Pamela M
@1morepage.bsky.social
Book person. Former board member of @aalitagents.bsky.social and former chair of its Copyright Committee. I advocate for human authors.
*walks into room, writes "Jaws" on the whiteboard* *looks at execs* *adds "es" onto the end of Jaws so it says "Jawses"* *execs are cautiously interested* *draws a line through the last S so it reads "Jawse$"* *execs lose their minds*
weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo agolet's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?
This is Loki, our Maine Coon and the cat of our hearts, and he went missing today. We have no idea how he got out, but he’s an elder, indoor cat, the whole region’s in an intense heat wave, and we’re really scared. I doubt I have any followers here in Martinez, CA, but if so, help? It’s SO hot
Made this guy, chucked him in a box, forgot about him, just found him, hes so good I love his pot belly #cat #tuxedocat #needlefelt #woolart
Phrase of the day: "You look as if you lived on buttered thunder."
Incredibly important new research published today shows the huge impact AI books are having on real writers’ ability to make a living. Looking at self-published books on Amazon, they found: - 20% of self-published books include substantial AI text - ... 🧵 1/3
Tuhin Chakrabarty@tuhinchakr.bsky.social · last wk.🚨 New paper on AI & Copyright Using @pangram.com full-text AI detection, we study self-published genre fiction on Amazon, 2023–26. Amazon is flooded w/ books with substantial AI text. They earn real 💰 & crowd out non-AI books. w/ @dhillonp.bsky.social @xinyuel.bsky.social & Jane Ginsburg (1/n) 🧵
"I was not inspired to write this book; I was compelled to after I discovered in a safe in my basement the huge cache of letters and documents on which I have based Undesirable. I had no idea they existed." deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2026/07/q-wi...
Q&A with Laura Kalpakian
Laura Kalpakian is the author of the new book Undesirable: The Vietnam War and a Father's Battle for Justice . Her ...
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All-Ireland SFC final: Mayo win their first All-Ireland in 75 years, defying all expectations against Kerry www.independent.ie/sport/gaa/ga...
All-Ireland SFC final: Mayo win their first All-Ireland in 75 years, defying all expectations against Kerry
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New from 404 Media: a company is selling tons of old books specifically to AI companies and says they have a strong NDA to never reveal which AI company bought all of the books. They don't want headlines of 'we scanned and destroyed millions of books for AI' www.404media.co/ai-companies...
AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has issued a new final determination, this time examining claims of an implied license and a distribution deal gone bad. www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/07/20/c... #Copyright #CCB #ImpliedLicense #Movie
Copyright Claims Board Tackles Implied Licenses
The Copyright Claims Board (CCB) has issued a new final determination, this time examining claims of an implied license and a distribution deal gone bad.
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Australia is planning some of the world's toughest AI regulations • Water usage will be limited • AI data centers will be required to become net producers of energy • AI companies can't train on Australian creators' work without their permission • Proposals expected to be introduced in 2027
Ha ha yes, but also, if we're not allowed to call this agency then what really is the point of the word
🦋 Frankie 🦋@frankiemillie10.bsky.social · 3w agoWe laugh in the face of cattlegrids 🐑
Canicule: au moins 12.000 décès excédentaires ont été enregistrés dans une dizaine de pays européens au cœur de la vague de chaleur en juin, selon une compilation de données nationales réalisée par l'AFP. Un bilan partiel qui risque de s'alourdir au fil des remontées statistiques.
Scoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
🍊The 12th🍊, King William beats King James again. The muskets are blanks & the result was written before either rider was born. The most honest event in the unionist calendar. A new essay on the century that worked the same way, & the year the veil came off. forlouth.medium.com/sham-fight-t...
Sham Fight: the Twelfth, and the century of Planet Ulster™
The Bridge at Scarva · No. 7
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My semi-regular reminder that if you subscribe to a publication and you like antyhing anyone there is doing, try to click on the article, comment on it, write an email to the publication's editor, etc. Because we really live and die by engagement metrics, and it's hard out here on the books beat.
ha ha. there's cryptic, and then there's... cryptic
Aoḋán Ó Conġaile@tinydonkey.bsky.social · 4w agoBeen learning to do cryptic crossword clues lately, and Google AI has been a really big help 👍
This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up
Seems my manor is going to be hot with a huge data centre that no-one wants or needs. And it's going to have a larger footprint than the town in which I live. We'll have to see about that, then. www.cpredevon.org.uk/massive-ai-d...
Massive AI datacentre and Battery System proposed in Devon - CPRE Devon
Groundswell of incredulity at proposals for a massive AI data centre in the middle of the north Devon countryside Devon CPRE and Devon residents have...
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Technically, they’re Remains now.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · last mo.A fifth of Leave voters have died.
I'd probably head out west to try and figure out what happened to Colorado and New Mexico, and whatever is going on with the Dakotas, or why Iowa and Arkansas switched places, or where the second Rhode Island came from or
Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋@poppyhaze.bsky.social · last mo.if you could pick only one slice of the US to take a domestic vacation this summer, which would it be?????
On June 26th, as part of the Chuckanut Writers Conference, the lovely people at @villagebookswa.bsky.social present Laura Kalpakian with their Literary Citizenship Award. She joins the ✨Village Books Literary Citizen Hall of Fame✨ www.villagebooks.com/community/vi...
Village Books and Paper Dreams
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Once upon a time I was a redhead, very active on that other social media platform and commonly known as the bookshop blogger. I'm not reinstating the red hair, but I am giving the blogging a go again. All encouragement will be gratefully accepted. www.thebookshoparoundthecorner.co.uk/2026/06/reme...
