Random ideas for good hardcopy books to have:
All of Forrest M. Mims, III books.
All of H. John Poole's books.
A solid organic chemistry text.
A solid inorganic chemistry text.
A solid mechanical engineering text.
The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch by Lewis Dartnell
The Book: The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization by Hungry Minds
The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding a Civilization: A Technical Manual for the Post-Collapse Era by James Evans
A solid, region-specific medicinal and edible foraging book.
A solid reference for antibiotics.
A solid field first aid manual.
A good repair manual for each of your vehicles.
Anything that has a decent explanation of how to find water, how to dig a well, and multiple means for water purification and/or filtration from scratch.
A solid stalking manual, region-specific with clear instructions on how to identify tracks and spoor.
A guide to poisonous plants and venomous snakes, region-specific
They want both your understanding of and access to all knowledge to be filtered through them and them alone. They would make of themselves a god and you a slave
🦔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.
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New account because the next time it_is_hoe_math gets banned it'll be for 9 months
follow me here and I'll switch over once I pass 250k
proof it is me: some kinds of people are shitty for genetic reasons and we shouldn't pretend it's OK that they're in our countries
The most endangered wild canid on Earth doesn't live in a remote jungle or a distant country. It lives in five counties in North Carolina, and right now there are somewhere between 28 and 31 of them.
The red wolf once ranged across the entire southeastern United States, from Pennsylvania to Florida and west to Texas. It was declared extinct in the wild in 1980 after a century of predator control programs and habitat loss.
14 individuals were captured and used to start a captive breeding program. In 1987, the first red wolves were released onto the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge in Dare County. It was the first time a species declared extinct in the wild had been reintroduced to its former range in North America.
By 2010 the wild population had reached roughly 130 animals across the five-county recovery area. Then gunshot mortality spiked, management decisions went poorly, and the number fell off a cliff. By early 2025 only 16 known wild red wolves remained.
The 2025 breeding season was the best in years. Four wild litters were born, 20 pups total, and the population estimate climbed to somewhere between 28 and 31. It's a fragile recovery. Vehicle collisions, illegal shootings, and hybridization with coyotes remain constant threats. The captive population of roughly 280 animals in facilities across the country is the backstop.
The Alligator River refuge is about four hours from Raleigh. The wolves are there, documented, breeding.
Admittedly, I know effectively zero about the situation on ground in the vid. No idea why this guy in particular was targeted. Looking at the signs, it appears this is at one of the boomer "give us more foreigners because we hate your grandchildren" rallies. So, it seems likely that most of that crowd is 100% on the side of the government goons.