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[Sam Lundell 🌐 @_Sam_Lundell_]

Something genuinely game changing is coming over the next couple years.

Bet.

[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🤗

[Sam Lundell 🌐 @_Sam_Lundell_]

@Nadeshot Adore for sure. That was also our trajectory with our oldest!

[Scott Miller - Apogee/3D Realms Founder ☢️ @ScottApogee]

I was in the theater with friends and was telling them: "We've got that slow motion effect in Max Payne!" And we'd already trademarked "bullet time" for the game.

After we release the game in 2001, Warner Bros. threatened to sue us for using "bullet time", but we were easily able to prove to them that we had the trademark first. So they backed all the way down :)

[Sam Lundell 🌐 @_Sam_Lundell_]

@GuyBlaze 6 plus the ones I'm wearing

[aganeia @arcofaganeia]

@100T_VAL @Timotino7 @Asunaa @bangzerra @vorazune @Cryocells_ @FollowNbs @d00mbr0s @EWC_EN DAY 1 I was here when we signed Hiko with the PUBG boys, when the 2 devil zoomers with 3 CS boomers won us First Strike, when we got 0-13 on Ascent, when Will had to carry the COVID-ridden team in Champs

6 years later, when we won the golden plate in Paris, I'm still here #100T

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

Christopher Nolan has announced that The Odyssey is dedicated to the memory of David Keighley, his friend and IMAX mentor.

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

I’m so sorry for everyone at id Software affected by these layoffs.

I know what it feels like to leave id while id goes on. It’s a strange and painful thing to step away from a place that holds so much of your work, friendships and history.

The people at id have done a great job moving that legacy forward. DOOM, Quake, and Wolfenstein are not easy names to carry on, especially in today’s industry. The last few games showed real care, skill and respect for what those worlds mean to people.

A note on digital preservation: id's history is critically important to the history of games. I’ve preserved id’s complete early history from our start at Softdisk through to August 6, 1996, including materials and assets that, as far as I know, id itself no longer has. I hope someone is doing the same for the company’s ongoing legacy (the work, code, assets, stories and the people behind them).

I’m thinking of everyone at id today, and everyone else affected by yesterday’s layoffs. Romero Games was there a year ago. I know how devastating it is, and my heart's with all of you.

[NikTek @NikTek]

The importance of physical dics explained by Sony themselves, 13 years ago.

[MonikaCinnyRoll 💫 3D VTuber @MonikaCinnyRoll]

Never EVER forget what the ESA attempted to pull.
ANY time the ever say something, remind them of the stunt they tried.
They should be humiliated forever for ever trying to control how we connect with our friends in gaming.

[mike @majormaniak]

they do not care

[Sam Lundell 🌐 @_Sam_Lundell_]

@LAThieves @ATT @CODLeague 🏆

[Sam Lundell 🌐 @_Sam_Lundell_]

@OctaneSam Welcome to the best club on earth, congrats in advance to you and Kendal!

[Sam Lundell 🌐 @_Sam_Lundell_]

@E0_DS0_Omega @OctaneSam Few days usually doesn't mean pre-term, usually means pre-due date or scheduled induction etc. But go off king.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

We just needed 12 more to vote No to stop this trojan-horse bill, because it takes 2/3 to pass under a suspension of the rules.

Too many were afraid to vote against the “KIDS Act” title, or didn’t know what the bill will really do, or just want government to have total control.

[FaZe Vegas @FaZe_Vegas]

@CallofDuty @FanaticsFest yo something else might be happening that weekend 😅

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.

[Sam Lundell 🌐 @_Sam_Lundell_]

@BlazeItUpBoi @CDLHater Muted

[Stop Killing Games Official @StopKilingGames]

ESA doubled down on community servers being illegal.

In a statement to @pcgamer, @theESA wrote:

"Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them."

https://t.co/p9nEzZNtWx

[Valour.gg • Chat for Communities @ValourApp]

Everyone involved in this bill should be primaried or voted out regardless of party. They either cannot read, were too lazy to read the bill, or want you to be tracked and to kill the open internet.

All three possibilities are disqualifying.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

This is a dangerous anti-privacy bill (identity verification) that the House of Representatives might try to pass by voice vote this afternoon before many of us are even in town. Senators Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Ron Wyden voted against a similar bill in the Senate two years ago.