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hiblitdrummer retweeted
Joe Rogan figured it might just be a conspiracy theory that AI companies were secretly buying millions of books, scanning them, and destroying the originals.
Then Jamie looked it up. It’s 100% real.
ROGAN: “Oh my god, it’s true.”
The deeper they dug, the more upset Rogan got.
Anthropic had an internal code name for the operation: “Project Panama.”
THE INTERNAL MEMO SAID:
“Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world.”
“We don’t want it to be known that we are working on this.”
ROGAN’S REACTION:
“Meaning they know that they’re doing something that will cause people to f***ing freak out and revolt.”
“The training data is other people’s work. It’s books. That’s what’s insane.”
“The idea that you could… burn all the books so that your company succeeds and other ones don’t is the problem we’re talking about.”
WHAT HAPPENED:
Anthropic needed a mountain of books to train its AI. So it bought millions of them. Workers cut the spines off, scanned every page, and threw the books out when they were done.
They wanted to keep this a secret, but then a group of authors sued in a case known as Bartz v. Anthropic. To Rogan’s dismay, the judge ruled the scanning was “fair use,” so Anthropic was allowed to do it.
Where the company got in trouble was the pirated stuff. On top of the books it bought, Anthropic had downloaded millions more from pirate sites for free, and the judge wouldn’t let that go.
That ended up costing them $1.5 billion, the biggest copyright settlement in U.S. history, or about $3,000 per pirated book.
hiblitdrummer retweeted
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Minnesota after a judge RELEASED WITHOUT BAIL a 20-TIME ARRESTED MEXICAN NATIONAL who s*xually assaulted a 14-YEAR-OLD LITTLE GIRL...
...and 23 DAYS LATER he reached through a woman’s KITCHEN WINDOW and tried to DRAG HER OUT!!!
THE WOMAN FOUGHT HIM OFF!!!!!
This story is so insane, I could barely believe it myself.
His name is Eduart Gomez Ochoa and on May 7th, prosecutors say he got into a St. Paul apartment through a window and sxually assulted a girl.
...DAYS LATER he attacked a woman in a parking lot, tried to grope her, and BIT HER FACE!!
On September 29th, a Hennepin County judge granted him CONDITIONAL RELEASE.
Prosecutors say they BEGGED THE JUDGE not to let him out... but the judge did anyway.
And what did he do with that freedom?
On October 22nd, a 21-year-old woman was cooking at her stove in her ground-floor St. Paul apartment when suddenly a man was HALFWAY THROUGH HER WINDOW.
Police say he grabbed her and tried to pull her outside, she kicked, screamed, and was able to FIGHT HIM OFF!!!
WHY WAS HE EVER WALKING FREE?????????
WE. DO. NOT. HAVE. TO. LIVE. LIKE. THIS.
hiblitdrummer retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: A fire at the Department of Energy's Savannah River nuclear site in South Carolina has triggered a SITE AREA EMERGENCY and an "unfiltered ground-level RADIOLOGICAL release," per WRDW
Workers are SHELTERED-IN-PLACE and air, river, and rail traffic is HEAVILY restricted.
Luckily, the fire has been CONTAINED, and officials believe they can prevent further contamination. Let's hope these folks are MUCH more competent than those who said the East Palestine, Ohio contamination was contained.
Praying for their success, and I'll provide updates as soon as I get them 🙏🏻
hiblitdrummer retweeted
Why did God create evil? The answer struck me to the core of my soul!
A professor at the university asked his students the following question:
Everything that exists was created by God?
One student bravely answered:
Yes, created by God.
Did God create everything? - a professor asked.
"Yes, sir," replied the student.
The professor asked :
If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.
The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said:
Can I ask you a question, professor?
"Of course," replied the professor.
A student got up and asked:
Professor, is cold a thing?
What kind of question? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?
Students laughed at the young man's question. The young man answered:
Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist.
According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees
Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature.
Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.
A student continued:
Professor, does darkness exist?
— Of course it exists.
You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness.
We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.
In the end, the young man asked the professor:
Sir. does evil exist?
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.
To this, the student answered:
Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It's the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there's no light.
The student's name was Albert Einstein.
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hiblitdrummer retweeted
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in North Carolina after an HOA just DOUBLED monthly fees to **$2,500/MONTH** for homeowners who were paying just $158/month just five years ago...
...and the homeowners say the HOA board tried to charge homeowners $7,500/MONTH JUST IN HOA FEES!!!!!!!
On Monday night, the board backed off $7,500...
...but voted to DOUBLE fees to $2,500 a month instead.
Yes, $30,000 a year just to LIVE IN YOUR HOME THAT YOU BOUGHT.
Nearly SIXTEEN TIMES what families were paying a few years ago.
Families who bought what they thought were their forever homes are now being told to pay $30,000 a year in HOA fees, or GO INTO FORECLOSURE!!!!!!
The neighborhood is Magnolia Cove in Sherrills Ford, Catawba County NC.
Jill Menson and her husband bought their house believing it would be their LAST home and five years ago, their HOA fee was $158 a month.
This summer it shot up to more than $1,200.
Plus a $10,000 ASSESSMENT on top of that.
On Monday night, the HOA board voted to raise fees AGAIN, from $1,250 to $2,500 a month.
That’s nearly SIXTEEN TIMES what they paid five years ago.
And the meeting?
It was held over ZOOM.
Menson says they’ll be forced out with nowhere to go, because no one will buy a house carrying fees like that.
So they went to the state for help.
The North Carolina Attorney General’s office told Channel 9 there are NO STATUTES limiting how much an HOA can charge.
None.
As long as the board follows its own documents, it can charge whatever it wants.
In Jill Menson’s words:
“Nobody is helping us.”
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD AND SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!
hiblitdrummer retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Journalists James O’Keefe and Cam Higby have been hit with TWO FELONY CHARGES in Minneapolis for their video EXPOSING vulnerabilities in Minnesota’s elections
This is TOTAL LAWFARE!
@camhigby walked in wearing a burqa to show they’d let him vote with a WOMAN’S name with NO questions asked, and he could even “vouch” for some other unregistered “Muslim” (who was @JamesOKeefeIII in a costume)
NEITHER of them voted.
The charges include felony unlawful voting and identity theft.
It’s a WITCH HUNT to try to SCARE OFF conservative journalists, and nothing more.
DO NOT BE DETERRED!
hiblitdrummer retweeted
At Tesla, we even care about the chipmunks
98-Year-Old Man Buys His First Self-Driving Tesla Model Y And Is Blown Away
“I've been driving it probably 2-3 months, and it's not made an error in its driving. In fact, the other day it stopped - a chipmunk was crossing the road, and there was no other traffic, and it did not run over the chipmunk … For somebody that's 98-years-old, this is a real treat.”
hiblitdrummer retweeted
98-Year-Old Man Buys His First Self-Driving Tesla Model Y And Is Blown Away
“I've been driving it probably 2-3 months, and it's not made an error in its driving. In fact, the other day it stopped - a chipmunk was crossing the road, and there was no other traffic, and it did not run over the chipmunk … For somebody that's 98-years-old, this is a real treat.”
hiblitdrummer retweeted
LGBTQ activist has a deer-in-headlights moment when Piers Morgan asks her to explain what “non-binary” actually means.
When she can’t, she calls it “uncomfortably personal.” Then Riley Gaines finishes her off.
PIERS MORGAN: “I just want to ask, what do you mean by non-binary?”
ACTIVIST: “Um when I say I’m non-binary, I’m expressing my identity in a way that I have the right to do.”
PIERS MORGAN: “What does that mean? There’s only one of you.”
ACTIVIST: “Actually, they/them has been the collective they has been used to refer to individual people for centuries and still is. So, um, I mean, if you don’t understand basic grammar, that’s on you.”
PIERS MORGAN: “I’ve got to be honest with you, I don’t understand the concept of what non-binary means… There’s one of you sitting here, and you look to me female. You’re a female?”
ACTIVIST: “If you don’t understand what non-binary means…”
PIERS MORGAN: “Are you a female?”
ACTIVIST: “…then I’m not sure you’re in a position to lead a debate…”
PIERS MORGAN: “But if you can’t explain it in simple language, then what’s the point?”
ACTIVIST: “I don’t think that I’m here to discuss the contents of my identity.”
PIERS MORGAN: “You raised this whole thing. I didn’t mention anything about what you were. You did.”
ACTIVIST: “This has really become uncomfortably personal.”
PIERS MORGAN: “Has it? You said it, not me…”
That’s when Riley Gaines dropped the hammer.
RILEY GAINES: “If you think this is uncomfortably personal, try undressing in a locker room with a 6’4 naked man.”
hiblitdrummer retweeted
FORMER WHITE HOUSE IT DIRECTOR ADVISES EVERYONE TO RESET THEIR ROUTERS EVERY MONTH
Anything stored in a system’s memory can be HACKED
@chrisherndon explains what the PHP vulnerability means for you
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hiblitdrummer retweeted
BREAKING: DC WILL BE ON LOCKDOWN UNTIL FUTHER NOTICE!
SecWar Hegseth just LAID DOWN THE LAW and informed the public that there will be a MASSIVE SURGE of military into DC.
It's time to SEND A CLEAR MESSAGE:
"Someone decided to TARGET National Guardsmen. That will only STIFFEN our RESOLVE. We will NEVER BACK DOWN. We will SECURE our capital, we WILL SECURE our cities."
It's time to GET IT DONE!
hiblitdrummer retweeted
🚨 BREAKING: Alaska Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign has been caught RIGGING THE ELECTION by PERSONALLY going out and recruiting a second “Dan Sullivan” to run for Senate, per NYT
Democrats are the party of CHEATING
Top aides tasked staffers with splitting the vote by locating another Dan Sullivan to run again the incumbent Republican San Sullivan to split the vote.
Peltola’s former campaign manager said Peltola was “DEFINITELY AWARE” about the operation.
Democrats LIED by saying they had nothing to do with it. They’re a bunch of dirty cheaters.
