Notices by Sue is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 (susankayequinn@wandering.shop), page 3

Welp, here are my stats from the Anthropic AI class action lawsuit claims database (took 2 days to sort this UGH):
91 titles pirated in LibGen
73 registered works
51 met all the criteria/timing for registration
ONLY 40 are in the Works database

I'm appealing the other 11 (some novels, some shorts).

As I've been asking myself ever since reading BLOOD IN THE MACHINE: "What's my hammer?" (in the fight against AI)

My answers (so far): 1) stories and 2) copyright.
1/n

**Stories** (including Frankenstein-esque stories that attack man's hubris about technology and how ambition is driving "Great Men" to destroy the world) can do the imaginative work to change the public narrative about AI. Fight the "inevitability" story. Reclaim the Luddites. Reveal the techbros for the stupid ambitious men eating the world that they are. Show them empty inside. Even better, show a world that doesn't accept their bullshit and how it's the one you want to live in.
2/n

I'm personally doing this on two fronts, both my solarpunk/hopepunk stories that embrace "appropriate" technology that serves humanity and my anti-AI stories, which include my short story collection, but I think it's time to circle back to Singularity and rewrite that Frankentein-esque prequel I only have in screenplay form.
3/n
https://susankayequinn.com/books/closet-full-of-time-and-other-dark-tales

**Copyright:** use the rule of law (which the AI industry flouts with impunity) and specifically protecting copyright for the millions of small creators they tossed into the machine. Use it to bankrupt them, to scare away their investors, to bring the AI bubble crashing even faster.

I'm doing this work today as I go through my 97 pirated works to see which of them met all the conditions to file Claims in the Anthropic AI class action lawsuit. 40 🔨 so far, but I'm trying for more.
4/n

Early on in my writing career, I created a Mission Statement—the terminology feels cringe now but it really helped.

After a while, I didn't need it, but part was always "create a large body of works".

As I go thru my Anthropic claims, I can truly say "mission accomplished" (more cringe!) on that.

#writing

My cat is mental...she has to be actively stopped from not unplugging things and chewing on electric cords.

straight to the Hague with all of them

"Karp believes that the U.S. boat strikes in the Caribbean (which many experts believe to be war crimes) are a moneymaking opportunity for his company...the military would have to use Palantir’s technology..." (to kill people)

https://gizmodo.com/palantir-ceo-says-making-war-crimes-constitutional-would-be-good-for-business-2000695162

on the nose metaphors: some of the more painful parts of this cursed timeline

Hubby is supposed to be brainstorming gift ideas for the kids but instead he's looking up auto door openers FOR CHICKEN COOPS with... I am not kidding... facial recognition for your chicken to make sure you don't let in the WRONG CHICKEN.

What a life.

LOL not 12 hours later... this is how you do that

North Carolina, y'all getting up to some good trouble, keep going.

If your impulse is "don't tell the newbies how to edit the registry!" then kindly redirect your anger to the AI corps who made this necessary in the first place.

My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨

My periodic shout into the void:

The only reason why anyone cares about anyone's gender is because the whole of society is based around assigning human rights based on gender (and societal privileges to the "better" genders).*

*terms and conditions apply, worse in some societies than others, but all do this

I started out being frugal with tech (keeping laptops & phones until the planned obsolescence won out).

Then I got sustainability-minded and got refurbished and modular/repairable (when possible).

Now I'm keeping old tech because it doesn't have AI🔨(also going open source, step by step). #fuckAI

America is determined to re-learn all the lessons the hard way: that democracy is a participation sport, that you will lose every fucking right you don't fight for, that non-violent protest of sufficient quantities of people is fucking terrifying to the fascists.

8/n

Fascists being unable to force the resistance to riot has been clarifying *for both sides*.

Non-violence is the great weapon of every resistance movement.

**there is a reason why all our narratives say it doesn't work**

the only way they can stop us is by convincing us not to resist

10/n

Like... a whole neighborhood running off ICE with nothing but whistles and cursing? It's an *indelible* lesson.

Like...7M people in the streets having an antifa party calling for your ouster? Terrifying to the fash.
9/n

we really really (REALLY) are in a moment of great cultural change and now is our chance to create out of nearly whole cloth the world that we want to live in

11/n