[FRIAM] Where Metaphors (and Elephants and Spatulai) go to die?

Mon Mar 23 16:36:26 EDT 2026

try  anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
deadline to tile is the 30th
davew

On Mon, Mar 23, 2026, at 10:00 AM, Santafe wrote:
> I’m curious, Dave,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
>> On Mar 23, 2026, at 8:23, Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> davew
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026, at 9:52 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>>> 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. 
>>> 
>>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
>>> Clark University
>>> nthompson at clarku.edu
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>>> 
>>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 8:45 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:
>>>> Nick -
>>>> > I would like to see it.  Resend. .
>>>> 
>>>> If I didn't post it, I deleted it...
>>>> 
>>>> My compulsions are equal parts composing such and deciding it is totally
>>>> irrelevant to the conversation and deleting it.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, George is equal parts mind-reader and sycophant.  Very
>>>> seductive/crazy-making combination?
>>>> 
>>>> 
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