🦔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🤗
Urgent message and call to prayer.
'Every day we wake up wondering which Palestinian village will be attacked next. We are exhausted. We live in fear and terror.'
Settler violence in the West Bank has become a daily, relentless reality. Families attacked in their homes. Farms burned. People killed. And Palestinians left defenseless with no protection and no accountability.
I do not want to share statistics. I am tired of numbers.
'We're not numbers. We're not headlines. We're talking about mothers, fathers, children, grandparents — with names, with stories, with futures that are being cut short.'
He calls us to pray. Not as a substitute for justice — but because we believe God hears the cry of the oppressed.
I call on you to act. To speak. To write. To mobilize. To refuse to look away.
'We owe it to every family living in fear today. We also owe it to our faith.'
@Villgecrazylady Thank you! I was positive the story was originally different, not just with respect to the screwdriver, but also daylight vs. nighttime!
So the current hysteria over “Communism” in America is a PsyOp by the establishment to distract us from how horrible our current economic system is?
And how the Oligarchs threw workers overboard big time 46 years ago?
You don’t say!
This week the Senate will vote to merge our military’s most sensitive & secretive capabilities with Israel. This merger is buried within the massive NDAA and they’re hoping you won’t notice.
Merging our military with a foreign country is a treasonous betrayal of our sovereignty.
Call your senators & tell them to vote no on the NDAA until the merger w/ Israel (section 219) is taken out.
Tell them that we will never support merging our military with a foreign nation.
The senate switchboard number is: (202) 224-3121.
One of the astonishing revelations of the Covid era is that the nation-state no longer exists.
There are only corporations, cartels, mafias, militaries, intelligence agencies, and the owners of capital.
These groups are supranational, above any law, and they believe they are allowed to kill people (through wars, assassinations, and profitable stochastic harms including chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and pollution).
While there are subtle differences and ongoing rivalries between these groups, they share the goal of wealth, power, and control over others.
Over time they are merging into one giant predatory blob — Global Monopoly Capitalism.
Now with AI they have the ability to shape nearly all knowledge production and thus our perceptions of reality itself.
@RealCandaceO His behavior is bizarre! It sounds like an abuser trying to gaslight his victim into thinking she has no one to turn to. What is his play here? Why be so over-the-top obviously deceptive??
It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.
It includes:
64,537 videos
17,905 photos
Ability to download individual videos
Searchable index
Exhaustive sources list (300+ journalists)
Geolocation data
Livemap with minute to minute updates
Victim list
It can be accessed here: https://t.co/s0Se94PXWF
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We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.
God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.
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I don’t know whether the world is truly aware or is deliberately turning a blind eye to what is happening right now in Gaza.
But this is exactly how they are planning the so called “New Gaza” they keep talking about.
They want to impose oppressive camps inside the city, disguised as fake natural reserves, surrounded by harsh barbed wire that prevents anyone from leaving as if they are caging an entire population inside iron enclosures under the sky.
This is the “future” they are planning: tightly sealed prisons, all under the name of reconstruction.
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal visits the Wall of Tears in Dearborn, Michigan
This heart-rending visual display memorializes the over 18,500 children killed by the Israeli military in the besieged Gaza Strip between October 7, 2023 and July 2025
Blumenthal reads the names and ages of several of these children, and places their lives in the broader context of Gaza's occupation, siege and genocide at the hands of the state of Israel
Tabshour ('Chalk') the donkey goes viral in Lebanon after braying with joy upon seeing his human best friend for the first time since they were separated by war
'Damn this war that separated us'
I’m not sure this is understood in the West, so I want to emphasize:
Al Risala are Lebanese *Boy Scouts.*
They belong to the Lebanese Scouting Federation, the local affiliate of the World Organization of the Scout Movement.
The US affiliate is the Boy Scouts of America.
After Al Risala Scouts turn 18, they often become Scout leaders who serve as EMTs, firefighters, and search-and-rescue teams.
In the past 2 months, Israel has killed 27 Al Risala Scouts, Troop leaders, and associated young adult rescue workers.
Here are some of young Scouts killed by Israel. Neither the Boy Scouts of America nor the World Organization of the Scout Movement have condemned their murders.
If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.
We are a sovereign country.
https://t.co/HwvSXXxKlW
This video grieves my soul.
America, how can we stay silent? How can we fund this?
Even more so, American Christians how can you turn your head and not care?
These are God’s children too.
Right before you woke up this morning, Israel murdered this precious baby and her mama.
They did it using American bombs. Paid for by American taxpayers. Under the full military and diplomatic protection of the American government.
We need to continue to fix the fracture between the left and the right.
We now know what true evil is. It is us against the Epstein class and warmongers.