Nick

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[Nick @NTGiospaghetti]

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[Nick @NTGiospaghetti]

@LeMorty_ Holy fucking W

[Nick @NTGiospaghetti]

This swing is sex

[tru @trumanation_]

It’s the 16 year anniversary of my favorite home run in MLB history😁

[Nick @NTGiospaghetti]

@Gavin2Willy I miss him so much bro

[Nick @NTGiospaghetti]

I’m tired Robbie

[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🤗

[turbomander @turbomander]

"we are close to creating an oil that can cure any ailment" - guy selling snake oil

[Nick @NTGiospaghetti]

Not a fan

[Underdog NFL @UnderdogNFL]

Bills dropped new "Nickel City" alternate uniforms

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Extremely depressing man thanks for sharing

[The Steampunk Gentleman Gamer ⚙️🚂🎩 @quirked_up_anzu]

Being online has destroyed my faith in egalitarianism because how I am I supposed to not feel superior to people who are amused by shit like this

[doomer @uncledoomer]

some of you are not gonna make it out of this bro

[fcbKimmich @w4nner7489]

If you remove all kane Bundesliga goals he still has more goal contributions than lamine yamal

[Foolish Baseball @FoolishBB]

"Bad things were happening, and I decided they were happening because nerds were in charge. Now that good things are happening, I'm deciding the nerds magically disappeared."

[fcbKimmich @w4nner7489]

Dropped an 81g/a season and people are still arguing who should be the ballon d'or winner lol

[Poe's Law, Esq: Poe's Lawyer @dyingscribe]

We need to put you down dawg

[Common Sense Extremists @crushmarxismnow]

Reminder when Ricky Gerais was calling Hollywood a den of amoral hypocritical pedophiles, Driver was one of the only ones laughing

[Underdog MLB @UnderdogMLB]

Spencer Jones, Jasson Domínguez considered key pieces Yankees plan to use as trade assets ahead of deadline, per @francysromero.

[Yakyu Cosmopolitan @yakyucosmo]

Shinnosuke Ogasawara wins his 1st game as a Yomiuri Giant versus his former team 👏

6.0 IP, 3 H, 0 ER, 0 BB, 6 K, 87 P, 14 Whiffs

[Callum🗿 @CaliJ98]

Cameras pointed at him and he kicks her, I would say imagine what he does behind closed doors but you don’t even have to imagine. Rancid bloke.