Basmōdii wit eggroll

I fight birds for whatever the opposite of a living is. THEYROID/Themothy might be a writer but you won't find anything I promise

[🐈 mega KOT @mega_KOT3D]

fish behavior.

[microplastics nanobubbler @facetedcarapace]

Special shout out to guitarist Ricky Wilson, whose post punk surf riffs on that beautiful blue Mosrite guitar were key to their sound. He was one the few gay guitar icons and he passed of AIDs in 1985 at only 32. Massive loss for American music.

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[Basmōdii wit eggroll @basmodii]

And that's leaving aside my poor grandmother, having put together this collection, still sorting through it to this day as she wastes away. What a fucking travesty, an affront to knowledge and creativity.

[Basmōdii wit eggroll @basmodii]

I have a grandmother who is not in the best way right now. She's on her way out, to put it bluntly. She is a book dealer, only first editions. Some books she has only exist in small quantities. My mother has no place to keep the books when she passes.

[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🤗

[Basmōdii wit eggroll @basmodii]

This is so deeply troubling to me, possibly consigning these artifacts to a truly gut-wrenching fate if we are to sell them carelessly. One of the most horrible, disrespectful things you can do to a book. Utterly and totally evil.

[Will 🦥 Menaker @willmenaker]

One of the most evil things imaginable to me

[Joe @electionsjoe]

Absolutely insane decision. It should be Georgia, no question about it.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[susie 𓆟 @_qwertygrl]

they don’t want you to know that a sleepy DSA chapter with no electoral program got its shit together enough to elect a member of congress by a landslide in just three months, and that it could happen in your city too 🫵

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

This looks like it’s already over

[Basmōdii wit eggroll @basmodii]

I like Haus's comics for the most part, but this is the first time one has made me fucking cackle

[Basmōdii wit eggroll @basmodii]

washed, truly

[Thrasymachus XIII @THRASH_XIII]

The guy who tried assassinating Reagan because of Taxi Driver is founding a Neo Nazi organization

[manic nixon dream girl @kennixonette]

you ask ppl to give examples of these sentences and 99% of the time its some shit like "the divinity of his sin was sweet like fresh-plucked figs, and the taller man wanted to devour it entirely"

[Basmōdii wit eggroll @basmodii]

@vanillaopinions all these years later and your movie takes still astound me
dunkirk at 11th is such a trvth nvke pick tho

[Pop Base @PopBase]

International Non-Binary People’s Day

[Basmōdii wit eggroll @basmodii]

@geckotailzz camelback backpacks were nice, even if they required constant maintenance
would use em all the time while kayaking
they're still around, ofc, but i don't seem em around much anymore

[Basmōdii wit eggroll @basmodii]

so much sauce im green with envy

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

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[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Thank you to all those who reached out asking about my safety. I am home. But I cannot get the stories of the indignities Palestinian face out or my head. I am still processing it and wanted to share some of what I saw.