Draconic Ramblings

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
todaysbird
todaysbird

as a huge lover of birds, 90% of the concern against wind turbines being used for energy is literally just pro fossil fuel propaganda. birds ARE at a risk however there is a lot of strategies even as simple as painting one of the blades that reduces a lot of accidental deaths. additionally renewable energy sources will do more in favor of the environment that would positively impact birds (and all of us). one study found over one million bird deaths from wind turbines. while that is a shockingly high number and we should work to drastically shrink it, at least 1.3 billion birds die to outdoor cats on a yearly basis. it was never about caring about birds

animal death climate change outdoor cats
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nonbinarhys

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

nonbinarhys

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

nonbinarhys

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

nonbinarhys

hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)

friend-crow
friend-crow

People talk about how urban witchcraft can be hard because you have no access to nature, which I don't agree with. There are animals and plants everywhere, even though people tend to scorn the ones that thrive in an urban environment. Like yeah it would be nice to have easy access to some woods, but you've got weeds, you've got rats and raccoons -- you can make do.

The real problem with urban witchcraft is the lack of damn privacy. I can't even get ecstatic around a bonfire because my neighbors are ten feet away and I still have to face them every day.

dragon-saint

Sometimes you gotta adapt your definitions, what is a warehouse rave but a bonfire for a different age?

half joking half serious
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chirasul

there's like 10,0000,0 accounts with names like "Best Heritage Posts" and "Tumblr Hall Of Fame Posts" and "So Funny Hellsite Posts" but where's the shitty posts accounts. where's the hall of fail accounts. i want to see the worst of the worst

shitidiotloserheritageposts

heritage post

chirasul

come on man

fallenangelvictorious

On tumblr you really can’t expect to ask “where is god?” Without the devil answering “have you checked up your ass?”