Ugh! I found someone had scanned and uploaded a copy of my book to the Internet Archive, without my permission. When wanting to find a review to recommend a book to someone, I found that copyrighted book there, so looked for mine. I still own my copyright. This interferes with me creating an author-preferred edition (instead of the publisher's vision) as planned.
In their terms of service, you will find:
While we collect publicly available Internet documents, sometimes authors and publishers express a desire for their documents not to be included in the Collections (by tagging a file for robot exclusion or by contacting us or the original crawler group). If the author or publisher of some part of the Archive does not want his or her work in our Collections, then we may remove that portion of the Collections without notice.
You can only contact the Internet Archive through email as their telephone number is voicemail. AFAIK their website doesn't list take down procedures.
I have emailed them a takedown demand, with their identifier for my novel, and left the same message on their voicemail.
Please boost so your circle of followers will see this, especially if they are authors.
PS: Yes, they consider themselves a library. I don't mind if they loan an original paperback from Del Rey in paper form. I don't give them permission to scan and then display, or display someone else's scan of my book.
#PSA#plpol
Jeżeli ktoś będzie zagranicą (edit: albo „za granicą”, nie mnie dyktować tożsamość :P) podczas wyborów 09/06 to do jutra (04/06) ma jeszcze możliwość rejestracji.
Fellow Americans, if you go to a Cricket match at a stadium and come in possession of the ball during the match, you are required to throw the ball back on to the field. And quickly.
You don't get to keep the ball. It ain't baseball.
#PSA: Liebe Menschen auf der #GPN22. Da sich nördlich zu der Wiese vom ZKM ein Spielplatz befindet, ist es empfehlenswert AUSSCHLIESSLICH auf der Wiese der Generalbundestaatswanwaltschaft zu kiffen.
Und, ja, ich komm ja selber gerade gar nicht drauf klar, was ich da eben schrieb.
Oh the Irony...
Friendly reminder not to link to, repost, reblog or otherwise reshare the "bad stuff" be it racism, politics, hate speech, whatever, even if your intent is just to ridicule it.
That's...how...it... spreads and finds an audience.
Call the bad actors out on their shit. Didn't let it slide. Speak up. That's how they know they didn't have a willing audience with you.
But please, don't directly link to their hate speech, helping it spread. That's what they want. A platform.
For those not in the know, this is one of the Amanita #mushrooms referred to as a Destroying Angel. Never, ever, ever, ever #forage with an #app. Especially for mushrooms.
Takie #PSA, że jak ktoś uległ przed laty ciasteczkowej histerii i wyświetlał ostrzeżenie ze skryptcookies.pl, to teraz serwuje dowolny śmieć, który nowy właściciel domeny postanowi tam umieścić. Dziś były przekierowania na jakieś gównoSEO, kto wie co jutro.
If a lender tells you a loan is paid off or forgiven, demand written proof, ideally the original, signed loan document marked "paid in full." Verbal assurances are worth the paper they're printed on.
If a debt collector tells you they own a debt you owe, demand written proof. If they can't prove they own it, it's illegal for them to collect in it (in the US at least). When in doubt consult a lawyer. #PersonalFinance
If it's anything like it used to be, it's better than Squarespace and its ilk because you can directly upload your pure, hand-coded HTML instead of going through all those autogenerative contraptions they have nowadays 🧶
Achtung, manche PDF-Reader (insbesondere PDF.js/Firefox) drucken das Geburtsdatum im Formular nicht mit aus. 2x von Hand nachtragen! Und 2x unterschreiben!