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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🤗
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gm everyone
Join us tonight for a final hang out in spatial before it shut downs at 8pm est
Will be nice to see/hear from everybody again 💜🫡
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📢 Soon we'll launch a Loopring NFT Museum/Preservation project that lets everyone look at their wallets again, browse all L2 collections, redeploy to L1 for all holders or remint legitimate copies tied to official data & more. Work in progress (core ready & working). Stay tuned!
Loopring L2 NFT return: it is also done.
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🔹 What executed
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9 sendNfts() batches confirmed on Ethereum mainnet, blocks 25571319 to 25571397:
- Delivered: 2,046 NFTs (544 ERC‑721 + 1,502 ERC‑1155)
- Recipients: 1,241 L1 addresses
- Collections: 283
- Held and sent every NFT (the "from" on each transfer): 0x0BABA1Ad5bE3a5C0a66E7ac838a129Bf948f1eA4
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🔹 What was not sent on‑chain (and why)
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Full honesty, same as the token return. Apart from the smart‑wallet holds below, only a small set could not be moved on‑chain — none is lost, and each is explained.
14 transfers reverted at the token level and were left untouched rather than risk a failed or lost transfer. All 14, in full:
Blocked by the collection itself (5) — the contract refuses the transfer no matter who sends it, so they stay in the recovery contract until the collection's own rules allow a move:
1 SAW Games Pass (0x347e…5ceb) token #205 → 0x2ead…ac49 "Sales & transfers are locked during games"
2 SAW Games Pass (0x347e…5ceb) token #223 → 0x7ef4…4cd7 "Sales & transfers are locked during games"
3 SAW Games Pass (0x347e…5ceb) token #388 → 0x2803…c2e7 "Sales & transfers are locked during games"
4 SAW Games Pass (0x347e…5ceb) token #2240 → 0xff39…f9b8 "Sales & transfers are locked during games"
5 Wu Tiger Clan (0xf4ac…9d6e) token #7286 → 0xdf7b…c597 "!TRANSFER_ROLE" (access‑gated)
Recipient can't receive the NFT (9) — the L1 owner address is a contract with no ERC‑1155 receiver, so delivery reverts by design. Each NFT is intact and can be redirected to an address able to hold it:
6 OpenSea Shared Storefront (0x495f…7b5e) 1 edition → 0x190a…71ab empty revert
7 OpenSea Shared Storefront (0x495f…7b5e) 2 editions → 0x19cc…ffcd empty revert (2 transfers)
8 Unnamed ERC‑1155 (0x916f…bdbf) 1 edition → 0x7307…047f transfer to non‑ERC1155Receiver
9 Unnamed ERC‑1155 (0x916f…bdbf) 1 edition → 0x7292…2902 transfer to non‑ERC1155Receiver
10 Unnamed ERC‑1155 (0x9300…9980) 1 edition → 0xa0a6…8369 transfer to non‑ERC1155Receiver
11 Rarible (0xb66a…18b8) 1 edition → 0x19cc…ffcd undecodable revert
12 Rarible (0xb66a…18b8) 1 edition → 0x3207…c9e6 empty revert
13 Rarible (0xb66a…18b8) 1 edition → 0x00b4…c948 undecodable revert
(13 recipient‑units, 14 transfers — line 7 carries two token ids. Full rows, ids and raw revert data: nft/phase-4/reverting-nfts.json.)
Separately, 21 .eth ENS names could not be returned: each had expired on ENS and, past the 90‑day grace period, was released, so the name no longer exists on L1 to transfer — recoverable only by re‑registering it on ENS. All 21, by name, expiry, and the L2 owner it was headed to:
# name expired (UTC) L2 owner
1 gabriel🦊.eth 2022-08-19 0xa980…cee9
2 52252252.eth 2022-12-11 0xc95e…f6a9
3 h4ze.eth 2023-05-03 0x777d…e4be
4 bestpcrepair.eth 2023-06-15 0x6aa4…c6ba
5 dxsta.eth 2023-06-17 0xce05…69a4
6 purplecircle.eth 2023-07-14 0xfb61…5503
7 kartoffelsalat.eth 2023-08-10 0xa660…18be
8 spookyboogie.eth 2023-09-07 0x6f93…c0dd
9 ronjuicebox.eth 2023-09-14 0xdf7b…c597
10 ibuythatforadollar.eth 2024-05-28 0xf06b…e5c1
11 bellzor.eth 2024-06-28 0x5fb1…ce0c
12 bibsy.eth 2024-08-07 0x0b99…4c59
13 v-batistella.eth 2024-08-07 0x3778…ce3d
14 banana4u.eth 2024-08-31 0x20ee…ada4
15 ryanlackey.eth 2025-01-04 0xdcb9…5e9c
16 tercar.eth 2025-05-25 0x384c…8ab4
17 marisp.eth 2025-06-01 0xa647…ad06
18 diamondheartdao.eth 2025-06-05 0x4812…2e68
19 wutangwitit.eth 2025-06-09 0x0ed3…1dce
20 ajumma.eth 2025-07-12 0x7c3b…9f1c
21 purplecorvette.eth 2025-07-19 0x5c2d…aad0
(Each name was recovered from its on‑chain ENS registration and verified: keccak256(label) equals the ERC‑721 token id in the snapshot. Full token ids and per‑name expiry timestamps: nft/phase-2/EXCLUSIONS.md and nft/phase-2/missing-detail.json.)
Separately again: NFTs minted natively on Loopring L2 have no L1 counterpart — their collection was never deployed to Ethereum — so there is nothing on mainnet to return them to, and they are outside the scope of this on‑chain return. Their canonical minters can redeploy the collections to Ethereum and re‑mint to holders using the published L2‑only files (nft/phase-1/nfts-l2-only-*.csv).
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🔹 Verify it yourself
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# NFTs block transaction
1 264 25571319 0xafa6cc0c194e763079c029f6871216b7f8a9362f6e6d13d8d39807f8d7eec195
2 231 25571388 0xf1556fe9fd73f66286e4231d29fb9e2e24c3df18578b5948eac916f00f846ad6
3 262 25571391 0xaa3029d8486ff48a4ae5c678dd0b7c50dc5219f2f37cdb14895e263c7376bfb1
4 229 25571394 0xa47142f9a9c0bc54b47430129164e065510059748a9f63c0dc9eb31b36e91988
5 267 25571394 0xf3f8cbce25cf088ee38b5fc7bebe04ee5de911459df135a9bf9b5272c1c50801
6 232 25571394 0xd2f92afd3b8f18ab066d5a396ae1f2030025c7548336f718b3e739232983f02b
7 264 25571394 0xd57c80fab08c835d67ecb69fcf272ffd934fdbcf762a7b8f3a1283f434217dfa
8 139 25571397 0x45fcbb36ad1457461370a30ef526bf4b96d2b074350d8b2ca24fb19179536eea
9 158 25571397 0x9a9a7d646cb4515ec8315a6b0329d5697a3c8f4f8af87bde023ba3886a49ba31
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🔹 Smart‑wallet holders
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Unchanged from the first post: NFTs addressed to Loopring smart wallets are not sent on‑chain and are returned manually for safety. A compromised wallet could hand an NFT straight to an attacker, and on‑chain alone we cannot tell a legitimate owner from a malicious one. Email [email protected] to verify your identity and we'll return them case by case. ⏳ The deadline is still August 15, 2026!
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GameStop reports highest quarterly net income in company history of $389.6 million. Highest first quarter operating income in GameStop’s history of $143.3 million. Net sales grew 14% year-over-year, driven by collectibles. Cash, marketable securities, digital assets and related receivables, and collateral pledged for derivative asset of $9.7 billion.
investor.gamestop.com/news-r…
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I’m selling stuff on eBay to pay for eBay
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Wow EBAY CEO Jamie Iannone just sold $4,550,000 worth of stock and SVP CCO Jordan Sweetnam sold $3,426,000 on May 1, the same day WSJ published its exclusive $GME takeover bid story.
That is not a good look for EBAY.
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The people running eBay bought $0 of stock in the open market in the last 5 years.
eBay insiders sold more than $120M in the last 5 years.
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$GME FULL INTERVIEW: Ryan Cohen breaks down his infamous “half cash, half stock” statement.
Towards the end, laughs with Charles Payne.
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GameStop Proposes to Acquire eBay at $125.00 Per Share
investor.gamestop.com/ebay
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Proposal to acquire eBay.
investor.gamestop.com/ebay
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@MoonbasesNFT salutes the @NASAArtemis team on their amazing achievement!
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The Hollow Men
American capitalism is rotting from the head down. We have replaced the "Owner-Operator"—the risk-taker-with a new, parasitic class of corporate bureaucrat: The Risk-Free Insider.
By "Insider," I am not referring to a specific title. I am referring to the entire administrative state that has captured the modern corporation. This includes the Directors who exist solely to collect fees, the Executives who exist solely to collect bonuses, and the Managers who exist solely to hire consultants.
These are the hollow men of the boardroom. They are masters of PowerPoint. They wear the right suits. They say the right buzzwords about "governance" and "ESG." But they are mercenaries fighting a war with someone else’s ammunition.
In a functioning economy, authority is tied to liability. If you make a bad decision, you lose your own money. That fear of loss is the only thing that keeps a business honest. It forces you to cut waste, obsess over the customer, and stay late to fix what is broken.
Today, we have severed that link.
We have rigged the game so that heads, the Insider wins; tails, the shareholder loses.
If the stock goes up, the Insider collects a massive performance bonus. If the stock crashes due to their own incompetence, they are fired with a "Golden Parachute" worth tens of millions. They are gambling with the house’s money, and they never leave the table poorer than they arrived.
This looting starts in the boardroom.
We have normalized a "Country Club" culture where directors are selected based on social profiling rather than their ability to build a business. The modern board member is often a professional tourist—paid an average of $350,000 a year.
Let’s be brutally honest about what that number represents. The average director is paid nearly five times the GDP per capita of the United States. They earn more for attending four quarterly lunches than the vast majority of Americans earn in five years of hard labor.
And for what?
Most of these directors are "over-boarded," sitting on three or four boards simultaneously. They treat directorships as a gig economy for the elite. They fly in, rubber-stamp a compensation package they didn't read, and fly out. They collect checks from companies they do not understand, do not use, and certainly do not love.
They are not there to ask hard questions. They are there to be collegial. They are there to protect the other Insiders.
And what happens when these boards hire executives who also have no personal capital at risk?
We get the Delegation Economy.
When a Risk-Free Insider faces a crisis—bloated expenses, a broken supply chain, or a stale product—they do not roll up their sleeves. They hire a consultant. They pay a strategy firm millions of shareholder dollars to produce a 100-page deck telling them what they already know.
This is not management. It is intellectual money laundering.
They use shareholder capital to buy an insurance policy for their own careers. If the plan fails, they can blame the consultants. They delegate the work because they are terrified of the responsibility. They would rather preside over a slow, comfortable decline than risk a bold mistake.
While American Insiders are busy optimizing their severance packages, our global competitors are optimizing their products. They are not slowed down by bureaucracy. They are not waiting for a slide deck. They are outworking us.
If we continue to fill our C-suites with administrators instead of operators, we will lose our edge. We will see iconic American franchises hollowed out by fees, managed for the benefit of the Insiders, while the true owners—the shareholders—are left holding the bag.
The time for polite governance is over.
If we want to save the American economy from mediocrity, we must demand a return to the "Owner’s Mentality." We need leaders who treat shareholder capital with the same reverence they treat their own savings. The era of the Risk-Free Insider must end.