🦔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
People bitched because they’ve turned justified criticism into an identarian search for pretense - which is why they’re still bitching, when these companies follow the rules!
People bitched because it’s an extraordinarily clear “rules for thee but not for me” situation.
People bitched because they’ve turned justified criticism into an identarian search for pretense - which is why they’re still bitching, when these companies follow the rules!