This Is How Meta AI Staffers Deemed More Than 7 Million Books to Have No “Economic Value” As more than a dozen lawsuits churn ahead, newly unsealed case files reveal the company’s stance: The pirated books Meta used to train its AI, including ones by Beverly Cleary, Jacqueline Woodson, and Andrew Sean Greer, are individually worthless.

Meta trained the company's AI on tens of millions of pirated novels and books, including my own stories. Their defense: the books are individually "worthless." 1/ www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

I'm really pleased to kick off our dark holiday storytelling with this longer tale by @rjsodaro.bsky.social.

My dog Rain playing with a squeaky bone.

Working on this manuscript and there's a ferocious hound in it...

Maritima

Here a place of worship
Watched over the sea

Named for an emperor
This fortunate port

They came eastward
Westward they travelled

Caravans and fleets
Jars of wine; dark blood

Slighted time and again
In narrow places: destruction layers

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Coincidentally just did the same thing.

Five by Bethany Fine 1. Lift your hand once a day to your eyeto remind your body not to expelIts body. Better if it’s full of iris or amaryllis  or a firecracker,the femur and jaw of a small circledthing you saw while ...

'What does it means to love the world?'
'Poor Heidegger – poor anyone looking'
'I could bite through what’s left of my wrists.'
'nictitating eyes are rich in veils'
'remind the eye it is only an altar bowl'
#Poet Bethany Fine engages w/body, mind, myth & viscera in 5 #poems for FIRE OF THE MIND

"Hey Siri, why's the weather so hot?"

"Shut up and let him cook."

Anthemique A new music service with official albums, singles, videos, remixes, live performances and more for Android, iOS and desktop. It's all here.

A playlist of some anthemic metal songs. Avoided frontloading obvious picks. Clean vox only.

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Thank you so much! 😁