Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

Another stellar Amazon book critic:

Gangstalking is a belief system where people believe they are being followed, stalked, and harassed by a large group of people. People who identify as victims are “targeted individuals" (TIs). TIs believe they are being monitored by government agents who use physical and electronic surveillance

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Charlie Chaplin’s son wrote a memoir. “Pot, girls and swingers in London’s Ultra-Mod set.”

"Even though Rule 30 is completely deterministic, meaning there's nothing random about how the cells turn on or off, the pattern of black and white cells in this middle column appears totally random. It never settles into a repeating pattern.

Crime report from a 1959 issue of Jet magazine

TV for cats

It’s only taken me about 40 years to realize I like listening to the Buzzcocks more than the Clash.

Just made a NATO phonetic alphabet converter because I was tired of spelling my airline reservation code three times over bad phone connections. Turns BQTW425 into 'BRAVO QUEBEC TANGO WHISKEY FOUR TWO FIVE' - no more confusion! Try it here: coconutlampshade.github.io/phonetic-alp...

Drawn with Procreate and a Logitech Crayon because I lost my Apple Pencil. The Crayon doesn't have pressure sensitivity, which I thought would be a big negative, but for the kinds of sketches I do, it doesn't matter. When I lose the Crayon, I'll buy another refurbished one for $20.