Nick D

[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🤗

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@listen_2learn Mmm

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@vonderleyen @netanyahu Honestly you are a joke and nothing more than a puppet you should be ashamed of yourself.

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@TWBFarms @Tesco This is an old post. The date on the onions is 2023. If you want a stable supply of even semi seasonal vegetables you will need to import them from countries that have opposing seasons otherwise you just eat what you grow when it’s in season. Pretty straight forward.

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@ashtonforbes I really don’t understand why you think the US government controls that kind of technology. If it exists it’s being controlled by private groups with intelligence links at best. The US puppet government can’t even control its own currency let alone hidden technologies.

[Rania @umyaznemo]

Because we are God's chosen terr0rists!

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@GadSaad What’s your take on the documented accusations of Netanyahu’s funnelling of cash to Hamas through Qatari channels to allow for the continued argument that there was no one to negotiate with for peace talks due to Hamas being recognised as terrorists? If true who is the enabler?

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@Alphafox78 The moment Bill Gates decided to depopulate the earth.

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

Built my very first Akinator 🧞‍♂️ style game with 'if' statements! Day 5 of #Replit100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfCode. Join me on @Replit https://t.co/lNDKWPVVkA

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

Feel like a proper storyteller with the custom storybook that I coded up 📖 ! Day 4 of #Replit100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfCode. Join me on @Replit https://t.co/lNDKWPVVkA

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

With the powers of concatenation I made a whacky recipe maker 🥓🍝🥑 ! Day 3 of #Replit100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfCode. Join me on @Replit https://t.co/lNDKWPVVkA

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

I just built my first interactive code which takes inputs from the user! Day 2 of #Replit100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfCode. Join me on @Replit https://t.co/lNDKWPVVkA

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

Hello to the world of coding and my very first project! Day 1 of #Replit100DaysOfCode #100DaysOfCode. Join me on @Replit https://t.co/lNDKWPVVkA

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@TomFitton @AwakenedOutlaw This seems more like a disinformation campaign to make Bill Gates look like a victim so people forget about his many trips to visit Epstein on his island.

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@eevblog Bottle labeller

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@123Kevak @UAWeapons The Russian can build tanks faster than the entire west put together. They have a stick of 10k+ plus tanks. The T-54 are basically mobile short range artillery. If you had them lying around why wouldn’t you use them?

[Consortium News @Consortiumnews]

In a short notice speech to the UNSC @RayMcGovern looks back at three decades of relations between the U.S. and Russia, from his time as a boy hiding under a desk in a duck and cover exercise, through his decades as a senior CIA analyst, to today, when the nuclear threat is back.

[dana @dana916]

Soviet table of observation

It was called "Entertaining table". It was necessary to sequentially find numbers from 1 to 90.

Results:
5-10 minutes - you have exceptional powers of observation;
10-15 minutes is good;
15-20 - medium;
20-25 - you have satisfactory observation, but amazing patience.

[Nick D @Blackf1sh]

@WarMonitors It all started after the outing of the Nord Stream sabotage by the US coming out. Funny that.