iandi

Backend dev grinding @bootdotdev. I play hoops, love music & cinema. Follow if you’re into tech + pop culture — always down to interact.

[iandi @pemphoo]

why are we not talking about this more!?

[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🤗

[iandi @pemphoo]

@dalimpinganjira worked on something like this for my school project
we should connect some time

[iandi @pemphoo]

@spectatorindex Brazil fell off so bad

[iandi @pemphoo]

old heads talk about the old NBA like it was the NFL

[katsu @katsuxbt]

Charles Barkley says Steph Curry would’ve been ‘broken in half’ in the ’90s NBA

“I love Steph Curry, but if anybody with a shred of common sense tells me Steph could’ve taken the licks Michael [Jordan] was taking, come on, man”

“Not just the body blows, but the hand-checking, where you could grab a guy and he couldn’t move”

“If Steph got hit like Michael was getting hit, he’d get broken in half. That’s just a fact”

[iandi @pemphoo]

@JoelFickson why

[iandi @pemphoo]

@mweinbach whoa

[iandi @pemphoo]

How far away are we from building an oasis like the one in ready player one?

[iandi @pemphoo]

@Ole_is_right what kind of motion did Beckham have man

[iandi @pemphoo]

locking in is not enough I need to get back to being a complete NERD

[iandi @pemphoo]

@brian_yehnda what did you build? I'll be happy to check it out

[iandi @pemphoo]

I've decided that I won't let AI intimidate me anymore, and I'll continue learning how to code from scratch. I am sure this will benefit me in some type of way even if I do not know how right now. Even if it don't, it'll just be my new hobby 🙂 It'll be fun

[iandi @pemphoo]

going back to coding after 10 days of no coding kinda nervous