Rodri

[Sunny Singh @ProfSunnySingh]

“Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.”

[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🤗

[Gualter @brezhneviano]

No es joda esta encerrona: el tipo vivía de armar guías con cosas para descubrir en Berlín. Como las respuestas de IA le quitaron las visitas, no lo podrá hacer más. Y ahora, ¿quién va a recorrer la ciudad (da igual si Berlín o Lanús) para generar las ideas que refritará la IA?

[Rodri @ArenasRodri]

Despídanse del internet que conocíamos, pajeros de mierda

[All About Berlin @aboutberlin]

AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Google something, you used to get a link to my website, but now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work. This has a devastating impact on traffic.

[dina 🍉 @coldplayeah1]

HOLY SHIT THE STROKES????

[Michael @TheMG3D]

It literally is and AI bros think they are entitled to everything

[Dave Jones @eevblog]

IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail.
You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.
You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations.

Retweet so every is aware.

[patrick "inverted vibe curve" blanchfield @PatBlanchfield]

thanks to AI you can now become the malignant illusion spinning demiurge whom Descartes had to axiomatically banish in order to make Rationality possible

[sarah @sahouraxo]

This is the Holocaust Israel hoped no one would see.

[Dr.SAEB_FROM_GAZA @Dr_SaebGaza]

If I vanish tomorrow, remember I begged the world with just a dot “.”

If you're browsing, please leave a dot. It's just a dot.

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Israel bombs a hospital to kill journalists, then bombs the rescue team retrieving their bodies. How many war crimes is that?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

My God. Each pair of shoes is a child's life.

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

The reason why you’re seeing less news come out of Gaza isn’t because the situation is getting better, quite the opposite. It’s because it has gotten so bad that there are barely any journalists left to report what’s happening on the ground.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel just assassinated the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza: fearless journalists and cameramen reporting the truth amid genocide.

This is a war crime and a crime against humanity.

Where are the Western journalists? Will they condemn this, or choose silence and complicity?

[Ben @BenJoyceFoot]

Genuinely insane to post this, completely ignoring how he died, who was responsible, that they have remained a member of your organisation for the last two years. Add UEFA to the complicit in genocide list, if they weren’t there already. Shameful.

[Aditi @aditilrao]

I’m still here. 620 days ago. When kids were being slaughtered, losing limbs, growing hungry and they begged us, in English, to let them live. I never moved on; I’m still here.

[Zara Rahim @ZaraRahim]

these same children who are starving to death right before our eyes tried holding press conferences begging us to save them in November 2023 and the world did nothing. I’ll genuinely never get over having to write these sentences as long as I live….the heart atrophies.

[Freedom Flotilla Coalition @GazaFFlotilla]

For about two hours, our Freedom Flotilla boat's communications were interrupted and drones were observed near the boat, raising serious concerns of potential attack.
Connection has now been re-established. 'Handala' is continuing its mission and is currently less than 349 nautical miles from Gaza.
Thank you to everyone who responded to our alert! Please keep your eyes on 'Handala' and on Palestine, and continue pressuring your governments and media to break the illegal siege on Gaza and allow 'Handala' to deliver the aid we carry.

[Free Palestine @bitterarab]

It’s too late. Shame on you all.