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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

I mean, you could cancel Paramount and support @pbs.org instead.

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE.

It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

When you call your senators, tell them the part that strips trans people of gender affirming care in the BBB is section 71117.
They can only pretend they don't know for so long. Call and point section 71117 out to them.
Show your senators YOU give a shit about trans people.

A photo of RFK Jr with a quote from him, “I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me.” We couldn’t agree more. Resign.

The most important statement from today’s hearings.

23. National Weather Service scrambling to re-fill positions vacated by DOGE (May 14, 2025)

HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

These monsters are anti-life.

To hell with them and anyone who voted for them.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Woman and kids narrowly escape death in Poughkeepsie (VIDEO) - Mid Hudson News POUGHKEEPSIE – A woman and two young children are lucky to be alive after the Academy Street sidewalk they were on exploded just inches behind them.  The blast sent large slabs of the sidewalk into th...

I would be better if we didn't pump explosive gases under our streets to heat our homes. Because, sometimes those just randomly explode. Like in Poughkeepsie, Saturday afternoon.

midhudsonnews.com/2025/04/20/w...

Bro really said "we have nothing to lose but our chains"

Topic Wind turbines kill whales✕ This argument holds that the noise from wind turbines is a primary cause of whale deaths, so offshore wind should be halted. Evidence indicates that whale deaths are overwhelmingly caused by boat collisions and fishing nets, and no link to wind turbines has been found. YouTube | Pointer Jul 13, 2023 | 527,676 views Jordan Peterson The Poor or the Planet? | Robert Bryce | EP 375 AI-generated transcript ...The wind turbines, they're unreliable; they obviously don't work when the wind isn't blowing, which is quite a lot of the time, and that's really a problem at night when the solar panels also don't work. They're... they don't have a proven track record; they only seem to last about 17 years. God, nobody knows what to do with them when they're decommissioned, and they're very expensive to decommission. They're killing whales like mad, hypothetically; they seem to be really hard on birds. And so, this just is...

Steve Milloy 69 results Michael Shellenberger 37 results Cfact 29 results Robert Bryce 23 results Watts Up With That 16 results The Heartland Institute 16 results Net Zero Watch 11 results CO2 Coalition 9 results Patrick Moore 8 results Daniel Turner

Very useful tool that maps and displays the volume of climate disinformation being produced by key players on various social sites

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National Park Services removes references to Harriet Tubman from ‘Underground Railroad’ webpage | CNN An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump a...

An image of and quote from Harriet Tubman have been removed from a National Parks webpage about the “Underground Railroad,” following several prominent changes to government websites under the Trump administration.

Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

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it makes sense like all regressive taxes and subsidies! which is to say, it does not, in fact, make any sense.

he has never been to a grocery store

Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

In which I try to call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027 Far-right leader found guilty of embezzlement of European funds and immediately barred from running for office

France’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

South Korea’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

Brazil’s institutions defended its democracy, upholding the law.

Only America’s decided a criminal must be allowed to break its laws and destroy its democracy.

It's a death cult after all to the soul crushing tune of It's a Small World crashes through my brain on repeat.

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

HUD reportedly axes Biden-era green retrofit program The Green and Resilient Retrofit Program is reportedly being shuttered by the Trump administration, leaving certain funds in limbo.

The sheer stupidity in the name of efficiency is endless. This program would have rehabilitated and preserved existing affordable housing, which this country desperately needs and something this administration claims it supports. This is what waste looks like.

www.housingwire.com/articles/hud...

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Green: I will suffer whatever the consequences are because I don't believe in the richest country in the world people should be without good health care. I stood up for my constituents then. I'm standing up for them now. I would do it again.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

USAID official warns of unnecessary deaths from Trump's foreign aid block, then says he's been put on leave A senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development in an email on Sunday warned that the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths -- only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave.

A senior official with the USAID in an email warned that the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency will result in unnecessary deaths -- only to email his staff less than 30 minutes later to say that he had been placed on leave reut.rs/4kl8K18

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.”

There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

A very dirty firefighter wearing a yellow shirt holds a piece of watermelon. She is so intent on eating the watermelon, she has no idea her picture is being taken.

My first time on the front page of a newspaper was after a 10-hour shift firefighting. I was so dirty, my own mom didn’t recognize me.

When I called her the next day she exclaimed, “That was YOU?!?”

A story about the federal firings. 1/