Megabitron

She/They | Demi Pansexual
Please don't copy or steal my work.
Be nice.

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@vishnuraj_k_r I need this in my hoover XD

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯

A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:

"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."

Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.

It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."

Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.

That's when they found the loophole.

Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.

One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.

Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.

If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.

They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.

And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.

The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.

They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.

[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🤗

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@DipshikhaGhosh Banned?? She should be jailed!

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@HayweeRC In my experience, it all went to the young kids instead of the older ones/adults

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@bluemuffindraws Oh my god, this is perfect! I cant wait for Grace to get his revenge

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@solarscenes Im so happy that they returned to Rocky's voice only at the end of the film, his noises are far too cute

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@HayweeRC Nicky you are far too precious for this world <3

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Every city needs to do this asap
As cities become hotter and hotter and unbearable
Trees are the real air conditioning systems that cool cities down without any of the negative costs of AC

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@sabre_tv The duality of Eridians XD

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@ElfKrazy Nah, he's right where he wants to be

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@HayweeRC I cannot wait to see Shadow's reaction to feeling the veil open by Arthur's power

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@Arrow_Darkened They will single-handedly save the species

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@7656y It could stem from a fear of hurting Maria with his spines during hugs, so he learned to keep completely still for them

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@EvilLargeBug Naaw, my partner's 'pedes do the same thing! They're such cuties ❤

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A YouTuber with 38 million subscribers just beat the entire Hollywood studio system at its own game, and he did it with 80,000 gallons of fake blood and a submarine made of painted wood.

Mark Fischbach played a $6 indie horror game on his channel in 2022. The game was Iron Lung, developed by one guy, David Szymanski, in his spare time. It had no windows, no enemies you could see, just a convict trapped in a submarine navigating an ocean of blood. The entire thing took about 75 minutes to beat.

Fischbach saw something the game industry didn’t. The constraint was the feature. A single claustrophobic set. One man losing his mind. Sound design carrying all the horror that visuals couldn’t. This wasn’t a limitation to work around. This was a low-budget filmmaker’s dream.

So he did what studios would never greenlight. He wrote the script himself, directed it himself, acted in it himself, edited it himself, and paid for the whole thing out of pocket. No studio. No distribution deal. No marketing budget.

Then the gatekeepers showed up.

When he tried to get theaters, they told him the demand wasn’t there. So he posted about it. His fans called every independent theater chain in the country. Theaters started complaining to the distributor that they were getting too many calls.

Within weeks, AMC, Cinemark, and Regal announced they’d carry it. The film went from “maybe 60 theaters” to over 4,000 screens worldwide. Presales crossed $5 million before opening day.

$8.9 million on Friday. $17 million projected by Sunday. A self-distributed movie by a YouTuber, beating initial projections by 70%.

The studio model is built on the assumption that audiences need to be told what to watch. Fischbach proved that 38 million subscribers is its own distribution network. The audience was already waiting. He just had to make something worth waiting for.

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@idioticsynergy Updated Grey Knight models so their termies don't look like babies against the latest Smurf ones

[Idiotic Syn Syn @idioticsynergy]

The UK Online Safety Act is a excuse for this government to censor the internet even more so please feel free to sign this petition if you're in the UK https://t.co/2JufBYL89p

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@ElfKrazy Cream-filled too, how delicious 😋

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@fsonic3 Those Chao.. The lil guy's face.. The urg to build my own is rising..