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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind (2002)

🦔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🤗

1. 🔴🔴 באוקראינה נערכים ברצינות לאפשרות שאיראן תשגר בשעות הקרובות או בימים הקרובים טילים בליסטיים לעבר שטח המגינה, בתגובה לתקיפה האוקראינית נגד ספינת מטען איראנית שהובילה מטען החשוד כצבאי לרוסיה. שר החוץ האיראני עראקצ'י אמר שהתקיפה האוקראינית על הספינה האיראנית "לא יכולה

How did the wooden horse actually violate Zeus’ law?

🚨 The State Department has informed Democratic Representative Wesley Bell that Turkey does not meet the legal requirements to rejoin the F-35 program. The letter, dated July 22, explains that a guarantee is required that Turkey will not possess Russia's S-400 air defense missiles, or any related equipment, and that Ankara will commit not to purchase the system again in the future. Another part of the letter highlights US concerns about Turkey's relations with Hamas. The Foreign Ministry notes that Ankara has leveraged its ties with Hamas' political leadership "to ensure the acceptance of the US President's peace plan for Gaza." In addition, according to the report, the letter contains an explicit warning about Hamas' financial infrastructure operating from Turkish territory. “Hamas’ use of informal financial networks and unauthorized trading houses in Turkey to access funds remains concerning, and we are committed to disrupting these illicit funding flows,” the letter said.