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jam alas • she/her • best known for radio, events hosting, and existential dread. ❤️🌈 matt + amy’s girl

[whatever @fruitpreserve]

✨bday fruit proof of life🍓 alive but at what cost ur honor (ง ื▿ ื)ว

[어디 @_flight_mode]

새벽에 오브제 구경하다 울어버림,,
다시 태어나도 너였으면 해라니 흑,,

[whatever @fruitpreserve]

@matthias_alea @shadowsflicker 🙈🙊🙉

[whatever @fruitpreserve]

same poly pocket btw 💞

[whatever @fruitpreserve]

@shadowsflicker @matthias_alea 💜💚🩷

[ReelRadical @ReelRadical]

The Lovers (2026) by Alice Mao & Sophia Paez will be made available for free on YouTube in Tagalog with English subtitles, Aug. 30.

The short film is a WLW animated thriller about a siren and a seafood chef set in a dark fantasy Philippines.

[𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧★ @olivvrszn]

I hate when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed. I am reading books that bring me back to being human.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Hey. So. The people that scan rare antique books and destroy them are the bad guys in every dystopian story. Just FYI.

[High Yield Harry @HighyieldHarry]

Watching society become too cooked to even watch a tv show episode

[whatever @fruitpreserve]

@matthias_alea 🥺

[jordan @JordanUhl]

Incredible.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

This amazing website, called "Worse on Purpose," is cataloguing all the ways companies are deliberately and secretively degrading their own products

As usual, in most cases the culprit is private equity extracting enormous sums while everyone else is left worse off.

[MoundLore @MoundLore]

We may be the first civilization willing to destroy original books in order to teach machines what they contained. That’s a sentence future historians may struggle to explain.

[chico @psychicslayer1]

when the world needed her most she RETURNED?!

[Hot Rails — oz/acc @hot_rails]

This is the magnificent library @AnthropicAI amassed, before pulping it because it gave them a legal copyright loophole.

These people do not understand Civilization.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Btw, people have survived centuries without data centers but have never survived without clean water.

[Club des Cordeliers @cordeliers]

Once books exist only in digital form, ruling class will find it easy to revise and censor them.

[Nick Kapur @nick_kapur]

Terrifying thread.

Due to a legal ruling which lets AI companies off the hook for copyright infringement as long as they destroy the original book, they're buying up millions of rare books, scanning them as AI training data, and then destroying them.

[i🫒 @applesdunorange]

isinusuka na ng mga amerikano yung mga data centres. if it was going to do more good than harm wouldn’t you think hindi nila itatapon sa Pilipinas yan? kaya nga tinatapon dito eh kase it does more harm than good.

[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🤗