Let me interest you to my bear cubs characters! Beru🐻‍❄️, Koko🐻 and Meng🐈‍⬛

You will be seeing them a lot from me :D

My handwriting is the same style as the teacher’s who I had when I was nine. I’m now twenty one and he’s been dead eight years but my i’s still curve the same way as his.

I watched the last season of a TV show recently but I started it with my friend in high school. We haven’t spoken in four years.

I make lentil soup through the recipe my gran gave me.

I curl my hair the way my best friend showed me.

I learned to love books because my father loved them first.

they've had to face settlements against stealing from current authors, so they'll just go for the old books now. they're also doing this so they have the only copies of rare books.

"One small book seller said that in April, he suddenly went from selling no more than 20 books a week to hundreds, and he’s almost certain that the customers are AI labs, noting the random selection of the books and how they all have ISBNs. He added that his inventory is full with rare and out of print books, meaning that an AI company could be destroying some of the few remaining copies that can be found.

“I personally have mixed feelings about all of this,” the bookseller told 404. “It benefits me financially as well as by clearing out old inventory that is otherwise unlikely to sell. I’ve been well-suited for these sales with inventory from overseas and foreign language books.

From a Google search:

This process took advantage of a legal concept known as first-sale doctrine, which allows a buyer to do what they want with a purchase without the original copyright holder’s say-so. And since Anthropic was turning the original physical texts into digital ones — rather than redistributing them as new copies — a judge found this to be “transformative,” and therefore protected by fair use."

This is genuinely making me feel insane. I didn't work at a library, taking classes on learning how to fix books (so that they can continue to exist and continue being read and used), spending hours fixing books, carefully maintaining and cleaning books that have been read and used, just for people to tear them apart. And I'm sure as hell these rare book sellers didn't expect the same thing to become of the books they have spent time and effort procuring for their stores, so that collectors can continue to own, read, and use them. I don't spend my free time writing stories - pages upon fucking pages - for my and others' enjoyment, pouring my entire soul upon the fucking pages, just for some ridiculous "AI" company to scan it all into their bullshit machine. Why? Why are they doing this? For profit? For control?