~eggsinonebasket~

just a humble egg who enjoys art

[Isaiah D. Colbert is on Bluesky @ShinEyeZehUhh]

Let Shueisha know you don't want AI-translated manga.
https://t.co/msiB1loCxp

[Katherine Boyle @KTmBoyle]

This might be the first major anniversary of 9/11 where watching the footage really feels like an older world. It was a different world. And those of us who came of age in it have an obligation to never forget what happened that day and after.

To those with no memory of 9/11, I recommend visiting the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. There were so many witnesses to this horrific crime and so many details we never discuss. Too many victims had to make the unthinkable choice about their last moments.

The last time I visited, I stopped on this testimony from a man who witnessed the moment a woman jumped to her death:

"She had a business suit on, her hair all askew. This woman stood there for what seemed like minutes and then she held down her skirt and jumped off the ledge. I thought, how human, how modest, to hold down her skirt before she jumped. I couldn't look anymore."

The other thing you see at the Memorial is just how many heroes were minted that day. How many men ran into the towers knowing they were running towards their deaths. So many people died in service of their fellow Americans that day, and their courage inspired the many men and women of my generation who decided to enlist and serve the country after watching the towers fall.

The legacy of 9/11 is the heroism of our fellow Americans. The courage of so many to lay down their lives for their neighbors. May they rest in peace and may we never forget.

[Sarah McIntyre @jabberworks]

Odyssymaus and the Sirens 🐭 #Odyssey

[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🤗

[Spike el Monstruo 🦇🇻🇪⛓️ @spikermonster]

informative thread i made for instagram but i thought i'd share it here too
🆘🆘🆘PLEASE RT IF YOU CAN'T DONATE!!! we are DESPERATELY trying to get more people to talk about this!!
venezuelans, please share useful links in the replies ⬇️

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Carl Jung on avoidance...

[Maeve Halligan @MaeveHalligan]

"No, I don't subscribe to this 'kindness' - I'll tell the truth instead."

I spoke at the Cambridge Union last night about LGBs, children's safety and women's rights. Full video here:

[𝓐🍓𝓡𝓔𝓝𝓐 @456_jojo1999]

ハガレンおもろいんだ…ほまに…

[xooana ⛈ @xooana_xo]

@shrimplify i used to do that all the time too but with cat memes !

[I-06/맘박계정 @315LP]

#projecthailmary
이 남자 옷 자주 바뀌지 않아...?

[🦂—SGKG—🦂 @sgkg108]

#ProjectHailMary

[Zzoupz 🧩 @zoopityscoopz]

#projecthailmary doodles (trying to figure out how to draw them)

[Billlie Base @BilllieBase]

You can also support the creators of Niccoló, by watching the short film here: https://t.co/uFHt2eXLRR

[EESO_WORLD @eeso_world]

내가 만약 오만과 편견, 브리저튼 같은
리젠시시대에 살았다면 결혼엔 관심 없고 글쓰기나 그림에만 빠져있는, 가족들의 골칫덩이인 여자 캐릭터 처럼 살지 않았을까?라고 생각하고 그린 그림
생각해보니 지금 시대에서도 골칫덩이인가?(결혼은 했지만)
그치만 상관없어.
중요한건 자유야🕊️

[Christian Ruf @pinpulleddrmf]

Veteran buried his eldest and it’s not looking good for his two others.

Posting for any connections, help that can be made while they fight for time.

[Aron Fromm @aronfromm]

A little short I made about Norm.

[freckxi ⋆˚࿔ @freckxi]

i’m sick she is so beautiful

[dado ⚢ 🎱 @astrasdoctor]

THEY’RE SO WHOLESOME I CANT

[KAZ ⭐️CA12 : D17-18 @mcmclunar]

🐉 Dragons and the Journey (read left → right)
A one-shot for the Clip Studio contest ‘Journey.’
Two dragon boys travel to scatter the ashes of an old dragon they once knew.

A small story of life, fantasy, and my monster world—featuring Mulong & Hualong 🙏✨
Hope you enjoy~!

My Original Post : https://t.co/xr6Ox1cwLH