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josemartius
@josemartius1
An American with Caribbean roots
Katılım Temmuz 2021
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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🤗

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It was
a summit comprised
of sociopaths
the bribed
and the compromised
so any agreement
decided wouldn't long abide
so war profits
would continue to rise
and poor pawns
would continue to be maimed
and die
someone is leering
in a Learjet
as we speak
#vss365
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Making repairs
an untethered tool
floated away
#scifaikusaturday
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The smoke
of what was bothering me
ascended in my mind
leaving other thoughts behind
#vss365
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@josemartius1 Great piece! Fantastic! 👏👏👏✍️🙏
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Sands shift
you can see
the erosions on the land
but it harder
with synthetic things
abstract dams
have abstract cracks
who can understand
the boy who cried wolf
is in our algorithm
the thievery of seagulls
is more predictable
than human kindness
history binds us
#vss365
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Droid butlers
advertised 2 be
your personal ambassador
and 2 mitigate the risks
that human contact can bring
it will haggle for a price
the robot doesnt care
for the nasty stare
words it doesnt fear
if stick and stones
come near
pepper spray
from the button hole appears
#SCIFIFRI
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@josemartius1 I like it but you need to correct the several grammar mistakes. We don't say "to injected"
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Born
in a dusty
small town
in the middle of nowhere
in a time
that wasn't bountiful
in things
to ameliorate the boredom
a one cinema town
a place where circuses missed
so I entered that bus
a hypodermic needle
to injected myself
into the road
and never looked back
#vss365
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After many months of being in and out of hospital recently and after suffering from chronic myeloid leukaemia for nearly 30 yrs, bearing in mind she had been given 18 months to live, when first diagnosed:
My beautiful brave, intelligent mum of 9, has passed away.
For me she wasn’t just my mum, she was my best friend. Things will never be the same.
Take care of yourselves.
I’ll be back, sometime in the future.
Thanking you in advance ❤️🙏
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@josemartius1 Fantastic piece! 👏👏👏✍️🙏
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Any politician
may ride
a smooth road
if the press smooths it
before him
indicting themselves
with too little protest
Pravda translated to English
Nixon sneers
at their two-tiered integrity
he said
I'm not a crook
do they say
I'm not a complicit cabal
#vss365
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Roads are patient
things
it is us
who kill them
with our negligence
Rome wasn't destroyed
in a day
when sickness
is measured in cobblestones
#vss365
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BREAKING: The Department of War has released the identity of a third U.S. service member believed to have been killed in the Iranian attack on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.
Officials identified the soldier as Sgt. Angel Rampersad, 28, who had previously been listed as missing following the July 17 attack.
She was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 57th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, 52d Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command in Ansbach, Germany, and served as a 25U Signal Operations Support Specialist.
"We extend our deepest, most heartfelt condolences to her family and all those who are navigating this unimaginable loss."

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@josemartius1 Fantastic piece! 👏👏👏✍️🙏
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The tailwinds
of technologies
have taken us far
and provided us countless
things
the thing is
the choice
and the amount
waters saves
it drowns
and a cult becomes chained
will ai and things like it
serve the many
or the few
irony is
it makes a bad choice
we can't escape
#vss365
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The identity of the U.S. Army soldier who lost his life in Iraq on July 18, 2026 has been revealed. Sergeant Michael Swinton was tragically KIA during a controlled detonation of a downed Iranian drone.
His identity was shared by his wife, Mia Gonzalez-Swinton, following official family notifications by the military.
Please keep his family in your prayers during these difficult times.

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