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[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Americans are having to adapt to the biggest price jump on groceries in 50 years thanks to Donald Trump.

And instead of helping you, he’s adding more tariffs, more gas price hikes, and more chaos at home.

[alan b. @inceptstellar]

this is literally the plot of marty supreme

[Brianna Turner @_Breezy_Briii]

The Heritage Foundation, which laid the groundwork for Project 2025 & influences much of the current administration’s policies, recently released a report calling for the dismantling of Title IX in an effort to increase opportunities for male athletes & suppress female athletics

[Nick Cruse 🥋 @SocialistMMA]

This is the kind of stuff Americans think happens in Russia, China and Iran

[☆ badam #3 ☆ @HBICreeda]

Many are saying this

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

Some folks don’t believe that a “principled AI company” would destroy books after they suck out all the information for their models, even one-of-a-kind books and manuscripts.

Here it is admitted in open court.

[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🤗

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Deeply disturbing story. Survivors of US boat strikes allege they were kidnapped and tortured for days by the US military. The prosecutor investigating the claims was just assassinated.

[Willow Thinkpiece @Willowisatranny]

I never even got to know her but I miss you and think about you all the time daytime fish RuPaul

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The House of Representatives has passed the FY2027 NDAA (H.R. 8800), which includes the proposal to expand defense cooperation between the United States and Israel — including joint collaboration on military technologies, missile defense, cyber capabilities, data sharing, and research and development.

It now moves to the Senate for a final vote.

[AdamTheBanned 🇺🇸 @AdamTheBanned]

This is what's coming.

[🐼 @xeroysl]

pink be taking it easy on hoes …

[just matt @questionableway]

the trans youth sports issue at its core always distills down to a single question: is it okay to bully children for their identity?

[⚜️Sovereign⚜️ @sauvamemte]

Because you paid them off, nobody should be eating Taylor Farms anything for at least the next six months

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

So let me get this straight. Taylor Farms lettuce gets linked to the cyclospora outbreak. The CEO visits the White House and donates to Trump. Then the FDA says the positive finding was a “false positive.”

Nothing suspicious about that at all.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Unpopular opinion: The fact that they can quickly install data centers nationally means they could've been updating infrastructure which they claimed was too difficult and expensive.

[Zara Larsson @zaralarsson]

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[Zara Larsson News @newszlarsson]

Zara Larsson performing “Midnight Sun (Remix)” at Lollapalooza Berlin!

[lavender 🖤 @lovelylav3nderr]

i feel like im in psychosis by the fact that this administration time and again just says "fuck you and die" to not only us but the whole world and like 30-40% of this fucking country still support him