Iâve heard about this. like for years Iâve been thinking âimagine if the police were in charge of ambulances and firefighting, all the horrible problems that would cause, wouldnât it be better if they were a separate thing, etcâ as a way to better understand/explain the fundamental problems with the existence of police. that framing was part of what made me start to understand why my friends were saying âACABâ and âabolish the policeâ. I had no idea it was literally once historically like that and not just a hypothetical tbh
For now Meagan and Autumn Hill are at Johnson County Jail, as the state of Texas is trying to double-jeopardy them. If you want to send mail to them, use these mailing addresses:
for Meagan:
Bradford Morris 202502011
Johnson County Jail
PO Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131
For Autumn Hill:
Cameron Arnold 202502023
Johnson County Jail
PO Box 247
Phoenix, MD 21131
Books have to be ordered through Barnes and Noble, they go to the same names and booking numbers, but to the physical address of the jail:
[Deadname / booking number]
Johnson County Jail
1800 Ridgemar Drive
Cleburne, TX 76031
You can also contact them via the GTL app, though it requires registration and costs 25 cents a message. To get to them in the facility lookup , you would select Texas > Johnson County > booking number (for Meagan 202502011 , for Autumn Hill 202502023). You will need to put funds in the "my messaging" account. The upside is that you can send immediate messages and pictures to them.
If you want to send them commissary, you have to go through the Connectnetwork website at https://web.connectnetwork.com/ . Like with GTL you have to look them up by Texas > Johnson County > booking number.
Anyway. I want to say thank you to everyone who's been supporting Meagan and Autumn through this awful time, and that they've really benefited from everyone's support: the letters, commissary, phone calls, everything that helps them keep a hold of their community outside. One day they will be free, but until then thank you all for supporting them <3
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