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Copyright Just Shelley Technology Writing

Anthropic Author Class Action Settlement: How to do Everything Wrong

Tenth Update (Sept 15): The judge gave permission for the class lawyers to update the Anthropic class action website. It should, once changed, reflect the current status of the settlement, which is try to correct allocations, send them into the void. and never hear anything back. The Author’s Guild has an updated advice list for […]

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Government

Prediction: Trump forced out, Vance in after midterms

At the recent NATO Summit, Trump went all in on the crazy. He demanded Greenland, again. He chastised Spain. He called Iranians scum and said the cease fire was over. He promised to bomb every bridge and every water desalination plant in Iran—both of which are war crimes. And during an interview with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, […]

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Government Legal, Laws, and Regs Savannah

Chatham County Commissioners, CAT, and Lessons in Semantics

“It sucks for you, but we’re not gonna pass a tax on your citizens without them deciding,” Kicklighter said. “If they let their citizens vote on it and their citizens approve it, it’ll be approved by this county commission.” The above is from a WTOC article that covered a Chatham County commission decision to deny […]

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Annotated Court Copyright Legal, Laws, and Regs

Anthropic Class Action lawsuit hearing – quick update

I’m writing a bigger piece on the Anthropic class action lawsuit, but I thought I’d do a quick update on the final settlement hearing yesterday. Well, that was interesting. The judge reminds me a bit of Mom, when you’re fibbing and she knows you’re fibbing and you know she knows you’re fibbing but she has […]

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Burningbird Just Shelley Writing

Hi, I’m Burningbird

Hi, I’m Burningbird. I love to write. I have a weblog.