Fadhil Yaacob

✨🇨🇳Chinese-made solar roof tiles function as both roofing and electricity generators.

Kansas high school teacher is arrested for simply clapping in opposition to the development of a data center

🦔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🤗

WTF AI companies are purchasing large quantities of used and rare books. Scanning their contents to train models. Then turning the originals to pulp. The sum of human thought, digitized and shredded. Every book that gets scanned disappears from the physical world permanently. The knowledge survives only as training data inside a system no one can hold, browse, or resell. What used to sit on a shelf for centuries now exists as weights in a model that might get deprecated next quarter.

🚨HORRIBLE : Female Israeli soldiers post Instagram photo mocking a blindfolded and bound Palestinian young man.

And now the architecture of a mission-critical OLTP system. TigerBeetle provides, preserves, and exploits durability for availability, by co-designing the global consensus protocol and local storage engine.

If a Jew rammed into a crowd of gays, there would be protests across the West, louder calls to boycott Israel. Candace and Tucker would dedicate the next few weeks to “connecting the dots” between the Mossad and that Jew. Antisemitism is an actual mental illness.