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Sean Michaels

@swanmichaels.bsky.social

Writer: DO YOU REMEMBER BEING BORN? 💐 (2023), THE WAGERS (2019), US CONDUCTORS (2014) • Founded 🎶 http://saidthegramophone.com • http://www.byseanmichaels.com • he/him

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Heather Christle@heatherchristle.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you find yourself musing "I think poetry may be an attempt by non-linguistic systems to convey something deeper about their processing than the usual message passing between perceptual and linguistic systems," then it is time to call a poet. (Not because you are wrong; because we KNOW things.)

Sean Michaels@swanmichaels.bsky.social · 5mo ago

best albums of 2026 so far, just fyi: Les Louanges - Alouette! Charlotte Cornfield - Hurts Like Hell Dream Sitch - III Maria Arnal - AMA Station Model Violence - st Charli XCX - Wuthering Heights Asher White - Jessica Pratt runners'-up: jose gonzalez, makthaverskan, prism shores

Sean Michaels@swanmichaels.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Every so often I do this thing called Writers' Room, where writers of Montreal are invited to get together in one room. The next one is on February 5. Friends and mutuals, it would be great to see you.

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Sean Michaels@swanmichaels.bsky.social · 10mo ago

happy to be reading tonight from Zsuzsi Gartner's BEST CANADIAN SHORT STORIES at De Stiil—celebrating works by Kaitlin Reuther, DF McCourt, Grant Buday & others alongside Eliza Robertson, Cat Leroux, Neil Smith, Paige Cooper etc!

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Martha Bayne@marthabayne.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I'm watching the irate responses to this development roll in & I am baffled. 1) Authors can opt out. 2) People don't understand that in 3 years (or sooner?) this will all be moot. As soon as the courts rule that AI use is fair use, which is how this is trending, everything will be up for grabs.

Craig Calcaterra@craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 10mo ago

I am composing my response to my publisher regarding the below post and the more I write the harder I am finding it not to use the word "fuck"/"fucking" every other sentence and there is no way this is gonna be shorter than 2,000 words. bsky.app/profile/crai...

Marie Plourde@marieplourde.bsky.social · 11mo ago

« Two years ago, Stephen Shiller — a real estate magnate — donated $850 to Martinez Ferrada. Shiller’s firm, Shiller-Lavy, used rental hikes to drive out small businesses from its properties in the Mile End before flipping the buildings at a massive profit. » therover.ca/municipal-el...

Municipal Election: Will Ensemble Montreal Fight for Tenants or Developers? – The Rover

Soraya Martinez Ferrada wants to be “the housing mayor” while surrounding herself with Montreal’s biggest developers

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Thad McIlroy@thadmcilroy.bsky.social · last yr.

"For publishing professionals watching from the sidelines, this represents a masterclass in how AI companies are treating copyright disputes as manageable business costs rather than existential threats." www.linkedin.com/pulse/anthro...

Anthropic's $183 Billion Valuation: The Authors' Pyrrhic Victory Settlement Has Investors Drooling

The publishing industry must now contend with a reality where its primary asset - copyrighted content - has been effectively commoditised by companies with access to virtually unlimited capital and a ...

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Meredith Rose@mrose.ink · last yr.

Unfortunately, I expect that the fact they won a pretty resounding fair use victory is going to be lost in much of the coverage. They lost on downloading & storing the LibGen dataset (straight infringement!), but the act of training on copyrighted material (+ making their own ebooks) was a win.

Will Oremus@willoremus.com · last yr.

Breaking: In landmark agreement, AI firm Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion to settle a copyright lawsuit brought by book authors and publishers. Story to follow.