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@thaddeusthought sorry i think i was in a poor frame of mind when i left that comment....
i've struggled & grieved to be free of impurity in my heart for 40+ years and it still hasn't left me... then again, my faith has been more a thing of pride than of love for most of my life

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@Richard_gh1 ok
*turns off X*
👋

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@DoomerTapes Step 1: Own a Pixel.
(i have $20 cash to my name atm)
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don't get me wrong, i love the concept of GrapheneOS, it's just that it's not feasible rn unless one has the means.
maybe someday.

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@kstewskisAZ @CatholicFQ all i'm saying is to avoid making such blanket absolute statements like "where admitting the truth about yourself does not end in humiliation". because sometimes it does.

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@thaddeusthought took 4 tries in my favorite search engine before i understood psa meant penal substitutionary atonement... "psa" sure stands for a lot of different things 🤷

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@DougTenNapel it's not killing industries, it's killing books.
https://t.co/4Vtuh8R76y

[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🤗

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@HedgieMarkets 1984 is here and there is no one with the power to stop it.
it's over.

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@thaddeusthought currently reading it & taking it slow.... each time i read a portion it ends up being a lot for me to take in