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A 'No Thoughts, Head Empty, Words on Paper' kind of writer. || OC Tag: #Spadeverse || She/Her|| Cherokee/Scots Irish || icon by millastaria || banner by ilyscia|| https://celticxpanda.carrd.co/ || patreon.com/celticxpanda

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Apple charges people ~20% more than the Patreon list price and they keep the difference for themselves. They also hold the proceeds of iOS app sales for 75 days, making it impossible for creators to accurately predict earnings. They basically inserted themselves in order to rip *more* people off

Part Time Yeen@parttimeyeen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Any of you using the ios version of Patreon to support me, switch to the browser version instead, cuz the apple fees have actually taken over 3000 usd from me in the course of a year

Reminder that we published an extensive interview with a former editor at The New York Times who laid out, in detail, how the paper's pushing of anti-trans bigotry was both very intentional and directed from the very top of the organization. The NYT plays a direct and major role in trans genocide:

'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry

In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...

transnews.network

AI companies destroying rare and out-of-print books to train LLM models… this some cartoon-style villainy. "Responsible physical sourcing is not book burning [...] It is the completion of a book’s lifecycle: from tree to knowledge to tree again." The cynicism is breathtaking. shorturl.at/os0vc

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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funny how alleged authors who use AI covers still expect people to care about their writing. if they see nothing wrong with devaluing one creative form why would i assume they would stop there? and in the end they still need real human readers for validation. why not simply ask an AI for praise?