finally looked at the Amazon profile thing and its ~insights are kind of hilarious because we basically only use it when there’s no other option to purchase something… like our air filters and my library ebook loans
beth 👻🎃🐈⬛
@hells-beekeepers.bsky.social
809 followers 99 following 4.2K posts
cat mom who spends too much time with court filings. she/her. lots of books, sometimes trees, ALX <3. probably watching a Star War
![text reads: What is more, AI-generated CSAM may also present other challenges not raised by the government in this appeal. For example, researchers have found that "a major dataset used for training image-generating AI contained hundreds of CSAM images." Benjamin L.W. Sobel, A Real Account of Deep Fakes, 124 Mich. L. Rev. 871, 930 (2026) (citation omitted).
Thus, unlike the virtual CAM at issue in Free Speech Coalition, the market for AI-generated virtual CSAM images may impact the demand for actual CAM on which the AI models can train. Such a finding would implicate many of the concerns raised in Osborne. See 495 U.S. at 110.
In this case, the record is insufficient to evaluate these complex issues, and, of course, we are bound by the dictates of Free Speech Coalition. But it goes without saying that "[t]he prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse of children constitutes a government objective of surpassing importance." Ferber, 458 U.S. at 757. The stakes are high, and we must be mindful of the ever-accelerating advancements in image generation technology.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oaigkv5z77w423zq4zziubcv/bafkreicha3wejpr4sy636d6z2bvbmv52fhiworuhvqh7gqvjzdo5bhq32i)
![screenshot of intro to Dealing with Dragons ebook; text reads: Enter Jane Yolen, multifaceted writer, poet, and, at that particular moment, anthologist. She was collecting stories for a children’s anthology, and she asked if I would write one. I demurred, on the dual grounds that I have considerable difficulty in writing short fiction (I am a novelist by inclination) and that I didn’t write for children. “You wrote Talking to Dragons,” Jane said. “Write me something like that.” Almost immediately, I thought of Cimorene. I went home and reread the chapters in which she appeared, and decided that I could write a story about her early life. I was still dubious [cont. in next screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oaigkv5z77w423zq4zziubcv/bafkreicpkni6wcted3pafjiivqf33foughl56ooufsaphwj2pmxywvtfvq)
![intro text cont.: about my ability to write anything short, but I figured that it would be an interesting experiment, and if Jane rejected it, I would at least have tried. “The Improper Princess” took me about three weeks to write, as best I can remember, and Jane did not reject it. It appeared in her Spaceships and Spells anthology, and I thought that was the end of it. It wasn’t. A few years later, I got a phone call from Jane, who informed me that she would be editing a line of young adult books and that she wanted me to write one for her. Once again, I objected that I didn’t know how to write for children; once [cont. in next screenshot]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oaigkv5z77w423zq4zziubcv/bafkreigky3arvfj4synidyfwra57aotxcvqc2cctnllqhnuf4h5ptgv3l4)
![intro text cont.: again, she pointed to Talking to Dragons. This time, though, she said, “Why don’t you take that short story and turn it into a novel?” And so, a little more than twenty-five years ago, I started writing Dealing with Dragons. The book took me roughly ten months to finish, which is faster than any other solo project I have ever written. The short story I began with takes up the first twenty-one pages and ends with Cimorene declining the Latin for “dragon” in preparation for beginning her new duties. This book was a tremendous amount of fun to write, because I liked Cimorene and her intensely” [page ends mid-sentence]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oaigkv5z77w423zq4zziubcv/bafkreid4v4k4237nm2qnmb74bjsumznhnfh5vbfjuplvusxsze5sbkvuae)
