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Benjamin Netanyahu giving direct orders to Secretary of War Hegseth and Secretary of State Rubio today. Aggressive finger pointing, serious faces, and “yessir” seen from Rubio and Hegseth. Wow.

UPDATE: Michigan officials say Kristopher Karolkiewicz shot and killed his wife, Amanda Karolkiewicz, and their six children, ages 5 to 15, before setting multiple fires inside their Grand Haven home and killing himself.

HBO Max is launching "HBO Max Shorts" a mobile feature designed for users to watch iconic and memorial scenes from the HBO library in a vertical and scrollable feed

Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin says he was paid so little for the trilogy he had to sell his house He was paid around $250,000 for all three films and says he received no film residuals

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled in favor of Kalshi, who sued to block a Minnesota law that was passed to ban prediction markets in the state.

🦔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🤗

"Minors shouldn’t be on social media" adults when they realize they where teens on social media before

Shameless hypocrite.

One advantage of digital PS5 games 🫣