Tove Jansson in her studio,1956, Finnish artist and creator of the Moomin book series #womensart #RoomArtWeek

One thing that's worth repeating: There is *zero* evidence that "substack helps you get readers". The only thing that we've ever seen that helps grow an audience is other authors mentioning your blog or newsletter, which is not the platform's doing. Substack just takes credit for that!

Jonathan M. Katz@katz.theracket.news · 8mo ago

FWIW I didn’t leave Substack because of the Nazis, though they didn’t help. I left because the management of that company is fundamentally duplicitous, it’s become a toxic social network, and there is no reason to give them 10% of your profits when there are better and less expensive options.

Sovereignty preferred, but not mandated: Canadian AI Sovereign Compute program prioritizes but doesn’t mandate data residency, is ok with companies contractually controlled but not owned by Canadians, and must only limit instances of foreign access to data. ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en...