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Copyright Just Shelley Technology Writing

Anthropic Author Class Action Settlement: How to do Everything Wrong

Tenth Update (Sept 15): The judge gave permission for the class lawyers to update the Anthropic class action website. It should, once changed, reflect the current status of the settlement, which is try to correct allocations, send them into the void. and never hear anything back. The Author’s Guild has an updated advice list for […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

TypePad will be no more…what you can do to save your site

The writing is what’s important. Everything else is just candy sprinkles. 

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Browsers Burningbird Technology Web

Rebooting Weblogging?

I haven’t been out to scripting.com for a long time, and was surprised to find Dave is not using https. Of course, the page I tried to access (on rebooting weblogging) triggered a warning in my browser. It triggers a warning in any browser, but some are more severe than others. There were issues with […]

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Government Programming Languages

Rocket go up. Rocket come down.

Musk, DOGE, and the phantom promise of AI

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Government Programming Languages

Social Security: Why look for facts when you can speculate

No, the Social Security ‘system’ did not default to a date of May 01, 1875 when a date is missing.