Sandra retweeted
I'm an American, a U.S. Army veteran, and I live in Europe.
And I'll tell you something that might upset a few people back home.
I want my fellow Americans to enjoy the same rights, freedoms, and quality of life that millions of Europeans already enjoy.
I want Americans to have access to affordable healthcare without worrying about going bankrupt because they got sick.
I want American students to pursue higher education without burying themselves in decades of debt.
I want Americans to enjoy stronger digital privacy laws, meaningful consumer protections, paid parental leave, and guaranteed paid vacation.
I want police officers held to rigorous standards of accountability, where de-escalation is emphasized and deadly force is genuinely a last resort.
I want Americans to understand that freedom isn't just about what the government cannot do to you. It's also about having the security and opportunity to actually enjoy your life.
And before someone starts screaming about socialism, understand something.
European countries are capitalist democracies. They have private businesses, entrepreneurs, private property, competitive markets, and individual liberties. They've simply made different decisions about what protections their citizens should enjoy.
Europe isn't perfect. No place is. But pretending America has nothing to learn from other democracies is ridiculous.
I served my country. I love my country. And I don't believe patriotism requires pretending that America is the best at everything.
In fact, I believe the exact opposite.
Real patriotism means wanting your country to improve, even when that means admitting another country does something better.
I don't want Americans to have fewer freedoms.
I want them to have MORE.
More protections. More opportunities. More security. More accountability. More freedom to live their lives without being financially destroyed by illness, education, or circumstances beyond their control.
And having lived on both sides of the Atlantic, I know that much of this is possible.
We should stop asking why Americans can't have these things and start asking why they're expected to settle for less.
Sandra retweeted
🦔I'd point you back to the 404 Media reporting. The bookseller they interviewed said his own inventory is full of uncommon, out-of-print, and foreign-language titles, and some of the pulped copies may be among the last still in circulation.
So museum pieces aren't ending up in bulk lots, granted. Uncommon books are, and those are the ones getting lost for good. Public domain also only settles the text question. A physical copy carries more than the words, and once it's pulped, it's gone.
The used booksellers themselves are the ones publicly worried about this.
404media.co/ai-companies-are…
Sandra retweeted
🦔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🤗
Sandra retweeted
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Sandra retweeted
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Sandra retweeted
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Sandra retweeted
This Valentine’s Day, celebrate the passion that never logs off with over $10,000 in prizes and Amazon gift cards! 🙌
Gaming isn’t a hobby — it’s a commitment.
🗓 February 13 – March 10
Enter 👉 msi.gm/S63ECD28
T&C: msi.gm/S97F76B8
Sandra retweeted
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.
Sandra retweeted
In 1992, Sinéad O'Connor denounced a network of pedophiles and their protectors. She was a victim herself, and in protest she tore up a photo of John Paul II, which ended her career. Now a photo is circulating of John Paul II giving Epstein his blessing. She was right all along.
@PatriotsOfFaithHopeLove
Sandra retweeted
Be careful everyone, this happened in greystones. The lady's daughter was scammed out of €1000, using a QR code that she scanned to pay for parking.
Sandra retweeted
Learn about this very serious condition from the cast of #Peacemaker. #BirdBlindness #BirdBlindnessAwareness
#penguin #bricklayer not a fisherman, and it's highly unlikely the penguin travels 5000 miles. original story details: facebook.com/joaopaulo.kraje… - original story globoplay.globo.com/v/486405…
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Sandra retweeted
Beste @albertheijn. Kunnen jullie me vertellen wat er rolstoelerig is aan deze rolstoel-kassa? Hij is exact hetzelfde als de rest op het pinautomaat na. Ik kan vanuit mijn stoel niet bij het scherm, niet bij de scanner of onder de tafel. Ik wil graag zelf mijn boodschappen doen
Sandra retweeted
I've just tested a client who has gone from a 10 character password policy to 14, based on the previous results on a pentest.
The thing is - we saw the patterns you used with 10 characters.
Password123!
With 14?
Password123456!
