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

Marcus Daniels marcus at snoutfarm.com
Mon Mar 23 17:39:45 EDT 2026


Except it didn’t copy it, it read it. 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 at 1:38 PM
To: friam at redfish.com <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Where Metaphors (and Elephants and Spatulai) go to die? 

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. 



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On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 8:45 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto: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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