Burningbird
Fourth update (10/28): There’s no denying that publishers will be the big winners in the Anthropic settlement. I do not believe the lawyers did an adequate job of ensuring an equitable split between publishers and authors in their haste to get publishers to claim tens of thousands of books in order to ensure a smooth […]
Eleventh (hour) Update (Sept 30): I had really hoped to no longer be needing to make updates, but the Anthropic Settlement folks just keep mucking things up. I received an email that said: We made updates that may affect your claim. What Changed? Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works […]
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I had planned on doing a piece on Buddy Carter’s pharma self-dealing, and a host of other writing, but personal health issues got in the way. I have a macular hole, which is a hole in the center of your eye; the part that provides fine focus. Before they could operate on the macular hole, […]
I was, and I was not, surprised by Trump’s re-election. I knew there were too many men who would normally vote Democrat who balk at electing a women to be Commander-in-Chief; particularly a Black/Asian woman. I knew that thanks to the rebound from COVID that prices are high—aided and abetted by corporations using COVID as […]