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30s. I sling vintage, love Reylo, LEGO, and The Sims.

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✨Morning Stars✨

[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🤗

[𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔬𝔪✨MCM LONDON AA D10 @_afterblossom_]

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[🍑♎🙃 @Onlrpp1]

@rainydaychai Ugh I cant wait! (take your time obv) 💖

[Kasiopea lost the Star Wars @KasiopeaArt]

Hey, kid.
#TheHuntForBenSolo

[sal 🫐 @buriedbloom]

girl i'm bored let's bring back ben solo

[𝔞𝔣𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔟𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔰𝔬𝔪✨MCM LONDON AA D10 @_afterblossom_]

Bring him back

#TheHuntForBenSolo

[BJ / Zanderfist @benningsjen]

I hope Adam Driver knows how much of a shockwave he's sent throughout the Star Wars fandom in the last few days 😭 we're all on your side, buddy

#TheHuntForBenSolo

[🍑♎🙃 @Onlrpp1]

@phii_oda Wtf hahaha then us who grew up in the 90s would all be strait right? Cause all we saw on tv/movies were strait couples... But I grew up with plenty of gay people lol

[Someone’s failed-clone’s daughter/granddaughter @MarienneMaid]

Did it hurt? When a bunch of authors from a ship you hate got publishing deals while you were creating nothing and harassing people on social media?

[San @saltedsan]

A true AO3 reader never stops believing that this one fanfic, which was updated three years ago for the last time, will one day be completed by the author.

[🍑♎🙃 @Onlrpp1]

@phii_oda I think what makes this crazier, is the amount of FREE floor plans you can find on like pinterest.... There are SO many 😑

[Sanrio @sanrio]

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One vote per day until May 25th at 9pm PST. ⁠

[𖤓 @dazedriven]

we are getting TWO new kylo lego sets in the year of our lord 2025……….

[🍑♎🙃 @Onlrpp1]

@suolo_ Amazing! 😍🤣

[💛💜 @hanavbara]

support HUMAN artists, not AI‼️

[COCO @TWOTIMESABITCH]

becoming less reactive is a huge part of growth and decreasing stress. if you let everything get you worked up, you will damage your mind, body and spirit.