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Catapult Book Group @catapultbooks.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Happy pub day to Mariana Salomão Carrara's THE LONELIEST TREE IN THE WORLD! ✨ "Carrara makes clever use of her narrator’s birds-eye view on the family . . . An arresting exercise in naturalism." — @publisherswkly.bsky.social buff.ly/oULRTHE
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Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Good piece on one of the thorniest books I've read this year strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...
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The Mulai by Munir Hachemi, translated by Julia Sanches
In studying the Mulai we study ourselves.
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Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org · 20/07/2026
Spirals of Meaning: @chloroformtea.bsky.social reviews Munir Hachemi's THE MULAI, translated by Julia Sanches (@coffeehousepress.bsky.social)
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Spirals of Meaning: Review of Munir Hachemi’s The Mulai
Roseanna Pendlebury Under Review:The Mulai. Munir Hachemi, translated by Julia Sanches. Coach House, July 2026. Munir Hachemi’s The Mulai, translated by Julia Sanches, presents archaeologist Dr. Co…
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Coach House Books @coachhousebooks.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
'Wild and insightful' speculative fiction translated from Spanish: The Mulai, by Munir Hachemi and trans. Julia Sanches, is out today! chbooks.com/Books/T/The-...
Bright pink banner featuring the book cover of The Mulai, with text underneath reading: "‘A meditation on the mutability of identity and language … wild, insightful, and impressive.’

– Publishers Weekly"
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Rachel Cordasco @rachelcordasco.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
My review of THE MULAI by Munir Hachemi, tr from the Spanish by Julia Sanches, from @coachhousebooks.bsky.social: www.sfintranslation.com?p=17053 An excellent, polyphonic novel about language, translation, history, religion, and more
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 19/05/2026
‘It’s a captivating, slyly sophisticated novel’ We're delighted to announce the winner of the #InternationalBooker2026, supported by Bukhman Philanthropies, is Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ, translated by Lin King. Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...
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Necessary Fiction @necessaryfiction.com · 02/02/2026
PANDORA by Ana Paula Pacheco, tr. Julia Sanches (@transitbooks.bsky.social). Reviewed by kay kemp. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/pand...
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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We're launching our second Blanket Friday today. All funds go to the Sameer Project's "Give Warmth to Gaza" campaign. open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/products/bla...
Limited Time Offer:
Blanket Friday sale, shop for gaza
by workshops4gaza
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
"A majority of Brazil’s supreme court judges have voted to convict the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro of plotting a military coup, leaving the far-right populist facing a decades-long sentence for leading the criminal conspiracy." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Brazil’s supreme court finds Bolsonaro guilty of plotting military coup
Former president faces decades-long jail sentence for seeking to forcibly cling to power after losing 2022 election
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minor literature[s] @minorliteratures.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
"The most devastating of ruling powers have always counted on superficial leniencies to prevent overwhelming dissent, manufacturing a complicity that comes in the shape of complacency..." on The Time of Cherries — Xiao Yue Shan minorliteratures.com/2025/09/03/t...
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The Time of Cherries by Montserrat Roig (trans. Julia Sanches) — Xiao Yue Shan
Alienation was big in the twentieth century. Marx had a lot to do with it, but the despair went beyond the growing distance between labour and product—which was only the first measure in a devastat…
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
NEW: A major AI copyright legal showdown just took a huge twist today. Facing a class action on behalf of book authors that could've seen it pay over a TRILLION in damages for alleged piracy, Anthropic has agreed to settle instead: www.wired.com/story/anthro...
wired.com
Anthropic Settles High-Profile AI Copyright Lawsuit Brought By Book Authors
Anthropic faced the prospect of more than $1 trillion in damages, a sum that could have threatened the company’s survival if the case went to trial.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:
bloodinthemachine.com
AI Killed My Job: Translators
Few industries have been hit by AI as hard as translation. Rates are plummeting. Work is drying up. Translators are considering abandoning the field, or bankruptcy. These are their stories.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I'm preparing to publish the next installment of AI Killed My Job. This time, the focus will be on translators. If you or someone you know has had a translation job (including translator, interpreter, game localizer, etc) impacted by AI, and you'd like to share, please do: AIkilledmyjob@pm.me
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National Writers Union @nwu.org · 30/07/2025
The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! 📍 Where: Zoom 🕢 When: Wednesday, August 13 7:30-8:45pm ET 📨 Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com
Image reads: "The Translators Organizing Committee (TOC) is hosting their next solidarity drop-in session! Where: Zoom, When: Wednesday, August 13, 7:30-8:45pm ET, Email us to reserve your spot! tocsolidarity@gmail.com"

To the right of the text is a diamond-shaped image of four hands holding each other at the wrists.Image reads: "We're doing this because... We believe our power is stronger as a collective than it is as individuals. You don't have to join NWU to attend the drop-ins, but we hope you will, and are happy to talk to you about why we think the union is the future. The more of us who join, alongside other writers, editors, and media creatives, the greater our chances of winning the working conditions we want and deserve!"
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Interrupting Criminalization @interruptcrim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Donate to the Sameer Project, which continues to do crucial mutual aid work in Gaza: linktr.ee/thesameerpro... And join and support upcoming workshops that @workshops4gaza.bsky.social runs to benefit the Sameer Project. Writers, artists, and educators can also submit a proposal to teach a workshop:
workshops4gaza.com
Workshops — Workshops 4 Gaza
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Melody Makeda Ledwon will receive the 2025 Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators, Words Without Borders announced today. The grant recognizes Ledwon’s translation from German of the novel Knives, Tongues by Simoné Goldschmidt-Lechner. Learn more here:
wordswithoutborders.org
Melody Makeda Ledwon Awarded Momentum Grant for Early-Career Translators - Words Without Borders
Melody Makeda Ledwon is recognized for her translation of a multilingual novel recovering the history of a Cape Coloured family
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Jason Bailey @jasondashbailey.com · 12/06/2025
So another one of these came today and I took a closer look. Some of its claims seem pretty wild. But they include citations in tiny print at the bottom, after an invitation to "check the facts." So I did. You may need to sit down for this: Andrew Cuomo is not being entirely honest!
A Cuomo flyer classifying Mamdani as "a risk we can't afford" but claiming that Cuomo "delivered as governor, and will deliver as mayor" (delivered what? COVID to nursing homes? hands on female staffers? anyway)
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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
ChatGPT may be down, but you know what's not down? Over 4,000 pieces of literature from 147 countries and translated from 141 languages by actual people and not LLMs—and every single piece is free to read. Just saying! wordswithoutborders.org
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The New Words Without Borders
The Whiting Award-winning digital literary magazine Words Without Borders is the premier publication for international literature in English. Featuring Olga Tokarczuk, Fernanda Melchor, Jokha Alharthi...
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Hey let's support these forest defenders! Every warrior is part of a web of money, care, strategy & time. People who can't be warriors for whatever reason can be part of the rest of the web www.gofundme.com/f/accsvm-oly...
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Donate to Support the Olympic Forest Defenders!, organized by Henry Richards
NEW PHOTOS AND UPDATES! May 9th Port Angeles, WA — Blockade Against Mature Fores… Henry Richards needs your support for Support the Olympic Forest Defenders!
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Dom Evans @domevans.electricmarshmallow.com · 04/05/2025
I have completely deleted my Duolingo. I was informed by one of my kids that the company has removed most of its employees and 70% of the company is run by AI. I urge everyone to delete their app.
fortune.com
Duolingo CEO says he's getting rid of contract employees and replacing them with AI
Duolingo employees can also expect their AI use to be graded in their performance reviews.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
NEW: Mohsen Mahdawi has been freed from detention. “We are pro-peace and anti-war,” Mohsen told a huge crowd outside court after his release. “To my people in Palestine: I feel your pain, I see your suffering; and I see freedom and it is very very soon.”
zeteo.com
BREAKING: Mohsen Mahdawi Released From ICE Detention
'To President Trump and his Cabinet: I am not afraid of you,' Mahdawi said after he was freed on bail.
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Whose Corner Is It Anyway has been organizing for YEARS with street-based, low-income & survival sex workers who use stimulant & opioid drugs, including safer use & Narcan trainings. Donate to them to spite RFK Jr & strengthen their movement! www.gofundme.com/f/whose-corn...
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Donate to Whose Corner Is It Anyway, organized by Caty Simon
Whose Corner Is It Anyway is a Western MA mutual aid, harm reduction, political education, and o… Caty Simon needs your support for Whose Corner Is It Anyway
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Maybe you have a harm reduction center in your state or region? Project Weber/RENEW is one of ours. Donate or volunteer to spite RFK Jr & save people's lives & dignity. weberrenew.org
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Project Weber/RENEW
We provide harm reduction services to empower people who engage in drug use and/or sex work & those at risk for HIV & Hep C. Join us today!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/04/2025
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
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Target gave $1M to Trump inauguration fund, a first for the company
President Donald Trump raised a record amount of cash for his inauguration, including donations from several companies with operations in Minnesota.
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Anywhere you can create relief, room to breathe & move, slack in the line, for someone whose ropes are tightened by a violent government or the forces that brought it to power, you are doing something useful.
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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.
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Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.social · 16/04/2025
There's simply no ethical way to support Harry Potter in 2025. It's not possible. $0.20 from every dollar you give JK Rowling goes directly to physically harming a trans person and that's not a joke or an exaggeration.
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Scottish Trans @scottishtrans.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Along with @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social, we've published our reaction to the judgement in the UK Supreme Court today. There will be more we want to say to trans people directly once we have a chance to catch our breath. www.equality-network.org/uk-supreme-c...
Graphic with a purple background. It reads: "We are really shocked by today's Supreme Court decision- which reverses twenty years of understanding on how the law recognises trans men and women with Gender Recognition Certificates. The judgement seems to have totally missed what matters to trans people- - that we are able to live our lives, and be recognised, in line with who we truly are. We will continue working for a world in which trans people can get on with our lives with privacy, dignity and safety. That is something that we all deserve.". The Scottish Trans and Equality Network logos are in the bottom right.
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Excellent analysis of the Trumpian Right’s assault on empathy: a vital precursor for the dehumanising still to come. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy
Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 08/04/2025
Presenting the #InternationalBooker2025 shortlist. Find out more about all the books, authors and translators: thebookerprizes.com/ibp2025
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025
Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC
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Kate Schapira: "Well Put & Generalizable" @kateschapira.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
#PVDlocal / #RIlocal: Let’s shut down ICE detention in RI once and for all. Send written testimony by 3pm TODAY 4/3 to SenateJudiciary@rilegislature.gov. Even better if you can come to the hearing, 4pm @ the State House Room 313. Testimony toolkit: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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S-0295 - Ban ICE Contracts with Prisons in RI
Español Show up to give testimony! Ban ICE Detention in RI #ShutDownWyatt #FreeThemAll SENATE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY NOTICE OF MEETING DATE: Thursday, April 3, 2025 TIME: Rise of the Senate PLACE:...
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 28/03/2025
This is what the opposition did in the Hungary Parliament when they passed the Pride ban. May we have congresspeople with an ounce of the courage.
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Electric Literature @electricliterature.com · 27/03/2025
We're not applying for an NEA grant due to their anti-trans requirements. Stand with us and help us replace our annual grant by making a donation today. buff.ly/7bmxm3J
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Natalie Alana Ashton @natalan.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
if you're in the US and despairing about people being pulled off the street, you need to find your nearest immigrant defence/deportation defence group and learn how to do stuff like this www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021...
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‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid
Activists and local people tell how they forced the release of two men detained in an enforcement van
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 24/03/2025
Statement from Drop Site News on Israel’s Murder of Our Colleague Hossam Shabat: We Hold Both Israel and the U.S. Government Responsible 🔗 Read here: www.dropsitenews.com/p/statement-...
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.
Tweet from Yuval Abraham:
"A group of settlers just lynched Hamdan Ballal, co director of our film no other land. They beat him and he has injuries in his head and stomach, bleeding. Soldiers invaded the ambulance he called, and took him. No sign of him since."
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Alex Zucker @alexzucker.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Working at PEN America has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices." mondoweiss.net/2025/03/why-...
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Why was I investigated for sharing an article critical of Zionism by the ‘free speech’ organization PEN America?
Working at PEN American has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices.
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ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#boycottFrankfurt
We are boycotting the Frankfurt Book Fair #boycottFrankfurtWhy boycott? It's important because...Because the Frankfurt Book Fair supports Israel and has close ties with powerful corporations and the German government, direct supporters of Israel's genocide.Because the Frankfurt Book Fair has failed to meet the call from international publishers network Publishers for Palestine to condemn, refuse collaboration, denounce attacks on Palestinian writers, and create programming that prominently features Palestinian writers, publishers, and narratives.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Friends from Gaza feel unprecedented levels of isolation & desperation. A reminder to the rest of us that Palestine is not your passion project. It's not your political medallion. It's a place with a people who are being killed & tormented by their oppressor, a bully funded by this nation.
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Sanches with two esses @sanschaises.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
All but 5 of my 21 book-length translations, three of which were longlisted for the International Booker and one of which won the PEN America Translation Prize, were used to train Meta’s AI.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 20/03/2025
Wow. Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum officially recognizes Palestine as a state. Here she welcomes Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed. Sheinbaum is Jewish, supports Palestinian self-determination, & unapologetically condemns Netanyahu's attacks on Gaza. Historic & inspiring leadership. ❤️✊🏽
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20/03/2025
Reisner outlines additional concerns to do with the future of creativity and knowledge work, which after all have economic considerations that generative AI throws a wrench into. I hope you'll read, share, and enjoy the story.
Text screenshot: All of this certainly makes knowledge and literature more accessible, but it relies entirely on the people who create that knowledge and literature in the first place—that labor that takes time, expertise, and often money. Worse, generative-AI chatbots are presented as oracles that have “learned” from their training data and often don’t cite sources (or cite imaginary sources). This decontextualizes knowledge, prevents humans from collaborating, and makes it harder for writers and researchers to build a reputation and engage in healthy intellectual debate. Generative-AI companies say that their chatbots will themselves make scientific advancements, but those claims are purely hypothetical.Text screenshot: One of the biggest questions of the digital age is how to manage the flow of knowledge and creative work in a way that benefits society the most. LibGen and other such pirated libraries make information more accessible, allowing people to read original work without paying for it. Yet generative-AI companies such as Meta have gone a step further: Their goal is to absorb the work into profitable technology products that compete with the originals. Will these be better for society than the human dialogue they are already starting to replace?
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20/03/2025
Proof is different than suspicion. And generative AI remains an obscure technology: Companies do not like to talk about how it works, or what they've taken for it to work, even as they place it into products that millions or billions of people use every day and insist it should change the world.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20/03/2025
At this point, everyone suspects that generative AI has been built with stolen material—and in fact, since September 2023 when we published our analysis of Books3 (linked below), we've known for sure that 183,000 books had been pirated for this purpose. But LibGen dramatically increases the scale.
theatlantic.com
These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech
Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20/03/2025
Meta initially considered licensing books. New legal docs show that a Llama senior manager felt it was “really important for [Meta] to get books ASAP,” as “books are actually more important than web data.” Paying and waiting wouldn't do. So they sought—and received—permission to torrent LibGen.
Text screenshot: Meta employees spoke with multiple companies about licensing books and research papers, but they weren’t thrilled with their options. This “seems unreasonably expensive,” wrote one research scientist on an internal company chat, in reference to one potential deal, according to court records. A Llama-team senior manager added that this would also be an “incredibly slow” process: “They take like 4+ weeks to deliver data.” In a message found in another legal filing, a director of engineering noted another downside to this approach: “The problem is that people don’t realize that if we license one single book, we won’t be able to lean into fair use strategy,” a reference to a possible legal defense for using copyrighted books to train AI.Text screenshot: Court documents released last night show that the senior manager felt it was “really important for [Meta] to get books ASAP,” as “books are actually more important than web data.” Meta employees turned their attention to Library Genesis, or LibGen, one of the largest of the pirated libraries that circulate online. It currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers. Eventually, the team at Meta got permission from “MZ”—an apparent reference to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg—to download and use the data set.
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 20/03/2025
NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:
theatlantic.com
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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