On April 1st, Raja Ravi Varma’s “Yashoda and Krishna” (ca. 1890s) sold to pharmaceutical billionaire Cyrus Poonawalla at the Saffronart auction in Delhi. https://artsy.app/4190Hw5

I wonder what it’s like to work hard for YEARS on something only for it to wind up on sites all over the internet where people pirate it. I WONDER what it’s like when your hard work is getting stolen faster than you can send out take down notices.

Oh, I don’t have to wonder. Because that happened to me and soooo many other authors. And who was the biggest perpetrator? Anthropic.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/anthropic-issues-8000-copyright-takedowns-to-scrub-claude-code-leak

Someone needs to tell me what's going on at the end of the South Carolina/U Conn game? I'm in a bar, no sound.

Tired

Safety first!