Mike B

[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.

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[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

Facebook once bought a VPN app for $120M and turned it into a surveillance tool that spied on 33M+ users' entire phones for years.

This app helped Zuck buy WhatsApp for a whopping $19B and break Snapchat's encryption.

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[D. Michael Day @DMike_Day]

Not always a fan of CNN (or any MSM for that matter) but this is an insightful article

For those who have read 1984 it resonates deeply

Language matters and therefore so to does Freedom of Expression and the Press

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@BeLEAFingWithJB @HockeyCanada @UpperDeckSports Lots of bad calls, but guys that think they should be in the show like Cowan making horrible plays doesn't bode well for their future.

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WWII veteran gives his honest opinion

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DB goes to county jail no trial if it’s Mahomes

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Continual professional development fundamental to being an effective soldier.

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Anita Anand moving out of defence to new portfolio, 7 ministers leaving cabinet in upcoming shuffle: CBC is reporting based on sources.

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NATO Allies are strengthening their ties!

On Saturday, Canadian, Latvian and US teams battled it out on the ice rink in Latvia, in several hockey games.
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