Alexander Koster

Chairman, IEEE UC Irvine Student Branch

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

@_Momologues_ 🦔Nobody even forced this one. A company looked at destroying the last copies of old books and decided there was money in it.

[Colleen ☧ @_Momologues_]

@HedgieMarkets The dystopian stories are coming true.

[William B. @gimmetruez]

@axcilla @HedgieMarkets "A federal judge ruled the practice is 'fair use"?!
That judge should be barred from practice.

WHO are the CEO's who purchased these historical documents?

So, an AI enterprise can legally buy and shred rare books and get NDA's so nobody finds out?!😲

Only in America...

[Lucie Bangma @rosedropje]

@axcilla @HedgieMarkets Exactly that. Everything on the internet can be wiped away, and it never existed !

[Sierrasix @not_Sierrasix]

@axcilla @HedgieMarkets Hence why they want all media like shows and movies digital. Mandela effect us wholesale and eliminate any chance to prove otherwise…

[McCap @McCap553347]

@axcilla @HedgieMarkets Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. It presents a future American society where books have been outlawed and burned... Not so fictional, anymore.

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

@axcilla 🦔Once the physical original is gone, there's nothing left to check the digital copy against. That's what makes destroying primary sources different from scraping a website.

[Own Your Compute @MoonlitMaven]

@HedgieMarkets Burning of the library of Alexandria 2.0

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Thank you for writing this. It is something I have tried to alert folks about, quite repeatedly for the last decade. We have lost 100s of one of a kind manuscripts and books from these folks and Anthropic is the worse offender. They have spent millions going around the world draining private and public libraries of books.

We are the Amnesia Generation and this is The Great Forgetting.

[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🤗

[Beff (e/acc) @beffjezos]

Anthropic are literally effectively burning books and want to be the exclusive source of truth in the future.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

On the occasion of Passover, I met with rabbis from Ukrainian cities and representatives of Jewish communities.

Passover is about the triumph of freedom. This is exactly what all of Ukraine is fighting for today. I thanked the Jewish community for standing united with us in this struggle – for supporting people, helping communities, and praying for our state.

I am grateful for a special gift – the first Torah translated into Ukrainian and printed at a Kharkiv bookstore that the Russians tried to destroy.

[Alexander Koster @alexanderkoster]

@emilyinvc Or even in OC or SD?

[Alexander Koster @alexanderkoster]

@emilyinvc Is she open to living in #NYC? Asking as someone one year her junior.

[Alexander Koster @alexanderkoster]

@emilyinvc Is she open to living in #NYC? Asking as someone one year her junior.

[FTX @FTX_Official]

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[Alexander Koster @alexanderkoster]

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[T-Mobile @TMobile]

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[Alexander Koster @alexanderkoster]

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[Alexander Koster @alexanderkoster]

@FirestoneAuto @FirestoneTires Ben (who called me) was also confused since the erroneous "complaint" letter indicated the glowing review I provided. I asked Ben if I could help correct the record and he suggested to reach out to your corporate personnel (doing so via twitter)

[Alexander Koster @alexanderkoster]

@FirestoneAuto @firestonetires I had some great service from Kyu and Ben at the Yorba Linda Firestone and filled out an email survey, providing a very positive review and comments but just received a call to address what was interpreted as a complaint? #shoutout