@apophis ahhhh. yeah. my mother had raised some orphans from africa before she had me and they have non-traditional (by america’s standards) names, and she’s told me how much of a headache getting them registered for things like driver’s licenses was.

@apophis why?

@AppleAmps it takes five years and a half-dozen people to make 50 little games that are fun :)

Libraries matter. Access matters.

After years of legal battles, the Internet Archive is still here—and still fighting for a world where everyone can read, learn, and remember.

@arstechnica tells the story: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

rockstar is the south park of video games and that is extremely not a compliment

Today, I've gotten to the point where I think it's sufficient to make a first release of my protomojis! I have made 110 unique expressions for 3 bases, making for a total of 330 emoji! Perfect for more custom emojis on fedi or whatever else you might want them for. This was the other thing I wanted to release today btw

Get them at https://codeberg.org/pquirrel/protomoji/releases/tag/1

Have a haunting Halloween

@monorail the audio just seems to pan left and right a lot for me

@monorail what’s up with the sound balancing here?

@AppleAmps i don’t know an autist that likes it

@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