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Jacob Klinger retweeted
🦔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🤗
Jacob Klinger retweeted
This is part of a video we have obtained as our teams continue to document dozens of cases of children who were targeted and sniped in #Gaza. Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician who saved countless lives, is now in solitary confinement, tortured for months. The same doctor who held a bullet from a child’s neck now waits for the world to save him.
#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya
Jacob Klinger retweeted
Blog Post: armthedolls.com/2026/06/09/r…
If you feel so inclined, you can donate to her legal defense fund via the link at the top of the blog post
Jacob Klinger retweeted
Imagine you're the mother of this 7-month-old baby!
Your baby is murdered before your eyes, your husband is shot in the head. The shooter is roaming free & will never be held accountable
You can't file a police complaint, you can't go to court, b/c you're Palestinian! The entire Israeli system is rigged against you.
If you turn to the "free" & "civilized" world for help, at most they'll call on Israel to investigate itself. The IDF will close down the case as an accident at best, or they'll say you were using your baby as a "khuman shield".
If you take matters into your own hand, you'll be condemned instantly by that same "free" & "civilized" world as a terrorist. No investigation needed! You'll automatically get the death penalty that Israel applies only to non-Jews.
If you turn to the International Criminal Court, the US will bury you alive under sanctions.
If you speak up, yell & scream your lungs to heavens in futility, you'll be blacklisted as an antisemite.
The only thing you're allowed to do is sit & wait quietly for your turn...
New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever.
Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car.
Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother.
In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.
Jacob Klinger retweeted
We are proud to say that we won every major issue we brought to the table. And even more, we preserved the right to strike over safety.
Jacob Klinger retweeted
💢 Lebanese turtle conservationist attacked in Israeli airstrike on her home
Mona Khalil, a pioneering Lebanese marine turtle conservationist who founded the Orange House Project on Mansouri Beach in southern Lebanon, was wounded in an Israeli airstrike on her home Thursday.
Khalil underwent surgery for severe injuries, including a serious abdominal wound, before her condition stabilized Friday, according to Lebanese media and the NGO Green Southerners. “For more than two decades, her efforts helped transform this relatively small stretch of coastline into one of the most important sea turtle nesting sites on the eastern Mediterranean coast,” the NGO told the New Arab.
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Lebanese environmental activist and conservationist Mona Khalil was injured yesterday morning when an Israeli airstrike struck her home in the southern Lebanese town of Mansouri.
Her assistant also sustained burn injuries in the attack. Khalil was rushed to Jabal Amel Hospital, where she underwent emergency surgery.
Jacob Klinger retweeted
READ: FIFA promised to investigate illegal Israeli settlement clubs, then allowed them to play on. This decision deepens FIFA's complicity in the Israeli occupation. There are now 10 operating in the occupied West Bank, and they are getting bigger. mondoweiss.net/2026/06/fifa-…
Jacob Klinger retweeted
Israel kills fishermen in boats, doctors in hospitals, aid workers in soup kitchens and refugees in tents—deliberately inflicting on Palestinians conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction in whole or in part.
That’s genocide.
trtworld.com/article/d25b268…
Jacob Klinger retweeted
And after killing her, they threw Pancake themed parties where they made pancakes celebrating "turning her into a pancake". The Israeli depravity you see on display today is not new. It is not something that started on Oct 7th. It is how the Israeli society has always been!
Jacob Klinger retweeted
In Gaza, Israel burned both people and land with white phosphorus while much of the world looked away.
Today, the same scenes are unfolding in Lebanon before the eyes of the world, yet meaningful action remains absent.
Jacob Klinger retweeted
"It brings me no pleasure to compare what Israel is doing to what the Nazis did, but how can we not? When you have things like ghettos, starvation, concentration camps and planned systematic extermination of people"
Jewish journalist @kthalps
CC: LBC @lewis_goodall @hasanthehun
Jacob Klinger retweeted
Palestinians DID lay down their arms in 1982, then Israel & its proxies immediately unleashed the single biggest massacre in its history in those refugee camps
Sabra & Shatila: Over 3,500 civilians murdered. Pregnant women raped, disembowelled & their unborn babies killed!
Jacob Klinger retweeted
Gaza is taking its last breaths, and the situation we have reached is extremely dangerous.
Temperatures are rising to suffocating levels, and the tents where hundreds of thousands live have turned into ovens made of fabric and plastic. There is no electricity, no air conditioning, no fans, no cold water. People try to sleep, but heat, hunger, and fear make sleep seem like an impossible dream.
Clean water is scarce, cleaning supplies are almost nonexistent, and essential medicines are unavailable. Skin diseases are spreading in a terrifying way among children and adults, while garbage piles up and sewage mixes with displacement areas, spreading even more suffering.
Long lines form for food, yet many return empty handed. Aid is decreasing, and most relief centers have stopped or are no longer able to meet even the minimum needs.
At night, rats, insects, snakes, and scorpions crawl into the tents, while during the day people face unbearable heat and endless hunger. There is no safety, no privacy, and nowhere to go. Meanwhile, killings and destruction continue daily, while Gaza’s space shrinks day by day, forcing people into smaller and more overcrowded areas.
This is not life. This is not displacement. This is a complete collapse of everything that allows human beings to live with dignity.
What more is the world waiting for? How many children must go hungry? How many patients must die before the world acts? Do not stay silent. Speak about Gaza. Share what is happening.
Jacob Klinger retweeted
Why did nobody warn you? I can tell you. Late March 2020, I was part of the COVID taskforce of the German Interior Ministry. In our first report from 27 March, we were probably the first in Western countries to warn about long-term sequelae from COVID, based on experience with SARS (2003) and data about COVID from China. We also argued against herd immunity strategy. A few days later, the German government abandoned herd immunity. But we, and I personally, were violently attacked by influential German right-wing media, followed by major mainstream media, including moderate left-wing. A massive defamatory media campaign. My university threatened to fire me (they actually did a few months ago). That's how mainstream media and the academic community silenced those who knew and warned.
Jacob Klinger retweeted
BREAKING | Woman Taken Into Custody After Allegedly Being Short on LIRR Fare
A Citizen App user on the scene reports that a woman and her son were two dollars short for the LIRR train, prompting a police response. Citizen App video shows the woman being taken into custody. #ProtectTheWorld
Sometimes liars win. But never forever.
The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism has begun its ownership of the @PittsburghPG by cutting at least 40% of staff, and 80% of former strikers.
It is sad, vindictive, and does not bode well for what we’ve fought and hoped for, including the success of the PG.
Jacob Klinger retweeted
A 14-year-old orphan in Gaza told me he wants to be a journalist. I asked why, expecting the usual reply about telling our story to the world etc...he says "because suicide is haram". Apparently he's not the only who made this decision for that reason. Congratulations world.
Jacob Klinger retweeted
We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-cont…
As many of you know, we've been fighting for years to challenge the grotesque cash bail and pretrial detention policies around the U.S. that keep 100,000s of human beings in cages and separated from their families every single night, mostly because they lack cash. Tomorrow, the California Supreme Court will issue the most important court decision ever decided on this question--and probably the most important decision in U.S. history in terms of the number of people in jail. At stake is essentially whether several hundred thousand presumed innocent people every year in misdemeanors and non-violent felonies can be detained in cages prior to trial. It's the most important issue we've ever worked on.