Notices by azteclady (herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club)

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors

You can now search to find out which of your books, short stories, articles, etc. have been stolen by Meta/Facebook.

Most authors I know have had *their entire backlist* stolen.

Divest from Facebook/Instagram/Treads.

#GenAI #Theft #Zuckerberg #Meta

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If your books have been stolen by Meta to train their GenAI machine, The Authors Guild has concrete steps for you to take today; also important to know that if your work was stolen, you are automatically part of the Kadrey v Meta class action in California:

ETA: I am told this only applies to U.S. authors/U.S. copyright holders.

@romancelandia @bookstodon #Romancelandia #IndieAuthors #GenAI #Meta #IPTheft #AuthorsGuild

https://authorsguild.org/news/meta-libgen-ai-training-book-heist-what-authors-need-to-know/

@lilithsaintcrow so many people go into publishing without understanding two basic facts: one, money flows TO the author, and two, royalties aren't operating capital.

I just read the phrase "a pregnant red cardinal bird"

...and my brain broke.

#Language

#CallToAction via John Green: call and/or email your electeds about restoring funding for the Global Drug Facility, which underpins health initiatives around the planet.

Do not let them tell you that Musk and the rest "didn't know" what they were doing when they killed USAID funding--they killed it and with it millions of innocents.

Call: https://act.pih.org/foreign-aid-freeze

Email: https://act.pih.org/foreign-aid-freeze-email

#USPolitics #Healthcare #Tuberculosis

#CallToAction Call your elected representatives and push back against the SAVE act, which would disenfranchise millions--including white married women who go along with fascism to keep their own pitiful domestic power.

#USPolitics #SAVEAct #VotingRights

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/

#CallToAction: Indiana pulls funding for Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.

CALL YOUR ELECTEDS. Write to them, email them, if you can, show up at their offices. Don't wait for someone else to do "something"--do what YOU can do.

#Indiana #Libraries #BookBans

https://www.14news.com/2025/02/19/teacher-concerned-after-indiana-cuts-book-gifting-program-imagination-library/

@romancelandia @bookstodon

Heads up from Kelly Jensen: she has moved her newsletter (formerly known as "Literary Activism" from the Nazi bar (substack) to Buttondown; you can subscribe to "Well Sourced" here:

https://buttondown.com/wellsourced

#PSA: Dark Horse Comics announcement re: #NeilGaiman

Note: the publisher is losing money here, this is a brave and correct stance. If you can, support them.

#PSA: for those quitting #facebook #Threads #Instagram etc. over fears that Zuckerberg's monster will continue spying on you, consider using a trackers blocker

#PrivacyBadger #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #EFF #Privacy #DataPrivacy

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data

#JoyScrolling

"At 100 years old, legendary saxophonist and Sun Ra leader Marshall Allen is releasing his debut solo album"

#Music #Saxophon #MarshallAllen #Jazz

https://consequence.net/2025/01/marshall-allen-new-dawn/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_-XTiIyXQc

#NeilGaiman #TanithLee #Plagiarism #Exploitation

Because misogyny knows no boundaries, and abuse takes many forms.

#PSA: apparently #Audible is issuing refunds/credits for #NeilGaiman books.

Please note: I don't have and have never had an Audible subscription, so I can't provide you detailed instructions or receipts.

I am sharing what I've seen on social media, which is: you can contact Audible's customer service, and explain that you want refunds for any Gaiman audible audiobooks you may own, and that you know other people have received refunds for same.

Try it for yourself or not, up to you.

Welp.

#LAFires #ClimateChange #OctaviaButler

#LAFires: since MSM isn't making the connection clear, here's NOAA's explainer on how #ClimateChange is fueling wildfires (though they focus on California, it applies as underlying cause for the increased frequency and force/extent of wildfires around the globe)

https://www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfire/wildfire-climate-connection

There's a new French version of The Count of Monte Cristo coming out this year and it looks absolutely FANTASTIC.

#LeComteDeMonteCristo #TheCountOfMonteCristo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0YnbsyvGS0

@clacke Thank you for letting me know!

#USPolitics #HunterBidenPardon

One of the arguments Democrats put forth to swiftly concede an election and smile for photo ops with the Republicans they decried as fascists for months, is that norms and precedent should be respected, and if the public suffer, it's a price they're willing to pay. Civility and collegiality, etc.

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#USPolitics #HunterBidenPardon

Biden pardoning his son in the hopes that Trump et al can't/won't stage a spectacle trial flies in the face of this. It's the same self-interest that Republicans use ever more openly in the age of Trump; it's what put Javanka in possession of state secrets and risked national security.

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#USPolitics #HunterBidenPardon

So if Biden is willing to "violate" norms for his son, why isn't he willing to do so for democracy? At this point, what the hell is stopping him from doing something--anything!--to protect millions of people at risk from deportation, poverty, illness, political revenge, and violence?

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