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Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.Aug 15, 2025

I'm currently reading the Kickstartered re-release of Richard Kadrey's Kamikaze L'amour, which was a difficult find due to being out of print for decades. Hopefully this new edition will get some attention.

It's about a washed up superstar rocker with synesthesia trying to navigate a Bay area being infiltrated by a mutant Amazon rainforest. I'm enjoying it, and seeing a lot of familiar attitude from his later books. It's also vaguely solarpunk, before its time. Seek it out!

#books #sff #RichardKadrey
@Kadrey

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Sean Eric Fagan Feb 4, 2024

Queer Lit Cats Jul 10, 2023

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Sarah Silverman Is Leading the Charge Against OpenAI and Meta https://jezebel.com/sarah-silverman-suing-openai-meta-chatgpt-ai-1850623860 #Jezebel #generativepretrainedtransformer #artificialneuralnetworks #entertainmentculture #largelanguagemodels #matthewbutterick #sarahsilverman #markzuckerberg #richardkadrey #thebedwetter #josephsaveri #christopher #silverman #bedwetter #elonmusk #chatbots #chatgpt #openai #meta

Sarah Silverman Is Leading the Charge Against OpenAI and Meta

The comedian is part of a class action lawsuit accusing the tech companies of copyright infringement. To Silverman and her co-plaintiffs, I bid godspeed.

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LilMikeSF Jul 10, 2023

#RichardKadrey, and #SarahSilverman are latest authors who've filed lawsuits againt Zuck's #Meta and #OpenAI over #copyright infringement of their works. They are amongst a growing trend of #IntellectualProperty #rightsholders including #GettyPhotos seeking #legal redress from data scraping #ArtificialIntelligence corps

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/9/23788741/sarah-silverman-openai-meta-chatgpt-llama-copyright-infringement-chatbots-artificial-intelligence-ai

Sarah Silverman is suing OpenAI and Meta for copyright infringement

Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey are suing OpenAI and Meta over violation of their copyrighted books. The trio says their works were pulled from illegal “shadow libraries” without their consent.

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David Kirkpatrick May 23, 2023

5/22/23 random entry:

1. Metrophage
2. Richard Kadrey
3. Gollancz UK
4. 1988
5. 1st HC print
6. Why I own it: Kadrey's better known as the author of the Sandman Slim books. After I read the first couple of those, I looked for his earlier books. This was his first, a cyperpunk-styled novel with heavy nods to William Gibson, but with a few unique twists. The protagonist has elements in common with Sandman Slim.

#Bookstodon #RichardKadrey