🦔Someone is buying Japanese used books by the ton. Not novels or comics. Philosophy, history, medical law, Edo-period cultural texts. Multiple buyer accounts all ship to one logistics center in Okayama Prefecture that won't answer questions. Export records show over 50 tons, roughly 100,000 volumes, shipped to the US since last year. No buyer has been identified.
Separately, court documents confirmed Anthropic's "Project Panama" bought millions of books in the US, cut the spines off, scanned them, and shredded the originals. An internal memo said the goal was to "destructively scan all the books in the world." Similar operations have been reported across Europe.
My Take
Anthropic's US book operation came out in court filings earlier this year. Project Panama. Millions of books, cut the spines off, scanned, shredded. Their VP chose the codename so nobody outside the company would find out. That story broke and apparently the same operation just moved to Japan. Anonymous buyer accounts, a warehouse in Okayama that won't take questions, and 100,000 volumes of specialized academic texts that nobody buys to resell.
I don't know how you build a trillion-dollar industry on material you had to acquire in secret through middlemen because you knew the public would object. Authors spent years on those books and now they're fed through a scanner and thrown away so a chatbot can sound smarter. If the data was free to use, they wouldn't need codenames and anonymous warehouses. The lawsuits over who owns this material have barely begun and I think the copyright exposure across the whole AI industry is enormous. Anthropic's internal memo said the goal was every book in the world, which describes the foundation of the product.
Hedgie🤗
Celebrating 65 years of Spider-Man at #D23#!
See how the iconic hero is web-slinging his way through Marvel Comics, Marvel Animation, Disney Parks and more.
Seoul Comic Summer 2026
좋아하는 걸 하면서 즐기는 사람, 엄청 좋아해. 왠지 반짝반짝 빛이 나는 것 같거든.
Model • 히토리 @hitorivo
Charactor • 키타가와 마린 / Marin Kitagawa
Film • 코스로그 @coslogue
#그비돌#
GPT Image 2 and Seedance 2.5
Prompt:
Setting: A cozy indoor room with warm, ambient lighting, featuring posters on the wall, a hanging lamp, and modern furniture.
Subject: A young woman with long dark hair, wearing a gray hooded jacket, performing a rhythmic, choreographed hand and body motion dance in front of the camera.
Key Visual Effects:
Animated Framing & Transitions: As she moves her hands to form frames and geometric shapes (triangles, rectangles) in front of her face and upper body, colorful animated overlays appear inside the framed spaces.
Anime & Superhero Styles:
The initial overlays display an anime-style digital avatar matching her expressions.
Midway through, the overlay switches to a Spider-Gwen / Spider-Verse comic style, complete with a hooded mask and neon cityscape backgrounds.
The animation dynamically shifts and transforms along with her hand movements, smoothly blending back into real life by the end of the clip.
코믹월드에서 만나요! 한국 이벤트에 가는 건 처음이라 정말 설레네요. 그럼 그때 만나요! 🩷
See you at Comic World! This is my first time attending an event in Korea so I’m super excited See you there! 🩷
#MYMUCOS# #Mysticmuse#
#미스틱뮤즈# #서울코믹월드#
#서코335# #코스프레#
The BRISK x Splatoon Raiders Island Hideout at Comic-Con kept a ton of people entertained and hydrated. And BRISK is keeping the good times going by giving out a $5 Nintendo eShop card when you buy two eligible 1-liter bottles of BRISK, while supplies last.
Presented by @Brisk
🎭🔥 | Ryan Reynolds sorprendió a todos como Jeanpool en la SDCC 2026
Los asistentes a la San Diego Comic-Con 2026 quedaron sorprendidos cuando Deadpool irrumpió en el escenario caracterizado como Jeanpool, sin que nadie imaginara que debajo del traje se encontraba Ryan Reynolds.
La revelación desató la euforia entre los fanáticos y el momento rápidamente se volvió viral, consolidando una vez más el característico sentido del humor del actor y uno de los instantes más comentados de la convención. 👀❤️
🎥 Redes sociales
#Viral# #RyanReynolds# #Deadpool# #Jeanpool# #SDCC2026# #Marvel# #ComicCon# #RedesSociales#
"It's almost comical to me that somebody who believes in the Pride movement also believes in the Islamist movement, because they're just not compatible."
Following the deadly terror attack near a Berlin Pride festival, The Big Weekend Show's Jason Chaffetz argues the attack highlights what he says is a fundamental clash between Islamist extremism and the values many Pride supporters embrace.
"You've gotta be really careful here... It's not everybody, but this routinely happens time and time again."
Authorities say police killed the suspect after a nearly 24-hour manhunt. Investigators say the attack killed at least one person and injured 29 others.