It was a rare book dealer. What's probably happening here is there's a group of researchers who did the same thing that the rare book dealer did. Again both things can be true at the same time.

If you would bother to Google The articles involved you would know that. But like a lot of people around here I'm sure you're Google is broken. Either that or you're using AI to Google instead when which case yeah you don't know what you're getting...

I mentioned this to the other guy but yeah they were destroying rare books. A rare book seller caught them by sneaking an Apple Air tag into one of his books that he shipped to them. That's the only reason we know about this.

Both things can be true. There can be a ton of books that nobody wants and to get thrown out and Amazon can be buying those books in addition to Amazon buying rare books to destroy for their AI model. Because of course they're going to want rare books if they have rare books in their model and they're competitors don't that is a competitive advantage.

And I guarantee you they're not going to stop destroying rare books they're just going to be quieter about it. And they will check the books for Apple Air tags

So they want as much data as they can get and they were actively seeking out rare books. They had gone to a rare book seller and they were buying them to destroy them. Because of course they want rare books if they have rare books in their model their model will be better than somebody who doesn't have rare books.

The way we found out they were destroying rare books is that the rare books seller got a huge order and he got suspicious so he snuck an Apple Air tag into one of the books and monitored where it went. That little bit of citizen journalism is the only reason we knew.

I haven't looked into it but I wouldn't be surprised to find that Amazon is going to keep doing this they're just going to be using shell companies and freight forwarders.

Rare book sellers aren't going to want to sell to people who they know are going to destroy rare books. Especially for such a stupid fucking reason.

I am a little surprised there are this many Americans upset about it though. It could just be I know a lot of idiots but a lot of the people I know would cheerfully show up to a book burning party if there wasn't social stigma still associated with that. And frankly I'm surprised at stigma still exists after the last 16 years.

I don't know if Aegis if available for iPhone. It lets to backup and export to the destination of your choice, so you can use your own cloud or just do it offline.

Muskrat wants to build data centers because that's what gets all the investors excited and he's not going to be able to do that in Texas. Remember he mixes his various business arms in ways that are normally illegal.

If he says he's going to bring a spaceport then everyone will welcome him but if he came bearing data centers they would tell him to go fuck himself.

You can't do it in Texas because they have simply overrun their electricity capacity and they are in danger of shutting down hospitals. Also Texas is much closer to becoming a blue State than Louisiana and so there are political considerations with letting a trillionaire bring in extremely unpopular businesses.

Give it a few months or maybe a year and you'll be hearing about how they're building a data center where they said they were going to build the spaceport.

References I could find say they want to build a 10GW solar panel factory, which if accurate wouldn't even make the top 10 world wide. Most of the larger ones are in China, but the Canadian Solar one is also larger than that.

Couldn't find data for the PCB factory, but I'd be very surprised if it was anything like the scale of the Chinese ones.

Speaking of, they are launching from barges off-shore, due to geography. Has the additional benefit of not destroying the launch complex when the rocket explodes.

Apparently this has been going on for decades and yet somehow California is still by far the richest state.

About 7 million Americans tried to vote in 2024 and couldn't because of common county level voters suppression tactics. Combine that with the flood of Russian propaganda and we were pretty well fucked.

When your crackhead neighbor who owns a fuck ton of guns is going through a thing letting your other crackhead neighbor fuck with him because you're hoping the two of them are going to off each other is not actually a sound policy. Because instead of getting two dead crackheads you usually get one of them killing the other one and then you've got a crazy crackhead running around without anything to keep it in check.

A better solution would be a intervention. Maybe help your neighbor get off the crack. But on the other hand you'll probably hoping that your neighbors going to kick the bucket and that you can take advantage of that for a quick buck.

They don't really give a shit about privacy and they're just going to have their own homegrown companies rape your privacy and push billionaire propaganda it'll just be more local billionaire propaganda as opposed to international billionaire propaganda.

The point I'm trying to make is this isn't your upstanding up for privacy or the rights of children or any of that this is just standard run of the mill international politics enacted by the same ruling class we should be getting pissed off at but we never actually do.

Of American social media companies that have become propaganda arms for billionaires.

Not that the ruling class of Europe really particularly cares about billionaire propaganda but they aren't going to let foreign countries billionaires spread propaganda inside their borders because what kind of fucking stupid person would allow that?

I mean besides America.

This is always been how Facebook survives. Young people inevitably bail on Facebook because they don't want to be on the same social media Network as their parents and Facebook just buys up any competitor they move to.

But if you ban social media for people under 16 you can't do that and they won't get into the habit of using it so when they turn 17 they won't bother. Already we see social media use dropping because of all the bots and Nazis but if you haven't gotten used to using it and made it part of your daily routine you're going to log on and be slapped in the face with that nonsense right out the gate and without all the kiddy filters that were at least hiding the Nazis, mostly.

We here in America will be invading Canada and I'm not joking. Every failing empire does the same thing. You put incompetent corrupt psychopaths in charge and they burn through the treasury. Trump for example has added 25% to the national debt in just 5 and 1/2 years. That's 10 trillion dollars in debt from the king of debt. It would not be a problem except instead of putting adults in charge and raising taxes on the wealthy and doing sound policy to grow our economy we are likely to double down on more crazy pedophiles.

Every single failing empire does the same thing they start to use military expansion to loot other countries in order to fill their coffers. America will be no different. We will switch over to a wartime economy and begin a draft and we will start by taking Canada and Mexico and then the rest of South America.

From there we will take Greenland and then try to use that to take europe. We don't care if somebody has nuclear weapons because the people who are going to be making these decisions are going to be desperate to have a war going in order to stay in power and they're going to have to bite off more than they can chew to keep that pyramid scheme going.

It won't be like Russia because we're not going to put a competent psychopath in charge we're going to put another Trump or one of the dipshit billionaires like muskrat.

The problem is that this kind of bullshit is so far outside of what people are used to seeing because we've had at least moderately competent adults albeit sometimes ludicrously corrupt ones in charge for so long that the idea of everything just going to shit is impossible for people to comprehend

Macdonalds banned Graphene OS? Okay Ronald.

Aegis is a better alternative to Authy. Open source.

There is a nuance between an AI apocalypse and significant job losses hurting young people in the economy... And you too by the way because your social security and Medicare are going away.

We stopped caring about long term in the 80s. All that matters now is who's the next trillionaire and protecting the sanctity of women's sports

Fortunately the US isn't the only one taking measurements, and with satellites other countries have data for the US.