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

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On 3/23/26 2:39 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> 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:
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>     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:
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>         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:
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>             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 <mailto:nthompson at clarku.edu>
> 
>             https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson <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://substack.com/@monist <https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fsubstack.com%2f%40monist&c=E,1,VSsFBTkBTJbN8ThACF8NmijxwOrcRwvMPELcVljc6I3LnjWIPjeTBxuHccuggJf83aRsc97zGCV-9Vo-67jfy1DO9xALe5csDWxrvUm_E40mw8QDsn1cgji3owg,&typo=1>
> 
>             On Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 8:45 PM Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com <mailto:sasmyth at swcp.com>> wrote:
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>                 Nick -
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>                 > I would like to see it.  Resend. .
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>                 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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