TeeOh Raccoon
@teeoh.bsky.social
A cat-obsessed raccoon person. Canadian, male, 48 years old, homoromantic, urbanist, irreligious Protestant 😋, 📍Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Any diplomat will tell you that what you need in international relations matters is an utterly unqualified failson of a notorious criminal to simultaneously negotiate for and against several competing sides of an issue, all of whom are paying him in addition to other unnamed parties.
Someone on a web conference saw me do a text search of a PDF and said he liked my AI skills.
>hear about a company that exists to destroy rare books and feed them into AI machines >"is it amazon" >"I assure you it's not amazon, sir" >look inside >it's Amazon
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 8h agoNew from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
What brazen liars. By restoring water-retaining natural ecosystems, rewilding REDUCES wildfires.
I’m curious how many viewers of this will dutifully distort their own personal memories of how expensive gas was twelve months ago. Because I don’t know how anyone who drives a car regularly could think this is accurate.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h agoFox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!
Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!
This is all because they want to kill a 20-cent tax on delivery orders (a tax that actually supports food stability programs). No matter where you live, you can make an impact by deleting your DoorDash account until they stop fighting to give Trump more control over DC.
Delete DoorDash: our demands
Our demands for DoorDash on H.R. 9720, ICE raids, and the DC task force. How to close your account until it answers.
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DoorDash has stood silently by while ICE detains and murders their delivery drivers. They said nothing when Trump flooded DC streets with the National Guard. But now, DoorDash has voiced their support for HR 9720 — a bill that would give Trump more authority over DC and its residents.
Our servicemembers deserve so much better than this. When I get to the US Senate, we’re going to investigate Hegseth for these and so many other failures.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.
"79% of respondents said they don't trust Peter Thiel, while a whopping 71, 70, and 69 % said they “don’t trust” Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Sam Altman, respectively (Musk will probably be mad he didn’t get that 69 figure.)"
Futurism@futurism.com · yesterdayThey're even more unpopular than data centers.
Small donors giving so often to Talarico that they're maxing out and the campaign has to refund them overages www.notus.org/money/james-...
James Talarico’s Campaign Is Refunding Over $1 Million in Excess Contributions
Federal regulators keep flagging donors to the Texas Democrat who gave over the legal limit.
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It’s time to get into election protection formation. Our upcoming trainings will cover the many actions you can take to ensure every eligible voter is able to cast their ballot, every vote is counted, and the election results are honored.
Hands Off Our Vote: Election Protection 101 & 201 · Indivisible
Calling all Indivisibles who are ready to demand Hands Off Our Vote! This August, Indivisible is holding two trainings on election protection: the actions you and those around you can take to ensure e...
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Completely delusional bullshit from a whipped little boy.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoQ: There's a lot of veterans here. When we see what's going on in Iran, what's your pitch for why that should continue while gas prices go up? JOHNSON: The Iran conflict has been the cause of gas prices going up. It's drug on ... we finally had a commander in chief who understood we had to act
Canucks: let's get this petition to 250,000. Kick out the US ambassador! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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This MASSIVE. "The largest clean energy investment in North American history, valued at nearly $70 billion — and will nearly triple the current generating capacity of Churchill Falls, with enough power to light, heat and cool all the homes in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver combined."
TeeOh Raccoon@teeoh.bsky.social · 5h ago@dunnagez.bsky.social Seen this news? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Pete Hoekstra, Canadians Are Telling You To Leave. Maybe Take The Hint. #elbowsup #boycottusa #FuckTacoTrump #canadastrong #CanadaSky #never51state #canadaunited #political guardtheleaf.substack.com/p/pete-hoeks...
Pete Hoekstra, Canadians Are Telling You To Leave. Maybe Take The Hint.
More than 208,000 Canadians have signed the petition, and now even people who normally ignore politics are starting to ask why the US ambassador is still here.
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@dunnagez.bsky.social Seen this news? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.L., Quebec to sign new Churchill Falls agreement worth billions — with help from Ottawa | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is in St. John’s on Monday to announce a new agreement on Churchill Falls and other electricity projects in Labrador, alongside N.L. Premier Tony Wakeham and Quebec Premier ...
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We made a lot of Mediterranean inspired food this past weekend. Chicken soulvaki, beef kofte salads with lentils, and red pepper hummus, with butter/paprika pita. More next week @ www.twitch.tv/fyrekat_2 I've opted out on the AI training fyi. ko-fi.com/fyrekat if you would like to help too
404 Media is able to do investigations like that hold the powerful accountable because of your support. From Amazon destroying books for AI to the Flock surveillance machine, 404 Media is not stopping anytime soon. Thanks you all, and join us at our three-year anniversary party in September:
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It's possible to scan books without "cutting" them, which literally means ripping off the spine. But why are AI companies doing this? For one, it's cheaper and faster. Also, in a case against Anthropic, a judge ruled it was NOT a copyright violation because the original had been destroyed.
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.
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“I work at VGT3 here in Vegas, and all we do is scan books,” one Amazon employee wrote on a forum for Amazon workers. “Some are assigned to cut books, and others go to receive where they get books and scan the bar codes. We didn't have rates, but now we do, but it's not stressful.”
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.
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In July, a bookseller reached out to 404 Media's @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social, telling him they had a huge order. The seller agreed to put an Apple AirTag we provided inside a rare book to see where it was going and who was buying it. Here's the path it travelled: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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.
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