Notices by MK ⛄ (somequalia@guillotines.masto.host)

The internet basically proved ads are not cost effective so entire content-producing industries collapsed and now they're trying to become more efficient by gathering and selling all your info through ads spying on you, but the saddest thing is that info is worth, in total, like $1.12.

And we all chose this because early internet was like "wanna pay $1.12?" and everyone was like "lmao, no."

To be clear, *libraries* usually pay an honorarium to create a presentation. Often it’s corporations that expect creative work to be free.

Google asked a writer to make a presentation for their employees to then broadcast and monetize for free.

He would have been the only person in the room not being paid.

This is everywhere. People wanna consume writers’ work, but don’t wanna pay them enough to eat.

I freaking hate that it is common wisdom that someone disengaging you is conceding the argument in an age where it'd be literally impossible to argue with everyone looking for an argument.

Because writing (and a great many other things) organize themselves in a hierarchy, we don’t have movements, quite. We have Great Men who take credit for movements. We have a bunch of people all working along the same lines, and one or two after the fact get to typify, monetize, BE the movement. Money flows to and from them, press is about them. We have no idea how to talk about or trace the taxonomy of a movement without Great Men.

By the way: Open Library lets you check out books, including by current authors. Some of them have a wait list, but you still support authors. And some of them are off copyright and therefore free:

https://openlibrary.org

You don't even need a local library!

PSA: Ad hominem is only applicable within the framework of a debate. Not every interaction is a debate. People have to agree to that framework.

You get a LOT of mouthbreathers insisting you are in a debate and telling them to fuck off is ad hom. They're wrong. They just wanna be in a debate with you because it implies you're at least peers. They aren't.

On the bird website, it is Manuscript Wishlist day, a day when agents post what they're looking for in a book.

https://twitter.com/erikhane/status/1039908208519798784

Here's my agent's. He reps a lot of non-fiction (especially from a lefty pov) and some select literary fiction. He loves weird twitter, and if you're qualified to write literary fiction or non-fiction from that angle, hit him up.

In surveys, roughly 1/20 men admit to being rapists. Rape is a systemic tool of oppression, to clear the playing field of competition.

Any organization that does not intentionally and early plan for that and how to handle it has a control environment that will tend to have a disproportionate number of predators at the top.

"Musk smoking normalizes weed."

Lmao no it doesn't. Rich people do illegal shit and think you should go to jail for it. They're thrilled for you to suffer for shit they think they deserve.

Twitter or Mastodon?

Well, it really depends on whether you're into absolute strangers sending you death threats because you don't like a podcast, or ostensible comrades and acquaintances playing social Crusader Kings II and also seeing all of them naked.

Of course punch Nazis. Of course. I'm not gonna have a problem with you starting shit with Nazis, though I'd prefer STRONGLY you report them so I can suspend the instance. There are battleground spaces. This? Ain't it. Use this to make friends and regroup.

There are a lot of people who are looking for socially acceptable victims. I am not the person who will buy the bullshit you tell yourself about that.

Be a comrade or eff off.