This company Prosecraft appears to have stolen a lot of books, trained an AI, and are now offering a service based on that data blog.shaxpir.com/prosecraft-lin… I did not consent to this use of my work.

Writers in other fields should be paying attention to the WGA negotiations. Here's the current position on the use of AI. They want to be able to train models on your work, so they can get that Barton Fink feeling without needing to pay Barton Fink.

Real canary in a coalmine stuff that Twitter has just suspended @atrupar also Washington Post's @drewharwell

I've been traveling for a while, and some good book and music mail was waiting for me when I got back. I also bought some things in Paris. So, a thread of the TBR / TBListened pile Gallimard are doing a series of political tracts. Badiou, political crime writer Didier Daeninckx and a collective of historians taking down Zemmour's distortions of French history

Uvalde should lay to rest the myth of the ‘good guy with a gun’ being an effective protection for anyone or anything.

https://twitter.com/star5atnight/status/1529709651297652736

TX has more guns per capita than any state in the US, US has more guns than any other country in the world.

Carlson has same pseudo-decent talking point. But this is what mourning looks like - people angry and sad enough to want to do something, rather than pretending it’s like the damn weather. There is a posture of learned helplessness adopted by US politicians in the face of this and many other problems. Words like ‘tragedy’ drain away agency.

Under the whale at the ⁦@PENamerica⁩ gala They made an unburnable copy of The Handmaid’s Tale - 100% flame retardant, tested by @MargaretAtwood with an actual flame thrower

CPAC meeting in Hungary days after Orban reaffirms his belief in the Great Replacement conspiracy. Orban proposes some kind of far right International and prescribes Tucker Carlson “24/7” theguardian.com/us-news/2022/m… Orban really doubling down on the white Christian nationalism vox.com/2022/5/19/2312…

Cheap performativity coupled with an effective closure of the border to refugees

https://twitter.com/doctor_oxford/status/1497484670631653380

Patel’s Home Office really shaming the UK

https://twitter.com/wilsonslondon/status/1497653455246303233

Ruling party built secret app to manipulate online discourse and harass critics in “world’s largest democracy” #India

https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1479009004894314501

Tekfog is used to send a huge volume of harassing messages to prominent women journalists

https://twitter.com/khanumarfa/status/1480181801918156802

I can’t see that Telegraph piece about how there’s a “crisis” in English literary fiction because of le wokisme (paywall) but I do have thoughts When I was first published an older white writer told me *to my face* that the only reason my novel got more attention than his was because I wasn’t white. So this tone of resentment isn’t new. The “crisis” is at least 20 years old

I have bad semi-informed opinions about football but even I am rolling my eyes at some of the ‘just kick the ball more’ comments from USians on the TL Basically until you care enough to stick a flare up your bum you should probably just RT

A great evening here in our house. A certain ex-president (no, not that one, the literate one) just chose @katiekitamura’s Intimacies as one of his summer reads Let’s just say that this has taken the edge off her pre-publication nerves

The desire to claim victimhood is one of the most consistent features of the American right.

https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1398372966640013315

My best guess is that they feel like early Christian martyrs (without the actual martyrdom ofc) - a righteous misunderstood minority who will one day be vindicated.

I hate talking about Israel-Palestine on twitter. It seems hopeless. You make enemies. But it also feels cowardly to say nothing. I’ve been trying to work out what I could say about the situation that won’t immediately be processed along partisan lines. [thread] Many Americans worry that any criticism of the occupation is either inherently antisemitic or gives comfort to anti-Semites. Here’s a picture that may complicate that. I took it in Hebron in 2016.

More jaw-dropping polling from France (via @b_judah)

French society is disintegrating — 73%

The army should intervene without being given an order to guarantee order and security in France — 49%

France will soon know civil war — 45% In the run-up to a Presidential election with Marine Le Pen as the main challenger, there’s also this:

In France, there exists a form of antiracism that exacerbates hate between communities — 74%

If you don’t want people to think your new robot dog is a dystopian nightmare, maybe don’t take it to arrest someone at a housing project

https://twitter.com/verge/status/1387963938650869762

And the sad robot dog handler saying it’s our fault because we didn’t understand

It’s always weird to toggle back to UK politics and discover that the Prime Minister will probably have to resign because his girlfriend mocked the preferred department store of the upper middle classes Doing up number 11 as a sort of Neocolonial nabob’s boudoir won’t go down well in Frinton-on-sea

The idea of photoshopping smiles onto Tuol Sleng prisoners is completely deranged.

https://twitter.com/vinkjohn/status/1380876964467249156

I think @VICE should take this down. There’s no value to it. It disrespects the dead and, as others have said, falsifies history.

I know everyone’s dunking on the bit in the #SewellReport where they suggest that instead of teaching the downside of colonialism we make a fun list of Indian-origin English words, but I think it might start more conversations than you think Loot, for example

Congratulations to the UK on ending centuries of institutional racism in the few years since I left the country! I did hear something about a ‘hostile environment’ but that must have been a misspelling of ‘beacon to the world’ Also, great job on policing! Turns out that they’re not political, they’re just doing their job.