Simon Payne

Freelance motion design and animation. Living in East London.

[Criterion Collection @Criterion]

THE COMPLETE KUBRICK: Colors and Fonts with Visual Artist Drusilla Adeline ❤️ 🎞️

The designer of THE COMPLETE KUBRICK—a monumental 4K UHD + Blu-ray collector's set bringing together Stanley Kubrick's entire directorial output for the first time—discusses honoring the filmmaker's meticulous, hands-on approach and bold visual aesthetic in the design of the box. https://t.co/1ACK3GTiaD

[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🤗

[Daniela Gabor @DanielaGabor]

class war, capital wining, in one picture.

[Wetterschneider @Stretchedwiener]

So this week?

One artist, Ian McQue, was so egregiously exploited by AI generative software companies using his work to develop their programs - that Instagram is now labelling his painting and drawings as "possibly AI generated".

Another artist found his labor intensive hand-crafted 3d model used by an AI generative software company as examples of their 3d output.

[Simon Payne @si_lo]

@paulmasonnews 🤡

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@andyburnham 🤮

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@blagden_david Did football originate in the region of England though?

[Lewis Warner @LewisJWarner]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE 🚨

A secret plan to sack Birmingham’s striking bin workers - without the approval of elected councillors - has been revealed exclusively by @itvcentral.

The confidential document says dismissal was the “only certain mechanism” to end the strike.

1/3 🧵

[Brian Cates - Political Columnist & Pundit @drawandstrike]

Another great actor gone too soon.

[Simon Payne @si_lo]

@coinbasesvictim @SaulStaniforth Mic cable are you related to usb cable?

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"... our M/E correspondent Lucy Williamson has been working with the BBC team in Gaza to look at some of those stories.. tell us about what people are saying"

"We've been speaking to some of the 15,000 people that Gazas Hamas run health ministry says.."

How to sell a genocide.

[Aditya Chakrabortty @chakrabortty]

Keir Starmer has done a trade deal with Donald Trump that could end up costing our NHS £45 billion - and, experts say, cause more Britons to die than Covid.

So why is hardly anyone talking about it?

My column https://t.co/Tqs1Kmhcsv

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

HMRC moved to offices owned by a Tory Donor, registered in a Tax Haven.

So HMRC is paying rent money to a Tax Avoider.

HMRC enables tax evasion for the rich.

[Jeremy Morris again @postsocialismus]

The obituary today on the BBC's website is the definition of walking on eggshells. Smith can't even be mildly criticised in death!

[Simon Payne @si_lo]

@benonwine

[SMOUSE 🔸 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @SMOUSE_CG]

In celebration of my new website, I'm giving away Underwater Caustics Pro ($20) away for free for a very limited time! 🥰

Everything else is also 50% Off - I mean everything!
Go check it out :D
https://t.co/673hCiMeSj

[Jody McIntyre @jodymcintyre_]

Pearson Engineering is the UK subsidiary of Rafael, a weapons firm owned by the Israeli government.

Their director is John Hutton, a Labour Party peer.

The Israeli military used a Rafael spike missile to obliterate three British citizens working for World Central Kitchen.

[Simon Payne @si_lo]

@MikeTappTweets Flag shagger

[Simon Payne @si_lo]

@MikeTappTweets @ZackPolanski Labour friends of genocide

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Corruption ...