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NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

weird thing about this framing is that this "personal best" is the second lowest for a president at this stage in their administration. the first is trump in his first term.

submitted 8 days ago • 240 comments

Dear Gavin Newsome, You’re not “owning” far-right conservatives by having them on your podcast. You’re just platforming racists. Do better.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Also the funny thing about stuff that’s politically unreastic is that sometimes it becomes politically realistic if you keep pushing. But if you don’t, it definitely doesn’t.

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Breaking: Former NJ Sen. Bob Menendez sentenced to 11 years prison after being found guilty in corruption trial.

submitted 54 days ago • 25 comments

That’s a big no from me.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

You gotta love a squirrel just running around the zoo. The Bonus Animal

submitted 137 days ago • 96 comments

American culture doesn't support remembering and processing. dissociation isn't only natural—it's encouraged.

submitted 166 days ago • 33 comments

I feel like some of this is very much capitalism. I work a half mile from the site of a mass shooting (the Capital shooting) and the commercial landlord took down the memorial. Another landowner, a local gas station, did allow the memorial to a local rapper to go up and stay up.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

"Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition." -Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility

submitted 425 days ago • 34 comments

There is this great line from C. Vann Woodward in The Strange Career of Jim Crow about why reconstruction failed: “Just as the Negro gained emancipation and new rights through a falling out between white men, he now stood to lose his rights through the reconciliation of white men.”

submitted 410 days ago • 4 comments

One thing I will say about old bird app is that I love the bookmarks function where I store things, most of which I never look at again

submitted 412 days ago • 0 comments

I want to say to all the bridge and tunnel people joining this app today that I was already here and not using this app way before you. Welcome to the club.

submitted 412 days ago • 0 comments

The agreement largely matches the deal that the United Auto Workers negotiated with Ford, giving workers 25 percent pay raises over four and a half years.

submitted 513 days ago • 2 comments

Big props to Mr. Gregory for offering up “Today’s Dumbest Take” (TM)

submitted 528 days ago • 0 comments