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OpenAI pirated large numbers of books and used them to train models.

OpenAI then deleted the dataset with the pirated books, and employees sent each other messages about doing so.

A lawsuit could now force the company to pay $150,000 per book, adding up to billions in damages.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

Do you make any collections of what you find?

Oof, single cell RNA?

cryptonature on tumblr: "Learning to delete/mute/block before a negative comment takes root in your mind is a modern survival skill. If you're going to wander the overgrown countryside of the internet, you need to develop a quick eye for ticks. It's deeply tempting to respond to the "well, actually," to the cruel assumption, to the unjust accusation, to the odious viewpoint. It's tempting because you're defaulting to the etiquette of dinner conversation. This isn't a dinner conversation. Someone is shouting at you from a moving car. Turn away."

A soaking and floppy Amanita in the fall rain with a pine tree in the background

Yesterday at lunch. Pine tree for scale🌲

#WhimsyWednesday
#MushroomOfYesterday

buying an ice cream cone full to the end: hell yeah. hell fucking yeah. every ice cream should be this full.
halfway through the cone: Lord Forgive Me For My Greed

photo of concentric swirls in the wood grain on a long dead oak branch.

Knice knobbly knees on this dead oak branch ^_^

#oak #quercus #deadwood #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

A phylogenetic tree of plasmodial slime molds & their common features

A phylogenetic tree of plasmodial slime molds & their common features

They look so bitable

Similar situation reported by my wife when she tried forestry work. Apparently it's a lot of just measuring "carbon credits" to help corporations exploit environmental regulation loopholes

This is like, almost fewer enterable buildings than Pallet Town from red/blue

I guess this is graphics bloat? But the graphics aren't even good in the modern pokemon games

I wish so badly they'd just go back to 2d sprites

the endpoint of chatgpt and other llm chatbot interfaces is a cohort of people who don't really live so much as they are on a sort of guided tour of their own lives, who have more or less totally abdicated agency and responsibility in favor of a step by step template of how to pretend to be a person

YouTube video by BionicandtheWires Mushroom in the Wild Playing Keyboard

Not my own work this time but listen to this mushroom play you the song of its people.
#fungifriends

youtu.be/NbP2DgDp890?...

I feel like this is something you need to eat under a sheet to hide from god. The crab face is so sympathetic

Inflation has really gotten out of control

Photo of one of the progeny of Spike the Beetle, a famously prolific lucanid artist. He is holding a felt-tipped pen in his mandibles.

they’re doing their best, okay

I wish I knew, I don't think they ever show up again

Magic the gathering card Brooding Saurian

Ooh this reminds me of my favorite magic card art for very similar reasons

me: it's okay to be a person struggling with productivity during a prolonged crisis my brain: not u though me: not me though

It’s true for people too. We all started as a neural tube with a mouth and an asshole.

go outside and observe something.

could be rocks, could be plants or herps.

let the world be imbued with meaning as you continue to learn.

Feeling cuteness aggression

Little black jumping spider with a bright orange face and orange feets, perched on my hand peering up at you with the brightest black eyes

Mr Chalcoscirtus, peering 🖤
#EmotionalSupportSpood

They should invent sleep that feels restful

Pattern made by fungus pores.

Underside of a bracket fungus.

🍄 #FungiFriday #FungiFriends

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans Federal agents hurled tear gas and pepper spray into a crowd of about 100 protesters who attempted to block vans from entering and exiting a U.S. Immigration and Customs holding facility in Broadvi…

At Broadview ICE facility, federal agents hurl tear gas and pepper spray at protesters blocking vans www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/19/t...

Patting some mushrooms to survive the horrors.

Smooth round pink opaque blobs in various sizes among pine needles on mossy ground.

Here’s some wolf’s milk for #SlimeMoldSunday