Like many authors, all of my books were stolen by Meta. Honestly, book piracy never really bothered me all that much--if someone really wanted to learn Python, why not learn it from me? That's cool. Come by and say "hi" to me at a conference maybe. Having my hard efforts anonymized and regurgitated by some LLM? Not cool.

I sometimes think about updating my book, but then I see the royalty statement and realize I'd do better working one weekend a month serving fast food. Shrug.

@dabeaz Just wait until you are old and lonely… Over a business conference dinner earlier this week we were breathlessly told about how AI bots could make daily phone calls to lonely pensioners to keep them company. I must have been one of the only people womdering how talking to a machine is going to help someone feel less cut-off from people.

Fuck the future.

@simon Apropos of nothing, my wife says that I've been using the phrase "salt the earth" far too much lately.