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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Except it didn\u2019t copy it, it read it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Prof David West <profwest@fastmail.fm><br><b>Date: </b>Monday, March 23, 2026 at 1:38\u202fPM<br><b>To: </b>friam@redfish.com <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [FRIAM] Where Metaphors (and Elephants and Spatulai) go to die?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>try anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>deadline to tile is the 30th<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>davew<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On Mon, Mar 23, 2026, at 10:00 AM, Santafe wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' id=qt><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I\u2019m curious, Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>I have been receiving a lot of emails to join in various class actions against Anthropic as well, for a book I have through MIT press.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Since the emails are coming from several putative plainants, I was unsure how many of these are actually opportunistic scams. Do you know of a watchdog on this topic? I have been too clutter-minded to go after checking it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thanks, <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Eric<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On Mar 23, 2026, at 8:23, Prof David West <profwest@fastmail.fm> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>or - out of the blue - pay you for it. I am supposed to get a $3,000 check from Anthropic next month because they used my book, among 1000,000 others probably, to train Claude.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>davew<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On Sun, Mar 22, 2026, at 9:52 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt' id=qt-qt><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Never throw away a book; never throw away any thing u have written until u have written a better vsn or published it. U can never tell when the world will come knock for ur thghts. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Nicholas S. Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Clark University<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu">nthompson@clarku.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwordpress.clarku.edu%2fnthompson&c=E,1,uAt4_y_a0SsM6BS15TC9BhHaKQtI_0KWEX2jBmQPdwZTAy-mqvu4tQ4WGaXJ8AwyySoUBkCLGh2py1TjnRErWWK6pgdRJhbC4QW_pLJy9y6x&typo=1">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsubstack.com%2f%40monist&c=E,1,VSsFBTkBTJbN8ThACF8NmijxwOrcRwvMPELcVljc6I3LnjWIPjeTBxuHccuggJf83aRsc97zGCV-9Vo-67jfy1DO9xALe5csDWxrvUm_E40mw8QDsn1cgji3owg,&typo=1">https://substack.com/@monist</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 8:45\u202fPM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Nick -<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>> I would like to see it. Resend. .<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>If I didn't post it, I deleted it...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>My compulsions are equal parts composing such and deciding it is totally<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>irrelevant to the conversation and deleting it.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Yes, George is equal parts mind-reader and sycophant. Very<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>seductive/crazy-making combination?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fbit.ly%2fvirtualfriam&c=E,1,vk05oeFWgBlfYOYfigi-3xcOnbWqFdyosL0_VdwWLwGhGHuYzDMeuXoCpcXL8hg66ne9quqaNJeUDyYsIQIwlINSHcA3LVSmGFvgk4Sa&typo=1">https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>to (un)subscribe <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fmailman%2flistinfo%2ffriam_redfish.com&c=E,1,iERnQG-KnI0ZeAVLkc-2v3fufAdxRRljXXEWjG7QZWzdTB93j9w2JTscGI7kwYhpPg0J1KpjnuZbuCMajo2A0iaptPlHlu85WOHqD9HXYf1ouHwrwL7x4SxTgHg,&typo=1">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=http%3a%2f%2ffriam-comic.blogspot.com%2f&c=E,1,Kg27TrHuNEAC9YrvKu82fjxG6QXl8jgbytVG9yjjJBJAE1qaC-zNOXCIte7nEIywaADdAVFZNoCFxxUYGawGceUA8k6WBQXB7S0-mwoTjACh&typo=1">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fredfish.com%2fpipermail%2ffriam_redfish.com%2f&c=E,1,zxxzUf-dnBATi5sEMWIxAhKTul1NAfXmpPdseMj5QwiWTJi97nms2wkzb_EdBq5E4oWjR-O1gHGjD9lnbSNHPoU4lnHNes9NraZIUkuwPWcrDnEVvGFOiA,,&typo=1">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></blockquote></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - 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