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The injustice.

Remarkable.

Lawmakers say some Epstein files remain redacted despite DOJ's pledge Reps. Jamie Raskin and Jared Moskowitz told reporters key documents retained redactions despite the DOJ's pledge that members of Congress could view the full files.

Breaking MS NOW:

Some of the Epstein docs the DOJ invited members of Congress to view are STILL redacted, despite promises otherwise.

Raskin says DOJ's reading room has just four computers. It would take seven years to get through the files in the current conditions established by the DOJ.

Whatever today’s models were trained on, billions of dollars were raised off the back of models trained on pirated books, and those books were downloaded by some of the most important researchers at the companies in question.

The AI industry is built on piracy.

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And he went further - he said he understood that LibGen had also been downloaded by Alec Radford at OpenAI. Radford led the development of GPT-1 and GPT-2.

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He also downloaded another pirate library, Books3, the very month Anthropic was founded. It was used to train Claude 1 & Claude 2.

He *also* said he had previously downloaded LibGen when he was at OpenAI. OpenAI used books from LibGen to train GPT-3 and GPT-3.5.

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It is crazy that book piracy was so critical to the early days of both OpenAI and Anthropic.

In 2025, Anthropic co-founder Ben Mann testified that he himself had downloaded the massive pirate library LibGen at Anthropic. He did so only a few months after the company was founded in 2021.

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Thanks to ProPublica for citing my prior @texasobserver.org report in their story about how an "election fraud" researcher who is a convicted bathroom voyeur may be fueling the federal government's investigations

"So he's going to get effectively for a man who turned 78 last week, a life sentence for speaking out, speaking his mind," one of Lai's lawyers, Jonathan Price, told me back in December when his guilty verdict was first read out.

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Newsnation headline: "Journalist Michael Tracey thrown out of Jeffrey Epstein event"

The Hill Headline: MIchael Tracey exposes holes in Epstein Files bill, slams media coverage of victims

Mike Tracey is a greasy right wing opportunist posing as a journalist, whose latest trolling engagement shtick is harassing victims of Jeffrey Epstein

Notice how Newsnation and The Hill prop him up as a serious good faith actor

Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI Opinion: After decades in the trenches, this engineer is done with hype cycles

www.theregister.com/2026/02/08/w...

US federal contractor hired white supremacist leader for wildfire relief Ian Michael Elliott of neofascist Patriot Front worked ‘crisis relief missions’ funded by Department of Agriculture

Nice work from @wileydcope.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Letters from children detained at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens.

- Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide

-There's worms & mold in food

-300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows

www.propublica.org/article/life...

Substack Still Has A Nazi Problem (And Doesn't Care) For several years Substack has been accused of coddling white supremacy and fascist ideology for cash. And despite several major scandals and a mass defection of ethical authors, there's little seriou...

what if we, you know, just tried to avoid using websites that coddle white supremacists for a buck

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE under Trump have even been *accused* of a violent crime.

Just 1.9% have been accused of belonging to gangs.

www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-arr...

One Generation Runs the Country. The Next Cashed In on Crypto. Sons of top Trump administration officials made billions for their families, but their investors didn’t always fare so well.

"While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump’s all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families"
extraordinary reporting from @wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

this isn't fishing, it's annihilation.

shame on #china

Previously: "We're going straight to Mars. The Moon is a distraction."

Commission notifies Meta of possible interim measures to reverse exclusion of third-party AI assistants from WhatsApp The European Commission has sent a Statement of Objections to Meta, setting out its preliminary view that Meta breached EU antitrust rules by excluding third party Artificial Intelligence (‘AI\') assi...

Big news: the European Commission has told Meta that its exclusion of rival AI assistants from WhatsApp is anti-competitive, and ordered it to reverse the policy.

This is very fast by the EC's standards; the original investigation was only opened in December.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Where to find #Java in the bluesky universe.

bluesky-map.theo.io

RAM prices expected to rise possibly another 100% this year.

Silicon Valley can’t import talent like before. So it’s exporting jobs Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and other U.S. tech giants are ramping up India hiring.

Hiring by Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google has risen sharply in India in recent months. This trend coincides with the growing restrictions to the H-1B visa, often used by tech companies to bring international talent to the U.S.
restofworld.org/2026/h1b-vis...

First JDK 26 Release Candidate: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd...

Downloads: jdk.java.net/26/

#JDK26 #Java26 #OpenJDK #TestItNow

Remember when we thought Sarah Palin was the dumbest person in politics

Good times.

RFK Jr.’s Picks for a Key Autism Panel Include Advocates for Bizarre Theories Among those Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently named to a federal autism committee are people who tout dangerous treatments and say vaccine manufacturers are “poisoning children.”

• A doc sued for prescribing a debunked autism therapy
• A man who says vaccines are “poisoning children”
• A woman boosting autism "treatments" using stem cells from rabbits

This is not a QAnon conference line-up, it is the people now guiding US autism research

www.wired.com/story/rfk-jr...

Vice headline reads: "Zara, Nike, and Abercrombie’s Indian Factories Weren’t Fully Paying Workers" The story was reporting on something put out by the Workers Rights Consortium.

Story at Mind The Gap reads: CASE STUDY: Zara fights sanctions for forced labour in Brazilian supply chain Spanish fast fashion giant Zara, an Inditex brand, has been found to source clothes from Brazilian workshops with modern slavery conditions but fought against sanctions in court – showing how corporations seek to avoid liability by hiding behind complex supply chains.

Disappointed to learn Bad Bunny wore Zara, effectively promoting the brand to millions. Although Zara has made admirable strides to address labor conditions, fast fashion can never be ethical because it depends on rapid production and cheap prices, which results in worker exploitation.

McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.

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