grimgreygod

I am one ugly motherfucker.

[grimgreygod @GrimGreyGod]

Thief. Warrior. Gladiator. King.

[grimgreygod @GrimGreyGod]

Because nobody else is gonna care about stuff like this I'm gonna just post here but the person recording my new band said one of the songs reminded him of From Ashes Rise and I'm pretty stoked on that

[Nyla 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇵🇸 @NylaFoxx__]

*Hasan helps a candidate win*
Shitlibs: They should drop him, he's poison to the movement, bitch stfu you have no real political beliefs & your views are based on bigotry & US propaganda/exceptionalism, also the already aggressive rise of islamophobia is going to get a lot worse.

[Karim Wafa-Al Hussaini @DrKarimWafa]

If your politics require children to die quietly overseas so stock prices stay calm, your politics are garbage.

[grimgreygod @GrimGreyGod]

No puedo dormir. Que pues

[maria @resistancestan]

Liberals stand for nothing but decorum. So long as the empire is bringing ruin to the global south while hiding behind a veil of progressiveness, they’re okay with people’s lives being ruined in their name.

[Bae Guevara @Kaimandante]

turns out a lot of yall are worthless.

[𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 @strategicsouth]

A Chinese lawmaker delivers a brutal lecture to the United States at the UN Security Council:

"Where does a country ruled by the Epstein class, while turning a blind eye to the genocide of the Palestinians, get the moral authority to lecture us on civil liberties?"

[grimgreygod @GrimGreyGod]

When I played bass I will always go to my incredibly familiar but always reliable two favorites: Ampeg and Sunn. While I don't know much of anything when it comes to guitar amplifiers, after recording this weekend I think I'm going to start becoming a guitar amp person.

[No @theanswrisno]

Openly admitting that you not paying attention to what’s going on in the world is not the flex you think it is .

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

We are supposed to pretend this is what law enforcement in a free country looks like.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

“Should I Marry a Murderer?” is about the whitest woman who ever whited

[sullen @fakepalindromes]

It’s ok to embarrass yourself in pursuit of human connection

[grimgreygod @GrimGreyGod]

You shut your mouth, how can you say
I go about things the wrong way

[Pan-African Tiger Woods @wordisbond]

The American you dreamed of never existed it was just marketing.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

The American fear that brown people are coming to rape "their women" is rooted in the fact that American men have been raping their way around the world for centuries.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

America, the land where mothers get arrested because they can't afford diapers for their babies while rich pedophiles get away with raping children.

[Lucky4me @Lucky4me397308]

Palestinians are experiencing an actual holocaust.

[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🤗

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 “It’s been very hard for me to reckon with the extent of killing I was involved in,” former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes said.

🔹Rhodes spoke to Peter Beinart about Biden officials who are failing to fully reckon with their role in Israel’s genocide in Gaza, saying many remain inside a Washington feedback loop where AIPAC and FDD figures reassure them they did the right thing, while their careers still benefit from not breaking with Israel.

🔹He said his own reckoning with the Obama years has involved recognizing that he had been “operating machinery that was often inhumane” and “participating in a supremacy that was baked into the entire wiring of the machinery.”

🔹“It’s uncomfortable for them to face up to the genocide they’re a part of,” Rhodes explained, discussing their possible thinking. “But I’m actually not sorry relative to the harm that was done and could be done in the future. People’s feet do need to be held to the fire.”

🔗 Full discussion on “Beinart Notebook” includes guest Yousef Munayyer, Palestinian American political analyst and scholar at Arab Center Washington DC. It is linked below.

@PeterBeinart | @brhodes