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Artist, programmer, game designer, and occasional VA Director @ Moonwire Media Discord @ cherrysodashake https://wolfy.weenie.nexus/

Its embarrassing how many grown ass adults live in these fantasies where people work for some nonsense like the artificial cultures oligarchs manufacture over survival.

Dumbass CEO of Anthropic thinks people should work for the "corporate mission" over survival.

A couple that was stalked and harassed by eBay for years has settled with the company, and three former executives including the former CEO, for $56 Million. David and Ina Steiner were harassed by eBay security because eBay executives were furious about Ms. Steiner's reporting on the company.

Couple Stalked by eBay Settle for $56 Million

Two Massachusetts journalists were harassed by a Silicon Valley security team in a case that raised questions about when executives should be held responsible.

nytimes.com

This is NOT about preservation. They are only doing this to harvest pre 2020's books to use for more training data. They have chosen this method that DESTROYS the book on purpose, because it is faster and cheaper. They know time is limited before society and the bubble catches up with them.

A picture of a tweet showing a woman preserving a book by taking pictures of it in a special picture rig that does not harm the book.

Internet Archive 

At the internet Archive, this is how to digitize a book.

We never Destroy a book by cutting off its binding.
Instead, we digitize it the hard way -- one page at a time.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

news.com.au

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have in the first place with Palantir. First Medicaid officials shared data about millions of people with ICE. ICE then shared that data with Palantir, according to a new court filing reported on by @NPR. /1

ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir

The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.

npr.org

Google has been deleting the reviews of ICE detention centers on Google Maps, according to a new study. The study found Google deleted reviews from dozens of ICE prisons, then blocked users from writing new ones. DHS says ICE never requested that Google do this. theintercept.com/2026/07/20/g...

Google Is Censoring Reviews of ICE Detention Centers

In the past year, Google Maps was deleting all the reviews for dozens of ICE jails, a new study found.

theintercept.com

One (probably) billionaire buying a commonplace article from another billionaire for a massively inflated price for (let's face it) no real reason is the perfect metaphor for the AI bubble.

1. TERF activist J.K. Rowling is threatening to bankrupt Amnesty International (UK) with lawsuits because the org dared release a report criticizing anti-trans organizaitons. The UK's laws are designed to allow rich people to suppress speech they do not like. Subscribe to support our journalism.

TERF Activist J.K. Rowling Threatens To Finance Wave Of Attacks On Amnesty International Over Report On Anti-Trans Groups

“They have sued organizations into the ground.”

erininthemorning.com