tomie @tomie@gameliberty.club

Of course all the responses were “that never happened”

Of course it totally could have happened. Pathetic ass men will do whatever they can to get laid.

I don't like to fuel the doom scroll , but know this-

We are at a pivotal moment in human history, and what is clear is all of humanity's intellectual proofs are being consumed by something that has no ethical impetus

It does not feel, as such it can never create truth. It can never be of identity, it can never be the deep context driven participant a human can.

If we continue to let the path unfold as is, the pursuit of knowledge and introspection will be scripted and delivered.

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FR hedgie on twotter-

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

Andrew Tate is a scumbag? Who would have guessed?!