Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦

E Pluribus Unum | The Republic Stands

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@WHPressPool this is a joke, right?

[Musée du Louvre @MuseeLouvre]

🇫🇷 Aujourd’hui, le Louvre souffle ses 233 bougies !

🎂 Le 10 août 1793, le musée du Louvre ouvrait ses portes au public sous le nom de Muséum central des Arts. Les visiteurs pouvaient y admirer des œuvres issues des anciennes collections royales.

Merci d’être toujours présents pour vous émerveiller des chefs-d’œuvre du musée.

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🌍 Today, le Louvre celebrates its 233rd birthday

🎉 On August 10, 1793, the Louvre opened its doors to the public as the Central Museum of Art. Visitors could admire artworks mainly from the former royal collections. T

Thank you for always being there to marvel at the museum’s masterpieces.

[Rasmus Jarlov @RasmusJarlov]

As a Danish taxpayer, I think this is the best spent money ever. We will happily continue to pay to help a European country survive and to stop an existential threat against Europe.

We are just wondering why so many other countries are free-riding and barely contributing?

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@JoeBiden @littlebrown 3 days before your birthday, 2 days before mine -- I know I'll have a great birthday week being a bookworm
Thank you, @JoeBiden ! ♥️🤍💙

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@realpeteyb123 2 words
Club Med
The kids will have a better time than you & be fluent in another 2 languages by the end of the week
💙🤍♥️ @clubmedofficial

[Belmont Greek Festival @BelmontGreek]

*Spanakopita.*
Now that we've got your attention, tomorrow (Sat. 8 Aug.) at 9am, join our chefs to make this Festival favorite (a huge amount -- we ran out last year)!
No experience necessary,
we would 💙🤍💙🤍💙 to see you.
Other volunteer opportunities: https://t.co/18u67mqx6L

[Grover @Grover]

Your dreams are within reach! If you have trouble grasping them, try waving your arms really fast to get their attention.

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

Dutch drivers leaving the fast lane free for a children's hospital transport. A red "X" on signage lets drivers know to do this in emergencies:

[Rijkswaterstaat Verkeersinformatie @RWSverkeersinfo]

🙏 | Er vond een spoedtransport plaats van het Wilhelmina Kinderziekenhuis Utrecht naar het Erasmus Ziekenhuis Rotterdam. Op verzoek van de ambulance plaatsten wij een kruis boven de weg. Door het meewerken van alle weggebruikers ondervond het transport geen hinder. #NietvoorniX

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@rolandlisf Took advantage of the Gate Explorer Pass yesterday to see someone off on an international flight. From Int'l A and from Terminal 1 (gotta see the Lego Store), it is clear they are ALREADY doing this. It's kinda neat to watch

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@Number10cat Larry. Waiting for number 8.
The embodiment of soft power

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@AJamesMcCarthy @Imitationasian0 I know you're a very responsible cat owner who rescues kitties! I'm a "monogamous" cat owner, too. Big G looks very much like my childhood cat, Goldie. I 🧡 him,
& space is COOL

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@BulwarkOnline Um what's with the giant boot print "art" behind him with a bit of pink drawn (by his daughter) under the black outline of his boot
OMG his sneering voice

[Paris Paname @ParisAMDParis]

📸 Keystone-France.
Cycliste à Montmartre
1960. Paris Tour de France

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

Now: https://t.co/4GZMrqN7jR

[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🤗

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@_The_Block_ Can confirm.
This mindset extended to camping in Italy on holiday (yes, my Geordie family was poor)

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

Free for personal use! Super cool:

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet.

It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world.

Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds.

You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded.

Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together.

And the archive gets insanely specific.

You can find creaking ships, old typewriters, jungle ambience, distant church congregations, and even someone vigorously washing their hands.

There is a good chance a BBC engineer recorded the exact sound you need decades before you were born.

https://t.co/vdOBewxyg3

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@Rimmesfk Lilibet's tousled strawberry-blonde hair makes me so happy

[Tracy Turner🇺🇸🌍🇺🇦 @tracyturner]

@Angry_Staffer My fellow GenX
C'mon really
Y'all took your thumb off 💛's win
& how do you sleep @ night?
Frankie say RELAX & you are into nukes now?!
I'd say "whatever" but this is no longer the time to "nevermind"
@QondiNtini @genx