The New Reason to Back Byron AI

The last three weeks have significantly underlined the importance of supporting the combined efforts of Castalia and Infogalactic to develop a custom AI system that will protect and enhance the ability to produce fiction without limits being imposed by the major AI providers. A number of things have happened since we launched the Byron AI […]

https://voxday.net/2026/08/18/the-new-reason-to-back-byron-ai/

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🇺🇸 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 US and Japan advance plans for the world's deepest undersea mine to break China's rare earth monopoly:

▪️Targeting deposits 6km underwater near Minamitorishima
▪️Reserves could meet "centuries of industrial demand"
▪️Testing scheduled for 2027-2028

Beijing currently controls roughly 90 percent of global rare earth production and has previously choked off exports to both Washington and Tokyo during geopolitical spats.

"Minamitorishima is an ambitious project, but one that could enable Japan and the U.S. to possess a fully closed-loop, mine-to-magnet rare earths supply chain, helping to break China's leverage over them,” said William Chou, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.

Japan plans a month-long extraction and refining trial for February 2027, targeting a full commercialization strategy by 2028.

https://clashreport.com/world/articles/us-and-japan-move-forward-with-worlds-deepest-undersea-mine-to-challenge-china-qsy9bsko04c

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This might be the best case to ban all ALPR Cameras after flock cameras just ruined an innocent Florida woman’s life.

Cops used one ALPR hit to pin a triple-fatal hit-and-run on 23-year-old Lindsey Isaacs. Seized her undamaged black Durango, claimed “damage,” then arrested her 6 months later after she sued to get it back.

She sat in jail 13 days facing life in prison.

They ignored the maroon paint transfer, the partial plate that didn’t match, the airbag that never deployed, and witnesses. Just took the first Durango Flock flagged.

7 months of hell. Charges finally dropped when they got the actual driver.

A rare bookseller suspected his books were being bought by AI companies. He stuck an AirTag in a book and we tracked it to a secretive Amazon facility in Las Vegas where they scan and destroy books called VGT3:

Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process.

A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquired by an AI company for training data, and following it around the country to its final destination.

That final destination was an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Nevada. Amazon employees who work at this location say all they do is receive massive shipments of printed books which they then cut the bindings off in order to scan the books more quickly. The printed book is destroyed in the process. The logo of the Amazon team that works at this warehouse, called VGT3, is a dinosaur, brandishing its teeth and with a book in its hands.

“Amazon purchases books through commercial channels to help develop and improve the products and services our customers use,” an Amazon spokesperson told me in a statement.

The world’s AI companies are constantly looking for, and spending extreme resources to locate, more material to train their AI models. With books, that sometimes means destroying them in the process, something that large parts of the public have spoken up against, and which we can now confirm Amazon is doing.

https://archive.is/SzxC9