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SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

404media.co

Hi, yes, it turns out that this simple fact of life needs to be explained again: If you are yelling "Free Palestine" at a person because they are wearing a Yarmulke, or a Star of David necklace, you are very much an antisemite. This is not a close question or a grey area. You just are.

My neighbor told me sharks keep eating his influencers so I aked how many influencers he has and he said he just goes to Instagram and gets a new influencer afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding influencers to sharks and then his daughter started crying.

White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .

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The BBC's tried to deliver a subpoena to Ivanka & Jared, but was refused entry at a police checkpoint & told that the Secret Service could not accept subpoenas When they tried to serve D Trump Jr at Trump Tower the concierge said the person who normally took such documents may have been at lunch

BBC seeks to subpoena Trump's family members in Panorama lawsuit

The BBC's lawyers argue Trump's family members "have personal knowledge" of his intentions in the speech he gave outside the US Capitol on 6 January 2021.

bbc.co.uk

I know you all hate the emergency alert about disposable barbeques. But yesterday I watched a man at our hotel breakfast set fire to a toaster by trying to toast a croissant - despite multiple signs telling him not to. Today he tried again. So, you know, calibrate for the average person.