Author: Roshinka

All the writers of the 7 million books included in 3 whole training datasets can now join a certified US-wide class action against Anthropic. 

What I find beautiful with AI and class actions in general is that members don’t need to be US nationals to get their damages. AI training never respected any borders or boundaries, so copyright holders are totally international. So, any writer whose books landed in one of the certified datasets is covered. 

The courts have been taking their sweet time with AI-related claims because any final decisions with respect to AI will have immediate and serious consequences on a large tech sector.

Capitalism is a pyramid-like fraud that depends on masses of people working for free (i.e. user-generated content) to generate profit for higher-ups on pyramid (plateforms, TikTok, Youtube, etc) who on their turn generate profit for their investors by inserting ads. To keep feeding the pyramid, users were persuaded that they work for “engagement”, likes and subscribes, that they were “building communities”, making the world a better place by speaking out (see Reddit’s AI by Google!), but somehow all that good work ends up profiting corporations.

Given the push for user-generatedcontent and engagement-chasing, more and more of the content became diluted, less and less and less original, descending into reposts and emojis, and when AI came and ate it all up, it turns out a lot of that stuff is not original but mass-produced copy-pasta to impress the algorithms latest whims… now,AI says, all of this is not good enough for me as a large language model, a lot of it is highly redundant, give me original content, I want organic, not something I’ve already seen (you can’t fool me, I’m AI).

So it turns out that AI doesn’t just want to learn, it wants novel, specific things, it is hungry for quality content and very hungry it is. This is where copyright regimes should step in. There is no unfettered access to copyright protected material written into any copyright act of this world. Fair use doesn’t apply. Quality content must be paid for. Large datasets of quality content must be paid for. Otherwise, it would take another 7 planets with the same populations of unsuspecting writers and creators as ours to give our AI what it needs to “grow”.

Even without the courts, the world is already going through a restructuring of content distribution with ever-increasing opt-outs and limits on the availability of user-generated content, where most people are simply not disseminating original ideas and speech due to uncertain AI frameworks. Most of the accessible content you see is recycled and safe, so by definition unoriginal, an imitation, a copy of an imitation of a copy. A template of a vlog of a postcard, of prepackaged, hell a lot of it IS AI-generated already…

Bottom line is, it appears that 90% of original content being produced at this time is basically being hoarded and likely written into wills because nobody thinks that they stand a chance to AI in this lifetime. If you can’t make a buck from your work in the next 100 years or so, then hopefully your heirs can do better in the 75 years after your death. Years may vary between jurisdictions, somewhere I think it’s 50, or 90. Who cares, you’ll be dead. 

In the Anthropic class action, regardless of the result, here is imho what to expect on the long run: a total breakdown of existing copyright regimes AND/OR a total breakdown of corporate investment “sentiment”. So, in a way a lose-lose in court will translate into progress for humanity as a whole.

Both outcomes are rife with opportunities. If copyright frameworks are destroyed, then it’s a free for all not just for AI companies, for everyone. I am making lists of all the things I may do if we eliminate economic copyright. Since nobody will be allowed to profit from content, by default everything will become non-commercial therefore more diverse and more interesting because necessarily more independent and capable of using other people’s resources and end-product into yours (it will happen gradually don’t worry). If investors become pessimistic, then they will need to just as gradually rework their value system and see where the wind takes them. Nobody knows exactly yet.  

Minor correction. two libraries out of 3 pirated libraries are certified, rather than 3. For people outside of the US, you will obviously need to claim through someone in the US, for example a person or entity involved in the same book, a publisher or collaborator of some kind. Nowhere does it say that a person who is not based in the US can’t sue a company in the US. It would be more convenient for the person to file in their own forum, but you can’t wait forever for something to happen in your forum, so at the moment the only courts that matter are in the US. Europe may seem better on a first sight, but the US is still a more appropriate forum for several reasons, such as the defendants being from the US, and US judges can be counted on to be relatively fast and productive. If you want anything to be resolved in your lifetime, sue in the States. 

I’m only recently getting appraised with the irreversible environmental damage caused by the crown in the name of extractive capitalism in the North. 

Bill C-5 gives the crown the unfettered right to fast-track environment-damaging projects in the name of “national interest”. 

At times it feels like we are de facto a colonized territory of the UK and the USA. Bill C-5 is not in Canada’s best interest. 

https://www.wealthprofessional.ca/news/industry-news/court-challenge-targets-bill-c-5-and-ontarios-bill-5-over-indigenous-rights-and-land-access/389738

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-first-nations-queens-park-bill-five-challenge-1.7586175

I’m impressed with this measure and hope LA will lead the example forward to inspire everyone to do the same. Homogenous and gated affluent communities go against sustainable living by excluding low income diverse communities, people with a history of crime and in need of rehabilitation, and vulnerable populations in general. This exacerbates class conflicts and encourages crime, while deepening the housing crisis. When it comes to sinister zones moreover, it is an opportunity to eliminate the unsustainable and classist status quo once and for all, fix the errors of the past, and rezone for densification. 

Property values must drop, because speculation must cease at the expense of human lives. 

https://lamag.com/news/ca-senate-passes-bill-that-will-allow-la-to-buy-fire-ravaged-lots-to-build-low-income-housing

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I would be even more radical than that, but I understand someone needs to start somewhere. I would personally create a plan to expropriate at a discount everyone who is presently in a zone considered at risk of a wild-fire or flood area, mainly for renaturalization with indigenous flora before densification. The risk must be eliminated and new living habits must be formed before re-building. For example, there are plants that fix the soil to avoid erosion. So rather than mowing that lawn into the apocalypse, may wanna consider something more eco-diverse.  

Humanity’s biggest problems come with addiction to monoculture and how it translates on the individual level. Landscape management operates with maximum 3 plants per condo-building. That’s not good for anyone or the planet. You need a few hundred plants, and mainly local and useful specimens, imagine each building also being its own botanical garden and growing its own food. Imagine the occupants would collaboratively conduct maintenance and gardening and there are zero condo fees. I’d live in such a building. 

One environmental problem found in the Hudson Plains is contaminants in the Hudson Bay. Many persistent organic contaminants found within the polar bear community include dieldrin, DDE, and chlordane-related products.^[26] Although the effects of these chemicals on the bears is not clear, it is believed to impair endocrine, reproductive, and immune systems.^[26] Polar bears are not the only animals suffering from contamination; beluga whales, seals, and benthic animals located in the Hudson Bay also have high levels of contaminants, especially mercury.^[27] Beluga whales also have DDT, PCB’s, Chlordane, and toxaphene in their blubber. Mercury was also found within mammal, birds, fish, and even humans located in this area.^[27] This is because high levels of mercury can bioaccumulate in the food chain in the flesh of animals, especially in predators.^[28] In 5 years, the amount of mercury found in the Cree’s bloodstream doubled because of their fish-based diet.^[28] Public health recommends humans should only consume fish from here two times a month. Some of the Cree’s mercury levels were extremely high and some elders even showed evidence of mercury poisoning.^[28] A second environmental problem in the Hudson Plains is caused from hydroelectric dams.^[29] Quebec Hydropower is a large power company that harvests the energy of flowing water by using hydroelectric dams.^[29] They pride themselves on developing a clean, renewable energy source; however, the company still has harmful effects on the environment. Flooding in these wetlands occur because of the dams and reservoirs which damages much of the Cree’s hunting grounds.^[28] In one particular case, the La Grande Reservoir experienced methylmercury contamination due to flooding.^[28] These dams have other harmful impacts including riverbank erosion downstream, reversal of natural flow patterns, and interference with fish migration roots.^[30] Sturgeon populations near the hydroelectric dam were diminishing due to loss of breeding grounds in streams.^[26] The La Grande Reservoir even transformed from a saltwater estuary to freshwater because of regulated peak flow during the winter.^[30] These changes can have a very serious impact on the species that live within this area but there are organizations working towards protecting the Hudson plains. The Canadian government entrusted this task with three agencies: the Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada, the Parks Canada Agency, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.^[31] The Canadian Wildlife Service of Environment Canada has protected many wetlands along the coast for migratory birds.^[31] Hydro Quebec adjusted the in-stream flow to protect fish habitats, and installed fish passageways for migration past the dams.^[29] Hopefully, with a little help this stunning ecoregion will prevail against human impacts.

if it weren’t for the wildfires… Moosonee is accessible by canoe from Moose River Crossing, about 75km downstream to the Bay. Moose River is accessible through the Polar Bear Express from Cochrane. 

Congrats to everyone in Quebec who opted for abortions rather than having children with high levels of arsenic in their fingernails. You can’t make this shit up. It’s real. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/14/mexico-canada-us-toxic-waste-shipments

Canada and Québec continue to allow American corporations to pollute the Montreal area and more precisely dispose of their garbage all around the island, mainly at the (heavily dominated by organized-crime) villages of Blainville and Terrebonne on the north shore whose locals take massive bribes to allow this garbage into Canada. The entire South Shore is also fucked up beyond repair again thanks to corrupt locals. The area is no longer worth living at or even visiting. It may take a hundred years for this to naturally decontaminate.

I was going to propose that we expropriate residents at a discount and confiscate the areas at issue to decontaminate and re-naturalise with wetlands (which naturally filter junk better than anything), but I am updating my post with a more pessimistic prognosis. Corrupt individuals will continue to import electronic and industrial waste, and will continue to intentionally poison children even after everyone in Montreal catches cancer, an “autoimmune” disease, Alzheimers, and dies a horrendous death after much uncompensated pain and suffering. The pharmaceutical industry will continue to profit from terminally sick Quebecois, taxes will go up, and even more waste will be imported. That’s how things are done here. You see someone suffer and you give them a heavy-metal shower, but tax them first. That’s the status quo. I rarely predict wrong!

Expect sudden deaths in the thousands over the next years. I can already see mainstream narratives blaming the tariffs for it. But don’t forget that you can also blame a new covid variant, conspiracy theories, disinformation, “Russian agents”, solar activity (le dos du soleil est grand), meteors, extraterrestrials, and why not flat-earthers. In the meantime, it will be business as usual.

Canada and Quebec will continue to refuse enforcing environmental laws and the criminal code against local organized crime and corporate bullshit. Waterfront residential properties which shouldn’t exist in the first place because literally everyone predicts that they will be completely flooded at some point because they are in flood-zones (surprise!), will continue to flood, new waterfront developments will pop up, will flood again, and more permits will be granted for unsustainable construction, and more garbage will flow in. 

And that’s why everyone is so sick and miserable in this city. Pretending to be green doesn’t cut it anymore. 

https://eausecours.org/sites/eausecours.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cartes-cies-US-qui-exportent-dechets-industriels-sols-contamines-a-Stablex-Balinville.pdf

List of local corps and where they store their garbage.  https://www.environnement.gouv.qc.ca/sol/residus_ind/resultats.asp

https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2025/12/25/la-poubelle-du-quebec–une-partie-de-la-monteregie-est-devenue-un-vrai-depotoir-de-dechets-de-construction

https://www.ledevoir.com/environnement/846814/entreprise-est-montreal-rejette-bpc-air

This one is going elsewhere when ready. Some of the effects are experimental or only for the form as usual. 

Be CAREFUL: sound is NOT normalized yet. Don’t listen with headphones, or turn down the volume before hitting play. Nothing on this blog is a final cut or necessarily here to stay, so I won’t fix it. On Youtube, music is normalized by default, but if you’re able to pirate a video from Youtube, you will get the real sound.  So, it is a choice. 

Deep progressive Middle-eastern house incoming. 

I also made a version in high heels.

This routine is good as a warmup.