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Be aware that Mailchimp apparently does not respect peoples' decision to unsubscribe by deleting their PII; but rather holds on to it. (As a recipient, this is *not* what I expect.)
I would not be at all surprised if other providers also do this; but in this case, it was Mailchimp being caught holding the smoking gun.
https://www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phish-just-grabbed-my-mailchimp-mailing-list/
#WritingCommunity #writers #authors #Mailchimp #privacy
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
You know when you're really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That's me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish has grabbed my credentials, logged into m…Troy Hunt
Please please please please have an astrophysicist or aerospace engineer review your book before publishing.
I'm reading an award-winning scifi book right now and while the writing is good and the author obviously tried to get the science details down, they also obviously didn't do much more than read wikipedia. It's getting painful to read.
#Authors #bookstodon #books #writing #ScienceFiction #Space
Link to introduction on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/drama/standing-bear-the-indigenous-thing-who-became-a-native-american-person-a-play-by-laura-lai
Standing Bear—The Indigenous Thing Who Became a Native American Person. A Play by Laura Lai
I laid the foundation stone of this play in Oxford during the Drama Writing course. I loved the challenge and embraced it with all my heart.Tall And True
Click here to read: https://vishakhainfo.wordpress.com/2025/02/17/interesting-facts/
Read & Share
#interestingfacts #InformativeReads #justknow #knowledgeispower #amazingfacts #blogs #knowledgelinks #educational #vishakhamothiya #writers
Interesting facts in Gujarati | Informational texts
જાણો Pronunciation & Enunciation માં શું ફરક છે??….Vishakha Info
Link to article on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/nonfiction/education-training/how-assignment-help-can-reduce-your-academic-stress
How Assignment Help Can Reduce Your Academic Stress
Academic stress is a common challenge for students. Assignment help services can be a valuable resource to alleviate this burden.Tall And True
"...court records reveal that the social media company used pirated torrents to download 81.7TB of data from shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen. It then used this information to train its AI models."
#tech #news #Meta #AI #books #bookstodon #writers #libraries #media
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-staff-torrented-nearly-82tb-of-pirated-books-for-ai-training-court-records-reveal-copyright-violations
Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
Did they think they could get away with it?Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
#writers #writing #flashfiction #shortstories
Link to the competition page on the Australian Writers' Centre website: https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/
Furious Fiction | Australian Writers' Centre
A new FURIOUS FICTION challenge goes live on the first Friday of each month. Sign up to the Fan Club to be notified!Australian Writers' Centre
Posted into Wise & Well @wise-well-robertroybritt
https://medium.com/wise-well/fake-scientific-papers-contaminate-legitimate-scholarly-output-eb6979807c01?sk=6bec51dc8ce8b72c7f1eebbfe62d24df
Please read and support if you can #thanks
https://margot-kin-berg.com/2025/01/12/until-the-sun-comes-up-over-santa-monica-boulevard/
Until the Sun Comes Up Over Santa Monica Boulevard*
To begin this post, I would like to publicly thank all of the firefighters who have risked their lives to battle the Los Angeles fires. Because of their sacrifices, my home and my family are safe. …Crime Writer Margot Kinberg
#writerslift
Link to Furious Fiction page: https://www.writerscentre.com.au/furious-fiction/
Furious Fiction | Australian Writers' Centre
A new FURIOUS FICTION challenge goes live on the first Friday of each month. Sign up to the Fan Club to be notified!Australian Writers' Centre
🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/746423146285088768/spisovatel-writer-by-eugene-ivanov
#arts #artshare #paintings 🎨 #EugeneIvanov #writers #authors
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/copyright-and-artificial-intelligence
#Writers #Authors #Copyright #ArtificialIntelligence #AI
Thread with more details:
https://bsky.app/profile/ednewtonrex.bsky.social/post/3ldjhfestis2s
Please share this information/links, there's not much time.
Copyright and Artificial Intelligence
This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.Intellectual Property Office (GOV.UK)
Link to post on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/blog/one-day-in-the-life-of-alexs-ai-book
One Day in the Life of Alex's AI (book)
One Day in the Life of Alex's AI and Other Speculative Fiction is a collection of twenty speculative fiction short stories.Tall And True
Is anyone surprised? 'Opt outs' - and we know how well behaved tech businesses have been about both written and visual workl in the past - hae been proposed. Bty the time the author/artist has caught up they will have snaffled the work and it will be impossibe to remoce it from the corpus.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/17/uk-proposes-letting-tech-firms-use-copyrighted-work-to-train-ai
#Art #Bookstadon #Handmade #Writers #Artists #CopOut #Theft
@palestine
"The Privilege of Survival" by Malak Hijazi
https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1656565
Link to story on Tall And True: https://www.tallandtrue.com.au/fiction/short-stories/more-time-and-a-ouija-board
More Time and a Ouija Board
Communicating with the living would be difficult unless someone brings a Ouija board to my funeral.Tall And True
In 2024, #writers with #StudentNation captured the stories of an emerging #generation—and revealed the future of journalism.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalisms-next-wave
The Future of Journalism Is Already Here | The Nation
In 2024, writers with StudentNation captured the stories of an emerging generation—and revealed where journalism is headed.The Nation
I offer specific strategies and tips to help #writers, editors and publishers do better. It starts with advice I give on any story idea:
"Never write what people might expect. Write what they could not anticipate."
https://writersguide.substack.com/p/how-to-write-successful-year-end
How to Write Successful Year-End Stories
Plus why and whether you should botherRobert Roy Britt (The Writer's Guide)
www.cdturnerwrites.org/stream-of-consciousness/021-brain-is-a-leaking-sponge-heart-is-a-casket
#blogwriters #blogs #writersofmastodon #writers #writerslife #writerlife #sadness #grief #loss
https://www.cdturnerwrites.org/stream-of-consciousness/019-i-was-asleep-before-thats-how-we-let-it-happen
#writers #writersofmastodon #blogwriters #blogs #election #electionnews #perspective #sliceoflife
019 - “I was asleep before. That’s how we let it happen.”
"Now I'm awake to the world. I was asleep before. That's how we let it happen. When they slaughtered Congress, we didn't wake up. When they blamed terrorists and suspended the Constitution, we didn't wake up then either.CD Turner (CD Turner Writes)
https://www.cdturnerwrites.org/stream-of-consciousness/018-i-wont-be-made-uselessi-wont-be-idle-with-despair
#blogwriter #writers #writersofmastodon #blogs #sliceoflife
018 - I won’t be made useless…I won’t be idle with despair.
I’ve allowed myself to doom and gloom today. But I’m not going to be a willing doormat to goose-step over. I took one step to donate to the ACLU. It’s like that Jewel song, “Hands”, as referenced in the title.CD Turner (CD Turner Writes)
https://www.palfest.org/refusing-complicity
@palestine
#Gaza
#writers
#boycott
This will be a series of short questions with a few longer #WritingPrompts mixed in, intended to help improve yourself as a #writer, and to improve whatever #story you’re working on.
(Continued in thread)
#Halloween #october
Empirically, Dropbox Basic syncs any changes you make anywhere to the cloud, but only indicates a sync occurred on devices (phones, tablets). In the Files app on iPhone, I see a ghost image with a down arrow in a cloud symbol beside files changed elsewhere. I have to open them to get them to sync locally. If I have no data access at my moment of need, the local file either doesn't exist yet or is out-of-date. For some reason, my Mac always syncs and downloads, at least if it is open. It's my iPhone (likely my iPad, too) that don't.
What cued me is the notifications in the Dropbox app.
I've attached a screenshot. The notifications imply this is a new monetization feature. Sadly, a good one from Dropbox's company standpoint as it may get many more people to pay a minimum of $120 a year. (BTW, #Apple #iCloud now offers Keep Downloaded even in their free 5 GB plan, though I'm still testing to see if I trust this always works.)
#Scrivener uses an API, which seems to cause my Mac to sync file last changed on iPhone or iPad when I turn on my Mac... However, sometimes I need to pause Dropbox syncing and resume it on my Mac to get the Scrivener files to sync. Could this be the cause of those intermittent sync errors I've been getting lately, because I'm not paying $10/m for offline access? I can't definitively say.
In any case, we Scrivener users know you need online access when opening Scrivener on iPad or iPhone to get the latest files, consistent with the issue. There's no auto-download feature in Scrivener for iPhone and iPad, and on the Mac it's the Dropbox app controlling the syncing... oh, my.
All this seems to imply that without a paid subscription, Basic Plan Dropbox isn't good for disaster recovery after all data access disappears (hurricane, earthquake, black out). Of course, if data is important to us, the retort is "Pay for your f***ing security!"
Has anyone looked into this?
Linked is the May 20, 2024 Dropbox FAQ on this, and it's somewhat inscrutable. The image is of the notifications I've received that imply some change.
Anyone want to analyze this?
Please boost so we might some who can discuss this. #boostingIsSharing
#backup #sync #cloud #writers #journalism #journalist #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #FreeSoftware
https://help.dropbox.com/sync/access-files-offline#How-to-keep-your-offline-files-and-folders-updated-on-the-Dropbox-mobile-app
How to make a file or folder available offline
Learn how to easily make your Dropbox files and folders available offline on any device, and access them without being connected to the internet.help.dropbox.com
