@AppleAmps you’ve always been fedi’s token neurotypical

@luce-anon this is really cute actually. i like this,

On the bus rn and there's a lady watching the Simpsons on full blast no headphones, and every time there's a fun joke she turns over to her husband(?) and goes like ”look at what bart said :0"

@Velveteen i do but i’m not telling you

i am lying

@dogula you always do good work

Hey, Anthropic owes me $9000! They illegally used at least 3 of my books on LibGen to create Claude. Now they're paying a $1.5 billion settlement, at $3000 per book. See if *your* books are on the list:

https://www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/

If so, you have until March 23, 2026 to file a claim. The above website lets you file a claim, but this one explains everything more clearly:

https://authorsguild.org/advocacy/artificial-intelligence/what-authors-need-to-know-about-the-anthropic-settlement/#next-steps

Actually I exaggerated: the payment will be split between authors and publishers - so the settlement is making me do some work my publisher should be doing for me. My coauthors and I will just get half, $4500. One of these books has 2 coauthors, one has 3, and one is a book I edited, with essays by lots of authors. So $1000 is a more realistic estimate of what I get. Oh well.

Bizarrely, my most popular book, Gauge Fields, Knots and Gravity, is not on the list. But I guess it's not surprising:

"The settlement agreement discloses that approximately 500,000 titles out of the 7 million copies of books that Anthropic reportedly downloaded from LibGen and PiLiMi meet the definition required to be part of the class."

I don't know what that definition is, and why it excludes most of the books.

fixed that for you

#Wikipedia

@dogula snort responsibly

@dogula i believe in you

@j0 how old are u??

@j0 either that or you’re exactly 16

@j0 30. 24 at the youngest

@tungstenworm hiding

Experimental post: Mode 7? What About Modes 1-6?
Some games on the SNES, such as Super Mario Kart, boasted "Mode 7" technology. However, this raises the question of what happened to the previous modes. This post explains them and gives examples of their usage in Mario games.

@apophis oh okay thanks lol

@apophis sorry that already exists

@apophis i actually don’t know anything about life is strange other than that it’s primarily a story-based game and that the gay romantic choice in the game is way more popular than the straight one lol