gentlemosses:

what if we cut each other’s hair in the kitchen…….. and we were both butches

11x14in acrylic on canvas

704

woundgallery:

Nan Goldin

169675

revolutionarykoolaid:

endangered-justice-seeker:

Cudjo Lewis, the last surviving captive of the last slave ship to bring Africans to the U.S. 

https://www.history.com/news/zora-neale-hurston-barracoon-slave-clotilda-survivor?utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1525373347

It’s so significant too that this narrative was collected by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the greatest authors and anthropologists of her time. She was shunned by the “gatekeepers” of both of these professions, largely because of her Blackness, her womanhood, and her uncompromising commitment to honoring and showcasing both in her works. She died penniless and alone in a state-run institution in 1960. All of her works had gone out of publication by then. It took more than a decade before she was rediscovered. A young author by the name of Alice Walker had come across her work and was deeply inspired by it. “In 1973, after an exhaustive search, Walker came across Hurston’s unmarked grave in Ft. Pierce, Fla. She purchased a headstone for Hurston’s tomb and had it inscribed “A Genius of the South.“”

It is through Zora Neale Hurston’s pioneering sacrifice, and the acceptance of that inheritance by Alice Walker that we have found this missing piece of our history. Without the courageous and unfailing work of Black women, we wouldn’t have Cudjo Lewis’s story. We are slowly regaining a narrative that’s been hidden from us, one that continues to be lied about. Trust Black women to lead the way.

zmpl:

“don🦍t believe anything your brain tells you after 9 pm” wrong. the prime time for decision making is when you🦍re sleep deprived

^example of what life would be like if we used gorillas instead of apostrophes

plumslices:

Your misbehaving boyfriend is not funny to me

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firstfullmoon:

After Yang (2022) dir. Kogonada

guerrillatech:

elfwreck:

cassolotl:

elodieunderglass:

gothiccharmschool:

metalheadsagainstfascism:

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Ars Technica

Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court’s suggested notification scheme “would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders,” groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million “to set up a ‘Books Rights Registry’ to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement” in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you’re an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

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.

The Atlantic

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

Oh look, my book is in there. GIVE ME MONEY.

Interestingly, I reblogged this thinking it might be interesting for my followers - but as I’m not an author I didn’t think further.

Then I did think for a second. I realised I had fallen into the classic tumblr trap of believing that Authorship Equals Fantasy Fiction Writer. It’s amazing how that gets into your own head.

I went back and found a clutch of my scientific papers on there.

Not something that’s worth me pursuing any farther - and a lot of those works are very openly open access, and so they are honestly the exact sort of content that SHOULD be used to train responsible models. But worth remembering that it’s very common on tumblr to think of all writing as, like, genre fiction, and there are other types of writing too.

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

Ars Technica

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models.

In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is “believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation.” Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthropic stole. “Depending on the number of claims submitted, the final figure per work could be higher,” the press release noted.

each author will receive $3,000 per work

Note: To be eligible, the work must be REGISTERED with the US Copyright Office.

(Non-US works may or may not be eligible; the lawyers are working on it. But US-authored works definitely need to be registered.)

Several authors are now filing suits against their publishers as they discover the registrations required in their contracts never happened.

…I have worked for two small publishers; both of them registered everything. ForbiddenFiction paid to register every single short story that we published; that was part of the benefit of going with us instead of self-publishing through Amazon.

aphrostiel:

-i like your big suit
-thanks, i like your coat

artisheaven:

“Anamorphosis” by Ashley Czajkowski