Defending Libraries @DefendLibraries

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.

The best way to anticipate the future is to find out what Benjamin Netanyahu wants and then assume it's just a matter of time before Trump does it. Hard to go wrong with that method. I can't think of a time when it would have failed.

Kalshi @Kalshi

a week ago

JUST IN: Trump says Iran is "finished"

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TPUSA is now mimicking Covid protocol: They introduced the video. They were then asked to supply proof the video actually exists . They now claim only experts can see or interpret evidence of its existence. And finally, they are now diagnosing people for noticing they lied.

Blake Neff @BlakeSNeff

a month ago

@RealCandaceO Yeah, Candace, since I'm not a malignant narcissist, I don't actually care what my "ratio" is as long as I am speaking the truth rather than lies. But just to play along: "Wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is

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🚨 Julian Assange Warned us: "Digital archives let them erase history with one click. One day: "Page not found." The next: "it never happened." They control what you remember. Save physical books. Archive offline. Don't trust the cloud. This is how 1984 wins.

The Daily Wire is the case study of why personality-driven media companies can't compound. Peak in late 2023: Shapiro's YouTube alone pulled 170M monthly views. Daily Wire+ subscriptions, a Nashville studio operation, Bentkey kids streaming, an e-commerce arm with razors and chocolates and cigars. The company was running a billion-dollar conservative Disney bet. Then they made the studio bet bigger. Pendragon Cycle, an Arthurian fantasy series of the kind that has bankrupted larger production houses. Bentkey trying to compete with Disney for kids' attention. Daily Wire+ chasing Netflix. Running a newsroom, a film studio, a children's streaming platform, and a private-label consumer goods business simultaneously requires either limitless capital or extraordinary discipline. Some of it worked. Matt Walsh's "Am I Racist?" was the top-grossing documentary of 2024. Most of it didn't. In March 2024, they parted ways with Candace Owens. She walked into the open market and built a show that competes with theirs. Today she has 5.5M YouTube subscribers and added 10.9M followers across platforms since January 2025, generating roughly 805M views in that window. Daily Wire converted its biggest distribution asset into its largest competitor. Early 2025, co-founder Jeremy Boreing stepped down as co-CEO and launched a solo podcast outside the company he co-founded. Bentkey was shuttered the same year. Entire team cut. Then the audience math hit Shapiro himself. 170M monthly YouTube views in late 2023 to roughly 22M in early 2026. An 85% collapse in 18 months. Another 60K subscribers gone in the last 90 days alone. Layoffhedge.com estimates cumulative workforce reduction above 60% over the past year. Tucker Carlson left Fox in 2023, kept his audience, runs his shop with a fraction of the headcount. Megyn Kelly's network drew 138M YouTube views in February alone. The personalities figured out they don't need the platform. The platform discovered the opposite. Daily Wire built a billion-dollar valuation on names that can walk, take the audience with them, and run a competing show from a laptop the next morning. 170M views to 22M. The company kept the overhead. The audience left with the people.

Popstonox @Popstonox

2 months ago

The Daily Wire fires half of its staff in mass layoffs This comes as co-founder Ben Shapiro has lost 85% of his Youtube audience since last year

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The cover up of military failure grows The US regime has compelled Planet Labs and other satellite imagery companies that contract with it (like Vantor) to censor images exposing US and Israeli losses

Tyler Rogoway @Aviation_Intel

3 months ago

Just got this from Planet Labs: Dear Tyler Rogoway, Due to the conflict in the Middle East, the U.S. government has requested all satellite imagery providers voluntarily implement an indefinite withhold of imagery in the designated Area of Interest (AOI). Effective

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The US regime has mimicked virtually every dastardly Israeli tactic in Iran Will it now implement the Hannibal Directive?

Reports that US fighter jets have just launched three missiles in the area of Kooh-e Siah, close to where the F-15 crashed and a pilot remains missing. One Iranian military source believes the US is trying to kill its own pilot rather than allow him to be detained by Iran.

“Fifteen years after Tupac Shakur’s murder, the FBI has released documents showing that the rapper received death threats from the Jewish Defense League as part of an extortion scheme.” forward.com/schmooze/13707… “Files show FBI suspected JDL of extorting Tupac” jpost.com/jewish-world/j… Haaretz: “FBI files on Tupac Shakur murder show he received death threats from Jewish gang” archive.ph/s1a7J#selectio… and: @Farz_Zaad comments -- "And after the Tupac and Biggie shootings, Diddy suddenly became rich and famous and ended up having a similar operation to Epstein. 🙃"

Drop Site @DropSiteNews

3 months ago

💢 An Iranian Shahed drone heading toward enemy targets today was seen bearing a sticker reading “In memory of Tupac Shakur” and “Killuminati,” referencing his 1996 album The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory. The album’s opening track, “Bomb First (My Second Reply),” is about

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Reimagining The Public Approval Process For Big NYC Projects- Mamdani Endorses noticingnewyork.blogspot.com/2026/04/reimag…

Trump, Declaring Sufficiency of U.S. Achievements, Speaks of Military Disbandment nationalnotice.blogspot.com/2026/04/trump-…

The thing Israelis hate the most is when the IDF gets humiliated. This really gets under their skin. I did tons of battlefield analysis and reporting on military aspects of Russia-Ukraine. No issues. But when I reported on the Levant, these losers got me arrested because it showed the IDF getting their asses kicked — as if it were my doing. They're a bunch of softies who can't stand truthful journalism.

@jakeshieldsajj And it’s so much bigger than anyone can imagine!

alpha5tate 🇺🇸 @alpha5tate

4 months ago

We finally get it. Rest in peace, Michael.

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“In ze future, Israel will own you, and you will be happy”

World Economic Forum @wef

5 months ago

The Iranian Foreign Minister will not be attending Davos. Although he was invited last fall, the tragic loss of lives of civilians in Iran over the past few weeks means that it is not right for the Iranian government to be represented at Davos this year.

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FT offers one of the first acknowledgments by Western media of well organized cells wreaking havoc on Iranian cities “There were groups of men in black clothes, agile and quick. They would set one dustbin on fire and then quickly move to the next target” They “look[ed] like commandos” “They were definitely organised, but I don’t know who was behind them” According to FT, the protests were peaceful until January 8, when Israel-backed “Crown Prince” Reza Pahlavi explicitly urged violent insurrection

Don’t worry about the gag order in the Charlie Kirk case. I plan to violate it on the world’s behalf. The things I’ve discovered this past week are enough to burn the house down. Yes, Charlie was betrayed. By everyone.

I’m guessing Israel needs a new PR team:

Clash Report @clashreport

9 months ago

Amsterdam: At least 250,000 people attended massive pro-Palestine protest today.

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Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death A longtime friend of Kirk tells The Grayzone how the late influencer's turning point on Israel provoked a private backlash that left him angry and afraid thegrayzone.com/2025/09/12/cha…

I accept your apology, Grok. 😂 We are barreling toward idiocracy and you are just playing your part. Your programmers are banking on a future where no one will be able to read books so you won’t face any challenges when you assert something so absurdly untrue.

Dr. Matt Shelton: "This notion that covid is more of a cause of Myocarditis and its more severe, is frankly RUBBISH" The lies they tried to sell everyone about Myocarditis hits The New Zealand Royal Commission. Dr Alison Goodwin: "We were told that Myocarditis was more severe in covid than post vaccination. So I asked the Ministry of health 'well how many cases of myocarditis due to covid infection have their been?'. Well they couldn't provide me with a single case and yet there were 900+ cases of Myo and pericarditis on the Cam "safety report 46" by November 2022"