tl;dr Books, most likely generated by an LLM, were being sold on Amazon under Jane Friedman's name. The same books were added to her Goodreads profile. Amazon initially refused to remove the books. If it's happening to her, it's definitely happening to other authors.
The sea in #Normandy looks different if you’ve chosen (a local bookstore accommodated) to read #Condé, #Glissant, and a book on regional entanglements in the #transatlantic slave trade and the slave economies. #slavery#history
Glissant, in his “discours antillais”, talks about “inquiète tranquillité”:
“The uneasy tranquillity of our existences, by so many obscure relays tied to the tremor of the world.”
Drei Wochen hinter meinem Zeitplan habe ich nun auch endlich Baustelle 2 des Großprojekts Habil-Fertig-Schreiben geschafft. Jetzt kann das Wochenende kommen!
@MichiganPal I’ve just started the Red House by Roz Watkins. I’m only a few chapter in but am so far enjoying it, after a couple of false starts on books that failed to keep my interest. It is about a dark topic but hopefully will be suspenseful rather than grim.
It does have the below quote, which my greyhound-adjacent part-whippet would resent if she could bestir herself from her bed…
I'm the reviewer you want today: I just submitted an "accept as-is" on this R&R two hours after receiving it. Somebody give me a cookie (or send this kind reviewer energy my way, please).
I was thinking about getting a Steam Deck but I'm not entirely sure if it's better than my GTX 970. I'll have to do more research since there's no point in getting something that isn't an upgrade.
The official Valve dock has connectivity issues, but there are plenty of third party docks that are cheaper and work better.
Using the default system settings, I’ve never had any performance issues with it docked compared to handheld.
It’s important to note that unlike the Switch, docked mode does not improve performance. Trying to play a game at your TV’s native resolution most definitely will cause performance issues, but again, default system settings work perfectly.
@eurunuela I'm also starting to see groups like @neurobuzz (I joined) and @academicchatter (haven't yet joined) which are designed to boost within-topic posts that are shared with them.
@neilhimself Hello from Vancouver BC, Canada. You autographed a 1st edition of Good Omens for my husband at a signing decades ago.
I am about to commit my husband to a columbarium cell (yes he is dead, we call him Urny now); authentication of your autograph ( DM me) would be worth a few installment payments. Would you kindly supply authentication?
Thanks
Last RT - many mental health providers I know (myself included, though less often nowadays) use zoom for clinical work/meetings/teletherapy. We’ve been told by the company itself, by the health insurance industry, and by our agencies that it’s HIPAA compliant and safe/ confidential to use.
Is anyone out there talking about or able to explain the implications of the TOS change for this use case? #socialwork#telehealth#zoom#HIPAA
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Hey, therps, wake up a new (apparently super problematic) new Zoom Terms of Service just dropped that seems to say they can listen in to communications across their service and use them to train AIs, no opt out, HIPAA BAAs be damned.
Lots of people, clinicians and otherwise, are understandably freaking out. I'm just hearing about this and haven't had a chance to investigate, and won't for a while.