@DannisWrites

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Author and Artist at DannisWrites, once DanniStories, my writing business. I’ve been on Kindle since 2009. My passion is writing! I love to learn about science, and use what I know about psychology to be helpful. Firmly believing I can make a difference in people’s lives through my stories. My specialization is social issues that affect young adults. I'm on Royal Road.com and Wattpad.com since 2024.
https://linktr.ee/danniswrites
Please join me in signing this Statement.
“The #unlicensed use of #creative #works for #training #generative #AI is a major, unjust threat to the #livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.”
https://www.aitrainingstatement.org
How AI Models Steal Creative Work — and What to Do About It | Ed Newton-Rex | TED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9d0p96N1iw
Statement on AI training

An open letter on AI training signed by creators around the world.

Statement on AI training
"People sometimes think that Chinese cuisine is the equivalent of French cuisine or something like that, but actually China is more a continent than a country"
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/fuchsia-dunlop-on-chinese-food/
Chinese Food

The English chef who studied cooking in Sichuan tells us that there is no one Chinese cuisine, how Western perceptions of Chinese food are changing, and why carrots are called "barbarian radishes" in Mandarin

Five Books

Dieser Einschüchterungsversuch hat Gründe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjCn4cTTdYM

Denn es werden immer mehr Klagen gegen das rücksichtslose Vorgehen und selbstverständlich gefällt Trump und seinen Getreuen nicht, dass nicht blind gefolgt wird.

Trump gets reckless as his agenda tanks and pushback intensifies

YouTube

More Trump Administration Incompetence and Lack of Humanity - Just Reprehensible 🤬

Did they think a two year-old was in #MS13?

Trump-Appointed Judge says 2-year-old US citizen appears to have been deported with ‘no meaningful process’

A federal judge is raising alarms that the #Trump administration deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to #Honduras with “no meaningful process,” even as the child’s father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

#immigration #deportation #dueprocess
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/us-citizen-deportation-donald-trump-00311631

Time to re-read The Masses, the 1910s literary magazine crushed by government censorship.

This political moment in America has been chilling for free speech and dissent, but like so many things about America, this government and vigilante repression isn’t new. Before Mahmoud Khalil, Rüm…

Literary Hub

The Trailblazing Merze Tate

A celebrated historian of race and imperialism, Tate was an intrepid traveler who avidly shared her passion and meticulously documented her journeys.

By: April White

https://daily.jstor.org/the-trailblazing-merze-tate/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Act-On+Software&utm_content=email&utm_term=The%20Trailblazing%20Merze%20Tate&utm_campaign=jstordaily_04232025

#womenhistory

The Trailblazing Merze Tate - JSTOR Daily

A celebrated historian of race and imperialism, Tate was an intrepid traveler who avidly shared her passion and meticulously documented her journeys.

JSTOR Daily

"People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in."

~Ludwig Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951)

Ludwig Wittgenstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1861

#books #philosophy

Books by Wittgenstein, Ludwig (sorted by popularity)

Project Gutenberg offers 75,782 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.

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We're thinking about moving to Berlin, but I wonder if we can pull this off, financially. I still haven't found a remote job, but I'm not giving up.
If you want to know who has privilege, look for the people who are allowed to be catastrophically wrong in public without losing status.

We're currently planning to leave the US and go to Europe. If anyone can suggest a good company in Europe for a remote worker, I am all ears! My employment profile is Dannis Cole on LinkedIn.

Currently researching Berlin, Germany.