Karmakov @Karmakov

A farmer, tired of rats destroying his crops and stealing his grain, came up with a clever but cruel plan. He threw a dead pig into a deep, abandoned well. Attracted by the smell, nearly 80 rats rushed into the well to feast on the carcass. At first, everything seemed wonderful. There was more than enough food for everyone, and the rats ate until they were satisfied. But when the food was gone, they discovered something terrifying. The walls of the well were too steep to climb. They were trapped. Days passed, and hunger turned into desperation. Desperation turned into aggression. The rats that had once eaten peacefully beside one another began fighting for survival. Eventually, they began killing and eating each other. One by one, their numbers dwindled until only a single rat remained. Its eyes were bloodshot, and it had survived by consuming its own kind. Then the farmer returned, lowered a rope into the well, and rescued the last surviving rat. But he didn't save it out of kindness or compassion. The farmer knew the rat had learned to survive by hunting other rats. When he released it into his fields, it would continue killing its own kind instead of eating his grain. The farmer had turned his enemy into his greatest weapon. And that is the lesson of divide and conquer. Those who control the trap don't need to fight the battles themselves. They simply create the conditions in which others turn against one another. The rats believed their enemies were the other rats. They never realized that the true enemy was the farmer who had put them there. The greatest danger isn't always the enemy standing in front of you. Sometimes it's the one who created the conflict and stands quietly watching you destroy each other. Before you turn against your neighbor because of their political beliefs, ask yourself who benefits from keeping Americans divided. While we fight each other over Republican and Democrat, we may be overlooking those who profit from the conflict. Perhaps the real question isn't which side you're on, but who built the well—and why they want us fighting at the bottom of it.

@StreamerAwards @ironmouse @kosekibijou @theburntpeanut @crellythecow @gigimurin ThrBurntPeanut is going to win again, everybody knows that. This is just another trap to disrespect real vtubers, like it was the last year. Vtuber fans should just ignore this farce.

I came across a Reddit post that described AI in a way I can’t stop thinking about: “AI allows the wealthy to access skills while stripping skilled people of their ability to access wealth.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen the purpose of AI captured so brutally and accurately.

@europemaxxed But still... why making me angry interrupting a video I'm watching it's supposed to make me buy that product? It's not about autism, it's basic logic.

A first step to at least get a conversation going how to change this for the better is to sign the new Stop Killing The Internet ECI: citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/de…

We just can't catch a break, can we? The EU Kids Act is nightmare fuel, if you look beneath the honorable surface claim of "protecting kids online". The breakdown: youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9… #StopKillingGames #StopKillingTheInternet

@PlayStation You will own nothing and you will be nothing

Some folks don’t believe that a “principled AI company” would destroy books after they suck out all the information for their models, even one-of-a-kind books and manuscripts. Here it is admitted in open court.

Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele

3 months ago

Confirmation of Anthropic’s BOOK BURNING for their AI: The Great Forgetting of the Amnesia Generation In the quiet warehouses and shipping docks of 2024, Anthropic did not merely train an AI. It staged a quiet erasure of human knowledge. While the public was still dazzled by

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@ReingStation Go get them! Thieves to defeat the thieves!

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world." My Take This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email. ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation." I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate. "We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline. Hedgie🤗

@PlayStation No thanks, I prefer to own what I buy.

@PlayStation It never stops being funny. Why you still post on social medias, Sony? You are getting more ridicolous every day.

@PlayStation Aaaaand nobody is gonna buy PowerWash Simulator 2 now. Thanks Sony.

@PlayStation You are banning people on Twitch who criticize your marketing decisions! This is an implicit admission of guilt, you are the bad guys, you deserve to fail.

@PlayStation So 75% sale for a 100% ripoff when you will cancel the games from players accounts? Sounds nice.

@PlayStation So another batch of games that you can delete from any customer account without warning or payback, right? It must be nice to live on free money, thiefs.

Those of you who were around for the DVD v. Divx format war back 1998 will know that I was warning disc fans about this problem all the way back then: The Hollywood studios, networks, record labels, and streamers—not to mention the game industry and Silicon Valley tech companies at large—don’t want you to own ANYTHING. They want you to rent or lease it from them... forever. They want endless automatic withdraw hooks sunk deep into your bank accounts, and they want to distract you with apps and algorithms so you forget they’re even there. They don’t want you to become homeowners—they want you to be eternal renters. And the products and services they rent you will be just fine... until they aren’t anymore, because someone figured out how to make 2% more profit off you, so they enshittify the thing you liked, rented, or God forbid needed to the point you don’t even recognize it anymore. Now, AI companies are getting in on the act too. Hey, you don’t need to form your own startup or business to compete with ours—just use our platform! Want to write a book, make a movie, record a song—just use our tools! You don’t need to actually write it yourself, or know how to play music, or even think! Hell, you don’t need a job either—who wants to work? Or make your own choices? Or you know, vote? We’ll do all that for you! Just enjoy what we give you and like it... or else. Human beings everywhere need to push back on this shit and hard, or you, your kids, and your grandkids are going to end up living as digital serfs in a technofeudal fascist state led by Ayn Rand-ian, anti-social, nerd-prince, hyper-scalers with messiah complexes and control fetishes, who will absolutely use misaligned AI, drones, humanoid robots, and their already total invasion of your privacy to enforce their weirdo whims on everyone. And you think I’m kidding, but deep down you know I’m right. These people talk about wanting to save humanity—particularly all the potential “future generations” as yet unborn (ten to the power of fifty-eight!)—but it’s funny how most of them can’t be bothered suffer or actually care much about the annoying humans they’re stuck with right now, who they tend to refer to as “mids” or “takers” or merely NPCs in a reality simulation game that’s actually all about them. These guys dream taking control of the world via their homegrown Buy-n-Large, Omni Consumer, and Weyland-Yutani C-corps, while incurring no liability whatsoever for their actions. ‘Cause China, Star Trek future, the bad people—you know, reasons! Meanwhile, most folks just want to go to a decent job, earn a decent wage, have kids or provide for their families, then come home to a house they’ve worked hard for, cook burgers with the neighbors, watch a movie on a disc they actually own, and maybe take the boat out for the weekend. And they’d like to drink water that doesn’t poison them, eat food that doesn’t have microplastic in it, and breathe air that doesn’t give them cancer. Mark my words: Those two dreams are ultimately not compatible. To be very clear: I’m an American, and a patriot. I am in no way a doomsayer, nor am I anti-technology. To the contrary, I think the power of our technology to make the future better for all of us is extraordinary. But not if it comes at the cost of surrendering everything that makes us human in the first place, and giving up everything that makes life worth living. What I am against is greedy unelected narcissists who’ve become far too powerful, via corporations that have been allowed to become too big to fail, who’ve hijacked capitalism to the point that we don’t even have free markets anymore, and who’ve used their wealth to hijack democracy to the point that we’ve lost most of our actual freedoms. And there ain’t nothing American about that. 2/2

Some of you have asked me to comment about this piece of physical media news that broke yesterday. Well... the truth is, it’s a symptom of a much bigger problem, and I definitely have thoughts. So buckle up, ‘cause here they come... 1/2 arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/07…

@TheRPGDummy I still buy physical copies, but it does not matter. You are literally missing the point of the whole situation.

@PlayStation I will never buy another Sony or Sony-related product in my life ever again and also I would dissuade everyone I know from doing so. Do you realize how sad and pathetic you sound, right?