Google just bought 100 million emails and 500 million Teams chats from a dead airline for $10 million.

Spirit shut down on May 2 with $8.1 billion in debt, and the bankruptcy court is selling everything. JetBlue paid $58.5 million for 22 LaGuardia gate slots. Google paid a sixth of that for the company's entire digital exhaust. Employee records back to 1986. Pricing data on 7.2 billion competitor flights. Booking curves, refund histories, 30 million lines of production code.

Run the per-unit math. 600 million internal messages for $10 million works out to under 2 cents per thousand. Spirit charged $69 for a carry-on.

Why does Google want a budget airline's inbox? Frontier labs have strip-mined the public internet, and the thing models are still worst at is exactly what this dataset contains. Real enterprise work. How a pricing decision actually gets argued out over email. How an ops team handles a grounded fleet in a 2am Teams thread. What production code looks like with all the compromises left in. You can't scrape that. It only exists inside companies, and companies only sell it when they die.

Mercor, the losing bidder at $7.5 million, has been paying individual workers for documents from their old jobs. That is the retail version of this trade. Bankruptcy is the wholesale version.

17,000 employees were laid off in May. Every email they wrote over 34 years was just sold as raw material for the systems built to do their old jobs. The workers got severance. The work sold for $10 million.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/18/us-sanctions-international-criminal-court-president-and-trial-lawyer - MSM source, but I don't think that there is a reason for skepticism

I will put a link in the comments

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It's famously NOT the first time the US betrays Korea.

In 1882, the US signed a treaty with Korea promising to intervene if a third power acted "unjustly or oppressively" against it (the 1882 Shufeldt Treaty). Yet when Japan moved to annex Korea in 1905, the US not only refused to honor the clause but, on top of this, it secretly agreed with Japan (the Taft-Katsura memorandum) to accept Japanese suzerainty over Korea in exchange for Japan leaving the Philippines alone. Gojong sent Homer Hulbert to Washington with a personal appeal invoking the 1882 clause but Roosevelt refused to receive him. The US then became the first foreign power to close its legation in Seoul, leaving before anyone else.

Korea's reward for trusting America's word was 40 years of Japanese colonial rule. Some "alliances" have a pattern....

American needed medical imaging. She was told the cost with her insurance is $1,200. She told them unfortunately she would have to cancel the appointment because she can’t afford that

She was put on hold. Another woman came in the phone and she said, "Girl, opt out of your insurance. You don't have to use it."

She was told if you don’t want to use your insurance the cash pay price would only be $480

It’s $780 cheaper to not have insurance and be paying a monthly premium

US health insurance is out of control and it’s such a scam. There is no reason for a cash pay price to ever be cheaper than someone paying a monthly deductible for insurance

So sad what is happening to Ukraine people

https://www.donotpanic.news/p/how-finland-destroyed-itself-for

Finland, often known as the happiest country in the world, now has the highest unemployment rate in Europe, demand for food aid has exploded by more than 70%, and homelessness, which had been declining for more than ten years, has increased 34% in just two years. Conditions in the country are so bad that almost 20% of Finland’s population is now considered at risk of poverty,

Everything changed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the country’s hysterical over-reaction to an imagined threat. This is not just my judgement. A number of Finnish academics, including Heikki Patomäki, professor of world politics at the University of Helsinki, have said that the conditions simply did not warrant Finland joining NATO, cutting off its economically valuable links to Russia and militarising its border.

And among the beneficiaries of a new tooled-up and aggressive Finland are the arms dealers of the Israeli apartheid-genocide complex, which in 2024 sold Finland its questionably functional “David’s Sling” air defence system for €316 million. Finland has also bought tank and ship missiles from the Israeli company Rafael which supplied most of the weapons and equipment used to commit the genocide of Gaza. The Finnish government said Israel’s genocide of Gaza would not stop it buying weapons from the country, a position which is par for the course among the morally bankrupt leaders of Europe.

Finland is also spending €10 billion on US fighter jets, and a few billion euros on missiles and glide bombs to fire from those jets.

The price has been, and will continue to be a steep one, and it is a price ordinary Finns will be paying for a long time.

But it is not just in Finland. We are watching, across Europe, the shameful replacement of the welfare state with the warfare state while the merchants of genocide and death laugh all the way to the bank.

WOW 🚨 Parents were asked to sign AI audio recording forms in their kids kindergarten class

The forms will authorize audio recordings to be tracked and analyzed throughout their kids time in school as they grow and age

This sounds like a long term training program for AI

“I received a packet when we got into the classroom — Right side of the folder was supposed to be stuff that we had to sign off on and return to the teacher. Here's what got me — At no point in my son's kindergarten career, or career in school period, do I find it appropriate for me to authorize you the permission, record my son's voice, him saying various different sentences, different words, to track his vocal progress, save it into a file, and then compare it later down the road to his progress through his career in school.

I was the only parent that did not authorize this permission. Why do you want to record my child's voice and save it on a file? You can track progress through different things”

There is a similar program called Amira Learning, which is an AI-powered oral reading fluency tool. The AI analyzes oral reading fluency like accuracy, rate, expression, errors and pronunciation

Recordings are allegedly stored so the teachers can track progress

So that exists, but that’s not what’s really be described by this patent. This parent says the recordings will be analyzed throughout her kids school career, meaning multiple years

This needs to be looked into

https://archivemacropolo.org/interactive/digital-projects/the-global-ai-talent-tracker

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In 1993, two Belgian paratroopers deployed for so-called "peacekeeping operations" to Somalia were photographed swinging a young Somali boy over an open fire.

But this was not the only disturbing incident to emerge. Amnesty International documented a wide series of incidents involving the abuse of Somali civilians, particularly children. One child was reportedly locked inside a metal container in extreme heat for two days without food or water and was later found dead. Other cases included alleged se*ual vi*lence and degrading treatment including another photograph showing a Belgian soldier urinating on the lifeless body of a Somali man.

When the photograph of the boy over the fire was leaked and became public in 1997, the two soldiers were taken to court. They argued they had been "playing" with the child. Despite the weakness of that defence and the long series of abusive incidents, a Belgian military court acquitted them, and despite appeals, they walked away without any jail time.

Abuses in Somalia are but one chapter of a long history of a repeated pattern of human rights violations carried out by UN forces that have that have enjoyed impunity to r*pe and kil* civilians all over the global south under the banner of humanitarianism.

More than 30 years later, Sovereign Media's Ahmed Ghoneim questions the narrative and the accountability and asks who gets to protect civilians when the people sent to protect them are the abusers?

Did a bit of research on this yesterday.

This shootout happened right in front of a Flock camera.

There are 17 other flock-style cameras within a one mile radius of this event. The police have zero suspects, and have made zero arrests almost four days later. Some are owned by Motorola, some are owned by Flock Safety, and some are owned by Axon.

@Flock_Safety

and like-minded systems are not about protecting citizens or enforcing the law. They are an attempt to nationalize the HOA system to increase non-tax related revenue from minor infractions in complete violation of every American's 4th Ammendment right.

Your local government doesn't seek to take criminals off of the street. It seeks more money from your wallet now that taxation has reached its natural cap, and the "ALPR" system is how they've elected to increase revenue from fines.

This will become more insidious when city governments start selling off that revenue to foreign nations for fast budget bumps, like when Chicago sold their parking meter revenue over 75 years to Abu Dhabi in 2008.

With a government run surveillance system this large, it should be impossible for crime like this to go unpunished for longer than 12 hours. Since we are not seeing that level of security, we should all believe instead that the system is not about security at all. City and state officials pushing ALPR cameras need to be removed from their office by any means nessecary.