legally regarded 4'7'' 73IQ☦️🌲

Goodbye, cruel world. I'll see you again in the morning.

[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🤗

[S2 Underground @s2_underground]

Extremely.

[𝙼𝚁. 𝙻𝙴𝙰𝙳𝚂𝙻𝙸𝙽𝙶𝙴𝚁 @MrLeadslinger]

“Bro, you gotta fight it in the courts bro, really. Just trust the system bro. It’s the rule of law bro, the constitution matters bro.”

[motif of harmful sensation @Ink_the_artist_]

"i hope death is like being carried to your bedroom when you were a child & fell asleep on the couch during a family party. i hope you can hear the laughter from the next room"

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

We judge others by their worst moments; ourselves by our best intentions.

—Dostoevsky

[legally regarded 4'7'' 73IQ☦️🌲 @TheCeilingMan]

@DanielvsBabylon God grant me the serenity to accept when I am cooked, the strength to cook what I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

[That Catholic Guy 🇻🇦 @Catholic_bro]

"You don't have to be extraordinary. Just be faithful."

[Kingpilled @kingpilled]

GPM

[Pascal @KnowsPascal]

Sin is followed by shame. Repentance is followed by boldness.

-St. Chrysostom

[The Perfect Christian @PerfectionAge]

This requires a careful attention.

[crapitalism @samizdatornot]

shout it from the fucking rooftops.