Tasha Writes

Anyone received an AI licensing addendum to their contract from their publisher? I have, and I’m wary and confused as I try to figure out what’s best & whether to sign it.

My guest blog post is up at Bloomsbury Academic (in support of my book which is out now in paperback)

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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Use the search tool published by The Atlantic and see that LibGen have stolen your work and my work to make tech billionaires richer:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... ☠️🤬🏴‍☠️

A woman whose death will be mild Headline: Thousands Of Covid Deaths Each Week Are Now Milder Deaths, Say Doctors. Story by Kurt Ripley and Salvador Doolaly Photo from Unsplash

Thousands Of Covid Deaths Each Week Are Now Milder Deaths, Say Doctors.

Those ‘close ads’ are pretty tiny!

“I’m liable to fall upon [food like] the Emily Dickinson of Bulimia”

Such a terrific image…

The multi-page sentence has a glittery though exhausting effect in this book. I can’t say I love it but nor do I hate it. And I certainly admire Marquez for wielding it the way he does.

Confused! Your website states that subs for issue 9 are open til 14 Dec 2022….?! Is it the same issue 9 you’re now calling for? Thanks.

I used to love the lit genre #AmericanGothic (Faulkner, O’Connor et al), but now its characters remind me of Trump voters…

I suspect I haven’t gotten a handle on how to use the app. The many categories you need to ‘sign up’ to confuses me and then how those work when writing and sending a post… I don’t get it yet.

How can I make Bluesky work / become interesting? It’s so dead here. I find myself back at Twitter for the Trump show and other entertainment. If there’s any tips for making Bluesky work, I’d love to know. But I’m sure no one will even see this!

“The bottomless perjury of an et cetera.”

(G.Eliot, quoting Lord George Digby in ‘Felix Holt’ [1866] 1972, p. 250).

Hallelujah. No more Copilot, no more paying MS to steal my intellectual property.

Hmmm, I will think about that and distill a tiny reply to fit the character limit here!

I am currently reading Felix Holt for the first time and enjoying it much more than I thought I would! I’m approaching it for info & story, as if it’s a non-fiction-novel. Also, I’d rank lovely Adam Bede higher than you do!

Anyone else have a teenager whose energy seems to increase as the day goes on until they’re dancing around the house eating a huge bowl of cereal at midnight showing zero interest in being quiet & going to bed? 😩😖

@piratelawyer.com I enjoyed yr Copilot YouTube. There’s so many 🤬😩 users in the MS community forums going mad trying to turn Copilot & that margin icon off, but ‘turning it off’ is a veneer if still paying for it, so I cancelled my sub in favour of 1-off purchases & free software. Huge weight off!

Wow. I’ve just been notified that a book I reserved at the library 5 years ago is now available for pick up!!

Agreement doesn’t req equivalent experiences e.g. it might be a conceptual / figurative pig. So, what manner of evidence is required to form agreement about a thing’s ‘existence’? If ‘reality’ is determined by the anecdotes of a majority, then humans are surely doomed. 🐷
#philsky

“Writing is not a record of destruction but an act of counter-creation.”
Pertinently said…

Watch One Hundred Years of Solitude | Netflix Official Site In the mythical town Macondo, seven generations of the Buendía family navigate love, oblivion and the inescapability of their past — and their fate.

I couldn’t imagine how they’d make the filmic series of this wonderful & epic book, but the adaptation (on Netflix) is absolutely terrific.
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Endnotes are horrible. The in-text number hangs alluringly next to a word & promises interesting info, & if I can’t ignore it (I try), it forces me to traipse to the back to search for the reference. Use footnotes(!) so that main text & ref note are on same pg. It’s far more functional.

If Terry’s friend gave him Marijuana in a murderous craze, then legally, Terry only committed self-defence.

My accidental iPhone poetry:

How to ruin literary art, culture, difference, & knowledge: simply flood the market with AI book slurry & stop the real authors in their tracks!

“…the platform can reduce the time it takes to publish a book from 6 to 18 months, to 2 to 3 weeks…”
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Everywhere, All the Time, 3:42 Published in Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts (Vol. 28, No. 4, 2023)

Our work, scattered throughout this issue On the Mundane, is published. Here’s some: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Terrific glasses!

My photo x

My book (out 14 Dec 2023), is tending auto-theoretical, with ‘something for everyone’?! Especially practitioners/readers of hybrid forms.
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