James x Mwangi

To infinity and beyond ⛵

[James x Mwangi @JameshQater]

" The wise create bridges ; the foolish build barriers" -Nigerian Proverb .

[IVY @ivymuthe]

Oraimo should be stopped immediately. I mean, they’ve even brought electric steel wire. I now believe many women will end up without husbands because the men are all sorted.

[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🤗

[James x Mwangi @JameshQater]

Week 3 of being a CEO. So far i have realised starting a company from scratch ain't easy. Especially getting investors . So while ICT hailipi I'm learning how to hairdress

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

Anthropic in 2037 after finding out your grandma has a handwritten diary that they didn’t scan and burn

[INSIDER BUZZ @InsiderBuzzX]

"Kenyan Vernacular music is advanced, EABL looks at the Vernacular artist As proper businessmen while Urban musician are chasing EABL for sponsorship "~Bien

[Crazy Kennar @crazy_kennar]

IF AFRICA HAD A SUPERHERO 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Spiderman Kennar 😂

[World Cup Anime @WorldCupAnime]

Messi & Yamal : The Greatest Writing in Football History.

[James x Mwangi @JameshQater]

@AIRTEL_KE according to dpa 2019 what data as a customer can i request from a telecom ? Is it call logs sms or call voice recording or voice mail. I'm curious as a cybersecurity guy. #poverino1 #fastbishop

[James x Mwangi @JameshQater]

Wow

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇫🇷 I can't get enough of these AI World Cup videos.

Now Mbappé joining the "going home" crew after France's exit 😂

Writer: Sol

[Joshua Malidzo Nyawa @joshuamalidzo]

Born to read beautiful openers?😍
Enters Justice Bahati Mwamuye!

[shadowstack @abel_masila]

@SafaricomPLC si ata mnipee kazi nifix hii kitu na nitoke. Kindly

[James x Mwangi @JameshQater]

Hihi

[shadowstack @abel_masila]

@SafaricomPLC si ata mnipee kazi nifix hii kitu na nitoke. Kindly

[James x Mwangi @JameshQater]

Getting an incubator is tough in kenya. Any leads are welcome

[Keith @gnukeith]

I’m not using my free will enough

[Md Ismail Šojal 🕷️ @0x0SojalSec]

A gentle reminder that math can be stunning when shown the right way.
This simple animation turned a dry formula into something I actually get. 🫡

[James x Mwangi @JameshQater]

Sio meme nimekua mkulima

[Nandkishor @devops_nk]

Software Engineer's life after July 12

[spidey @lochan_twt]

"i will call small businesses, build them websites, and make money."

[James x Mwangi @JameshQater]

Haha nice one

[Modern Notoriety @ModernNotoriety]

Nike has released a new Erling Haaland ad ⚽️

“The Five Stages of Haaland”

[Sri @__karnati]

Kubernetes in 60 seconds