Lucy

[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🤗

[Lucy @lottie_SW]

@ptriiichor Anagnorisis!

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

We should be a world leader in tackling the nature and climate emergency , instead , we're a world leader in arresting those brave individuals who are sounding the alarm . . .

https://t.co/cPHZ7uT8Kz

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

“If they protest in a way that gets noticed, they go to jail” - @mrjamesob cuts through with clarity & truth.
Complicity in the politics of “don’t look up” is hastening ever greater #climate breakdown - we can’t say we didn’t know

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: scientists confirm plastic production is unsustainable and must end as their fears that 30-70% of Earth's species will go extinct this century intensify 🧵

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

How Musk broke Twitter and helped elect Trump
(Location: Tesla European HQ, Amsterdam)

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

Over 100 tons of dead fish in the port of Volos in central Greece, following a mass die-off attributed to extreme climate fluctuations.

This isn't normal. No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #vote #dumptrump

[michaela okland @MichaelaOkla]

Instagram put up a new “limit political content” feature in settings and set it as the default for tons of accounts. The timing of this feature is very suspect to me, but anyway here is how to fix it

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

ITV bosses just handed Farage £1.5m and a public platform, so we’re outside their offices reminding them who he really is. Watch the full biopic below 👇

[Lucy @lottie_SW]

Come and work at a fantastic friendly charity doing great things in the music education world! 👇

[The UK Association for Music Education: Music Mark @musicmarkuk]

#MusicJob Music Mark is seeking a Marketing & Communications Officer. If you are passionate about coordinating and creating impactful campaign content and engaging with existing and new audiences across music and education, then we want to hear from you! https://t.co/oeQW8KWVou

[The UK Association for Music Education: Music Mark @musicmarkuk]

#MusicJob Music Mark is seeing a Schools Lead. If you are passionate about putting music at the heart of every school across the UK then we’d like to meet you! https://t.co/ae3A22wDPR

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

BREAKING: it is virtually certain that July 2023 will be the hottest month in recorded history by a margin that even the most blindly optimistic scientists find to be stunning and yet mass media still remain criminally silent on the desperate need for economic system change 🧵

[John Gibbons 🇵🇸 @think_or_swim]

Ok, a tornado.
In Milan.
In Italy.
In July.

What next? Giant hailstones?
(Well, yes)

[Chris Packham @ChrisGPackham]

Eating less meat 'like taking 8m cars off road' . . . peer reviewed science . . . (not published in 1954) https://t.co/QbrBnq8VJb

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

China just experienced its highest temperature in recorded history, topping out at an unbelievable 52.2°C (126°F).

This crushes the country's previous all-time high by 1.7°C (3°F).

[George Monbiot @GeorgeMonbiot]

Wistman’s Wood is one of the most famous woodlands in Britain, among our few remnants of upland temperate rainforest. So it’s a shock to see how tiny it is. Yes, this is it. Thread/

[GfB 📚 @Dr_Gavin_Brewis]

They protest on roads, snooker, art exhibits and rugby - they're told they're doing it wrong.

Last week they disrupted Shell's AGM, nobody said a word because it didn't affect them. It's becoming obvious that this is approach is necessary.

Climate change WILL affect us all!

[Peter Saull @petesaull]

Local councils have started publishing data on how many voters were turned away last Thursday because they didn't have acceptable ID.

In Walsall, 1240 were turned away, 473 returned with ID, so 767 didn't vote.

In Bradford 1261 turned away , 763 returned, 498 didn't vote.

[The UK Association for Music Education: Music Mark @musicmarkuk]

We are partnering with the @MIAssociationUK to host a FREE #IndustryXEducation Interface!

Our exhibitors are focused on helping you deliver the National Plan for Music Education so that you can best support musical learning🤝

🔗Find out more & book now: https://t.co/AMUnBF7FPG

[Paul Powlesland @paulpowlesland]

It seems the voters of Plymouth weren’t as quick as Mr Mercer to defend or excuse a secret night time operation to needlessly fell 100 irreplaceable city centre trees against local wishes. Another warning to local politicians of the electoral consequences of nature destruction.