@juliettewade.com
Novelist, linguist, anthropologist, Ph.D. Fascinated by social systems. Rep'd by K. O'Higgins The Broken Trust series: 1. Mazes of Power (DAW 2020) juliettewade.com Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/JulietteWade CA in AUS, Naarm she/her NO AI
- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such
The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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This is the way.
Anna’s Hummingbird in Southern Oregon
🪶 🐦🌿 Sat still for a while and this little flash of color finally landed close enough for a shot. Moments like this are why I love being out here. 📍 Oregon, USA
#hummingbird #naturephotography #birdphotography #birding #birdsofbsky
Check this out! Such a cool idea: 12 speculative fiction novels translated into English from languages that are underrepresented in our English libraries. So excited to read these!
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Good news from Appalachia specifically the town of Franklin in Western North Carolina the Noquosiyi mound has now been officially returned to our Cherokee kinfolk! It brings me a lot of pride and it fills me with hope as an Appalachian that this has happened.
#LandBack
Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is.
Bad news: It’s even worse than we thought.
If you look at the list of peptides, one of the peptides on that list (Melanotan II) is one where my husband treated someone in the ER who lost the ability to speak in words for half a day after injecting it.
"retail theft" is such a spectacular lie of post-pandemic reality-creation. it gave cover for companies to expand the surveillance state, raise their prices, and close stores in slightly less profitable areas, conveniently turning the actual solution (hire more employees) into a total non sequitur
stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.
this was a radicalizing discovery for me.
The Albanese Government's case for crackdown on FOI fell apart when it became clear that there is no "flood" of FOI requests.
Case load is about the same as 20 years ago. The extra costs and delays are a result of FOI officers spending their time trying to block access and censor documents.
And if you were repeating the line that there are “too many racists in Texas” for Crockett to win, you aren’t analyzing the problem. You’re helping maintain it.
If you’re not willing to challenge racism, you’re assisting it.
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This thread.
When I was 11 I was in an educational film with Ray Bolger.
A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.
An intricate octopus cut from a single piece of paper
Japanese artist Masayo Fukuda hand-cut this life-sized octopus from one sheet of paper. Known as Kirie in Japanese (translated as “cut picture”), the art form involves cutting intricate forms from a single sheet of white paper and then contrasting it against a black background to reveal the design.
this should be the end of the Gavin Newsom 2028 discussion. the party has spoken, full stop
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Swing, pendulum, swing
16 of the 20 institutes in the Nat'l Institutes of Health, once the crown jewel of U.S. biomedical research, now have no permanent directors. The purge has happened within the months of the Trump regime. Altogether the NIH has 27 institutes & centers, such as the Nat'l Cancer Institute👇
"The research suggests that generalizations about human behavior are often flawed because they rely on samples composed largely of White individuals."
A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.
It would mean the lobbying by big US tech firms had succeeded, and the protests of the UK's creatives had been ignored.
People's work is not the government's to give away.
If you're in the UK and you care about creatives and the creative industries, please write to your MP!
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In the House of Lords today, a government minister refused to rule this out.
To be clear, this would amount to legalising theft. It would fly in the face of public opinion on what is fair, and would mean a surrender of British creatives' work by this Labour government.
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There are rumours it is considering introducing a 'commercial research exception' for AI training. This would be disastrous. It would mean handing the life's work of British creatives to AI companies for free, to train their models on.
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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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I get asked to show up to book clubs, online and offline. Here is why from now on the answer is always "no." If you think this might have something to do with "AI" ruining yet another thing for everyone, you're absolutely 100% correct.
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I think it will just be Pacific Daylight Time, consistently.
North American standard please?
