Missing all my Worldcon peeps but sorry, not spending tourist dollars in the U.S. this year.
16.08.2025 04:37
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Missing all my Worldcon peeps but sorry, not spending tourist dollars in the U.S. this year.
Friends (esp if you live in CA) we REALLY need signatures on this petition supporting Bill AB412 - the AI Copyright Transparency Act.
TLDR = this will require AI corps to be transparent about what is in their datasets!
Signing takes 1 min. Once you sign, PLEASE SHARE!! tinyurl.com/4uxbp963
See my last post
If you're a Canadian author looking to search the Books3 or LibGen DBs for the class action suit, here are gift links to the search tools on The Atlantic. You should have full access.
Books3 search: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
LibGen search: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Canadian writers, there are now a couple of AI class actions for Canadian authors. Please check out both links below.
If you have found your books in the Books3 or LibGen DBs, you are likely to be included in the class(es).
www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...
More info on expected timing
www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...
Tsunami watch for much of the coast of BC
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Author friends, I have to move away from Mailchimp because they are going to charge for email automation now and I don't have a big enough subscriber base/writer income to justify a paid plan. Top alternative contenders include MailerLite and Brevo.
Opinions?
I mean, these days I'll take any light coming from anywhere.
In good news my laptop is still working after the bag holding it fell onto the pavement from the back of the car during weekend travels.
Also with one black door stating “This door identifies as blue”
Blue car with license plate BLUEBOX and holder stating “MY OTHER CAR IS A TARDIS”
Seen in Longueuil
Greetings new followers! I am a weird little guy who lives in the woods. If you came for my political posts, brace yourself for mostly jokes and love of media. My second book, WEARING THE LION, drops in June!
As a bilingual person, my new favourite tech feature is dual language keyboards w/ autocorrect that can differentiate when I’m typing En/Fr, En/It, or En/Ko. (I’m only bilingual En/Fr, but my learning It/Ko clued me into the keyboard business)
The kicker is at the end. More detainees = more profits.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
"This will make great television."
Yeah, so do disaster movies.
FFS
OMFG that Ukraine Oval Office mess is the most disgusting thing I've seen in a long time. Vance can fuck right off about Ukraine not saying thank you. How asinine can you get?
My sympathies to the great people of Ukraine >:-(
NO @searchliaison.bsky.social, this is ABSOLUTELY NOT a *state* park.
We have provincial parks in Canada, and we are still a sovereign nation, despite certain musings.
Get your act together
Some of you I haven't seen in person in years, and some of you I barely even know, but you are all wonderful people and your help has meant the world! I don't know what the next chapter is yet, but I know it's out there somewhere 🙂
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... or just check in to see how I'm doing, please know I appreciate every little act of kindness. They've been immensely comforting during an admittedly frustrating time.
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Whether you have taken time out of your busy schedules to meet me for coffee, lunch, or drinks, introduce me to a connection you think I should meet, provide feedback on my résumé, flag my CV to a screener where you work, send me a listing for a job you think is right up my alley ...
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Today I want to say thank you to the many people who have been supporting me on my job search odyssey in the 6 months since Archiact closed.
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It’s amazing to me how quickly we got to this kind of analysis.
thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Favourite K-drama line so far (slightly paraphrasing):
You haven’t failed at marriage, you’ve succeeded at divorce
