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[MeJane @JanenowhereKL]

@anthonyzenkus And also, as a former librarian, old books are often discarded because the information is outdated and/or reflecting cultural norms that are no longer acceptable - racism, misogyny, religious 'justification', etc.
The idea that AI could use this as a knowledge base is alarming.

[MeJane @JanenowhereKL]

@anthonyzenkus It is not necessary to destroy the book in order to scan it. There are machines that can work with delicate books. The main issue is the actual making a copy of the book. Fair use allows them to transfer the material into a different media, but not copy.
https://t.co/xmSc10EDUF

[MeJane @JanenowhereKL]

@anthonyzenkus That said, there is really no reason to use rare or out of print books to train AI.

[MeJane @JanenowhereKL]

@JohnnyAkzam @anthonyzenkus Indeed. Transferring books to digital media is not archival. It is more easily searched, replicated, and manipulated, but not archival. Paper lasts longer, with less degradation than a digital format.

[MeJane @JanenowhereKL]

@charliedbecker @SilasCybin @pingmurder @VivaLaAmes11 The main issue is the actual making a copy of the book. Fair use allows them to transfer the material into a different media, but not copy.
If they are claiming the right to ‘transfer’ the material, they have to destroy the original to avoid copying.
https://t.co/xmSc10EDUF

[Julián Macías Tovar @JulianMaciasT]

Ingenieros irrumpen en un evento de IA denunciando la colaboración de Amazon en el genocidio de Israel en Gaza a través del proyecto Nimbus.

[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🤗

[MeJane @JanenowhereKL]

@dhill6261976 @ProudSocialist Like the computer, Joshua, in WarGames.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Anti-data center protesters interrupted Trump’s speech today at General Motors Proving Grounds in Milford, Michigan.

𝐖𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬. 𝐖𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝟓,𝟑𝟖𝟏 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐬 𝟏𝟐 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐬 𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐚𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚. 𝐖𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐡 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫, 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬, 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐬!

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨Edward Snowden’s Ominous Warning to the World

🚨These Programs, Mass Surveillance is NOT About Public Safety.

🚨It is not about terrorism.

🚨It is about power.

It is about economic espionage.

It is about diplomatic manipulation.

And it is about social influence.

It is about understanding the actions of everyone in
the world as carefully as they can, no matter who they are, no matter how innocent their life.

But we see how these same technologies are being applied to create what they call the social credit system.

If any of these family photos,if any of your activities online, if your purchases, if your associations, if your friends are in any way different from what the government or the powers that be of the moment would like them to be, you're no longer able to purchase train tickets.

You're no longer able to board an airplane.

You may not be able to get a passport.

You may not be eligible for a job.

You might not be able to work for the government.

All of these things are increasingly being created and programmed and decided by algorithms.

And those algorithms are fueled by precisely the innocent data that our devices are creating all of the time, constantly, invisibly, quietly, right now.

Our devices are casting all of these records that we do not see being created that in aggregate seem very innocent.

You were at Starbucks at this time.

You went to the hospital afterwards.

You spent a long time at the hospital.

After you left the hospital, you made a phone call.

You made a phone call to your mother.

You talked to her until the middle of the night.

The hospital was an oncology clinic.

Even if you can't see the content of these communications, the activity records, what the government calls metadata, which they argue they do not need a warrant to collect, tells the whole story.

And these activity records are being created and shared and collected and intercepted constantly by companies and governments.

And ultimately, it means as they sell these, as they trade these, as they make their businesses on the backs of these records, what they are selling is not information.

What they are selling is us.

They're selling our future.

They're selling our past.

They are selling our history, our identity.

They are stealing our power and making our stories work for them.

“When exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime, you are being ruled by criminals!” - Edward Snowden

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Oh fuck you. FUCK you. You don't get to do this now. You don't get to turn around and go "Oopsie poopsie, we made a mistake!" This was YOUR genocide, motherfuckers. YOURS. You chose it. You own it. Forever. The stench of the rotting corpses in Gaza will follow you for all time.

[Robert (Durden) @realrobdurden]

For this amount of $ America could:
Eliminate Poverty (~$200B)
Eliminate Homelessness ($30B)
Universal Childcare ($40B)
Universal College ($70B)
& we’d have billions left over

But NO! Our $ is being spent on a Police State whose sole purpose is hunting down dissident Americans!

[MeJane @JanenowhereKL]

@PorcDalmatian @davidsirota @ewarren Biden was a tool, that's why he didn't make it an issue.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

Section 217 or 224? They want to fuse us with the Israeli military and not nearly enough people are trying to stop it.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Trump: “Communism is the greatest threat to our country…including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, September 11th.”

Five points of rebuttal:

1. Communists defeated the Nazis in WWII and the West has never forgiven them for it.

2. The United States propagandizes its own people to be afraid of communism (worker ownership of the means of production and using resources for the benefit of all) so they will obey a capitalist system that privatizes everything and concentrates the majority of the wealth in the pockets of a few billionaires.

3. If communism didn't work the U.S. would just let it fail on its own. The truth is it works for the working class, which is why the U.S. has to sanction socialist nations and spend trillions of dollars on endless wars to constantly overthrow socialist nations.

4. In the past 40 years, the Communist party of China has lifted 800 million people out of poverty. Meanwhile, in the U.S. capitalism is turning billionaires into trillionaires while 70% of American can’t afford basic needs like housing, health care, and groceries.

5. Get more curious about communism and start questioning the capitalist system that you’ve been indoctrinated to obey since birth.

[MeJane @JanenowhereKL]

@AmirAminiMD If you are ruled by money, you can't afford to have morals.

[Ron Wright @ronsterd89]

Elon Musk once jokingly offered to end World Hunger, asking how much it would cost as if it would be some incalculable number.
When the UN replied saying 6.6 Billion would be enough to immediately end Famine for the year he never responded, and a few months later bought Twitter for 44 Billion.

You struggle and suffer because people like him are allowed to exist, not because your neighbor is an immigrant.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"

He means Israel would go after them too.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

The government of Lebanon just filed a formal complaint with the United Nations because Israel sprayed tens of thousands of pounds of poisonous cancer causing chemicals all over Lebanese farm lands.

If you still think this has ANYTHING to do with Hezbollah you're stupid.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The reason we think dandelions are weeds is because of a 1950s marketing campaign.

Dandelions, native to Europe and Asia, were brought to North America in the 1600s by European colonists who grew them deliberately.

Every part is edible. The leaves are a salad green, the flowers were made into wine, and the roots were roasted as a coffee substitute and used medicinally for liver and kidney conditions for thousands of years. They were a kitchen-garden staple well into the 1800s.

The shift happened after World War II, when 2,4-D (originally developed for chemical warfare research) was approved as a residential herbicide. Companies like Scotts built the modern lawn-care industry around the idea that a perfect green lawn meant zero broadleaf plants.

Dandelions, being bright yellow and resistant to mowing, became a visible enemy, and the campaign worked. By the 1970s, "dandelion-free" was synonymous with "well-kept."

They aren't native, but they aren't doing significant ecological harm either. The herbicides used to kill them, on the other hand, kill bees, contaminate groundwater, and have been linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma in humans.

If you hate dandelions, it's most likely due to a marketing campaign that ran before you were born.