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The fact that the payout per book in the Anthropic settlement (admittedly, before fees and charges) is more than the advance I got for said book sure is A Thing, hey.
Making the point that any writing that could be done by an LLM, particularly in the corporate context, probably . . .
The problem is that, years on from the Arab Spring, we’re all a little wiser about the idea that information will set us free. The opposite of a lack of news and information is not truth or justice or even transparency, it’s chaos.
Information flows through platforms owned and controlled and manipulated for their ends by these same men. And shocks to the system are exactly what the disaster surveillance capitalists want.
Carole Cadwalladr on .

Even Microsoft’s email about downgrading from their shitty forced 365 Copilot subscription is misleading about what’s actually going on . . .
- The Madwoman in the Attic, during her usual meandering around the internet, found this fabric. She told me how many yards I needed for the high collar dress, and I gleefully bought some. Glow in the dark bats!

Periodic reminder that UGG, the brand, is an American company that trademarked the term ugg, the Australian word for a type of Australian sheepskin boot, out from underneath the original local makers, and aggressively send lawyers after other companies using the term.
Listening to Clan of Xymox in 2025 has reminded me that one of my Foundational Goth Sins is not particularly liking Clan of Xymox.