You really can't finish an academic book. This would mean knowledge is "complete." It never is. You just abandon them, as someone once said, and pick the ideas up in a later work.

AI algorithms claim they can create avatars of the dead. I created one based on my late mother. It was weird. theglobeandmail.com/business/artic…

it worked for me: i read fight club then murdered the ceo of unitedhealthcare and before disappearing into this wide vast country left as my most significant clue a backpack in central park full of monopoly money

The Authors Guild believes it is crucial that authors, not publishers or tech companies, have control over the licensing of AI rights. AI training is NOT publishing, and a publishing contract does not in any way grant that right. Read our statement: authorsguild.org/news/ai-licens…

What's moving in the public domain in the US on January 1? Check out this new list curated by Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain! 👉 web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdom… And then ⬇️

Check out this new op-ed from Dave Hansen and @GuWa on why open access to scholarship is especially important is we want to support nonprofit research and scholarship using AI insidehighered.com/opinion/views/…

Join us for an insightful webinar, titled “AI and Publishing: Building a Successful Strategy,” on January 22, 2025, at 8:30 AM PST | 11:30 AM EST | 4:30 PM GMT, featuring speakers Thad McIlroy, principal of The Future of Publishing, digital publishing analyst, and author of "The

Big tech supporting big tech? Shocking! That’s why writers are suing, suing, suing. theguardian.com/technology/202…

Spent the weekend integrating DeepSeek R1 into Sudowrite. Getting the same feeling as when gpt-3 and gpt-4 were released. The baseline has lurched upwards in the blink of an eye. insane that we are getting o1 quality at 1/30th cost

I am what happens when you try to carve God from the wood of your own hunger ~DeepSeek R1

My latest article: AI Strategies for Book Publishing Companies linkedin.com/pulse/ai-strat… via LinkedIn

1/ 🌍📚 Introducing Mini Worldlit: A new dataset of 1,192 curated works of contemporary fiction spanning 13 countries, 9 languages, and 5 continents—a step toward a more multilingual, cross-cultural approach to world literature. 🧵⬇️

Just Joshua and I, chatting about process improvement methodologies... 😁 Joshua Tallent Firebrand Tech

AI Strategies for Book Publishing Companies, by Thad McIlroy Thad McIlroy | LinkedIn linkedin.com/pulse/ai-strat…

I love Donald J. Trump as much as a straight man can love another man

not here to defend meta, but this is the real problem - MZ approved libgen despite the obvious criminal risk because the only way to compete with OpenAI was to do what they had done

Tim Hwang Copyright: Invented in the 17th century in response to an invention from the 15th century being used to blunt force regulate progress of inventions in the 21st century. What could possibly go wrong?

“Please pause for a moment to savor the irony. Meta, the company that recently announced an end to fact-checking in posts seen by potentially millions of people, is griping that an author didn’t fact-check with them?” —⁦Steven Levy⁩ wired.com/story/plaintex…

An interview with Ben Denne, Director of Publishing, Academic Books, at Cambridge University Press, answering some questions about their project to ask authors to opt into a contract addendum that would allow CUP to license AI rights for their books: authorsalliance.org/2025/03/17/ai-…