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.

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The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people." @josephcox.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/the-governme...

I find it so funny when BlueSky came a thing, republican trolls tried to actually take over only for there to be actual moderation where people can mute and blacklist them and that ended up forcing them out back to Twitter where they can only troll each other now

Homeland Security wants Social Media sites to expose Anti-ICE Accounts!!!! The Government is trampling on our CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!!! #ICE #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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On the bright side, so long as you're not blind and a non-English speaker, your chances of being left for dead out in the freezing cold are much lower.

A psychologist will likely get to keep her license and a journal left unpunished for producing 'research' with bogus AI references that the psychologist repeatedly keeps using AI to cover herself up with. Even blaming a past brain injury for the issue. retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l...

Librarian finds ‘preposterous number’ of fake references in paper from Springer Nature journal

Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

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People are SHOWING OUT for today’s Protect Rogers Park ICE protest at Clark and Lunt! There are a lot of great resources here: - sign making - school watch group chats - ICE Watch newsletters - KYR posters - and more! Drop by before 3!!

New: Google removed an ICE-spotting app after calling ICE agents a vulnerable group. A immigration support group on the ground in Chicago, the current focus of ICE, said they were using the app to source tips, called Red Dot. Apple removed that app too www.404media.co/google-calls...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’

The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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They literally told war plans over a hackable app to a journalist, a senator was caught doing insider trading on camera, gay s3x happened on recorded video in the white house, etc. What are you even talking about at this rate? There's even more than this btw: share.google/FwaLQbUIQIdd...

Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 11mo ago

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

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Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

The Onion News Network truck is currently stationed outside the Broadview ICE Detention facility just outside of Chicago.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

Warnock to RFK jr: "For the first time, we are seeing deaths of children from measles. We haven't seen that in two decades. We're seeing that under your watch. You are a hazard to the health of the American people."

Sen. Warren Daniel (R–NC, District 46) was caught trading stocks right on the Senate floor. Didn’t even wait for a break. Playing the market on the taxpayers’ time…pure abuse of power.

I'm aware that the President likes to go on television and beg me to call him to ask for troops. I find it strange, as Chicago doesn't want troops. I also have experience asking him for assistance – just to have the rug pulled up from underneath me when execution meets reality.

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip. For the first time in its 90-year history, all major casinos on the Strip are unionized.

All major Las Vegas Strip casinos are now unionized in historic labor victory

The Culinary Workers Union representing 60,000 hospitality workers in Nevada has achieved a historic victory on the Las Vegas Strip.

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So this young guy successfully converted plastic into fuel. Now he’s in hiding for his safety after being followed. www.newsweek.com/julian-brown...

Mom shares update after inventor son goes dark after plastics breakthrough

The mother of Julian Brown said her son is "safe" after the 21-year-old inventor said he was "under attack" earlier this month.

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South Park is getting canceled after this lmao.

We just translated a wave of our ICE coverage into Spanish. No paywall, no email signup necessary. From leaks about Palantir's work with ICE to ICE's new facial recognition app, we think there is a massive public interest in this info. Read why and support us here: www.404media.co/were-publish...

"Vote Blue, No Matter Who." and its a politician with the worst morals in existence, like the support of bombing children because the country genociding these kids have grown comfortable with the our nation's resources to do so.

It's wild that there was deliberate push to have people forget he did the nazi salute. Old Twitter would've let that be known for months and we'd never have forgotten so easily.

Cooper Lund@cooperlund.online · last yr.

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

the next Democratic administration should take all the money and equipment allocated to ICE and give it to the IRS instead i want anonymous masked goons in tacticool loadouts raiding every office park in Delaware

Literal cages. Not even metaphorical ones. Literal ones.

I once wrote a short paper about the difference between a reason and a rationalisation which gives false legitimating cover for a decision. In government ‘we don’t have the money’ is rarely the reason for not doing something. But it’s generally a superb rationalisation.

if you wanna eat the rich you don't go after professors and artists or even doctors or lawyers. the actual rich people we need to eat /don't work/