<div dir="ltr">Hey, Glen, for some reason, I read
<a href="https://malus.sh/blog.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://malus.sh/blog.html</a>
. What do you think of it? Is it really that easy to write code from specifications? And by the way, do you know what malus means in Latin: Apple. Are these folks planning to conquer the earth? Nick </div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 9:22\u202fAM glen <<a href="mailto:gepropella@gmail.com">gepropella@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><a href="https://malus.sh/blog.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://malus.sh/blog.html</a><br>
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"Thank you for the thousands of unpaid hours."<br>
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On 3/23/26 2:39 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<br>
> Except it didn\u2019t copy it, it read it.<br>
> <br>
> *From: *Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm" target="_blank">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>><br>
> *Date: *Monday, March 23, 2026 at 1:38\u202fPM<br>
> *To: *<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a> <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" target="_blank">friam@redfish.com</a>><br>
> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Where Metaphors (and Elephants and Spatulai) go to die?<br>
> <br>
> try <a href="http://anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com</a><br>
> <br>
> deadline to tile is the 30th<br>
> <br>
> davew<br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2026, at 10:00 AM, Santafe wrote:<br>
> <br>
> I\u2019m curious, Dave,<br>
> <br>
> 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.<br>
> <br>
> 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.<br>
> <br>
> Thanks,<br>
> <br>
> Eric<br>
> <br>
> On Mar 23, 2026, at 8:23, Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm" target="_blank">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> 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.<br>
> <br>
> davew<br>
> <br>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026, at 9:52 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:<br>
> <br>
> 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.<br>
> <br>
> Nicholas S. Thompson<br>
> <br>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology<br>
> <br>
> Clark University<br>
> <br>
> <a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu" target="_blank">nthompson@clarku.edu</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:nthompson@clarku.edu" target="_blank">nthompson@clarku.edu</a>><br>
> <br>
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> <a href="https://substack.com/@monist" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://substack.com/@monist</a> <<a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsubstack.com%2f%40monist&c=E,1,VSsFBTkBTJbN8ThACF8NmijxwOrcRwvMPELcVljc6I3LnjWIPjeTBxuHccuggJf83aRsc97zGCV-9Vo-67jfy1DO9xALe5csDWxrvUm_E40mw8QDsn1cgji3owg,&typo=1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsubstack.com%2f%40monist&c=E,1,VSsFBTkBTJbN8ThACF8NmijxwOrcRwvMPELcVljc6I3LnjWIPjeTBxuHccuggJf83aRsc97zGCV-9Vo-67jfy1DO9xALe5csDWxrvUm_E40mw8QDsn1cgji3owg,&typo=1</a>><br>
> <br>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 8:45\u202fPM Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com" target="_blank">sasmyth@swcp.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com" target="_blank">sasmyth@swcp.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Nick -<br>
> <br>
> > I would like to see it. Resend. .<br>
> <br>
> If I didn't post it, I deleted it...<br>
> <br>
> My compulsions are equal parts composing such and deciding it is totally<br>
> <br>
> irrelevant to the conversation and deleting it.<br>
> <br>
> Yes, George is equal parts mind-reader and sycophant. Very<br>
> <br>
> seductive/crazy-making combination?<br>
> <br>
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