Seeing a female "soldier" is like seeing an organ grinder's monkey dancing. You know it's ludicrous, and a little revolting, and unnatural, but you still think it's a little amusing. But you're not relying on the monkey to do anything important, unlike with female "soldiers."
Look, I'm still not the kind of priest to say things like "they're putting demons in the robots," but the chainsaw-wielding black drones with eyeball horns are making it harder to argue my case
🦔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."
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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🤗
I said that a revived Christianity WILL regard the Constitution as heretical and WILL want to trash it.
This is a prediction; it's "will," and not "ought to".
And the reason that my prediction WILL come true is that people like Joel Berry use the Constitution as an idol to block the absolutely NECESSARY task of using state power to enforce proper religious indoctrination on the population.
No institutions are religiously neutral; everyone knows that our government will have a religious perspective and use this perspective in its education system. Yet every attempt to use this power directly is blocked by conservatives, appealing to "the Constitution".
Regardless of whether the Constitution has become an actual idol for conservatives, it's functionally working like an idol for conservatives.
For those seeing this go viral, we also did an interview with @AcresUSA that is really good where we talked about my legal situation as well as the state of ranching & agriculture politics today
Link below 👇
This is a really insane case. A rancher in Oklahoma offers the ability for people to buy shares in a herd of cattle, so they can have beef straight from the source. The state government is pursuing him because they claim he’s selling securities and committing fraud. 🤡
The “classical liberal values” of our founders included blasphemy laws, blue laws, penalties for heresy, the exclusion of atheists, male only voting, and religious tests for office
The “post liberal right” is much closer to the founding than your entirely modern ideology
When you hand your enemies easy wins you deserve to lose
AOC is now arguing for American sovereignty while the GOP turns the country into a cheap whore for foreign interests
Total disaster
It’s really important that you understand how much Fox News hates conservatives
It’s a vial hive of scum populated by homosexual baby peddlers and shrill spiteful girl bosses
Every policy reflects a moral vision. They reveal what our society is ordered toward.
Why don’t we empower families to raise their own children?
If we’re spending public money, why not make it easier for a parent to stay home?
Why do we subsidize institutional childcare?
Why are we increasing the labor supply while making the two-income household the social and economic norm?
A society ordered toward the market, toward labor force participation, toward the GDP, will always find money for more workers. A society ordered toward the family would find ways to strengthen the home first.