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The Tsunami of Thievery • Karin Kallmaker • Author
Highlighting a new report from Writer Beware about the MASSIVE increase in marketing scams aimed at writers and musings on what easy fakery can mean.
www.kallmaker.com
It's the new chapter of "Not What Any Author Signed Up For" - The Tsunami of Thievery.
www.kallmaker.com/writer-bewar...
www.kallmaker.com/writer-bewar...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Sure sure. Get your paper from a C- student.
Google - Breaking what works and telling us 28% wrong is better.
Didja know you can't set a notification on a calendar event longer than 28 days/4 weeks in advance? As of today. Cause it worked yesterday.
Google - Breaking what works and telling us 28% wrong is better.
Didja know you can't set a notification on a calendar event longer than 28 days/4 weeks in advance? As of today. Cause it worked yesterday.
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Sure sure. Get your paper from a C- student.
Google - Breaking what works and telling us 28% wrong is better.
Didja know you can't set a notification on a calendar event longer than 28 days/4 weeks in advance? As of today. Cause it worked yesterday.
Google - Breaking what works and telling us 28% wrong is better.
Didja know you can't set a notification on a calendar event longer than 28 days/4 weeks in advance? As of today. Cause it worked yesterday.
This their entire MO "Trust us. We'll have the Thing later."
The perfect health plan. A balanced budget. Evidence of Everything We Claim. All...later.
The perfect health plan. A balanced budget. Evidence of Everything We Claim. All...later.
Here's a gift link to the whole article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/u...
Judge Says Justice Dept. May Have Committed Misconduct in Comey Case
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This their entire MO "Trust us. We'll have the Thing later."
The perfect health plan. A balanced budget. Evidence of Everything We Claim. All...later.
The perfect health plan. A balanced budget. Evidence of Everything We Claim. All...later.
Delaying long enough to gin up a war so something big in South America blows up 5 minutes before they hit?
Trump encouraged House Republicans to vote to release the files just after he spent the weekend doing some 3-D chess to conceal the fact that the only reason the DOJ hasn’t released the documents from the Epstein case is because Trump doesn’t want them released.
Massie Revels in Trump’s Epstein Floundering
This is your TPM evening briefing.
wherethingsstand.talkingpointsmemo.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Delaying long enough to gin up a war so something big in South America blows up 5 minutes before they hit?
At least 50%.
That's my purely unscientific result of checking the sources of "OMG that's disgusting/unconscionable" memes or long-form "you'll never believe what THEY did" rants for veracity.
At least 50% are simply not true. They exist to make the reader mad. Another 25% are mixed truth/lies.
That's my purely unscientific result of checking the sources of "OMG that's disgusting/unconscionable" memes or long-form "you'll never believe what THEY did" rants for veracity.
At least 50% are simply not true. They exist to make the reader mad. Another 25% are mixed truth/lies.
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
At least 50%.
That's my purely unscientific result of checking the sources of "OMG that's disgusting/unconscionable" memes or long-form "you'll never believe what THEY did" rants for veracity.
At least 50% are simply not true. They exist to make the reader mad. Another 25% are mixed truth/lies.
That's my purely unscientific result of checking the sources of "OMG that's disgusting/unconscionable" memes or long-form "you'll never believe what THEY did" rants for veracity.
At least 50% are simply not true. They exist to make the reader mad. Another 25% are mixed truth/lies.
"Hey I'm going to read the news to see if my marriage is going to be invalidated." - said no straight married person ever.
That was my gay agenda today. Finding out if my marriage was up for SCOTUS review. The answer is thankfully no. To a question no one should EVER have to ask.
That was my gay agenda today. Finding out if my marriage was up for SCOTUS review. The answer is thankfully no. To a question no one should EVER have to ask.
November 10, 2025 at 11:01 PM
"Hey I'm going to read the news to see if my marriage is going to be invalidated." - said no straight married person ever.
That was my gay agenda today. Finding out if my marriage was up for SCOTUS review. The answer is thankfully no. To a question no one should EVER have to ask.
That was my gay agenda today. Finding out if my marriage was up for SCOTUS review. The answer is thankfully no. To a question no one should EVER have to ask.
Note to those who use a desktop browser - some of these settings are not available to the desktop version. Yet, I hope. Meta has led the way in putting certain privacy / moderation settings inside the app only. Bluesky, don't be like Meta.
The "service" includes settings for hiding certain types of content, warning you that the skeet contains such content before you see it, or simply turning off the filter. If you've never been here before, you'll find things like "rude" or "threats" are set to "Hide".
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Note to those who use a desktop browser - some of these settings are not available to the desktop version. Yet, I hope. Meta has led the way in putting certain privacy / moderation settings inside the app only. Bluesky, don't be like Meta.
Now muting accounts that share AI generated videos and offer them up like they prove a point in some (also fake) debate.
November 6, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Now muting accounts that share AI generated videos and offer them up like they prove a point in some (also fake) debate.
We made the AI, we will make billions from our AI, we let the AI decide things that hurt people, and if it's wrong we have no way OR responsibility to fix it, so we should not be accountable for our AI's mistakes... This is the world tech bros think is just?
www.kqed.org/news/1206303...
www.kqed.org/news/1206303...
Waymo, Alphabet Sued for Bias After AI Allegedly Mislabels SF Doctor as Terrorist | KQED
A San Francisco man is suing Alphabet and Waymo, claiming he was incorrectly flagged as a terrorist by AI, but humans at the companies wouldn’t clear his name.
www.kqed.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 AM
We made the AI, we will make billions from our AI, we let the AI decide things that hurt people, and if it's wrong we have no way OR responsibility to fix it, so we should not be accountable for our AI's mistakes... This is the world tech bros think is just?
www.kqed.org/news/1206303...
www.kqed.org/news/1206303...
What movie do you consider perfect
Since Jackie Brown has been spoken for, it's definitely Marge Gunderson for me.
Since Jackie Brown has been spoken for, it's definitely Marge Gunderson for me.
October 31, 2025 at 9:06 AM
What movie do you consider perfect
Since Jackie Brown has been spoken for, it's definitely Marge Gunderson for me.
Since Jackie Brown has been spoken for, it's definitely Marge Gunderson for me.
"If the software lets me do it, it must be okay, especially if it makes money."
October 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"If the software lets me do it, it must be okay, especially if it makes money."
I discovered this brilliant software a few years ago. One-click and reboot to disable CoPilot and delete its stored data, turn off telemetry tracking, and take control of lots of other privacy settings. Completely free. oo-software.com
October 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
I discovered this brilliant software a few years ago. One-click and reboot to disable CoPilot and delete its stored data, turn off telemetry tracking, and take control of lots of other privacy settings. Completely free. oo-software.com
It's the new chapter of "Not What Any Author Signed Up For" - The Tsunami of Thievery.
www.kallmaker.com/writer-bewar...
www.kallmaker.com/writer-bewar...
The Tsunami of Thievery • Karin Kallmaker • Author
Highlighting a new report from Writer Beware about the MASSIVE increase in marketing scams aimed at writers and musings on what easy fakery can mean.
www.kallmaker.com
October 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
It's the new chapter of "Not What Any Author Signed Up For" - The Tsunami of Thievery.
www.kallmaker.com/writer-bewar...
www.kallmaker.com/writer-bewar...
Reposted by Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚
Take a look at Beth Strauss' Tangled Webs. This title is a Bella Books October release. For more information on this title visit bellabooks.com/product/9781642476941e/
October 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Take a look at Beth Strauss' Tangled Webs. This title is a Bella Books October release. For more information on this title visit bellabooks.com/product/9781642476941e/
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Someone posted if you oppose AI you haven't done research.
Real life research:
1) AI = pirated books quickly altered and thrown into the market
2) AI = tidal waves of scams
What use compensates for the ruin of market and constant attempts to rob me?
writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...
Real life research:
1) AI = pirated books quickly altered and thrown into the market
2) AI = tidal waves of scams
What use compensates for the ruin of market and constant attempts to rob me?
writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...
Army of Bots: Deeper Into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams - Writer Beware
I’ve published a couple of posts now about the tidal wave of AI-driven marketing scams from Nigeria that has swept over the writing world in the past year or so. A hallmark of these scams has been how...
writerbeware.blog
October 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Someone posted if you oppose AI you haven't done research.
Real life research:
1) AI = pirated books quickly altered and thrown into the market
2) AI = tidal waves of scams
What use compensates for the ruin of market and constant attempts to rob me?
writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...
Real life research:
1) AI = pirated books quickly altered and thrown into the market
2) AI = tidal waves of scams
What use compensates for the ruin of market and constant attempts to rob me?
writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...
Writers - the scam predators are changing up their tactics. If you don't follow Victoria Strauss and Writer Beware, why on earth not?
New #WriterBeware blog post: An army of bots on Discord, flashier websites, impersonations: the Nigerian marketing scams are not just proliferating, but morphing. I've never seen anything like it. writerbeware.blog/2025/10/20/a...
Army of Bots: Deeper Into the Vortex of Nigerian Marketing Scams - Writer Beware
I’ve published a couple of posts now about the tidal wave of AI-driven marketing scams from Nigeria that has swept over the writing world in the past year or so. A hallmark of these scams has been how...
writerbeware.blog
October 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Writers - the scam predators are changing up their tactics. If you don't follow Victoria Strauss and Writer Beware, why on earth not?
Reposted by Karin Kallmaker 💜🍦 Love is the Universal Story 🌈📚
Oh hey... It's officially official!
Crash Into You has a paperback preorder on Amazon and a release date!
www.amazon.com/Crash-Into-Y...
Crash Into You has a paperback preorder on Amazon and a release date!
www.amazon.com/Crash-Into-Y...
Crash Into You
Crash Into You [Noyes, E. J.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Crash Into You
www.amazon.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Oh hey... It's officially official!
Crash Into You has a paperback preorder on Amazon and a release date!
www.amazon.com/Crash-Into-Y...
Crash Into You has a paperback preorder on Amazon and a release date!
www.amazon.com/Crash-Into-Y...
All over the expected places in Europe I saw poseurs in the latest designer clothes/hair/makeup, using selfie tripods 6 feet+ away to appear so rich they had the places to themselves.
It feels like the 50s - fake lifestyle media that says IT'S SO EASY TO BE RICH, just BUY our magic system!
It feels like the 50s - fake lifestyle media that says IT'S SO EASY TO BE RICH, just BUY our magic system!
The thing about these grindset lifestyle posts is that they're all fake. None of it is real.
October 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
All over the expected places in Europe I saw poseurs in the latest designer clothes/hair/makeup, using selfie tripods 6 feet+ away to appear so rich they had the places to themselves.
It feels like the 50s - fake lifestyle media that says IT'S SO EASY TO BE RICH, just BUY our magic system!
It feels like the 50s - fake lifestyle media that says IT'S SO EASY TO BE RICH, just BUY our magic system!
So far I haven't seen a single original post, re-post, or screensnap of anything from the gazillion "government" accounts that joined Bsky yesterday.
Well done, all y'all. Well done.
Well done, all y'all. Well done.
October 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
So far I haven't seen a single original post, re-post, or screensnap of anything from the gazillion "government" accounts that joined Bsky yesterday.
Well done, all y'all. Well done.
Well done, all y'all. Well done.
Just what I needed to see today! #penguins
the cutest pumpkin patch we’ve ever seen 🎃🥰
in case you were wondering … #LittleBluePenguins are so little that they do in fact fit inside of a #pumpkin
#penguin
in case you were wondering … #LittleBluePenguins are so little that they do in fact fit inside of a #pumpkin
#penguin
October 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Just what I needed to see today! #penguins
Check out Sapphic Book Bingo this week - feature on Books with Epilogues! Frosting on the Cake 3 is included in @jaeauthor.bsky.social list of suggestions. Not only is it a book of epilogues (stories inspired by a novel) it also has its own epilogue! jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
Sapphic books that include an epilogue (Sapphic Book Bingo #20) - Jae
Check out these 15 recommended sapphic books that include an epilogue
jae-fiction.com
September 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Check out Sapphic Book Bingo this week - feature on Books with Epilogues! Frosting on the Cake 3 is included in @jaeauthor.bsky.social list of suggestions. Not only is it a book of epilogues (stories inspired by a novel) it also has its own epilogue! jae-fiction.com/sapphic-book...
In the non-dumpster fire part of the world, Tantor Audio will be releasing Lucy River's narration of CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY at the end of the month! vimeo.com/1119126113
Captain of Industry by Karin Kallmaker
Available 09/30/2025 https://rbmediaglobal.com/audiobook/9798331945121/ The world is at Jennifer Lamont's feet—right where she wants…
vimeo.com
September 18, 2025 at 11:14 PM
In the non-dumpster fire part of the world, Tantor Audio will be releasing Lucy River's narration of CAPTAIN OF INDUSTRY at the end of the month! vimeo.com/1119126113
And now a moment of zen.
‘Booty’ and ‘butt’ are synonyms.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
‘Call’ and ‘dial’ are synonyms.
But, a ‘booty call’ and a ‘butt dial’ are VERY different things.
September 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
And now a moment of zen.
You cannot reason with or appease people when their end game is "my way or I burn you to the ground."
So, y'all. Whatever you choose to do, please do it conscious of the fact that RW folx are *definitely* hunting for ppl who say anything "out of line" about That Guy exiting stage left.
My recent experience attached. I'm just some rando who owns a small business.
My recent experience attached. I'm just some rando who owns a small business.
September 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
You cannot reason with or appease people when their end game is "my way or I burn you to the ground."