John McGinley

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[John McGinley @Ginskii]

Burning 30Gs on a Wednesday baseball game is hilarious

[Don @MoneylineMafia_]

All in $33K on Brewers

If this loses, I’ll retire

[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🤗

[John McGinley @Ginskii]

“A host sat me”

To

“I sat down because I was tired”

☠️

[Gitmo (Health is a Wealth) 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @Gitmo99]

The newest form of blackmail against businesses involves people claiming to be social media influencers who expect businesses to cater to their every need.

Individuals who falsely claim to be “influencers” to demand free goods or special treatment—a behavior often called “clout-chasing”—frequently exploit threats of negative online reviews or public shaming to bully small businesses. This entitlement often leads to worker harassment and disruptive behavior in stores or restaurants.

Have you dealt with these kinds of people before?

[NotKennyRogers @NotKennyRogers]

Not so fast, Belgium.

The city of Los Angeles still has another 29 days to count all the goals from tonight's match.

[Dan Karpuc @DanielKarpuc]

Per @trendscenterapp research (for tomorrow), the OVER has gone 15-2 in Braxton Ashcraft's starts this season. 📊

He's 8-3 with a 3.33 ERA. So what's up?

Here's his run support over his last 10 starts: 13, 9, 6, 12, 9, 3, 3, 12, 11, 11.

An average of 8.9 runs per game! 💥

[John McGinley @Ginskii]

🤜🏼🤛🏼

[John McGinley @Ginskii]

@AllInAbe Oooooooof

[໊ @i23yvi3]

This, and never having to doubt again.

[John McGinley @Ginskii]

Typical emotional man with a gun…

Get rid of immunity & make these losers pay outta their own pocket

[BetMGM 🦁 @BetMGM]

A strange trend:

2006: Mavericks go up 2-0, lose the Finals 4-2

2016: Warriors go up 2-0, lose the Finals 4-3

2026: Knicks go up 2-0...

[Vril Nye @VrilNyeX]

“Just bomb whoever you want, we have the entire US government raping kids on video”

[John McGinley @Ginskii]

#MoreYouKnow

[B @blocktmz]

Selena Gomez went live and REVEALED that she’s in the Diddy files on a s*x tape, says she was paid $3.5M and she really needed the money. Gomez said she would rather come clean before it gets leaked 😳👀

“Money talks”
“And trust me your favorite celebrities are all in the files”

[John McGinley @Ginskii]

@WITHNO100S AYO leave my boy Texas Roadhouse alone

[John McGinley @Ginskii]

So that’s what my 1% unknown is 😅

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

CIA accused of using Ancestry and 23andMe to search for alleged alien hybrids, per Daily Mail.

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

When you both reconnect again and realize how dumb it was to let each other go

[John McGinley @Ginskii]

@brodo_baggins1 Bet the other side my brother on another book, take your $7k profit either way

[the_ceo @the_ceo99]

Good men don’t leave easily. They stay and suffer longer than they should, hoping the woman they love will finally see their worth. Most never do.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Nearly 50,000 people in the Lake Tahoe area have been told that their utility will stop providing power to them, because it's redirecting that power to data centers.

NV Energy, the Nevada utility that has supplied most of Lake Tahoe’s electricity for decades, says that next year it will stop servicing homes in the area, and instead direct that electricity to the growing demand from Nevada data centers.

Northern Nevada is one of the fastest-growing data-center corridors in the country.

https://t.co/nTGJAMbwAP

[waliu @idek_tb]

You don’t need a perfect partner. You need someone who can regulate their emotions, admit when they fuck up, & actually sit with uncomfortable conversations without shutting down, flipping it on you, or throwing low blows every time shit gets real.