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Gooberism as an ideology
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[Xam @xammo_]

I'm cooking with this, you'll all see.

[Dan Walden @dwaldenwrites]

Very few people ever read Hobbes’s conclusion to Leviathan, which makes it extremely clear that his eyewitness to the English Civil War and the dissolution of the state prompted him to think harder than anyone before or since about how to make sure that never happened again.

[Xam @xammo_]

Hunger is the best spice

[Noah Ryan @NoahRyanCo]

The easiest way to enjoy something more is by spending 30 minutes beforehand doing nothing. Scroll reels for half an hour and anything afterward will feel like you're withdrawing. Stare at a wall for half an hour and anything after will feel like a drug.

[Xam @xammo_]

good content is like velcro it's literally just hooks and loops

[Xam @xammo_]

@mattparlmer Who tf is we

[Xam @xammo_]

@TiltingatM3 Y’all mind if I retool my entire being around value capture rq

[npj @TiltingatM3]

Yeah

[𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ @sonnysehra]

completely in awe by the EBBO GOSPELS. it looks like something william blake would have made, but it’s from the 9th century (816-35 ad). never seen medieval christian art like this before, it’s so distinct and rare for its time period

[𝚟𝚒𝚎 ⟢ @viemccoy]

one of the most important research areas I can imagine is solving this problem. the limits of your language are the limits of your world.

[Xam @xammo_]

@viemccoy @RealAdamHunt learning llmese (combination of word2vec, corporate schlock, assembly language) to ask the robot to stop using gradients on everything

[Xam @xammo_]

@Empty_America Hannibal my beloved

[Xam @xammo_]

ohhhhh this let us rationalize The Sort.

[wanye @xwanyex]

"But I live in NYC and my mom lives in Ohio and we talk on the phone once a week. How can you possibly say that's bad?"

Yeah, I don't know, man. Maybe you shouldn't be able to talk to people who are 800 miles away. Maybe that's actually just bad for you. Maybe you should have to choose between separating from your community -- like, really separating -- and staying within it. Maybe this one-foot-in-every-possible-world thing isn't actually good for your psyche.

[Xam @xammo_]

@xwanyex ohhhhh this let us rationalize The Sort.

[Xam @xammo_]

@Noname1013878No banger

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

Maybe I was too high last night but I spent like 5 minutes real up close to my laptop screen just staring at this photograph of a model of the Proterozoic era. This is how life forms first expressed themselves. These were the bodies they formed. What did it feel like to be there?

[Xam @xammo_]

@meaning_enjoyer the truth probably knows more than you, real

[Xam @xammo_]

ohhhh this is why claude keeps talking about spines

[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🤗

[Xam @xammo_]

@hopes_revenge Finally. A mattress that pisses itself

[Xam @xammo_]

@meaning_enjoyer Nice

[Xam @xammo_]

@zetalyrae Been working on this but haven’t made anything satisfactory

[Xam @xammo_]

@TiltingatM3 Need