A heartfelt tribute from Ben Affleck following the death of his mother. He says the defining cause of her life was her fight against the suffering and injustices endured by the Palestinian people.
While they’re telling you to put more beans in your beef so you can afford to make burritos for your family, remember the Israeli lobby spent $30 million to take me out of Congress because I wouldn’t vote for the things that have made your grocery bills so high.
Rod Liddle was nice. Keir Starmer was decent. Peter Mandelson was an unscrupulous operator
Activists trying to stop a genocide are violent thugs. Pensioners protesting against the murder of children are terrorists. Striking nurses are holding the country to ransom
Get it yet?
Well considering that you and your allies just spent months denigrating him as the face of antisemitic left wing terror, i can imagine there are some hard feelings
@shannonrwatts i’m talking about you, and other dc elites who leaned into 60mil and smeared him only to demand fealty after he won, not the michigan voters shannon. ofc abdul should court every single michigan voter. eat humble pie and never endorse an aipac candidate ever again.
@Muppetiers Ineos best in class couldn’t even realize that Lewis Hall deal should’ve been done first whilst he had NO World Cup after watching Tonali and Gordon leave Newcastle. Best in class
Manchester United’s greatest players: No 21: Roger Byrne.
Mancunian, captain of the Busby Babes. Died at Munich.
He’d replaced another great MUFC captain, Dubliner Johnny Carey.
For @TheAthleticFC
https://t.co/qKROgnbUzZ
Manchester United’s greatest players: No 18, Martin Buchan.
For @TheAthleticFC
And thanks for all your lovely messages. I'll make sure he sees them.
https://t.co/phO9PbLwID
🦔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🤗