Matt Schaefer

BREAKING: Footage shows crews working to put out a fire on the US-owned floating platform in Egypt following a drone attack, with initial reports Iran struck it.

A US-OWNED AND OPERATED, MARSHALL ISLANDS-FLAGGED LNG FLOATING STORAGE FACILITY WAS STRUCK BY AT LEAST ONE UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE (UAV) WHILST AT THE DAMIETTA, EGYPT - AMBREY

🦔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🤗

Facing death from stage 4 pancreatic cancer, Former Sen. Ben Sasse shares with CNN's Jake Tapper his life's biggest regret: time he missed with his wife and three kids while traveling for his career. Watch the rest of his interview on CNN's "The Whole Story With Anderson Cooper: Ben Sasse is Going Home: Lessons on Life and Death," Sunday, July 26, at 8pm ET.

Shiloh Hendrix's lawyer says that on top of committing blatant felony perjury, the not one, but TWO Somali translators were nothing but a tactic for Shire Jimale to evade answering any questions under cross-examination. Says he spoke English with the prosecutors just fine.

Shiloh Hendrix's lawyer says that on top of committing blatant felony perjury, the not one, but TWO Somali translators were nothing but a tactic for Shire Jimale to evade answering any questions under cross-examination. Says he spoke English with the prosecutors just fine.

We have the sickest generation of kids in history. The link to the study is in the comments.

Right now, the annual mass salmon migration is taking place at Brooks Falls in Alaska During this period, dozens of bears gather at the waterfall, turning the area into a real feast.

Just common sense!