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Even badly written books can still leave you with good lessons learned.

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@Gaurds2024 @Catholic_bro Yeah!

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@CassieAlzamil I don't know why I'm like this 😭😭😭

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Ok, I'm done lying to myself. I'm not reading more fiction. I'm reading about Auschwitz. And then after this my Camp of the Saints book club will have started. I guess I just don't want to be happy or something.

This book pulls from 100 interviews with Nazi perpetrators & survivors. The first chapter already has me hooked.

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@AmericanHere2 @TheOnlyDSC What's sad is you're probably right

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@EBTtok This was far easier to find than I thought it would be, enjoy everybody!

https://t.co/ugMX9dGSDi

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@EBTtok Thanks, if I find it, I'll post the link here

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@FenixAmmunition The European hospital also won't have air conditioning when you get there.

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@tigerlilysghost It's gorgeous! I have to binge watch 1950s teen movies now

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@Oklahoma_Brave My grandfather was 1/2 Choctaw. We never did any paperwork with the tribe, it's all just based on his personal stories.

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@johnrobb When I first read the original post from @HedgieMarkets I didn't respond right away because I thought it was someone reposting that plot. I didn't think it could be real. I still don't want to believe this is reality.

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Guess I have no choice now but to purchase every used book I ever come across from now on.

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🦔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🤗

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@ClayTravis Makes me extra glad I preorderd A Christmas Carol from @OldSovPub

If you have a penchant for old timey, quality made books, check them out! https://t.co/gVVAKKvZG2

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@mothertopixies I don't know where you're located, but if you're ever in Fort Worth Texas they have a cowgirl museum and a great exhibit on Annie Oakley

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@Cjpearson I'm old enough to remember the Washington Post article back in 2020 on "Multiracial Whiteness".

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@tigerlilysghost Some guy lost a bet and had to read the Twilight series so he started a blog. Very entertaining. Something like "Mark Reads Twilight So You Don't Have To". I loved it, I really hope he's doing well. He should lose more bets

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@Dexerto **darwinism**

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@Dexerto If you go into student debt for this, you're an idiot. Maybe this is modern darlings. Become so crippled by debt that you never reproduce and are removed from the gene pool.