Putin comes against Le Pen ruling. Authoritarians hates any possibility of legal restraint on their leadership. Trump will doubtless do the same. Journalists do not have to follow this framing. There is zero reason for them to start a report by questioning whether the ruling is democratic.

бляяя ебанутый рыжий сморчок с идеально гладким мозгом, какого хрена ты воообще жив

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

2 of my books, 12 of my articles.

I don’t mind at all that they were on LibGen — that someone out there made them free to read for less-privileged people who can’t pay for access.

I mind a great deal that Meta scraped my work for commercial gain.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Black Knights A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature.   In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-speaking world developed a different form of racial knowledge than their Europe...

Periodic reminder that I wrote this, for those of you who were at the MAA and are wondering about that stylish book with the muted colors and a striking knight on the cover…

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

This made me cheer. It gets directly at a problem I’ve often noticed: people don’t fundamentally understand what a historian *does*.

Wow, the Atlantic looked at what Meta stole for AI training, and made a search tool where you can see what it sucked up via LibGen (a pirated data set of books).

Let's check one thing real quick.... ok yup
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a....

Pinterest updated their terms of use and they're going to use all of the content you saved to train their AI.
Go to options > your privacy rights > disable GenAI
Please do it 🫠

Please fold this into stories about Trump’s little performance yesterday.

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

The Christ is not enough…

On @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social just now, former US ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands said Americans "don't want to pay for another of Zelensky's yachts".

The claim that Zelensky is using US aid to buy yachts is an old piece of disinformation directly originating from Russia. It's not true.

It just hit me that across every dimension Trump is destroying a full century of human progress. Free trade, the norm against aggression, vaccines and public health, desegregation, victory against fascism and ethno-nationalism. All onto the bonfire. One of the greatest criminals in history.

Folks, the DOGE bro is linked to a cybercrime ring.

He's linked to a satanic neo-Nazi cybercrime ring that extorts CSAM from minors.

Twitter exchange in which a user makes fun of Musk for not understanding how SQL works and falsely claiming the government doesn't use SQL

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

I think calling what the right wing is doing a "culture war" cheapens what it actually is: a very intentional and extremely well resourced war on informed consensus and collective reason

I knew she was good at tennis but this is just remarkable court coverage to be there at Stonewall on the front lines while she was a 12 year old living in Czechoslovakia without a passport at the time

Scientists investigating human sperm competition stumble upon an intriguing paradox Men who suspect their female partners have more male friends produce ejaculates with higher sperm concentration—yet paradoxically, those who believe in their partner’s faithfulness generate sperm that move faster.

Men who suspect their female partners have more male friends produce ejaculates with higher sperm concentration—yet paradoxically, those who believe in their partner’s faithfulness generate sperm that move faster.

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

so.
#severancespoilers

Guy, called Seth (like an Egyptian god, who killed Osiris who had the twin) serving the corporation, which was founded by a twin, who lost his other twin.
And corporation basically creates two souls in one body, while twins sometimes called “one soul in two bodies”…
POETRY.

How Social Media lost its Charm Social media are under pressure. Think of the tension around TikTok between the US and China, the new policies of X (former Twitter) under Elon Musk and the increased critique of the tech-elite in …

Social media seem less fun and determined by algorithms and politics today. Have we reached the end of social media, and what's next? Read my new blog entry here and find out...! nicollelamerichs.com/2025/02/01/h... #platforms #socialmedia

общее ощущение от мира вокруг

No, the headline is "Trump attacks minorities to cover up his own culpability in crash", it's time to start playing the game we are actually in

Faking It: Deepfake Porn Site’s Link to Tech Companies An analysis of MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website, reveals clues about two apps that it has prominently advertised.

German reporter Patrizia Schlosser discovered dozens of sexually explicit pictures of herself online. But the imagery was all faked. @bellingcat.com investigates MrDeepFakes, the most notorious marketplace in the deepfake porn economy. www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-...

моя крыша держится на ролевочках и фандомах.

а как иначе.

My aunt Meryl Streep received an order to evacuate on January 8, but when she tried to leave, she discovered that a large tree had fallen over in her driveway, blocking her only exit. Determined to make it out, she borrowed wire cutters from a neighbor, cut a car-size hole in the fence she shared with the neighbors on the other side, and drove through their yard to escape.

Meryl Streep did WHAT.

A screenshot of the new tiktok removing a "free Luigi" comment

A screenshot of TikTok flagging a political video as possibly innacurate

A screenshot of a tiktok appeal form after a video is removed for being tagged #abortionrights

A screenshot from reddit of a user's tiktok comment being removed for making fun of Mark Zuckerberg

An update on the TikTok situation from our monitoring on Reddit. Now you get TOS'ed for saying negative comments about meta and Zuckerberg, left-wing politics get flagged as misinformation, and you can't tag #fucktrump #fuckelon or #fuckmeta but you CAN tag #fuckbiden and #fuckkamala

We have the most unfortunate representation

Happy birthday darling!