I’m not a big believer in polls. They’re wrong as often as they are right. But this year they’ve been pretty consistent in showing that the Democrats are going to take back the House of Representatives, by how big a margin no one knows. I’m okay with that, because the current House has not exerted…
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The Anthropic settlement, Part the Nth, this time from the New York Times. The link beneath the image is a gift link if you want to read it in full. Excerpts, with my comments in bold. The sum is gargantuan: $1.5 billion. But as thousands of authors wait for their cut of the largest copyright settlement in…
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Random Saturday
April 2022. [internal chukar monologue]: “WTH. It’s April 7th, people, and instead of building a nest and making babies I’m sitting here getting snowed on while Crazy Lady takes pictures of me through her window. Enough to make a bird fly south again.” [internal Dana monologue]: “I looked up and he was gone, leaving this…
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[from The Heinlein Society‘s Facebook page] “I never “created” or “invented” a “Future History.” On April Fool’s Day 1939 I started to write commercially (appropriate date?); by the middle of August I had written 8 shorts & a serial. As 5 of these items were more or less to the same fictional background, I found…
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