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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.
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Just watched the David Attenborough Saving Our Oceans documentary and I am disgusted by the greed of mankind.
How could this kind of fishing be legal? It is so cruel to the entire ocean ecosystem and humanity.
#stoptrollfishing #saveouroceans
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BREAKING VIDEO: Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe becomes the first person ever to win a regular marathon in under two hours, setting a new world record at the London Marathon in 1:59:30!
Kenyans invented running™
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Here is a list of foreigners whom Evelyn Cheluget, the Director General of Immigration Services, has issued Kenyan passports to travel with. The orders to issue the passports came from the Statehouse. Number 6 is Zimbabwe’s Wicknel Chivayo, who is supposed to help Kasongo steal the 2027 elections.
To apply for a Kenyan passport, you need a Kenyan identity card and an e-citizen account, and you have to pay. Whose account was used for this illegal passports application? Did they use a zero token where no payment was made? Why were the immigration officers told the applicants were Very Important Persons (VIPs) and to issue express passports? Please Google the list of names of those Ruto gave Kenyan passports. Post what you find on the comments.
Selling Kenyan passports is evil but selling our passports to criminals is pure demonic behaviour! Ruto Must Go!
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Here is a silver lining for anyone going back to school in, say, their 30s and beyond. A short 🧵
1. You arrive with self-knowledge and a clearer sense of why you are there. That changes how you learn, what you tolerate, and what you take seriously.
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🚨 Here is the full 42 minutes of my crew and I exposing Minnesota fraud, this might be my most important work yet. We uncovered over $110,000,000 in ONE day. Like it and share it around like wildfire! Its time to hold these corrupt politicians and fraudsters accountable
We ALL work way too hard and pay too much in taxes for this to be happening, the fraud must be stopped.
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This is the story behind this story, of how my investigation with @johnallannamu into abuse at Alliance Girls was stopped -- then cleared for publication. A thread on silence, suppression, and finally, a legal victory for the public interest. 🧵
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For years, whispers have circulated at my alma mater, Alliance Girls High School, about a teacher who allegedly blurred boundaries with his students. Now, after 4 years of reporting - and a legal battle to silence it - this investigation is finally public.
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When David Ndii calls young people stupid, telling them that they will die in the streets like the many we have lost in previous protests, it shows how far removed the people in the government are from the reality on the ground. Ndii ideally should know better, but even fools grow old.
To understand how we ended up with Gen Z protests, one has to read @TweetingPundit 's Generation Occupy, one of the most definitive and instructive books about that crazy June of 2024.
Ruto entered State House at the worst possible time for anyone to be the president of Kenya. The country has been collapsing under the weight of corruption, bad choices, wrong priorities, and whoever was going to take over in 2022 had little room for jokes. 2022 needed a completely different mindset of politics. Not Oscar Sudi or Kimani Ichungwa type of brainlessness. Not wheelbarrows. Not rallies. Not PR.
As Okolla explains in his book, the stalled upward mobility of millennials and the failure to launch of Gen Z are the biggest existential angst in the country. The government doesn't get this. At all.
President Kibaki let the genie out of the bottle by showing the immense potential that Kenya has. For the first time, we could dream big. During his presidency, everything suddenly became possible. Finishing college, getting a job, buying land in Nairobi satellite towns, and building your maisonette, all markers of adulthood were possible up to 2015.
We took a wrong turn in 2013. I take this early opportunity to remind you to pick leaders less interested in building their personal fortune and pick people who have conquered that primitive greed of material things. Someone who knows what is enough. Someone who doesn't convert the country into personal property, without caring that resources are finite to be shared responsibly and equitably.
Most millenials lost their jobs, their marriages, and many have been auctioned. Career growth is now a myth. The business environment is toxic, choking under stupid taxes, silly regulations, high costs of production, and running. Gen Zs have been less lucky. More than half of them graduating from college can't get employment. And there is no possibility that their fortunes of changing as long as long as William Ruto is the president. All Ruto's projects will never translate to anything substantive, besides his bank account fattening. Everyone knows this, including government bloggers.
Okolla says it right. When you are a 25-year-old graduate, no job, your older sibling who is almost 30 has never been employed, dad never finished building that house in Kitengela, and now he has a debilitating lifestyle disease that is draining the family resources, you have every right to show up and demonstrate. There is no way out.
We have more than 5 million young people who are restless, jobless, and have no hope. Guns will not stop them. Military tanks will not stop them.
Until the government understands the generational nightmarish existence of millennials and Gen Z, they will never know peace.
For those who want to understand why the young are restless, please grab the book pale @NuriaStore-Your Store or call 0774229705 for your copy.
There is no excuse for ignorance.
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Chief Justice (Emeritus) David Maraga has joined our peaceful protests
#SiriNiNumbers #RutoMustGo
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Folks,
Finance Bill 2025 is out!
The last time we saw Finance Bill close to this lean in pages was in 2021 (47 pages) & that was coming on the back of two COVID-19 induced Tax Laws legislations.
Some key highlights from my reading.
A 🧵
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Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, April 21, 2025, at the age of 88 at his residence in the Vatican's Casa Santa Marta.
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In 2013, when the government sought to silence Shackles of Doom, a bold play by Cleophas Malala performed by Butere Girls, I took a stand. I filed Petition No. 192 of 2013, and the High Court, in a decisive ruling by Justice David Majanja, affirmed that students have the right to speak, to challenges, and to create. The ban was struck down.
Now, over a decade later, Echoes of War by the same Butere girls, faces similar resistance at the national level. This is not just about one play, it’s about defending the very right to free expression in our education system.
The executive must understand that our Constitution guarantees freedom of thought and expression and is not guaranteed by permission. This isn’t a matter of opinion, it’s the law.
The classroom is not a cage. Our stages must remain free.
The 2013 ruling stands as a reminder that no government can silence the voices of the youth and its citizens.
We will not stand by while those in power attempt to stifle creativity, expression and the right to challenge the status quo.
Let them speak, create and inspire without fear of retribution!
Haki yao, sauti yao!
#SeraSiSura
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So, let’s talk AI.
I share tips almost daily here on what AI can rase your life and optimize your work.
So then, for Marketing…what do I use? Here you go:
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Leadership is about vision, integrity, and the will to serve.
Ordinary Kenyans, not wealth or privilege, are the backbone of any true movement for change.
We will prove that a people-powered campaign can inspire hope and deliver a better future for all.
‘Nobody wants to be associated with a poor person,”: Atwoli downplays Omtatah’s 2027 Presidential bid, says Ruto to win by 10am
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We are at a pivotal moment in our nation's history, and the call to serve has never been more urgent. After careful consideration and consultations with trusted advisors, community leaders, and citizens from all walks of life, I am pleased to announce the formation of a Presidential Exploratory Committee.
This committee will thoroughly assess the viability of my candidacy for the 2027 presidential election. Its primary focus will be to engage with the public, gather input on the most pressing challenges facing our nation, and determine how best to address these issues with bold and innovative leadership.
The road ahead requires thoughtful preparation, and this exploratory phase is a crucial step in ensuring that our vision for the future aligns with the hopes and aspirations of Kenyans. I am committed to listening, learning, and building a platform that reflects the values and priorities of our citizens.
Together, we can shape a brighter future. Thank you for your support as we embark on this journey.
