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[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🤗

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The monarch butterflies you're seeing right now aren't like the ones from earlier this summer.

The previous four generations lived about two weeks, mated, and died. This one is built different. It's born knowing it won't reproduce until spring. Every calorie it takes in goes straight to fat for a 3,000-mile journey to a mountain range in Mexico it hasn't ever seen, but knows is there.

It will live eight times longer than its parents, navigate by a sun compass in its antennae, switch to magnetic sensing on cloudy days, and somehow arrive at the correct tree.

The butterfly on your goldenrod right now is fueling up. Don't spray anything near it.

[ᴍⱻ⅃ ᴀнвⱻᴀᴫᴏкиʜ בת-אוֹ @NTR_DSCPLN]

BOOM

[thatadult @rianphin]

'the underground scenes will remain stagnant as long as they replicate hegemonic standards they're meant to undermine, they can't be progenitors of any aesthetic or political frameworks = no invention = stagnancy, cultural regression, collapsing aesthetics'

[Dylan Ali @dylanali_]

Dependable queens who know when to clock in when it matters

[ᴍⱻ⅃ ᴀнвⱻᴀᴫᴏкиʜ בת-אוֹ @NTR_DSCPLN]

and y'all stay letting toxic ass men in your circles to this very day. the next generation of these are among us now getting called trade when they're actually just dehydrated cookie cutter drug store brand community dick 🥴

[Daniel Lismore @daniellismore]

I have never said this before because I despise the man, but I remember Andrew Tate from London’s nightlife. This photo reminded me. I ruled over those scenes, north, south, east, central and west, going to anything happening to find interesting people to bring to my own clubs. Tate was a regular on the tackier end of it all. He would turn up topless, sit in the corner and say hi, never once having a problem with someone like me. Had no problem with the Trans girlies and the gays. When he became famous for his far right clickbait antics, my first thought was that this was the guy who used to nod at me kindly across a club. There are photographs of him from those nights and I suspect some more of them will surface one day. Back then nobody had problems with anyone however the club scene was misogynistic and a playground for sex pests, I fended off many of them over the years for both myself and my friends. We all said hi and got on with the night… it was very ego driven, a hierarchy of who had the best tables and usually that was me. I still wonder what happened to him. Maybe he believed this stuff all along. Maybe years of hedonism curdled into something else. My own suspicion is that he realised he could clickbait the hell out of young men and old fools into paying him or being paid well by ads, then sold himself to himself and started believing the hype..
I’m glad the ba ll sac has been arrested and will face the charges. It’s so much worse than I thought.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

A few random flowers alone in your yard isn't all that attractive to a bee. Planting a bunch of the same kind together makes for a hot bee summer though.

Most bees forage by working one kind of bloom at a time, because it's more efficient to handle the same shape over and over than to relearn a new one every few seconds.

A single scattered plant barely registers. A solid block of the same flower is easy to spot from the air and fast to work once they arrive, so they stay, and they come back.

This is why pollinator gardeners often get better results by planting several individuals of the same species together rather than scattering them individually throughout the landscape.

[SZA @sza]

Imma be misunderstood till I die might as well have a good time

[𝗠𝘂𝗵𝗲𝗲 ♛ @muheediva01]

The wildest part about POVERTY is how much time it steals. Waiting for buses. Calling assistance offices. Comparing grocery prices. Fighting insurance. Sitting at laundromats. Being poor is a second job nobody pays you for.

[Marwa Osman || مروة عثمان @Marwa__Osman]

I have been asked repeatedly this week whether Lebanon will actually be included in any potential memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States. My answer remains the same, and it always will.

Despite Iran's efforts and genuine intentions to see an end to Israeli terrorism on Lebanese soil, I am a southern Lebanese woman from Khiam. I lived through the reality of occupation, aggression, and war firsthand. I have also spent years studying the history of an entity born from supremacy, colonialism, dispossession, and theft.

The more I witness and learn about its genocidal tendencies and terrorism, the less faith I place in any signed document between any two governments that believe they can somehow restrain or control this cancerous project of terrorism.

I see no lasting peace emerging from pieces of paper. I see the same pattern that history has shown us for decades: wars, massacres, invasions, and, inevitably, Resistance.

If history has taught us anything, it is that no agreement, resolution, or signature ever stopped Zionists from killing, occupying, or stealing. What stopped them were the costs imposed on them. What forced them to retreat was bullets, Katyushas, Kornets, missiles and FPVs... only Resistance.

That is why my trust has never been in signed papers. My trust lies in the ability of people to defend themselves, their land, and their dignity. And that is where it will remain.

[Mary @maryturfah]

I wrote about yoga, genocide, and moral injury for @thebafflermag
https://t.co/uwpErPSs9y

[ń . @____damned]

i have to treat my body better, not to attract a lover or an audience, but because my body is a conduit for the entire life experience. this body is a container for all possible consciousness. it is my job to live a life that this enhanced vessel can sustain with ease and joy .

[Spiritual GPS Service @AstroCounselVik]

One of the loneliest experiences in life is outgrowing a role that everyone around you still expects you to play.

Realizing that people aren't actually seeing you in the present. They're interacting with a ghost of who you used to be, or a caricature they built in their minds.

[Naomi Simmons-Thorne @_naomisimmons]

I learned, in 1972, Clive commissioned a study titled "A Study of the Soul Music Environment" aka the Harvard Report. It advised white labels to hire Black executives and create urban divisions to undermine independent Black labels and capture Black music market share. Motown and many others declined thereafter.

[detach @detachdaily]

i think a lot of emotionally aware people become quiet because they’re tired of communicating gently just to still be misunderstood

[constantine @ralikeray]

The narrative that you’re not supposed to care about people’s perceptions of you is not based in reality. To be in community you literally have to address how you’re being perceived because how you are perceived directly effects how you’re treated

[soosoorandom @sluvity_____]

Do not talk about discernment if you cannot recognise when someone needs compassion more than criticism and correction. There is a time to guide and a time to simply hold space for a person who is hurting. Wisdom knows the difference. And kindness knows it even faster.

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

On Wednesday evening, over 600 nautical miles from their own country, the Israeli Navy violently boarded our ship that was sailing with the Sumud Flotilla in international waters. The Israelis said they would shoot us if we didnt stop the boat and give them conrol. They evebtually seized 21 ships and kidnapped over 180 people.

While they kidnapped us, they physically harrrased and beat us, as they stole our phones, money, and clothes. When i asked if we were being detained and why, i was told "i dont speak English."

The Israeli Navy intercepted 21 vessels altogether, and then took us to a Frigate, which was outfitted with shipping containers where we were forced to live the past two days. Israeli forces kept us in stress positions throghout, under floodlights. They fed us once with bread. Israeli forces took away some people one by one to beat and torture them; the Israelis dislocated the shoulder of a person on my ship, beat the face of a captain to a pulp, and gave severe concussions to at least two people.

I dont have a phone or money, but this is my update for now.

[YANA 🫀 @otgyana]

realizing nothing can fill my void other than doing everything i promised myself i would do

[Sameer @oosafarnama]

people lack accountability, then be like “you could've just talked to me”. no, i couldn't. you don't listen. you deflect. you gaslight. you make me feel like i'm the problem for bringing it up. so no, i stayed silent to protect my peace, not because i didn't want to fix.

[ᴍⱻ⅃ ᴀнвⱻᴀᴫᴏкиʜ בת-אוֹ @NTR_DSCPLN]

the way i just so fiercely wanted to tell someone to shut the fuck up and calm their dumb ass down, and all i actually said was 'peace be upon u' bitch LOOK AT MY GROWTH LIIIKE BOOM OKAY