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[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

A simple but effective way of explaining how we are being completely tax fleeced by the government. Credit to @robprogressive.

[Swan @JJJack40]

@scottmwalker14 @The_Forty_Four Agreed

[Swan @JJJack40]

@The_Forty_Four 12 would be decent

[Swan @JJJack40]

@TOSOTC_CFC That’s the punishment I’d think appropriate

[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🤗

[Swan @JJJack40]

@Markaccus Ok fair point. But at least two of those (as do Spurs) have mega issues- Chelsea and United. Drowning in debt. Great opp for the Geordies and others to haul themselves up now. Is how I see it.

[Swan @JJJack40]

@ThatsFootballTV @David_Ornstein The true “cost” is that without those initial titles, almost certainly - no Pep and prob no subsequent titles. That’s the unsolvable issue

[Swan @JJJack40]

@Grandsoncr7 @David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC Fraudiola

[Swan @JJJack40]

@ladeehcares @David_Ornstein @TheAthleticFC He knew all along. But TBF the offences were only up to 2016 of thereabouts so arguably not his fault/issue

[Swan @JJJack40]

@calgas21 @thenichecache But it isn’t is it? It’s a fact. How much influence Just is having - different point. For me, our fans are not getting Eli’s contribution and impact. He’s doing far better than most believe. Clever player.

[Lembit Öpik @lembitopik]

Refusing to drill for our own North Sea oil but then buying the exact same North Sea oil from Norway makes Britain the virtual-signalling, eco-nut capital of the world

[Swan @JJJack40]

@onlyswanss It WAS a pen. Tymon went with his leg across Draper- he knew what he was doing. But - no harm done. UTJs!

[Swan @JJJack40]

@OldManWinter999 @BBCMOTD Well they got to the Final in 2013 from League 2….they weren’t lucky then!

[Swan @JJJack40]

@secondtierpod Last year he started 6 League games and scored 7 goals…..

[Swan @JJJack40]

@SCFC_Jamess But this football is effective- at least it has been for the last 20 odd games. The other most relevant point is we simply have better players. So , for example Key, Eom & Ronald look a mile better coz they’ve got better players around them. Long way to go

[Swan @JJJack40]

@SwansOfficial Amazing that everyone was slaughtering Ronald a couple of weeks ago and he has two assists and done great since then

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨NEWS: The UK Government has announced that all UK Phones will require ID and surveillance software

Your smart devices will be LOCKED unless you comply with the compulsory digital safety checks

The claim is this is for the safety of Children

We all know this is a lie

[Swan @JJJack40]

@calgas21 @marchamjack Well we were top of the League. Still 2nd. They look good to me. Yeo was our best player last night. I like them

[Swan @JJJack40]

@calgas21 @marchamjack Yeo and Opoku have had excellent starts to the season. Just is struggling a bit but done ok in earlier games. Patience…..Eom started very slowly for us…