Startled Normie

Don't have a Pokémon sippy cup.
Do have a Goose House coffee mug.
Notaku. Weebn't. NoJo. nEva.
MAL: Startled-Normie

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Sikorski: Russia has sold 44 tonnes of gold, about half its reserve.

It’s a sign Moscow is running low on resources. This winter may be Putin's last chance to break Ukraine, so Europe's help decides if Ukraine wins. 1/

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

From the snippets of Fauci emails that I've seen, the thing that most infuriates me is that Fauci *knew* that "dissenters" like @DrJBhattacharya were honest actors making reasonable arguments but he coordinated attacks on them anyway.

[Jonathan Turley @JonathanTurley]

It appears that the majority of Spaniards are not feeling that "warmth of collectivism." A new poll shows six out of ten Spaniards hold negative opinions of socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s government. This is why socialists often have to wait for memories to pass to get young people, as in New York, to embrace their ideology. It is a cyclic, boom-and-bust pattern where socialists wait for new generations to buy into the same failed policies of prior generations.

[David Harsanyi @davidharsanyi]

prog leftism and 'national convervatism' explained in one tweet

[Kattin Guitar @KattinGuitar]

風は木の葉をひるがえし

木洩れ日が地面に美しい模様をつくっている

小鳥があちこちの枝で優しく囀る

この短い夏の光

今この瞬間を安心して笑い合える毎日が、どれほど愛おしく尊いものなのか

彼は心にあふれる感謝を抱きしめて、まばゆい青空の下、また前を向いて歩きだす

#kattinguitar

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@jimgeraghty And taking credit for the country being hot right now is like claiming to be satan.

[函館災害情報 @hakodate119]

【臨時：道外地震情報】

最大震度7の地震
2026/07/28 16:29
#Spectee

震度速報 16:29 気象庁発表
【概要】
16時27分ごろ、地震による強い揺れを感じました。
【影響地域】
震度３以上を観測した地域は、熊本県阿蘇、宮崎県南部平野部、熊本県球磨、福岡県筑豊、大分県中部、熊本県天草・芦北、佐賀県南部、福岡県福岡、山口県西部、山口県東部、大分県北部、長崎県島原半島、福岡県北九州、長崎県壱岐、佐賀県北部、長崎県南西部、大分県西部、宮崎県北部山沿い、大分県南部、鹿児島県薩摩、長崎県五島、愛媛県南予、鹿児島県甑島、宮崎県南部山沿い、山口県北部、熊本県熊本、長崎県北部、福岡県筑後、高知県西部、宮崎県北部平野部、鹿児島県大隅、山口県中部です。
【地震に関する情報】
今後の情報に注意してください。
【都道府県ごとの最大震度】
各都道府県の最大震度は下記の通りです。
- 熊本県:震度7
- 長崎県:震度5強
- 鹿児島県:震度5強
- 福岡県:震度5弱
- 佐賀県:震度5弱
- 宮崎県:震度5弱
- 山口県:震度4
- 大分県:震度4
- 愛媛県:震度3
- 高知県:震度3

[NHK WORLD News @NHKWORLD_News]

A magnitude 7.1 quake struck Kumamoto Prefecture on July 28, registering the highest intensity of 7 on the Japanese scale in some areas. A tsunami advisory has been issued for the coasts of the Ariake Sea and the Yatsushiro Sea.
Visit https://t.co/bZpiKm94yl for more.

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@johnfund Like the fruitflies here.

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

This is a horror. Those who thought it up should visit the same shredder. They're more replaceable than the books. As if anyone would want to replace them.

[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🤗

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@Dobiedobes_CD @BNONews I figure you missed my point, which is the insane adoption of "after" though "when" is called for. Such as "was killed after his car hit a pole." Did someone come and finish him off? Or did he die when, not after, he hit the pole. It is news consultant avoidance of past tense.

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@Dobiedobes_CD @BNONews Wow. Militantly illiterate.

[ウェザーニュース @wni_jp]

【台風情報】
7月28日(火)3時現在、台風13号(ドルフィン)はマーシャル諸島を西に進んでいます。31日(金)にはウェーク島近海で猛烈な勢力となる予想です。 まだ日本からは遠いものの、8月上旬に国内に影響がでる可能性が否定できません。今後の進路に注意してください。
https://t.co/8VmQE995jX

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@RBrookhiser Didn't run for president, did he? Also, I think he was a Republican. Billy the Kid spoke well of him, for a time.

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@Lileks Been there, done that.
https://t.co/4LoyxJxaXh

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@RBrookhiser What is the deal with Democrats named Wallace? We at least picked a Wallace named Trump.

[Phil Kerpen @kerpen]

Fauci August 7, 2021:

"Governor DeSantis is a complete disgrace. He is blocking the local authorities from mandating masks in various locations including schools."

That's why we love you @GovRonDeSantis.

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@charlesmurray Now do James Joyce!

[Startled Normie @StartledNormie]

@Marian_L_Tupy Nor Naomi Wu.
https://t.co/Iv9wS2hnUX

[The Jeremy Boreing Show @JBoreingShow]

"I don't think we're friends anymore; he cut me off."

@roddreher visited his friend JD Vance last fall, warning him to draw a red line against groyperism and Jew-hate rising on the right.

The response left Dreher questioning Vance's ability to lead.