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[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🤗

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Trump just completely lost it on Truth Social after watching Senator Kelly obliterate Republicans for shutting down the government—instead of doing their jobs and stopping your health care premiums from doubling or tripling.

Imagine how angry Trump would get if we all shared this video and every American saw it.

[We See You @dwells219]

@astoundconnects Why doesn't Astound have a service status page or other updates regarding outages? Zip 98365 has outages often (and now) and zero customer service on the matter. Sucks.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

“We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator”

“We take an oath to the Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it"

- General Mark Milley
#MemorialDay2025

[We See You @dwells219]

@factpostnews @DNIGabbard is either lying her ass off or is grossly incompetent. Either way, she should be fired. What are you going to do @realDonaldTrump ?

[We See You @dwells219]

@ZelenskyyUa True Americans are very sorry for the way you were treated in our White House.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

PERFECT: A town hall audience has now completely turned against Republican Rep. Diana Harshbarger:

“There’s been a mandate to the president from the American people. Am I correct?”

Crowd: “NO!!”

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Lindsey Graham represents everything wrong with our politics.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

[We See You @dwells219]

@elonmusk Posts from the guy having "Kung Fu" practice with Ghislaine Maxwell. You were in on it, karma is coming for you.

[We See You @dwells219]

@PeriklesGREAT @elonmusk Hey dummy, twitter is currently worth 25% of what elon paid for it.

[We See You @dwells219]

@elonmusk @realDonaldTrump What do you know about the truth @elonmusk ? You spread and amplify more BS and hate on this site than just about anyone.

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

A thread of the best moments from past Olympics in honor of the 2024 Paris Olympics

1. Facing a 4th tiebreaker, these two Olympians from Qatar & Italy instead asked if they could share the high jump gold medal, which was permitted. Pure joy ensued.

[We See You @dwells219]

@TractorSupply In other words, conservative snowflakes get their feelings hurt, start a campaign to cancel @TractorSupply and @TractorSupply caves. Got it.

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This is cute kindness ...

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

Mom, with your unconditional love and constant support, anything is possible!

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This chimp helping a guy up is still one of my favorite videos ever..

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Possibly the most incredible Beethoven Ode to Joy flashmob by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Nuremberg and the Hans-Sachs-Choir in front of the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg, Germany.

[📹 Evenord-Bank eG-KG]
https://t.co/mgFU1WLzty