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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.
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.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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Actually my favorite bird etymology is that in 1400s England they gave human nicknames to birds (Jenny Wren, Tom Tit) but some of them stuck. Jack Daw became Jackdaw, Maggie Pie became Magpie. With Robin Redbreast they just dropped the original name of the bird entirely.
July 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Whoa: The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft got a spectacular view of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) as it passed close to the Sun. Look at that enormous, splintered tail!

This comet won't be seen again for another 600,000 years. 🧪🔭

www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
March 22, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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It's Streisand Time, wotta thrill

Buy 'Careless People' by Sarah Wynn-Williams from independent bookshops:

bookshop.org/p/books/care...
March 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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"Does your cat know about the feminist movement"
Poster spotted in Middlesbrough, England
December 15, 2024 at 11:10 AM
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Lots of fun stuff being made lately using the Jetstream, the firehose of all Bluesky posts. Here’s a growing thread of my favorites. (Send me more!)
See the colors of BlueSky, live!
www.bewitched.com/demo/rainbow...
This little visualization scans incoming posts and draws a stripe every time it finds a color word.
November 19, 2024 at 5:26 PM
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I built a silly usage of the Bluesky Firehose just to get my feet wet and see what was possible. It's kinda fun to just watch. www.emojirain.lol
🌧️ EmojiRain - Live 🦋 Emoji Visualization
It's 🌧️ emojis! 👀 Watch 🦋's emojis rain down in real-time. ✍️ Long posts = 🐌 slow fall!
www.emojirain.lol
November 18, 2024 at 6:52 PM
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Did…did a minotaur write this
November 25, 2024 at 11:09 AM
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Once again, opening a new Word document I'm reminded of the time Pakistan's Prime Minister was implicated in a massive corruption scandal for forging financial documents for the year 2006 using Calibri, a typeface that didn't exist until 2007.
February 1, 2024 at 1:43 PM
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Accidentally said “Shirley” instead of “Siri” and now my phone is stuck in Airplane mode
January 20, 2024 at 8:40 PM
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"More radical empathy"
Mural seen in London
January 20, 2024 at 3:30 PM
If you see this, post a limbo
January 12, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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ALL WORK IS HARD / ALL JOB'S ARE BAD - dashare.zone ADMIN
January 5, 2024 at 10:22 PM
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the moment you understand entirely why you are friends with your friends because of the perfect subject matter of their Christmas jumpers. love these folks.
December 17, 2023 at 9:47 AM
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Space Typography xkcd.com/2863
December 5, 2023 at 12:05 AM
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Its because Ann can't stand fuckwits and tells them to their face.
November 3, 2023 at 8:50 AM
Just gearing up for a purchase of an electric throw and am 100% sold by this picture of a woman shuffling round her house wearing it and drinking wine
October 17, 2023 at 1:30 PM
Anyone else think it's weird that the Sk8er Boi wrote a song about his ex, then got his new girlfriend Avril Lavigne to sing it to her?
October 5, 2023 at 2:13 PM
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Today in "linguists are not kidding when they say that language enables you to understand sentences that have never been said before in the entirety of human history"
September 22, 2023 at 10:23 PM
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always listen to the bat
September 22, 2023 at 2:01 PM
This meal just cost me $78 at Newark Airport. This is why Americans think the economy is terrible.
September 21, 2023 at 4:15 PM