Andrew

Commercial GC project coordinator & hobbyist crime thriller author. 🇨🇦

[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🤗

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨OPENAI ALLEGEDLY STOLE APPLE’S ENTIRE PLAYBOOK

“Hundreds of billions of dollars, decades of work”

Hardware Engineering

- circuit designs, component architecture, power management
- unreleased products guarded by internal codenames
- AI/ML integration for hardware
- EMI engineering + testing methods

Manufacturing Secrets

- proprietary processes + custom machinery
- equipment Apple builds and installs IN supplier factories
- proprietary metal alloys + finishing techniques
- DFM (Design for Manufacturability) expertise

Component Technologies

- power chips, battery systems, displays, acoustics, touch
- identities of specialized sub-suppliers
- exact specs Apple demands from components

Testing Data

- failure analyses, lifecycle simulations
- “negative know-how” — everything Apple tried that DIDN’T work

Supply Chain

- supplier contracts, allocation strategies
- global logistics coordination
- systems-level integration

ALL GONE 💀

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@TheGloriousLion Chess

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@nateobrienn I like the move, I’m in at 20.20 I believe after your tweet

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@nateobrienn how long are you planning on holding Campbell’s for?

[Joe Rogan @joerogan]

Episode #2510 Devon Larratt
https://t.co/gI5NhpzrVn

Devon is a world champion arm wrestler, 16 year veteran of JTF2 - Canada’s tier 1 special operations unit, and an all around unique and very interesting guy.
Our podcast is out now on @spotify and everywhere else.

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@BioavailableNd Swapped in sushi and carpaccio in today 💪

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@garyvee "make an image of me holding a trashbag that says everything easy is garbage"

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@STR8RIPPIN I vote lockout

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@ochocinco Ray Emery, Rest in Peace

[RedWolf🐺 @RedWolfMMA]

Everybody shut up and look at this pic of Michael Bisping holding a wombat wearing sunglasses to cleanse your timeline 👀😂

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@FanSince09 average Canadian realtor to be honest

[𝐬𝐨𝐯 ᯓ ✈︎ @sovietsoleri]

Like tears in rain

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@CryptoMikli

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@jordanreviewsit Retention pond

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@Afinetheorem Syrians and westernization

[Tones Of Music @TonesOfMusic]

Incubus 25 years ago

[Embassy of Japan in Canada @JapaninCanada]

Go Canada Go! @TeamCanada

[Rob Williams @RobTheHockeyGuy]

Finally! Canada has its first gold medal of the Milano Cortina Olympics.

Mikael Kingsbury wins gold in men’s dual moguls 🥇