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I'm aware @officialgrammarly.bsky.social has said people can opt out of this, THAT IS ALSO ENRAGING. LLMs have already coopted and stole and plundered creative people's work, now we also have to contact YOU after you steal our identities? Fuck all the way off with that! It's MORE THEFT YOU CLOWNS

So, this isn't just a state or federal privacy law issue and Grammarly has good enough lawyers to know that. This is also a state privacy tort issue and they're banking on the fact that no one will sue them for unauthorized use of their name.

California has very strong laws on this bc Hollywood.

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Awaji Ningyoza, and their content is aces: www.instagram.com/awaji_ningyoza

I follow a theatre in Awaji and was ready to get Real Aerated in the comments

Insta block

you wanna learn VFX?

The VFX school is closing. All their shit is free. Torrent files and everything

grab it while you can

thevfxschool.com

halve that, halve it again, and then deal it out over 3-4 payments

Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.

"But I don't think they make that much!"

Halve that. Halve it again.

Original draft and revision of Sylvia Plath's poem "Fog Sheep"

I'm fascinated by how poets revise! This is a revision from poet Sylvia Plath. I think we are not often taught how to deeply revise as poets. This is part of my upcoming workshop for NaPoWriMo entirely focused on revising poetry! www.hlwalrath.com/wo...

One of us! One of us!

(Also, Kakuno nibs are adorable)

Strongly suspect that as this war and its negative effects escalate, we're gonna see a massive increase in disinfo and unsourced "news" - starting right the hell now.

PLEASE don't share "breaking" news from rando or disreputable accounts who provide no links.

Satellite proposals threaten the night sky In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the agency responsible for authorizing satellite launches and operations…

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan.
darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

Excuse me?!

Grammarly's new "‘Expert Review’ AI agents make suggestions supposedly inspired by subject matter experts, including several staff members here at The Verge... none of whom gave Grammarly permission to include them..."

It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation

This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society

This thread gets at a very important distinction that is critical to make. (Content note for subsequent posts: discussion of child sex abuse.)

Dark weirdness? Yes, and I love this one

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

Once again reminding everyone that the majority of people stranded in the UAE are not influencers or expats or tourists, but South Asian (and SE Asian and African) workers whose passports are often controlled by their employers and whose govts have made no attempts to repatriate.

Call for submissions. A Spoonful of Malaysian Magic 2: Modern Folklore Retellings. We’ve seen enough retellings of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast in recent years. What were your favourite Malaysian magical tales growing up? Send us your modern-day retellings! Wordcount: 2,000 to 8,000 words Deadline: 30 June 2026 More info: https://teaspoonpublishing.com.my/traditional-publishing/

CALL FOR SUBS!

A SPOONFUL OF MALAYSIAN MAGIC 2: MODERN FOLKLORE RETELLINGS

Edited by: Anna Tan & Hamizah Adzmi

We’ve seen enough retellings of Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast in recent years. What were your favourite Malaysian magical tales growing up? Send us your modern-day retellings!

Summarize your current/future works-in-progress in a few words:

1. Forcibly de-powered hero must save world
2. Mute mage navigates loss of parental figure
3. China's least monkish monk/folk hero is reincarnated as a radio DJ

To quote from memory Scott Andrews, editor of @bcsmagazine.bsky.social:

"Write the story only you can write."

Merge Art Studio logo drawing of headshot holly walrath text reads sip and create national poetry month blackout poetry background is white and pink blackout poem blurred

My next Merge workshop is blackout poetry themed! Come play with my big collection of old and abandoned books. They need a new life! www.eventbrite.com/e...

Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher

omg just finished Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher and have discovered it's #1 of a series i'm eggcited!! it's fantasy, sad paladin with a dead god x anxious perfumer, very funny and gave me pratchett vibes

"Won't someone please tell us why we keep covertly re-hiring pedophiles instead of looking for new talent, and also why everyone is going so above and beyond to actively WORK with these creepos, please? Surely there MUST be a solution to this problem we've created"

There’s a pretty robust case to make that the Iran Hostage crisis of 1979, the revolution itself, and the policies of the Iranian government towards the US
since, was all blowback from the CIA’s decision to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953. www.cnn.com/2013/08/19/p...

My weirdest creation is almost old enough to drink.

I am so tired of fragile little men starting wars. I am so tired of fragile little men making policy decisions that harm us all. I am so tired of fragile little men doing horrendous harm to children and expecting us all to forget about it. I am so tired of fragile little men with their tantrums.

The only thing it feels worthwhile for me to say right now is pay attention to whether your feelings & the information you’re absorbing are paralyzing you or prompting you to meaningful action, whatever that is. Paralysis helps no one but the enemy.

This is a policy of genocide.

Article from Sponichi Annex. JP headline: 小学館マンガワン問題　同アプリでの作品配信停止報告の漫画家相次ぐ「許せない事件」　海外も注目

Manga authors like Takahashi Rumiko (Urusuei Yatsura) are pulling their works from Shogakukan's site MangaONE after revelations that the publisher let author Yamamoto Shoichi publish under a pen name after he sexually assaulted a 15yo female student.