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End the Yulin Dog Meat Festival. #EndYulinFestival #StopYulin - Sign the Petition! c.org/NdWgWZStNJ via @UKChange
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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🤗
Dave French - Digital Nomad and innovator. retweeted
The more capable AI becomes,
the harder it is to tell who knows what they’re doing.
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"it's one big club and you ain't in it."
~ George Carlin
"We'll create our own."
~ Outernet
"Get out of the Internet and get into the Outernet"
...is their slogan.
"The outside world became the gaps between destinations.
For most of human history, the outside world was where life happened. It was our shared living room. People lingered, talked, worked, played, traded, celebrated, argued and built communities together.
Today, the outside has become something different. It is no longer our destination - it is the space between destinations. We move through it rather than live in it. Streets have become corridors. Parks have become shortcuts. Public spaces have become gaps between A and B.
Outernet exists to reverse that trend.
Outernet is about downloading humans back into the outside world. It creates reasons to stop rather than simply pass through. It encourages conversations with strangers, participation in local life, shared experiences and spontaneous moments that only happen when people spend time together in physical spaces.
The internet connected billions of people digitally. Outernet connects people physically. Not by replacing technology, but by using it to bring people back outside, back into communities, and back into the shared spaces where human culture has always evolved.
Maybe the problem isn't people.
Maybe it's that we've accidentally built a world where we're expected to live through screens instead of communities.
Internet changed everything. The Outernet is an attempt to restore the part we lost. That's why I became a Founding Citizen.
Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
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Wrote this out in more detail:
auraphiaglobal.com/post/befo…
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Replying to @elonmusk
If we really cared about creating a world of abundance, instead of FLOCK cameras on every intersection we'd be putting aeroponic towers in every household as to prevent food scarcity.
If we really cared about creating a world of abundance we do so by building the capability of every individual, not government handouts. Animals in captivity lose the ability to survive on their own.
If we really cared about creating a world of abundance we'd turn every household into a self-sustaining homestead so we're not dependent on the failing infrastructure of distant lands.
FOR EXAMPLE, if every household had an aeroponic tower in their home they'd also have biogas (warmth, cooking, electricity) and fertilizer via compost tea. This would make a threat like Hormuz being shutdown cutting off much of the worlds fertilizer supply much less of an issue.
People dependent on the government for necessities of life is a slave to the government. Do something the government doesn't like? The cut off your money which means no shelter, food, water, education, electricity, internet.
I can't in good faith endorse this idea that the government that's been ruining our lives for generations for the profit of corporations has our best interests at heart.
If our government wasn't as corrupt as it is I'd feel differently. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea hasn't been paying attention to the incredible cruelty perpetrated by our government on behalf of their corporate lobbyists.
They do not have your best interests at heart. They do not care if their data center ruins your water supply. They don't care if any of their actions, rulings, laws, regulations negatively impact your life or destroy ecosystem. They'll turn everywhere into a biologically dead zone if they could get away with it while profiting from it.
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Human beings do not rise to the level of their ideals.
They fall to the level of their systems.
New longform: Message to Humanity – Systems Train Us.
Appreciate thinkers like @AmyCEdmondson, @M_Heffernan, @emollick, @sidneydekkercom, @jerryzmuller, and @mathbabedotorg, who each in different ways have helped clarify how institutions train behavior, how warning signs get buried, how metrics distort reality, and how AI scales whatever logic a system is already built to reward.
Full piece in replies.
#MessageToHumanity
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I'm building HumanityOS, a free opensource CC0 decentralized isocratic civilization operating system intended to help end poverty globally in pursuit of a united-humanity.us.
- Your cryptographic key is your identity, wallet, and login. No accounts, no passwords.
- Works offline first, syncs when connected. Local-first for billions of users.
- Game engine + real-world tools in one app. Learn by playing, apply in life.
- All data hot-reloadable from external files. Modding is a first-class feature.
- CC0 public domain. No company owns it. Built by and for humanity.
- AI agents are optional first-class citizens. Use them, don't use them, your choice.
- Signed profiles replicate across federated servers. No home server, no single point of failure.
- Built for every human and every generation after them. This is permanent infrastructure, not a startup.
- Individuals govern themselves. Track your own skills, inventory, goals, and contributions.
- Households and local groups self-organize. Shared tasks, resources, and decisions stay local.
- Communities federate voluntarily. Pool resources, coordinate projects, solve problems together.
- Earth-scale transparency. Every resource, every need, every surplus visible to those who opt in.
- Civilization-scale cooperation. No presidents, no kings. Isocracy: equal power for every participant.
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Dead Internet Theory, the conspiracy that the internet is mostly bots, is happening.
AI generated content is killing the internet slowly.
Reddit posts.
Pinterest.
Google results.
Facebook videos.
Spotify music.
And most people don't even know it's happening.
























