This is why we have dwarven battle bread

There's some piracy where I can see where people are coming from.

But never with fiction books.

And doubly never with indy authors.

Just buy the book.

Or get it from your library.

Next update: 666% of the way through, might have accidentally summoned some demons, but I'm sure it will all turn out fine in the end

Don't forget the submarine launched meat pie, planted in advance through the MANU

Second derivative of a motion picture score

I've just added you in so feel free to delete if you don't want your address public for everyone to see.

Well I learned something at least. So thank you for sharing the link.

We will also lay on the cold hard ground and consider your existential so you may toil endlessly for a pittance

Yeah, RSB is such shit. I don't imagine the current lot will listen to any outcry, but I'm hoping there's less of a direct doner push for this so they'll be less attached if it looks like a mud pit, or that at least we can get the opposition to agree it's on the stupid repeal list.

It really is depression. And the government here in NZ is going "great idea, we should do the same!" rather than waiting to see that absolute cluster fuck it turns into.

Lots of people gearing up to fight it and seeing it's a bad idea locally at least.

Hilariously I saw some reporting that well known social media site github was included in it.

Well bugger, there goes my plans for decorating a nice shelf with macaroni and flour glue

He's just being a pedant.

We know you meant storage solutions more generally.

I think this is also a key part of the point. The deceptive nature is the problem, not the foreign.

We have deceptive campaigns done locally like the groundswell protests and other astro turfing.

The deception of who's driving it is a problem regardless of whether it's foreign.

Definitely what I'm doing in every tech conversation when someone uses that word. Just replacing it with the technology they're actually talking about in my response.

Which I mean, of course those are machine learning models, you really can't do it any other way.

The collapse of so many different things into one "AI" bucket that people associate with LLMs is causing so much trouble

After they're defeated and trying to run again a surprising number want the "I get knocked down, and I get up again" without really getting what that song is about