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  1. 📚️ #IndependentPublishers to follow:

    @canongatebooks - Award-winning independent publisher, Margaret Atwood, Yann Martel, Irvine Welsh etc
    @bwjewishhistory - Small indie Jewish history press
    @ArachnidPress - Indie publishers based in Scotland, thriller & mystery fiction
    @WTPress - Indie sci-fi & fantasy press in Wales
    @ododopress - Speculative fiction press based in Uganda
    @StelliformPress - Indie literary press, sci-fi, fantasy, horror on environmental crisis

    #Publishers #Books #Fiction

  2. CW: AI, LLM, Anthropic Copyright Infringement

    Apparently #Anthropic has been ordered to pay ca. $1.5 billion for #copyright #infringement on about 500K #books they used to train #Claude along with the order to destroy any #unauthorized copies & #pirated files they possess:

    infotoday.eu/Articles/Editoria

    Considering the amount of money they stand to make from Claude's continued existence, this seems like little more than a slap on the wrist to me. Also, I find it hard to believe how it will be possible to enforce the order to destroy the illicit files.

    #AI #LibGen #PiLiMi #piracy #copyrightInfringement #plagiarism #theft #thievery #stealing #LLM #LLMs #BartzvAnthropic #Bartz #classAction #publisher #publishers #author #authors #settlement #ClaudeAI #trainingData

  3. Sunday, August 2, 2026

    Ukraine sinks sanctioned Russian ship in Black Sea . . . . . Russian oil refinery, airbase, Wildberries warehouse struck by Ukrainian forces . . . . . How Russian drones are making routine stops for gas on Ukraine’s roads deadly . . . . . and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026

  4. NiemanLab: More than 340 local news outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism. “Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the Internet Archive’s ability to access and preserve their stories. Many sites in our sample are owned by five of the seven largest local news publishers in the country: USA Today […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/21/niemanlab-more-than-340-local-news-outlets-are-limiting-the-internet-archives-access-to-their-journalism/