075896 timestamps all touched again. None of the 690370 timestamps touched. No data modified. 🤷
I normally don't check this often but I've been checking daily since the weird shifts ~July 20th.
Will check LEI mappings tomorrow because I do have a request pending. Everything still points to 549300ACR0DL9U7EI710.
🦔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.
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The DKBFLY bonds in IBKR are now showing a guarantor. The first screenshot was from a few days ago when I saw Freddie Mac had been added under the prospectus. All three DKBFLY bonds have a guarantor now.
🚨 @GameStop now owns 9.8% of @eBay. 43,390,383 shares. ~$3.97B settled TODAY. Zero debt. @RyanCohen said on Thursday - "We're coming for eBay, one way or another". Read the full thread to see how easy he's making this look...🧵👇
Thanks to @CaptFella we found one: Bear Stearns.
So corporate action gurus, what similarities could Bear Stearns have to 20230930-DK-BUTTERFLY-1, INC. and the current BBBY that issued warrants ~9 months ago?
https://t.co/9OZcUFgmSr
The recent backend update renaming the bond profiles to DKBFLY reveals a massive technical tell. EmpiraSign data now explicitly maps legacy BBBY, OSTK, and the new DKBFLY notes ('24, '34, '44) within the exact same security hierarchy... 🚀
Jake2b's future entrance theme song, when he goes on tour was written in 2003. I had to include the lyrics, as I couldn't believe it myself. The story being told in the song, only gets better. The man has no fear. Even Bobby can't hold him back.
This update for DK🦋 bonds strategically triggers an automatic stay, freezing the "Scheduled payment" & "Grace period" to halt cash burn. This precise technical maneuver paves the way for a Chap 11 debt-for-equity swap, wiping the balance sheet clean for a massive reverse merger!
For @ReadyfortheRun's sake. He better hope he is not lying. Because Bloomberg @technology has a criminal reputation that precedes them. Funny start and stop dates on their GameStop reporting, line up perfecting leading into January 28th, 2021, and ended before Ryan Cohen's efforts at GameStop turned losses into profit. The last eight quarters worth.
Damn.. Talk about timing.
Just like the timing of Ken Griffin's debt securitization LLC's set up in Delaware on January 15, 2021. Citadel KW Melvin Holdings. As if they were getting ready for something. I already checked, Ken's grandpa isn't named Melvin, but the Plot thickens, because you know whose does. And there was not just one LLC set up to securitize debt, there were and still are, three.
Just ask U.S. Bank Trust. Or web search them up, you'll find it. But in case you have problems spelling, here is a link for two of them. An attractive way to remove Debt from the Citadel balance sheet.
It is that easy to make losses appear as if they broke even. Financial magicians they are. But when it comes to mismarking millions of trades worth billions of dollars as either short or long, they appear to fail miserably. Eight years ago, that meant prison time, just look that case up. Today, and just before November 2024, a one million dollar FINRA fine makes the PhD in Physics fat finger programming mistake fly off and go away.
https://t.co/mbR7lrpyb6