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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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❗Alexander Dobrindt will das IFG abschaffen – und FragDenStaat gleich mit❗ Ein Papier aus dem BMI zeigt: die „Reform”-Pläne fürs Informationsfreiheitsgesetz gehen weiter als bisher bekannt. Mit einer „Identifizierungspflicht“ soll FragDenStaat ausgeschaltet werden. fragdenstaat.de/artikel/poli...

Neue Pläne im Innenministerium: Dobrindt will FragDenStaat ausschalten

Die Bundesregierung will das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz faktisch abschaffen. Interne Dokumente zeigen jetzt: Der Plan zielt explizit darauf, Anfragen über FragDenStaat unmöglich zu machen.

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this is your weekly reminder that: ⚪ intelligence != wisdom ⚪ correctness in sphere <a> doesn't port to <b> ⚪ being unchallenged leads to very dark places ⚪ be very careful of trajectory and dhh is racist much love my friends

i remember him being awful about (commercial) open source, trans people, and vaguely ruby (?), the language he built his career on? just because he has some good ideas once in a blue moon (open weights, off cloud infrastructure, ruby on rails) doesn’t mean he ain’t a broken clock

Anil Dash@anildash.com · last wk.

Just in case you still use any Basecamp products, DHH is crashing out about his AI product gently pointing out that it’s bad for him to have extermination fantasies about the Roma people.

DHH tweet saying “This is why we need competition and open weights in Al. Imagine a world where only Anthropic sat as the moral arbiter of acceptable speech. Fucking ridiculous. (Grok of course did it no problem, same too with Kimi K).” when presented with his blog post using a slur about the Roma people.

Just learned last night one of my old high school cross country teammates lost both his kids (and ex-wife) to a devastating act of violence. Our community is raising money to cover funeral services and help John with as much support as we can. www.gofundme.com/f/honoring-a...

Donate to Honoring Abigale and Dekota’s Memory, organized by Jenny Bayes

2 days ago, in a tragic act of violence, John lost both of his children at the hands … Jenny Bayes needs your support for Honoring Abigale and Dekota’s Memory

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