Currer Ellis

Lorem ipsum dolor, and all that jazz. A nobody living in a world that doesn’t really care what I write here.

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@PieterMarx1982 Sorry for my ignorance, but is the government there a strict democracy? Like two wolves and a sheep, voting on who to eat for dinner? It sounds very much like the book Animal Farm.

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@Holden_Culotta WTF?

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@tii_bag Why not just Uber to the hotel? $25 an hour seems unlikely… but if so, there are ways around it.

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

* Receives wrong copper *

* Furiously etches for 10 hours *

[Rand Paul @RandPaul]

What Anthony Fauci looked like every night when he wrote about how great he is in his diary.

[Currer Ellis @ActonBell]

@SenSanders You should probably go live in one of those countries, if you feel so strongly about it.

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@AFpost Did he play the dead guy in Tales from the Crypt…?

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@NYCMayor There’s absolutely no way this goes horribly wrong…🙄

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@HJB_News__ I’m definitely not racist… I hate all people equally.

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@omgsidewalks Last time I got a meal from a food truck…$17 for some mac n cheese with a few chunks of chicken. 🙄 Sorry, I can make that at home for about $4….way overpriced and underwhelming.

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@BasilTheGreat Pig farms.

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@BProudPatriot I think I’m going to start requiring 3 references and an IQ test before dating anyone new….would a questionnaire and application being going too far, I wonder…🧐

[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🤗

[Currer Ellis @ActonBell]

@drtaubraun I could tell he was an evil sociopath during Covid by his body language.

[Mack Claffey @mackclaffey]

"As an old Democrat, I am trying my best to prevent the Democrats from winning the midterms. There’s no question in my mind today, the Democrats are the evil party in America. They are very similar to what we saw in Germany in 1932." —Alan Dershowitz

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@viking_boer

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@viking_boer Try some of the metal building builders… Rapid build steel building was hiring a while back, I think.