Carrie K

@emynarnon
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Cat by day. Owl by night. Fan of scarlet runner beans.
#Writer #WritingCommunity #Authors
Pronounsshe/her

"No application of armed violence can make the men with guns as heroic as the people who choose to stand in their path with empty hands in defense of their neighbors. These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back."
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8L893jn-xkg4gA0ahaD_Ltw&utm

#ICE #AbolishICE #Trump #Fascism #News #Minneapolis #Minnesota #ReneeGood #AlexPretti #USA #US #UnitedStates #America

"The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use"

The number of art pieces alone is staggering to contemplate. Having them freely available to browse is incredible, and to then put a #HiRes #scan for all of them into the #PublicDomain is astonishing.

A lifetime of #museum visits to view remarkable #art without a lifetime of travel. No, you don't get exactly the same experience, but holy brushstrokes, Batman...!!!

#TheMet

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection

The Met Collection - The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Travel around the world and across 5,000 years of history through 490,000+ works of art.

Not sure if this is a scam but I got an email from Four Seasons Total Landscaping saying I’m shortlisted for their Peace Prize.
Timeline cleanse.
Hiroshi Yoshida: Mountain Stream.

Protest Thread #55: We Are All Marxist Terrorists With Rabies

That's it for another day outside the #ICE field office. To recap, ICE runs like cockroaches from the light, so court watch already ran them out of immigration court in this city as in others. Now ICE lures law abiding immigrants into their field office to kidnap them where we aren't allowed. So we sit/stand on the sidewalk outside the field office to tell people their options, which...
#protests #50501movement

this is what Tylenol should release in response

"AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry."

Win win.
I just registered my name & book details with the appropriate law firm.

Check if your book/article/paper is on the list here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If it is, go here:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_social-type=owned

#authors #books #AI

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

The Atlantic
I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:trqqcu6a3xwkmserqrohveu5/post/3lvokpx3uls2b
Miami New Times - Guest checking in to a La Quinta Inn & Suites in Miami finds the front desk had moved to India. https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/la-quinta-investigating-miamis-viral-remote-receptionist-23748941
La Quinta Investigating Miami's Viral Remote Receptionist

A visitor seemed stumped during a recent trip to a Miami La Quinta when they had to check in using a remote receptionist.

Miami New Times