Laerwen Mith

[Laerwen Mith]

[nonbinarhys]

some dipshit uploaded my book to an AI site, so suffice to say, I will fucking kill them

[nonbinarhys]

emailed my agent cuz our contract states she has to protect me from shit like this, so we'll see what she says

but I will still kill these ppl

[nonbinarhys]

LMFAO THE SITE IS BEING TAKEN DOWN

[nonbinarhys]

hey so, just so there's no ambiguity about what just happened-- this was about Prosecraft, a website that would help you compare your writing to your favorite author by analyzing the "vividness" of the words used, passive voice vs active voice and the number of adverbs used in a given section.

unfortunately, the service is dogshit for various reasons but that's not the issue here.

the issue is that the website had trained an AI on 25,000 books, one of which included mine. and i definitely did not give anyone permission to use my work to train an AI. it's literally stated in my contract.

and if i didn't give permission--i can imagine quite a number of authors didn't give permission either. (oops, i don't have to imagine--because hundreds of authors came forward and said they didn't give permission either!)

so i emailed my agent about this. my agent directed me to my publisher which has a legal department that looks into piracy on this scale. all of those authors did the same, emailing their legal team, getting The Authors Guild involved.

EVERY AUTHOR pretty much roasting this guy named Benji Smith on Twitter for claiming to "support authors" yet clearly using pirated work to train an AI.

of course, he decided to take the website down. authors are now talking about getting AI protection clauses in their contracts going forward. i already have one with my agent, but I imagine I will have to get it instated into every publishing contract moving forward.

source: it happened to me lol (but if you don't believe me, here's a link)

[Laerwen Mith]

[Laerwen Mith]

[mycroftrh]

Absolutely superb Beaste spotted on Etruscan food jar

[cryptotheism]

The Etruscan Gobbler

[Laerwen Mith]

[gaygraybles]

if we lived in a world where u had to do the career u were first interested in as a child what would u be doing, id be a firefighter

[Laerwen Mith]

[Laerwen Mith]

[foone]

So I think an important bit of perspective to keep, as a trans person, is that you don't have requirements for being your gender, you have options.

And the distinction makes a big difference, because options are something you can pick, see if it works for you, and abandon it if not. And you don't feel incomplete/not trying hard enough/left out if you can't do some options, for whatever reason (money/disability/society/just don't wanna).

And when I say options, I mean everything from coming out to pronouns to hormones to clothes to makeup to surgery and much more. All these things are options you have. Not requirements to be your gender.

And similarly, because they're options, there's nothing wrong with you choosing more or less of them than your fellow trans peoples. You're not more or less trans than them.

[moondancer-sigsegv]

Shit, I’m going to start thinking about my cis masculinity this way, I like this.

[foone]

Yeah I didn't say it in the original post, but this 100% applies to cis people too. Your gender is yours, how much and what you need to do for that gender is up to you.

[Laerwen Mith]

[puppygirl-hornyposting]

[godloveyell]

[jennazed]

flashback to when MLK Jr said the worst group in the US for black rights wasn't the lawmakers passing Jim Crow laws or the KKK but the white moderate. That it was the white moderate who was forcing the country to find a middle ground between civil rights and genocide which allowed the continued systematic mistreatment of the African American community

[fangirlsovertoomanythings]

There's a thing called "paradox of tolerance", in which tolerating the intolerating brings forth... well, intolerance!

[Laerwen Mith]

[cannibalchicken]

[Laerwen Mith]

[russiacore]

mood

[rosalindfranklinsnotes]

[that-twink-over-there]

Reblog if you’re a little internet friend who finds this funny

[squirtle-daddy]

[0nigum0]

[meldrat]

[Laerwen Mith]

[cybergrindr]

can we get a shoutout to trans girls who don't wear makeup

[cybergrindr]

i don't need to just keep practicing I don't need to just learn to contour or whatever the fuck else I'm 100% happy being bare-faced and the only times i ever felt compelled to do makeup was for other people's benefit!

[cybergrindr]

watch the mfs with zero reading comprehension get ahold of this and act like I'm personally attacking them for wearing makeup

[princessfelicie]

I have never worn makeup in my entire life and if you reblog you will give me the energy I need to continue doing fuck all