๐จ FLOCK ERROR = GUNS DRAWN
Police shut down I-94, boxed in a silver SUV, and held two people at gun point after Flock cameras flagged the car as โconnected to a homicide.โ
Except it wasnโt.
The alert was outdated.
Authorities forgot to remove it.
Trust the algorithm.โข
So if I purchase a DVD and digitize it, thatโs copyright infringement. But if an AI company buys my book and scans it to train their system, thatโs perfectly fine? Once again, corporations are allowed to play by their own rules. Iโm so sick of the hypocrisy.
It looks to be a new artist?
No! Itโs Kazuki Minamo who won the Illustration Contest in 2024! ๐ง
After Pikachu, this is their FIRST ever card. Wow! ๐คฉ
What a debut!
Damn socialists...
This is exactly how it starts.
First it's groceries 30% cheaper. Then affordable housing. Then cheaper transit. Then accessible education.
Before you know it, people won't be struggling enough.
๐ฆAI 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.
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@jonzzy The hell you talking about, never seen dragon ball packs in a store, and one piece lasts 1 hour in targets limited to 2 per person, i check and catch restocks like 3-5 times a week.. yall are trippin
NEW Artist Tayu and their Embroidered art is an amazing addition to the TCG art space ๐งถ
Can see them rapidly becoming a fan favourite alongside Asako Ito and Yuka Morii as artists appreciated for creating their cards with a physical medium. Definitely a new favourite for me.
Seeing one of gods most majestic and divine creatures, fight so valiantly against the destruction and rampaging of his home should do untold psychic damage to your psyche. We should be radicalized by this.
Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.
-Wilderness Whisper