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This video of Dolly Parton covering Stairway to Heaven is going around. Here's a higher quality version for you to enjoy. RIP to the Queen of Country and an absolute angel on Earth.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

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REST IN PEACE MISS DOLLY 💖

[Hull City @HullCity]

1738

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Happy Jorja Eve to all those who celebrate!

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Absolute AOTY contender here, there’s nothing out right now quite this like this.
UK all the way 🇬🇧
“goldenboy” by @rubiangozai
https://t.co/JvUEZIl8eB

[goldenboy . @rubiangozai]

goldenboy out now
everywhere
luv u

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One of best debuts I’ve heard in a long time. Already an AOTY contender. Go listen to “Lovesweet” by @girlsweetvoiced
https://t.co/vFq2AA36ow

[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🤗

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@DeadlineDayLive Team was always mentally weak so if it was that, the pressure would’ve overwhelmed them anyways.

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@ManagerTactical Product has to improve, but the structure has to change too. MLS runs off of a ownership-first model with zero consequences for poor performance. Pro/rel will take time but linking USL is absolutely key if you really want to grow the sport. Too many markets were missing out on.

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@ManagerTactical The problem is that they’re trying to replicate NFL/MLB/NBA model when the only reason that model works for those leagues is because they are by far the best leagues in the world. MLS does not have that luxury.

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@MLS Mid

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Gotta be worst possible final matchup ngl

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Gotta be top 5 worst tactics of all time by Tuchel

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@Castro1021 ahhhhhhh

[The Touchline | 𝐓 @TouchlineX]

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: South Africa international Jayden Adams has passed away at the age of 25, just weeks after representing his country at the 2026 World Cup.

Rest in peace. 🕊️🇿🇦

[- @LMDiddy14]

Argentina robbing Egypt.

Uploading this again because FIFA removed the video.

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@joshhart you mean conVARsation

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https://t.co/lqyCgGlBMZ