I have written up everything I know about #Inkitt and #NaNoWriMo here. Because this is a problem. I am so tired, but this is a problem, and I don't want anyone signing over their book because they read about this too late.
https://wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl.com/2022/11/30/on-nanowrimo-inkitt-and-being-an-author/
@wrrrdnrrrdgrrrl Thanks much for exposing this! I hope it's just a relatively honest mistake on the part of the organization, and they'll disconnect from Inkitt.
I hate to have to write this, but this needs to be a PSA: #NaNoWriMo is promoting a scam in their "Winner Goodies."
Do NOT sign up for Inkitt.
Go ahead and search "Inkitt scam" for at least a dozen reasons why.
They are predatory, they will take your first-pub rights, and they will profit off of you while giving you less exposure than you would get posting your whole damn book on your own social media.
DO NOT DO IT.
Being forced to carry a pregnancy to term is wrong, even if you provide afterwards for the child to be adopted, or give the mother support to or anything after the birth, because being forced to carry a pregnancy to term is wrong in the first place.
Forced birth is involuntary servitude. I’ve been asked many times why I think Republicans want to control people’s bodies or why they won’t support basic needs like healthcare or livable wages. It’s because this is their desired outcome. More poverty is a bonus for them.
Warning: Do not use Hive Social ⚠️🐝
We found multiple critical security vulnerabilities in the App, leaking private messages, posts, images and user data like phone numbers, emails and birthdates.
@derickflorian very gratifying :) thank you!
If anyone sees my #AudioDramaSunday posts and there are shows I could be tagging and I am not, please let me know? I’m sure I haven’t found everyone who has come over to mastodon already, and there’s more every day...
#AudioDrama
....and now the reveal. The Queer Art of History has a cover, featuring the work of artist Benny Nemer and his creative re-imaginging of an iconic scene from Rosa von Praunheim's film It's Not the Homosexual Who is Perverse.... out in April 2023 with Duke University Press. And 50% off for a few more hours with the code CYBER22 thanks to their flash sale. https://www.dukeupress.edu/
We're starting a community slack for anybody interested in Neurosymbolic AI. (drivers include organizers of the annual workshop on the topic, and EiCs and EB members of the journal Neurosymbolic Artificial Intelligence that we're currently starting.
If you'd like to be on the slack, let me know (or anybody else who's already on it). You'll get an invite to your email then.
NeSy 2023 - 17TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
NEURAL-SYMBOLIC LEARNING AND REASONING
Siena, Italy
3 to 5 July 2023
Paper deadline March 13, 2023.
The password manager LastPass has suffered another breach, and this time customer information was affected. https://www.pcmag.com/news/lastpass-suffers-another-breach-and-this-time-customer-data-is-affected
Woooot! Ty that's wonderful. Maybe I'll start being a Speed Keyboarder in Mastodon now. :)
I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it, but one of my favorite “hidden” Mastodon features in the user interface is simply typing the character “?”. It opens up a list of keyboard shortcuts that make a lot of the features I always wish I’d had available. #FediTips
@f00fc7c8 @f00fc7c8 this is a great history. Can I include a quote from it and link to it in "Mastodon: a partial history"? Some of the feedback I got on the draft was that I should include more discussions of the broader fediverse.
Here's the current draft, I'm in the midst of reworking the 2016 discussions to have more context on the fediverse.
Hello everyone, just another #introduction post. Not really a twitter refugee, since I was only ever a lurker, and will probably be here as well.
I am a father of three and I'm a moderately burned-out lead developer for a small software company in Washington State.
My interests include:
#tea
#headphones
#lofi
#synthwave
#cardano
#encryption
#homelab
#plex
#homeassistant
And here is my #caturday companion Misty.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.