Cassie Bee

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

My 9 albums #my9albums https://t.co/crcyOs2Qwl

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@ldelvalle @irishspy 18

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

With love to the people working this site and all the Christians excited about it, this is not Noah’s Ark. I highly doubt we’ll ever find it, and if we do, it won’t be conclusive.

Don’t hang your faith on this stuff. God gave us all we need in his Holy Spirit and Holy Word. And if you think the discovery of Noah’s Ark would lead to some massive revival of Christianity, I doubt that too. There were men who walked with Jesus, saw his miracles, and still didn’t believe.

“Blessed are those who have not seen, and yet believe…”

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@jasonahart @NewFounding @docMJP @TuckerCarlson I think he overrates his warlord potential.

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@BMcGrewvy Thank you for sharing this.

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@RichardHanania And he challenged the Lee myth.

[Retro Rosey. @melillo_rose]

Chewed it all in one sitting!!!

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@MattWalshBlog Not strange, in that he kept the union together

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@RBrookhiser https://t.co/k4kCpSnwfy

[Charles MEANgus @theboogiecowboy]

Dolly Parton, her parents and siblings doing a version of “In The Pines” in 1976, a song long associated with Lead Belly but whose origins predate him…likely came out of a hodgepodge mix of songs from Southern Appalachia.

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@PrezWisdom John Adams
Lincoln
Being There

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

This is 20-year-old Arvin Kheirkhahan, who was arrested for taking part in the January protests.

He was executed this morning by the Islamic regime.

Alone. Innocent.

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@JonahDispatch @guypbenson Is this the guy that was shocking his dog on his podcast?

[Nikos Sotirakopoulos @Nikos_17]

It takes more balls to release this in 2026
than it took for the Sex Pistols to release
‘Anarchy in the UK’ in 1976.
As Brendan O’Neill put it on Spiked,
this is real punk.

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@AStuttaford @KenGardner11 Arsenic and Old Lace

[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🤗

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@BrendanCarrFCC I’m glad to see the fcc move in this direction. I hope they will do the same for radio soon.

[Cassie Bee @simulacrabee]

@KenGardner11 I agree but this WSJ article about Buc-ee’s going after local competitors with ridiculous copyright suits makes me want to root against them.

https://t.co/Cj0aLRwg41