🦔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🤗
Muslim refugee in Germany:
“I’ve been here for three years and I hate everyone. This is a country of infidels.
I don’t care that they accepted me as refugee. A Muslim who doesn’t accept me is a million times better than a non-Muslim who accepts me.”
That is their mentality.
“A time traveller from 50s Britain would probably die of shock within two hours of arriving in modernised Blairland - and be quite glad to do so. The fact that the restaurants are better just would not make up for the fact that almost everything else is worse.”
Peter Hitchens
The main reason the West is dying is because all the Western institutions are controlled by astonishingly stupid, left-wing people. Zanny Minton Beddoes is an Oxford graduate and Harvard PHD - yet she is stupid. How can this be so? Because she has an excellent memory and was able to regurgitate what her professors told her to remember. She is incapable of thought, but masterful in regurgitation.
In recent times past she would be lower-middle management, but ALL the institutions are now controlled by people who owe their positions to regurgitation rather than thinking, provided they all belong to the Left-Wing Club, which of course they do. This is a serious problem for the West because no intelligent people could possibly still be left-wing by the time they old enough to be admitted into senior institutional positions.
Boomers sacrificed their children out of fear of the flu.
Granny was so worried catching the flu might interrupt her planned 6 month cruise that she made little Tim Tim get a vaccine that gave him heart damage.
@capeandcowell When your government favors illegal aliens over its own citizens, it isn't really your government any longer, is it? It's the illegal aliens' government - you're just paying for it.
What will you do about it?
Let's take a walk through the "American justice system," shall we?
Sharmake Omar is the Somali man who filmed Shiloh Hendrix on the playground in Minnesota that day in April 2025.
In January 2022, he and another Somali man "allegedly" spent two days raping an underage foster care runaway in a trailer, keeping her falsely imprisoned.
In March 2025, all charges were dismissed "in the interest of justice."
Weeks later, in April 2025, he turned his camera phone on at the playground after a young Somali thief attempted to steal from a White mom, Shiloh Hendrix, and began haranguing that White mom for having said the word "nigger." Omar demanded that Hendrix repeat the word on camera, which she did - four times, while Omar himself said the word five times in the less-than-one-minute video.
Four long months later, multiple "disorderly conduct" charges were maliciously brought against Shiloh Hendrix for the playground incident in which she was the only victim, and Sharmake Omar was the videographer.
Then, last night, Shiloh Hendrix was CONVICTED - specifically for saying "nigger" to Sharmake Omar AFTER he demanded she say it, while he himself said it repeatedly. Her sentence is a $1,000 fine and 200 hours of community service.
By the way, Sharmake Omar WAS NEVER CALLED TO TESTIFY in the Hendrix trial.
But don't worry, that's not all the justice we have in store for today. Just keep the substance of Shiloh's "crime" - as well as her sentence - in mind as we move forward.
Rewind to April 2020. That's when Sharmake Omar, our favorite Somali videographer, along with another Somali friend of his (separate from his alleged co-raper), committed a violent assault in the street. Omar threw a rock at a car, then attacked and beat the 16-year-old driver. A bystander tried to intervene, but Omar's accomplice threatened him with a knife.
For this, Sharmake Omar was charged merely with DISORDERLY CONDUCT. Yes, for hurling a deadly weapon at a vehicle, then beating the teenage driver while his criminal pal held off onlookers at knifepoint, Omar faced the EXACT SAME CHARGE that Shiloh Hendrix faced for saying a word that Omar asked her to say, as she held her child in her arms and fled the playground before Omar could assault her, too.
Like Shiloh Hendrix, Sharmake Omar was convicted on his count of disorderly conduct.
His sentence?
A $200 fine.
That's it. That's the entire thing.
So, to review:
Rape an underage foster child for two days (allegedly)? Clean slate.
Hurl a deadly weapon at a car and assault its driver? $200.
Say a word to an accused rapist/kidnapper and convicted violent criminal who demands you say it while saying it himself? $1,000 and 200 hours - not to mention international infamy.
Could the anti-White standard be any more egregiously in our faces?
Seriously, everyone involved in prosecuting the Shiloh Hendrix case is unspeakably evil. This includes, but is not limited to:
~ Rochester City Attorney Michael Spindler-Krage
~ Lead prosecutor Nicholas Shabel
~ Judge Christa Daily, who ensured Shiloh's conviction
~ The Rochester NAACP
~ Rochester's "Community Engagement Response Team"
~ Rochester Mayor Kim Norton
~ Rochester City Council President Randy Schubring
~ Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison
~ Minnesota's Council on American-Islamic Relations
~ Sharmake Omar, without whom none of this would have happened
~ The young Somali thief's non-English speaking parents
~ Innumerable members of the local Somali scam network
~ Six jurors - two men and four women (reportedly all White) - who unanimously agreed that White people are not protected under the US Constitution
While we're here, a special dishonorable mention must go to every single "FIRST AMENDMENT" organization in this hollowed-out country of ours. You know the ones - they relentlessly solicit and collect large sums of money to "DEFEND FREE SPEECH" while continuously, cravenly shrinking away from EVERY meaningful case where White people - LITERALLY THE ONLY GROUP WITH MAJORITY SUPPORT FOR THE FIRST AMENDMENT - are so clearly maliciously persecuted.
Similarly, NOT ONE official at any level of government has spoken up to defend Shiloh Hendrix or her Constitutional rights, nor to condemn the flagrantly anti-White, utterly unconstitutional witch hunt she's endured. Not one.
And on that note, we conclude today's review of the good ol' "American justice system."
Lady Justice isn't blind. She's anti-White. And it's never been plainer to see.
A large fraction of the world has teamed up to destroy the West
They literally host conferences about it
And yet most in the West think everything is fine
🇬🇧 En algunos negocios de Reino Unido, se les prendió el foco, y encontraron la solución a los robos de africanos, contratando a otros africanos para que los muelan a golpes e impidan que roben, así no los acusan de racismo. Regresaron al siglo XIX
This is how the Christian majority in Lebanon came to an end.
“Lebanon was the only Christian country in the Middle East, and also the only one to accept Palestinian refugees.
Lebanon had an open border policy. We wanted to share our knowledge with our Muslim neighbors. But when they became the majority, they started slaughtering the Christians who welcomed them.”
Pay close attention!
The issue isn’t even of consequentialism vs deontology, the problem is the standard, used for judging a consequence as better or worse, is wholly self focused. It’s the therapy language of “do what makes you happy.” It’s extreme self-centeredness as a mortality. It’s literally the philosophy of the devil.
Yes we understand you don’t have an ethical standard beyond whatever gets you what you want. We understand that quite well. We think it’s horrendous, we aren’t confused.
Según Richard Hanania, la cultura de la cancelación no es principalmente un problema de “jóvenes”, “liberales” o “estudiantes”, sino el resultado de la feminización del discurso público: cuando se priorizan los sentimientos sobre la verdad y se mantienen dobles estándares de género, las lágrimas y la indignación emocional de una minoría de mujeres se convierten en un veto efectivo.
Entre hombres, la confrontación agresiva tiene reglas claras (escalar, retirarse o estrechar la mano). Sin embargo, frente a una mujer que llora o grita por “sentirse herida”, el hombre queda atrapado, porque cualquier respuesta firme se interpreta como abuso. El resultado es un sistema híbrido peor que cualquiera de los extremos: toleramos más agresividad hacia los hombres y más histeria hacia las mujeres, mientras fingimos creer en la igualdad.
Para Hanania, mientras no se acepte que el espacio de las ideas funciona mejor con estándares masculinos -donde la verdad importa más que el bienestar emocional de los participantes-, seguiremos cediendo terreno a quienes convierten el llanto en argumento.