A. G. Robertson

@banjo_paterson
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aw that's nice, my library got some books for when the AI founders drop by

Amazon adds extra seller fee despite intensifying FTC scrutiny

Change comes as booksellers urge FTC to launch another Amazon antitrust inquiry.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/amazon-adds-extra-seller-fee-despite-intensifying-ftc-scrutiny/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Amazon pinches sellers: Use our costly logistics services or pay extra fee [Updated]

Change comes as booksellers urge FTC to launch another Amazon antitrust inquiry.

Ars Technica
This kind of brilliantly stupid shit is what I miss from the early days of the internet

okay hi I made a new thing and I'm pleased to announce it: https://blackout.tilde.town . It's a tool for making blackout poetry using nine million chunks of text extracted from project gutenberg.

It's both an authoring tool and an exploration tool.

It doesn't really work on phones yet is the one thing. I'll work on that next week ^_^()

I wrote a blog post about it: https://tilde.town/~vilmibm/blog/#blackout

if you make stuff with it lmk <3

#poetry

blackout engine

I have released my short story: Hide, a prequel to my forthcoming novel Singularity!

View it now on Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/71457/hide

Or my Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/86065798

Hide | Royal Road

Deep in the mountain lakes of the Yukaan Empire, Tomas ij’Lu’kan, a haunted ex-soldier and recovered addict returns to a hunting hide he visited with his father as a child to scatter his ashes. Someone is waiting for him in the darkness of the hide, someone from his past, left long behind. In remembrance of the man that was his father, he and the other (...)

Royal Road
AI doesn't read or write like humans, and we shouldn't act like it does.

We shouldn’t be affording companies the ability to profit off other people’s creations without their consent, and despite the intentions, that's basically how current copyright law works.

Bunkazine

Shhhrrrr-Shrrr-Shrrrr

#reddit #krita #MastoArt #humanart

Literally cannot stop playing tears of the kingdom.

Send help.

#zelda #tearsofthekingdom

A plot twist can take your story from good to great. Think outside the box and surprise your readers, but make sure you foreshadow it. Readers love nothing more than figuring out twists on their own, and hate nothing more than something that comes out of nowhere.
#writing #writer #writing #writer #write #writers #writingcommunity #words #spilledink #creativewriting #writerscommunity #prose #typewriter #author #amwriting #writerslife #fantasy #fiction

Loving the absolute insanity of Eurovision semi-finals.

#Eurovision2023 #eurovision