Anyone onsite / live at the US Copyright Office? "Capitol #Police And DOGE [Reputedly] In Standoff At US #Copyright Office In DC" www.democraticunderground.com/100220310737 #author #inventor #writer #patent #publisher #book #invention #data #research #science #policy #law
Capitol Police And DOGE [Reput...
Hard numbers for my planet Cerberus, including orbits, tidal locking, temperatures, and even the possibility of eclipses...
Read all about it at my #blog: https://www.adamasnemesis.com/2025/05/08/more-thoughts-on-my-planet-cerberus/
This post's featured image is "Girl day trader in space" by yours truly (matches the vibe visually, so why not?).
@Bundesregierung wird #Author*innen (und anderen #Künstler*innen) deren #Bücher (bzw. Werke) in den #USA verboten wurden in #Deutschland #Aufenthalt bzw. #Asyl gewährt?
Looking for self-published authors to follow in here. I’ve ditched my meta accounts and trying to figure Mastodon out (it ain’t that easy).
New Post From The SeerOfSouls Blog
Review: Redragon Galatin Pro K719 Gaming Keyboard With LCD Screen
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https://www.europesays.com/1971636/ A chat with famous New Zealand cookbook author, Julie Biuso #14day #about #África #african #aotearoas #Author #biuso #central #chat #cookbook #cooking #Culinary #delicious #editor #even #famous #Food #foodloving #Here #immersive #journalist #julie #Latest #likes #luciano #more #new #NewZealand #part #pavarotti #played #scene #Shows #side #south #speaks #than #that #tour #travel #TRAVELLERS #uniquely #Venture #wine #with #years #zealand
The US media is too cowardly to cover the [Hands off!] protests for fear of Trump.
I assume you mean on broadcast TV. I get my news on the web, not on TV. Here is what I found:
Fox News isn't covering. USA Today says there are thousands, not hundreds of thousands. Washington Post, NBC, and New York Times, are completely mute. However CBS and ABC have stories. PBS is full throated on the spot with live feeds. CNN has below the fold (10 stories+ down) coverage. Axios, AP, and Reuters are covering prominently. Local Los Angeles affiliate television websites are also following.
#USPol #Politics #Protests#HandsOff #News #Author #Writer #WritersOfMastodon #Journalism #writing community
#Trump and #Musk and AI, oh my?
From my favorite historian pundit, Z:
… no serious economist is going to endorse [Trump's] approach to tariffs. No unserious one, either, probably. So, where did the White House come up with this formula? Well, if you put the phrase "balance bilateral trade deficits" into AI engines, the administration's approach (or some close approximation) is what you get. That is the case with ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude. If you put the phrase into Grok, you get the EXACT formula the White House used. In other news, Grok is the AI platform owned by... Elon Musk.
Guess you don't need the terminator to destroy the world. Simple AI is enough.
Scroll down to "Fuzzy Math" at this link, but the whole 4,000 word article will clear up the whole muddy mess.
duras was a master of written dialogue, crafting it in such a way that the space between her words informed the story as much as or more than what she spelled out. as a human being, she was remarkable: during WWII, she worked for the vichy government whilst simultaneously belonging to an active french resistance cell.
#margueriteDuras #frenchResistance #art #sketch #author
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@petergleick Word choice counts. Now isn't the time to cover your ass when you state the facts. Using words to soften, hedge, or weasel out of stating what is true or proven is journalistic malpractice.
@Rozzychan
Legal isn't the issue. "Is it constitutional?" is the question. Trump is making laws. That's a legislative function, Congress' prerogative. Trump is supposed to enforce only those laws, but if he refuses to do so, what's left?
The federal justice system is constitutionally under the executive branch and uses his delegated power, but he IS NOT faithfully upholding the laws. The justice system is made of tens of thousands of people who individually want to keep their jobs, to feed their families, to pay their mortgages. It's a powerful lever. These people have a constitutional right to refuse, one might say a duty, and they know they will be fired.
They won't refuse, because they are just people. Like you. Like me. Trying to survive.
This happened in Germany in the 1930s.There were plenty of jews who thought themself as German first. That worked out well.
That's the dimension of what's happening. Nothing can be more un-American than this.
Robert McChesney, a #media scholar, #author, and co-founder of media advocacy #nonprofit #FreePress, died from cancer at 72
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/robert-mcchesney-obituary/
>> A reader I have at say smashwords would be routed to the same page as a reader on beam. There would be a UBL great, especially if you use a distributor. But as said in my first post: all UBL platforms are shit.
I wrote a script that takes the round and crestes different versions of it with Links to the store which sre not supported by UBl platforms and the ~200 EUR software.
Really all universal booklink platforms are a pain in the ass. Either they cost a shitton of money, do only support a specific subset of online stores, are totally US centric or build links to stores in an old URL scheme the store does not support any more. *sigh*
I know how this should be to be a good store in just do not have time or skills to do it *sigh*
Fellow #authors, which UBL platform do you use?
Working-class women aren’t supposed to say this.
But I did.
And I want to hear it from you too.
Join me. Tell me about your work. Your words. What you’ve built.
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/working-class-women-arent-supposed-to-say-this/
Publishing looks glossy from the outside. Inside? It’s built on unpaid labour.
My first book is out this year.
Here’s what I actually got paid, what my contract says, & why most authors can’t afford to do this twice.
https://kristie-de-garis.ghost.io/published-doesnt-mean-paid/
