Hesperus Press

02/10/2025

(stolen from https://substack.com//note/c-160729341)

01/10/2025

My petty gripe: not only am I losing my livelihood to AI – now it’s stealing my em dashes too
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/oct/01/artificial-intelligence-em-dashes-ai-stealing-my-livelihood?CMP=share_btn_url

26/09/2025

Writers should look to T.S. Eliot for inspiration: banker by day, writer by night — almost like a literary superhero. Born

26/09/2025

Born

14/09/2025

10/09/2025

Anthropic to pay $1.5bn to authors in AI copyright case settlement

Tech giant Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a lawsuit that was brought against the company by three authors, after it downloaded pirated versions of books to train its AI model.

10/09/2025

"You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns."

- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

Image: The Mark Twain House & Museum

09/09/2025

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/americans-spend-time-reading-fun-time-screens-study/story?id=124807367

Fewer Americans are opening a book for fun each day, with reading for pleasure in the U.S. down 40% over the past 20 years, a new study published Wednesday found.

08/09/2025

01/09/2025

✉️✨ Today is ! ✍️

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