Kiran

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

Days of Thunder. Summer 2028.

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

Days of Thunder. Summer 2028.

[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🤗

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

The fans got Deadpool off the ground so many years ago. Yesterday, 10 years after the first film and exactly 2 years after Deadpool & Wolverine, I felt so lucky to be on the #SDCC floor with everyone whose unapologetic devotion brings so much joy to this world.

[Conor McGregor @TheNotoriousMMA]

I was so sharp and so ready for this fight I cannot believe what has happened. The talk of me being off while walking in to the fight is nonsense. I was calm, ready, and confident. I am in shock what has taken place. The devil is literally staring at me right in front of my face here. I am not engaging. I will be at church tomorrow.

I will overcome this.
I will not be deterred.
I will return.

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

Bang, bang, bang! Trailer drops July 13th.

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

For the last 46 years, it has been my privilege to work alongside countless talented artists and crews to create these characters, stories, and films for you all.

I'm looking forward to seeing you at the movies! DIGGER. Only in theaters this October.

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[jack @jack]

five words. 20 years. unfinished.

[Kiran @kiranSC_]

@prxfns

[UFC @ufc]

THE OFFICIAL BOUT LIST FOR #UFCWhiteHouse

[ LIVE Sunday June 14 on @ParamountPlus ]

[Hassan. @Heyitshassan]

I am fully convinced that 2019 was the last normal year we ever had. Ever since then, it feels like everything’s broken. Everyone is constantly anxious, time moves too fast, and nothing actually feels real anymore. The world as we knew it is just gone

[anca @incorede]

What doesn't kill you makes you sit like this at 4 AM

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

2026 so far

[cessi 🥤 @ceciiii07]

Me checking my phone like someone cares about me

[mato @thomsahh]

we have totally lost the plot, websites like Anna's Archive, Archive. org and Wikipedia should be the main uses of internet, they're the ultimate human achievements and capitalism is trying to shut them down

[laurinha 🦠 @ecto_fun]

a director should completely lose their career for this. his wikipedia should say former filmmaker from now on no matter what else he does

[RT @RT_com]

Has your phone ever shown you an ad for something you only whispered...?

Google agrees to fork over $68MN to settle claims that its Assistant was SECRETLY recording your convos WITHOUT 'Hey Google' & feeding them straight to targeted ads — The Hill

No wrongdoing admitted though