nikita

dhoom dhoom just take my life, she/her

[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🤗

[Notokay🍃 @Notokayalways]

Ain't no way God thinks I'm this strong bro.

[hera @shiningdaisies]

i am a lover but underneath that i am a hater but underneath that i am a lover again

[✰ @slowwlifee]

when david foster once said “how odd I can have all this inside me and to you it's just words” and I’ve felt that in my bones

[notremadame 🌙 @notremadame]

Esto y nunca volver a relacionarme de manera romántica ni sexual con otra persona en todo lo que me queda de vida.

[Minatoメ @minatokusi_]

what doesn't kill you makes you sit like this for several hours

[ᖇ @raghda__amer]

ما لا يقتلك يجعلك تجلس هكذا لعدة أشهر.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

please be picky as fuck, this is your world and whatever you want exists.

[mayank @maynkydvv]

What substance do i need to abuse to not feel the need to be loved anymore

[N @nathhzzzx_]

quando eu descubro algo e meu estomago acha que eh o fim do mundo

[ཧ ★ @yesimsvrfer]

and the love i thought would save me from all the world’s torture, tortured me more than the world ever did

[Jani Gem 🌶 @Jani__Gee]

This is such a beautiful perspective.

“Your comfort is your comfort… There's no medal for giving that up."

[Thia's Thoughts @ametheeshi]

This cunty ass art piece

[mika @mikasagrada]

eu tentando me convencer de que em breve tudo vai melhorar e eu não vou mais me sentir assim:

[𝓰𝓾𝓲zzzy @zecanjica_]

pensando muito no tiktok que eu vi falando que o que não te mata faz vc ter compaixão pela carrie

[Sofía Morales @im_anasofia2]

Que hacía sufriendo por alguien solo porque no me eligió??? Sino pasó fue por algo, sé que viene alguien mejor, sé que vienen cosas mejores!!

[Ebibaby @Ebibabyy]

“Nobody is coming to save you” but your day literally gets better after you consume art made by other people. You hang w friends & you’re no longer suicidal, even if just for a few minutes. They’re lying to you about the significance of community. People are saving you EVERYDAY!

[tendollar @tendollardanny]

it is okay to rest tonight even though you need to figure your life out immediately or it’s over for you