Shanti

I AM ✨

[Shanti @joycreates2]

We chose to be alive during this great shift. Rise and shine your light.

[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🤗

[The Chivalry Guild @ChivalryGuild]

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”
- Anais Nin

[Shanti @joycreates2]

@RedDogT3 🙏 ☀️

[Shanti @joycreates2]

@paxtrader777 If I didn’t trade on days I either didn’t feel like it or my guidance told me not to trade, my profits would be much higher. I’m ashamed of my losses on those days and have repeatedly spoken to myself about it. Need to redefine what “having strong work ethic” means.

[NASA @NASA]

Happy 250th birthday, America! We got you a present. 🇺🇸

The red, white, and blue stars of this globular cluster shine like a sparkler waved on a dark night in this image from @NASAHubble, released in celebration of the United States' 250th anniversary.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@Complex Petit disque orange (rotated), by František Kupka, 1932

[Shanti @joycreates2]

@dampedspring Are you going to answer? I’m expecting to learn something.

[Chuck D @MrChuckD]

ARt

[Shanti @joycreates2]

@RedDogT3 My thoughts exactly

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

This is a portrait I painted of one of many heroes of mine from the Civil Rights movement. The Rev. James Zwerg, circa 1961. He was one of the Freedom Riders, along with John Lewis, William Barbee, Catherine Burks, and many others, who pulled into Montgomery, AL on a bus May 20, 1961.

He volunteered to step off first.

The mob was waiting with baseball bats, chains, and clubs. They beat him until three of his vertebrae cracked, his nose broke, and every tooth in his head was fractured. They beat him unconscious on the pavement. A Black stranger in coveralls walked up and said, “Stop beating that kid. If you want to beat someone, beat me.” And they did. He saved Zwerg’s life.

White ambulances refused to take him. He lay in the street for over an hour. That is the moment I painted. Bloodied suit. Head bowed.

At Martin Luther King Jr.’s urging, Zwerg later went to seminary and was ordained in the United Church of Christ.

Rev. Zwerg is now 86 and lives in Tucson, Arizona. His courage and conviction, alongside that of countless others, helped save this nation. These are the people I celebrate as we near our 250th anniversary as a nation.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The Obamas unveil their first-ever commissioned portrait together, painted by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, in the lobby of the new Obama Presidential Library.

[Shanti @joycreates2]

@TheDemocrats Beautiful.

[Shanti @joycreates2]

Joining the Dua Lipa fan club in reading TRUST.

[Shanti @joycreates2]

Oh to be an insider in this administration racking in the $$$ while people are struggling. Now that America might stop bombing, maybe we can focus more on stopping Ebola. Let’s help save lives instead of killing people.

[Shanti @joycreates2]

@paxtrader777 Oh well.

[Shanti @joycreates2]

@Mayhem4Markets Water. But I love white tea after my first trades. A cafe nearby uses Rishi brand tea and I love the peace blossom.

[Shanti @joycreates2]

@Dcpcooks @LongTplexTrader Sexy.

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

Steven Spielberg: "Disclosure Day is closer to FACT than fiction when it comes to UFO's & Aliens" 🛸👽😱

"I am for UFO disclosure and that is why I made the film to move the process along"

"A UFO disclosure day would bring the divided world together"

The iconic movie director says with everything that's happened since 1977, he now believes the truth about what's happening in our skies is closer than ever. 👽

In a new interview, the legendary director shares why he made "Disclosure Day": "I really believe that things that I was only hoping were true back then are things that are actually happening now."

Spielberg reflects on evolving from hopeful fiction in Close Encounters to today's reality: "Isn’t it going to be wonderful when people realise after seeing this movie that everything is true, and has been true?"

[Shanti @joycreates2]

Stop saving his ass. Stop financing this war. Americans want out.

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

“What the fuck are you doing?!” Trump lit into Netanyahu over the Lebanon bombing:

“You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

@BarakRavid & I

https://t.co/b1lEZEmN6p