Did you know you can now put the text of almost all of arXiv on one cheap SSD. Someone just packaged an enormous arXiv snapshot on Hugging Face 📚 3,148,796 papers 📄 PDFs for 99.47% 💽 Full archive: 16.08 TB Sounds ridiculous for Local AI… Until you see that … 🔥 paper_text = 70GB That contains the resolved TeX text for … 🧠 2,856,227 papers 📊 90.7% of all arXiv And you can download just that dataset by itself. No 16TB NAS is necessary. So theoretically you could build a completely local research system using ThumbLLM.exe from a thumb drive!!! 💾 70GB arXiv text corpus 🔎 local search / embeddings 🧠 local LLM 🚫 no API required Ask your local model to search nearly 3 million scientific papers sitting on your own SSD. 👀 Caveats ⚠️ It’s a snapshot, not live arXiv ⚠️ latest submission is Aug. 27 ⚠️ the text is resolved TeX, so it still contains LaTeX syntax/macros and needs some cleaning for ideal RAG But 2.8M papers in ~70GB is a Localmaxxer dataset. Link in ALT

Unbelievably there are still westerners pretending they don’t believe Oct 7 was an abomination on every conceivable level. The reason, I assume, is that being honest to themselves about what happened would mean acknowledging they have actively supported the people behind it. But for anyone interested, here are the vast and diverse array of sources used by the Civil Commission to compile their report. The acrobatics required to pretend it’s all made up are Olympic level, but hate does that to people. It is a poison. … The Civil Commission on October 7 Crimes Against Women and Children (a non-governmental Israeli body) published its report Silenced No More: Sexual Terror Unveiled on 12 May 2026.  This 280–300-page document is the most comprehensive independent investigation to date into the systematic sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) committed by Hamas and affiliates on 7 October 2023 and against hostages in Gaza.  It draws on a dedicated “war crimes archive” the Commission built immediately after the attacks (preserving materials later removed or lost) and follows trauma-informed, survivor-centred, internationally recognised standards.  Key sources include: •  430+ formal and informal testimonies and interviews collected over two years from survivors, direct witnesses, released hostages, family members of victims, first responders (including paramedics and ZAKA volunteers), soldiers, and experts. Victims represented 52 nationalities in addition to Israelis.  •  Front-line responders’ accounts and site evidence — explicit testimony and observations from first responders, emergency personnel, and military personnel who recovered bodies, treated survivors, and worked the attack sites (Nova festival, kibbutzim, roads, etc.).  •  Extensive visual and forensic archive — over 10,000 photographs and video segments (more than 1,800 hours of analysis), including perpetrator-recorded footage, bodycam and security camera recordings, open-source material, and geolocated datasets from the attack sites.  •  Victim and family statements — direct accounts from survivors of sexual violence, released hostages describing abuse in captivity, and families of murdered victims, often cross-referenced with visual evidence. •  Open-source intelligence and expert consultations — geolocation-supported verification, interdisciplinary expert review, site visits, and meetings with affected communities.  •  UN and prior international investigations — the report builds on and incorporates findings from UN reports, notably the March 2024 report by UN Special Representative Pramila Patten on sexual violence in the context of the 7 October attacks, as well as other UN documentation.  •  Official records and primary materials— forensic reports, communications, and documentation preserved in the Commission’s independent archive that are no longer publicly available.  The Commission systematically cross-referenced all materials by time, location, and pattern, identifying 13 recurring forms of SGBV used deliberately across multiple sites and phases (attack, abduction, captivity, and digital dissemination). All evidence was handled under ethical “do no harm” protocols.  This body of primary, multi-source evidence (testimonies + visuals + archives) forms the core of the report’s conclusion that the sexual violence was systematic, widespread, and integral to the Hamas-led assault.

A week is a useful unit. Here is what one looked like: Monday 7 to Friday 11 September, on one desk covering the AI supply chain. What went in first. IQE's half-year results presentation, read as a deck rather than as a press summary. Oracle's FQ1 and Adobe's FQ3 out of the 8-K exhibits the night they filed, with Oracle's own fifteen slides alongside. Korean memory inventory, Taiwan trade data, US CPI and PPI, each from the body that issued it. A broker's two-volume optical networking report, read for what its own charts said rather than for its conclusion. Infineon on the power shortage, in its own materials. Two items on that list did not exist before we made them. Jensen Huang's session at Goldman, 2,256 seconds and 371 timestamped segments, and Lumentum at the Citi conference. We pulled the audio and transcribed both. And three days on the floor at the Shenzhen optoelectronics show, behind an archive of 3,182 exhibitors, 604 agenda rows and 54 conference pages that we counted before the doors opened. What came out: 555 files across the five days. 266 figures, 162 post drafts in two languages, 40 news and data notes, and twelve primary documents pulled in from the issuers. 77 pieces were written in English, each with a Chinese counterpart. Not all were published, because a week produces more drafts than it has slots. None of that is the interesting part. Four of the five days produced roughly the same amount of work, so volume tells you almost nothing. The number I care about is four, which is how many times that week the collection got wider. The news triage learned simplified-Chinese optical vocabulary and picked up the show's own conference feed. A technology-maturity desk went in with thirteen standing sources and nineteen technology nodes, swept weekly and compared word for word against the previous copy. Open-access research became its own leg. And a financial layer that reads straight from SEC XBRL went live, alongside a bank for material that has no slot yet. Those four are still running. The 555 files are not. They were read once. Almost nothing above is exclusive. Every document was published by whoever made it, and anyone could have read it. The only difference is that it was read. $IQE $ORCL $ADBE $NVDA $LITE