Notices by azteclady (herhandsmyhands@romancelandia.club), page 3

#PSA Heads up: Soundcloud will use your content to train AI

ETA: Lovely news! The change to SoundCloud's terms of service happened in February 2024; they've been stealing your intellectual property for a whole-ass year.

https://futurism.com/soundcloud-ai-terms-of-service

#ArtificialIntelligence #GenAI #SoundCloud

@romancelandia @bookstodon

The whole "Unbound Publishing goes into ad ministration--and the owners move on to a new publishing venture, which has also acquired some of the assets of the dying business" seems like a full-on scam to me.

#Unbound #Boundless #Scam

Writers beware, I guess

https://www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound-goes-into-administration-as-archna-sharma-and-john-mitchinson-launch-new-publisher

I know it's bad form to post links to Bluesky, but one of the authors owed several thousand dollars by #Unbound has found a clause in their contract that means the new (and ever more fucked up) #Boundless doesn't own their work.

Please read this thread by Alex De Campi:

https://bsky.app/profile/alexdecampi.bsky.social/post/3lqf5xjkqok2u

And if you were thinking about working with #Boundless or its principals: don't. #Scam

@romancelandia @bookstodon

#PSA #CallToAction

The new Harry Potter show is upon us, and while there's debate as to how much JK Rowling is involved in the running of the show, the fact remains: it's her IP. It makes money, she makes money.

If you watch it, if you buy HP merch, if you visit the HP park attractions, if you make others curious to watch it, etc., you are funding this TERF's persecution of trans people.

So, don't.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights #HarryPotter #JKRowling #Transphobe #TERF

https://www.advocate.com/news/jk-rowling-anti-trans-organization

#PSA: if you are in the UK...

This is not a drill: Sir Ian McKellen will open an all-trans, non-binary production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night"!!!

July 25, 2025, in London--and it's a fundraiser for a trans charity!

Get thee there!

#TransRightsAreHumanRights

https://www.attitude.co.uk/culture/sir-ian-mckellen-to-open-historic-all-trans-and-nonbinary-production-of-twelfth-night-484397/

#CallToAction: the FDA wants to roll back access to COVID vaccine boosters to only people over 65 or younger people with specific conditions--which don't include LongCOVID.

There's an open comment period still open: PLEASE leave a comment, demand that everyone who wants one be able to access the COVID vaccine and boosters.

#COVID #COVIDVaccines #COVIDBoosters #FDAVaccinePolicies

Comment here:
https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001

Reporting on the proposed bullshit policy here:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/fda-vaccine-framework-new-covid-shot-recommendations-vinay-prasad-marty-makary/

#JoyScrolling

art by Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social

(found via @authormsbev, who asked foe the rest of their story--which II seconded)

#PSA: if you have a Steam account, you may wanna look into changing your password ASAP

Please boost and share so people can protect themselves as best as they can.

#Steam #DataBreach

ETA: and apparently it's all bullshit (read multiple comments below this)

Well, this is depressing.

(Listen to Elmo, contact your Congresscritters and ask them to enforce their role as the ones who dole out the money for shit)

#PublicTelevision #CallToAction #SesameStreet

@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