The next ARK (Archival Resource Key) Community Call will take place on Thursday, 7 May 2026 at 0800 PDT / 1100 EDT / 1500 UTC.

Zoom registration link: https://unt.zoom.us/meeting/register/q8J0SUHnS5SkVnaLAqXTzQ

Everyone is welcome to join this 1-hour meeting, which is part of a series of open calls engaging the broader community interested in using ARK persistent identifiers (PIDs). The draft agenda (https://github.com/arks-org/arks.github.io/wiki/2026-05-07-Open-ARK-Community-Call-Agenda-and-Notes) includes open discussion.

Things I do different as a writer in the age of AI:

--use pictures of real people for character inspiration, not stock photos since they're so often AI

--double check every stock photo used for cover art to make sure it's not AI

--use botanical drawings from 150+ years ago, just because I know they're not AI

--cancel subscriptions to Word, Wordrake, Grammarly and more because they use AI

--submit to class action lawsuits against AI corps

Things I don't do:

--change anything in my writing

Does anyone on the fediverse either work on the #gmail team at #Google or know someone who does? I am looking for an email address that would go to a human employee that I can report real problems to. I have a bug report that should easily identify a spammer that sent 10,000+ spam emails through gmail last week.

I have sent many reports through the abuse form previously, but those do not seem to result in any response or a solution to the problems that I report.