I need someone, preferably an agent or editor at a publishing house, to help me ascertain the content value on a finished book thwt is shelved because I cannot objectively discern its content anymore.
I love the smell of agent-publisher spam in the morning. Especially when the email is full of hype, large dollar figures and uses every font except Comic Sans. I like Comic Sans. This from, a supposedly, reputable company.
Breaking: #91Felonies rapist has posted a bond of nearly $92 million in E. Jean Carroll defamation case. The posted bond is exactly $91,630,000.00, which includes a district’s courts common practice of requiring a bond of 110% of the judgement.
Insurance company Chubb underwrote the $91.63 million bond for Donald Trump, which the former president signed on Tuesday, March 5.
Under the terms of the bond, Chubb will only secure the appeal of the $83.3 million judgment, not any future appeals.
#91Felonies Rapist got someone to give him almost exactly that amount. America has no idea who that is or who he is now beholden to, and that is unacceptable as a counterintelligence matter.
The whole world wants to know where the money to purchase the bond came from.
And U.S. intelligence needs to know.
A billionaire shouldn’t need an agency to post his $90M bond. That should be chump change to a billionaire. Where’s Mr. I’m so rich when it comes to paying his bills?
📢 And just Thursday, Trump was ordered to pay $382,000 in legal fees for Orbis Business Intelligence, the consulting firm owned by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele.* Trump had sued Orbis over a dossier Steele compiled in 2016 that alleged Trump and members of his inner circle had been “compromised” by Russia’s security service.
Trump has to pay Christopher Steele. Let’s examine the Verified Claims:
Some key allegations made in the dossier were later corroborated:
Russian Interference: The dossier claimed that Vladimir Putin favored Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton and ordered an “influence campaign” to harm Clinton’s campaign and undermine faith in the U.S. democratic process. These claims were later supported by the Mueller Report. That many Trump campaign officials and associates had numerous secretive contacts with Russian officials and agents. Some of these contacts were indeed confirmed during investigations.
I'm going to be poisoning my data there as best I can, but... are there any other sites that will allow an indy #writer to gain notice and audience? Some place a #publisher or #agent might cruise looking for new talent?
I hate having my best efforts sabotaged by profit-minded dipshits.
Just stumbled upon one of the first (of maaany) early design concepts I did in early 2007 for Faber Finds (which was [maybe still is?] Faber & Faber's imprint of digital on-demand book reprints). The project brief & mission was to create a unique full book jacket (incl. cover/spine/back) for every title and every single book printed. The final design direction we ended up with was very different (frames of flourishes), but this particular design system was based on a Braitenberg vehicle sim with its params seeded by a book's ISBN (plus some additional randomized params)...
To think for yourself, you need to be able to solve new and unexpected problems. This requires you to identify the space of possible environments you could be in, locate yourself in the relevant one, and frame the new problem as it exists relative to your location in this new environment. How do humans do it?
How do i make it so when I run '#git commit' it doesn't constantly tell me my #ssh#key isn't registered with the #agent? Using ssh to local servers works fine.
Sometimes when I'm trying to reach a human for customer service, and the system won't route me to a person if I use the typical techniques (multiple zero presses, saying "agent", not saying anything through multiple timeouts, etc.), I use the "mystery language" technique to some considerable success:
SYS: I cannot connect you to anyone if you do not explain to me the nature of your problem.
ME: Dasbuton terra masiqu! Bashro normani grikkola-ban-nano!
SYS: I'm not sure I understand you, will you please repeat that?
ME: Dasbuton terra masiqu!!!! BASHRO normani grikkola-ban-NANO!!!!
SYS: Please hold while I transfer you to a customer service agent.
Another technique - some systems that won't obey "agent" or "operator" will detect angry "fuck"s and other curses 😂 and route you to a human. Apparently it's basically "Is this caller frustrated enough to make trouble?". I have found it to work a couple of times when nothing else did...
Oh look, UK! There's competition in the cloud gaming business. See? Microsoft isn't the only one. SONY is too! 🙄
#Sony CEO Kenichiro Yoshida says cloud gaming has many technical difficulties and the company could utilize its AI #agent GT Sophy to enhance cloud gaming.
In April 2019, Donald trump signed a executive order moving all remaining background checks from OPM to DoD, and cut the time it takes from 150 days to 80 days. Teixeira got his clearance in 2021.
The criminal suspect moves the nation's critical defense against infiltrators from the OPM to the DoD, where he is Commander-in-Chief. So he can allow anyone, including his corrupt SiL, or Putin's pals, a security clearance.
#Introduction Greetings, Fediversians. Call me Gayle or Jen; I answer to both. I survive primarily on coffee & am known to roam virtual spaces rattling my chains. Past journo, community organizer & counselor; now political #poet. First #novel edited, in search of an #agent. Lifelong #guitar picker, urban #photographer, world #traveler temporarily grounded. #Cat slave, #tree-hugger, believer in the dignity of all beings. #ProDemocracy#activist & #resister. Stands w/ a pen. Welcomes new friends.
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