https://sunny.garden/@Mustbetuesday/116291057155965451

Hey i feel like there's a lot of authors out here actually and some of them might have needed to figure out how this settlement applies to anthologies? Is Jamie's understanding about whether they can file a claim correct?

And while I think there's lots of authors here, I dunno that a lot of them follow me, so boosts for visibility would be good.

#books #bookstodon

The government says journalists and sources who are living in the United States illegally don’t have First Amendment rights.

But the First Amendment was written to limit government power, not let officials decide whose voices are worth hearing.

https://freedom.press/issues/no-first-amendment-for-some-immigrant-journalists-or-sources-govt-says/

Heads-up for published authors:

The deadline to join the Anthropic class-action copyright settlement is March 30. If you have published a book, you may be eligible to receive ~$1,500 per book, so it’s worth your time to check it out.

I had been putting it off and finally completed my forms last week.

Learn more at the Authors Guild: https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/

Start the process: https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

in 1873, a relatively minor professional artist named Viktor Hartmann died suddenly in his 30s. As part of his memorial, an exhibition of his paintings was held, including his winning design proposal for a new "Great Gate of Kiev" which was never actually built.

Most of those paintings have since been lost, and no-one knows what they looked like. And yet you do know: you've heard them.

The memorial exhibition was attended by Viktor's grieving friend, Modest Mussorgsky. Modest walked slowly through the exhibition, which included drawings that Viktor had given to him personally, and went home and sat down at his piano. He composed one of the world's most famous pieces of music.

"Pictures at an Exhibition" is paintings we can't see and a gate that was never built, made known to us by a grieving musician.

complete recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwJMpQiqCm4

full context for the grieving orchid: https://xkcd.com/1259/

#classicalmusic

Just realized that March 23 is #WorldBearDay A bit late to the party but some of you probably know that they are one of my favourite subjects to photograph. I have a page in my portfolio dedicated to black bears: https://www.catherinebabault.com/black-bears-on-vancouver-island and another one for grizzly bears: https://www.catherinebabault.com/grizzly-bears-on-vancouver-island

Here's a photo of a beautiful black bear during the salmon run on Vancouver Island.

#photography #VancouverIslandWildlife #bears #wildlife