I preordered the Final Fantasy VII Revelation physical deluxe edition because $99.99 is a STEAL omg. I was expecting an even higher price. Tbh I just care about the steelbook but the other items are great too!!
"Sorry guys, we fucked up and made Vincent ever more of a fucking badass than he already was. Please still use Cloud to play through the game, thanks."
once I saw a post of gen z making fun of millennials and someone qted it saying something like "alright motherfucker tell me which of these download buttons will give me the torrent instead of a virus" on an absolutely nightmare torrent tracker page and I think about that a lot
🦔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🤗
Sony wants to abandon fans? Let's give them a small taste of their own medicine!
Together with other creators we call for a 1 week #PSBlackout in August. No logins, no play sessions, no purchases on any of Sony's platforms.
Ooooh I'm finding Banyaro songs in Spotify!! I guess there not region locked anymore? Throwback to me 10yrs ago listening to Shoutan cover Hot Limit lol
If your Instagram is public, Meta just enrolled you in something you didn't agree to.
Their new AI tool, Muse Image, lets anyone @-mention your Instagram handle in Meta AI and generate images using your face and photos. launched Tuesday. opt-in by default. no notification when it happens.
→ you won't be told when someone creates an AI image of you
→ opting out only stops future generation; anything already made stays live
→ there's no mechanism to remove images created before you opted out
how to turn it off:
Instagram → Profile → Menu (☰) → Sharing and Reuse → turn off Posts and Reels under "Allow people to reuse your content on Instagram and with AI features at Meta"
note: the setting is still rolling out. if you don't see it yet, keep checking.
if you want the strongest protection right now: go private.
This is literally my 9/11. I cannot stand the way we keep pushing everything to digital and in this economy, who can afford a console with puny memory that can't hold more than 3 games at once?? Am so disappointed by this announcement. Will not be supporting future PS consoles 🚫
Important updates:
News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY
News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14
"As more of our cultural heritage moves online, a troubling question is emerging: what happens when the things we create, share, and cherish simply disappear?"
From our 1st episode of the 6-part series on Vanishing Culture, out today on Future Knowledge. https://t.co/N2ggWsbpn3
@PlayStation An absolute horrific decision to make as a company at a time when computer memory prices are sky high. We can't even fit more than like 3 games on a console at any given time how are we supposed to play a whole library of digital games?? Sales of both consoles and games will drop