AKA A Sharp Crease

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Eva Navratilova @EvaBalikova]

This is deeply emotional for us.🥹

Scarlet Deer Inn, our dark medieval folk tale with physical embroidery, is OUT NOW on Steam!

Thank you so much to everyone who has supported us on this journey.

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[ghanaspora @ghanaspora]

Kwame Akoto-Bamfo has spent most of his life building one of the most morally serious bodies of work in contemporary art. His Nkyinkyim Museum in Ghana houses thousands of sculpted heads memorializing those lost to the transatlantic slave trade; they are faces returned to people who were rendered nameless

[Elsie not Elise 💿 @ElsienotElisee]

There’s so much good music dropping daily and not enough people willing to dig beyond the surface. So I started a new series 👇🏾

[DuffJuice @DuffJuice30]

I said this before. Kanye made sure to take CyHi verse off this song because when he heard it, I’m certain he said “yeah we not getting outshined by him again bruh fuck that”. He SMOKED this.

[Ifeoluwa @artbyxam]

I SAID WHY WOULD I USE AI WHEN I CAN CREATE THIS WITH MY HANDS?

[Ifeoluwa @artbyxam]

Why would I use ai when I can create this with my hands?

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

“I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood" - John Brown's final words to his executioner

[Dr Ruby (she/her) jaboukies everything @PaperWhispers]

More than ever invest your time in Black owned businesses and Black creatives. Start here.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️A German hacker known as "Martha Root" dressed as a pink Power Ranger and deleted a white supremacist dating website live onstage

This happened during the recent CCC conference.

Martha had infiltrated the site, ran her own AI chatbot to extract as much information from users as possible, and downloaded every profile. She also uncovered the owner of the site. She has published all of the data.

[OG's Right Hand @therealrahdigga]

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[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

even platonically, i love intensely. intimacy is not reserved for romance. i will always respect peoples boundaries, but i think a lot of people are taken back because they've never been loved for the sake of being loved. i don't want anything. i just really love my friends

[awlivv @awlivv69]

rt if you fucking hate AI

[The Hip Hop Museum @thhmuseum]

Today we celebrate Phonte Coleman, one of Hip Hop’s most important—& most human—voices. As one half of Little Brother, Phonte helped redefine what honesty sounded like in rap. Long before vulnerability became a marketing angle, he brought emotional intelligence, humor,

[Hip Hop Historian @HHistorian50532]

Another one that deserves a spot in the Louvre (from my collection)

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

✨Vince Staples’s Closet Picks! ✨

[Slick BE. Du Pointe Du Lac @SlickBE_]

Convincing as many ppl and entities as humanly possible that you earn 0 dollars every month

[dre. @anthrtime]

today in 1988 marks the birth of the mpc.

originally taught by amp fiddler on an mpc60, here’s j dilla on his mpc in his los angeles home in 2005.

[Kentah Gwanjez @GWANJEZ]

Still relevant to this day!