Notices by Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)

@lauren

Platforms I was thinking of migrating to until last week:

* ProtonMail
* Wordpress

Sigh. I suppose next Apple will change their iconic symbol to a swastika?

@rayres definitely my approach when I'm in court... @cstross

@glynmoody Nope: in UK copyright law "fair dealing" covers SHORT extracts of up to about 20 words. Emit more than that? The LLM is in breach of the law.

@glynmoody It's not just extracting patterns: the entire content is present and can be regurgitated/reconstructed.

@glynmoody It's copyright violation on a massive scale, is what it is, and the anti-piracy group is in the right in this case. It's possible to train LLMs legally: but the techbro culture of "move fast and break things" includes "laws" in things they think it's okay to break.

#WritersCoffeeClub 1/28—Would anything stop you from writing, or do you have the bug for life?

Burnout is a problem when you write full time for a living—but if you can save up words you can send off for a sabbatical: I've tried to take six month long breaks once a decade (with mixed success—real life emergencies tend to interrupt them).

No, Amazon, I know my delivery number blah last Friday did not go as expected, but I'm not going to update my delivery preferences with instructions for what to do in event of a 50 year storm so bad you cancelled all your deliveries that day because the bridge connecting my city to your main warehouse in Fife was close due to high winds!

@lorenac What do you think anti-protest laws, internet surveillance, and increasingly militarized policing are for? The capitalist class and their proxy governments expect it and are taking steps to survive the unrest.

@SoftwareTheron @HighlandLawyer @PaulaMaddox BRB, just got to go and hastily write new non-fiction book, title COOKING FOR MEDUSA

@fahrni @mitchw Disagree strongly: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/10/why-microsoft-word-must-die.html

(I probably need to update that rant to add the evils of CoPilot, but life's too short. Suffice to say my publishing contract small print would put me in breach if I were to use it!)

@usmu @digitalrodent @afewbugs Disagree! It's ALWAYS safe to get your own visage tattoo'd on your anatomy. Preferably complete with a tattoo depicting yourself in miniature in the appropriate location …

@cstross haggis burger with cheese and onions rings?

@jzb Sony began marketing e-ink ebook readers in 2004 and I was an early adopter, so I'm in the 5-or-more basket because I've been using them for over 20 years at this point. I suspect I'm not the only one …

@rakslice Surely "a cyberbunk" is just a 19" rackmount with extra pillows?

@jamesthomson oh oh oh does it know of me? I need to know what tales it thinks it knows.

What-if battered deep-fried haggis (a chip shop staple) only done a la Chicken Kiev with a delicious goopy melty Fry's Turkish Delight filling? Served with salt'n'sauce on top of a bed of deep fried onion rings ...?

Wouldn't that be SPLENDID?

@quinn @ianb It's like marca has never heard of deflation, or of the need for demand to kinda-sorta balance supply in the market, or for (hint) consumers to be able to pay for goods, or even the possibility of starving to death surrounded by plenty in the absence of liquidity …

@EmbraAgain Is this a bad time to say that I *like* pineapple on pizzas with ham?

@StefanKarstens Who?

"I'm sorry sir, you're definitely pregnant.'

(NB: yes, I'm aware of mpreg fic and also transmen and a bunch of other edge cases: but this is definitely a horror story for readers who are cishet conservative males.)
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