Will Porter
willpea.bsky.social
Will Porter
@willpea.bsky.social
Public library administrator & starry-eyed pragmatist
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Quitting my job to keep up with my Cyber Monday Extended emails full-time
December 3, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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me: haha how could anyone be so gullible that they'd buy magic beans

tech industry: the next big thing is a Money Algorithm that you run on a billion GPUs all at once to get Even Richer. Venture capital has given us infinity money for this concept. We have no business model.

me: ah.
June 18, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Quitting my job to keep up with my Cyber Monday Extended emails full-time
December 3, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like
November 26, 2024 at 1:32 PM