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[lisard king @iamagodard]

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[EsDeeKid @esdeekidd]

make sure u dance

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don’t be one of dem cunts who just stand der

[Jose @Jose90491864]

Self-respect is propaganda to keep you away from the love of your life

[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🤗

[☆ Angelita ☆ @pyschodior]

how grown men feel after posting a curated photo dump on instagram

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Bedbugs final message:

[swan @lacedheartgrl]

Ring engraved with inscription "Many are the stars i see yet in my eye no star like thee,” 1700s

[r❦ @rachreeads]

tumblr era is so back

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Jupiter is officially in LEO. Jupiter hasn’t been in Leo since the 2014-2015 Tumblr era, so welcome back 🖤

[z @0ravoice]

“before you came into my life, i missed you so bad” is a top 10 lyric of the century

[Wild at Heart @emmanu_elle_]

La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard 1967

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photography by Wolfgang Tillmans

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Drake on why he’s single:

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VAMOS MEXICO

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