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Meta Stole BOOKS for their Ai

I saw this on Bluesky and dropping the article link here. In the article there is a spot were you can search for a authors name.

Editor’s note: This search tool is part of The Atlantic’s investigation into the Library Genesis data set. You can read an analysis about LibGen and its contents here. Find The Atlantic’s search tool for movie and television writing used to train AI here.

@thebibliosphere they stole your books also. :-(

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HOLY SHIT

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My mom accidentally joined a grieving support group (long story, she's not grieving tho) and she's missing it this week while visiting me and she's VERY concerned that Lorraine, who very kindly offered to bring a baked good like mom usually would, will NOT bring the correct kind of dessert, she says citrus tarts aren't "griefy" enough

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why does my mother suddenly fail kindergarten whenever she tries to do anything on the computer

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nothing pisses me off more than when i see a fic on ao3 talking about reach. "this ship isn't here but i added them for reach" "this fandom tag isn't necessary but i'm adding it for reach" "reposting for reach" STOP IT!!!! this is not tiktok this is not twitter this is an ARCHIVE this is not how it works!!!

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me in five years when i still don’t have my life together:

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People are like “these animals have exoskeletons and these ones have endoskeletons” but no. It’s all exoskeletons, your exoskeleton is protecting your bone marrow which is where your soul (which is you) is. The rest of the stuff is extraneous decoration that Big Pharma wants you to think is important/

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I find it absolutely hilarious that the signed edition of everything is tuberculosis costs five dollars less than the unsigned version.

I should sign all the egg cartons. I'd end inflation by myself.

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The cashier won't clock me due to my need for pods, but I'm suspicious as hell of them for recommending Radio Shack.

In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks 'What year is this?!?' they're always treated like they're being weird for asking.

When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'

And if you ask 'And what month??' people won't judge you, they'll just go like 'SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!' and you go 'WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?'

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What's a video game?

Watch the new episode now on Dropout

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happy Thursday the 20th

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entourage: giant whitespotted wedgefish, school of juvenile golden trevally, several cobia, & possibly a sharksucker or two (jakemasondiving)

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