Mastodawn

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Drew

2d ago

Chris Geidner 2d ago

BREAKING: SCOTUS over liberals' dissent, blocks district court order requiring process before carrying out third country removals. SCOTUS's order allows Trump admin to carry out third country removals without the protections required—notice and opportunity to raise a challenge. No reason is given.

@chieroglyph - Seriously. Crowds, parties, etc, always exhaust me.

But then I went to a large get together of autistics and neurodivergent folks and we all just let all the masks drop. We all were our open authentic selves. Facial expressions going wild, open conversations as we were and with our own mannerisms. None of us held back.

I came out of that FUCKING ENERGIZED.

Like. What?!?!

Drew

6d ago

Gus Jun 17

Help Iranians stay connected!

The internet access has been heavily disrupted across the country. Please consider running a Tor Snowflake proxy - it's a quick and meaningful way to help Iranians stay online. #KeepItOn

Please note that the #snowflake browser addon seems more efficient in #iran.
https://snowflake.torproject.org/

Drew

6d ago

Matt Blaze Jun 19

Someone just told me (via email) that it's "unbecoming for a professor" to use language like "bullshit".

Now that's some bullshit right there.

Drew

6d ago

NetBlocks Jun 18

⚠️ Confirmed: Live network data show #Iran is now in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout; the incident follows a series of earlier partial disruptions and comes amid escalating military tensions with Israel after days of back-and-forth missile strikes 📉

Drew

Jun 17

FRO VO Jan 18, 2023

me: it doesn’t have a tail so i’m pretty sure it’s a hamster

tech support: okay fine right-click the hamster

Drew

Jun 17

Techmeme Jun 17

Threads launches a fediverse feed and a way to search for fediverse users, with support for Mastodon and others, for users who turned on fediverse sharing (David Pierce/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/688267/threads-fediverse-feed-search
http://www.techmeme.com/250617/p23#a250617p23

Threads is adding fediverse content to your social feeds

A new ‘Fediverse feed’ in your Following section will show posts from Mastodon, Flipboard, and elsewhere.

The Verge

Drew

Jun 17

WIRED Jun 17

How Private Equity Killed the American Dream
https://www.wired.com/story/megan-greenwell-bad-company-private-equity-interview/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-WIRED

How Private Equity Killed the American Dream

In her new book “Bad Company,” journalist Megan Greenwell chronicles how private equity upended industries from health care to local news—and the ways workers are fighting back.

WIRED