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🦔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🤗

I love shaming rude people in public. The guy in front of me at the train station ticket window was raising his voice and I just went "ugh imagine it was your husband yelling at a teenage cashier" to the lady standing behind me and he suddenly knew how to speak like an adult.

was scrolling thru pinterest and i saw someone try to promote their brush using an artwork i made ages ago + without credits i just want to say that im a krita user and i use a default brush LMAO

First trailer for ‘AVATAR: SEVEN HAVENS.’ The series follows the next Avatar after Korra in a post-apocalyptic world where the Avatar is believed to be humanity’s destroyer rather than its savior. All 26 episodes stream on Paramount+ on October 29.

Absolute Wonder Woman and Wonder Woman by Ed Benes

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do people’s hips not naturally swish when they walk? i keep getting complimented on how my hips move when i walk and i feel silly because is that not how everyone’s body moves 😭?

oh hey I know this one

My name is Asjad, a sudanese girl and I am trying to pay for my siblings education as well as our basic living necessities. 📎 👇