Nice try. But this is explicitly the “Authors’ Guild” and others.

Interesting to see the reactions here; how they differ from other lawsuits that pit “authors” and “artists” against tech companies.

I was just a little surprised to see the familiar name but I don’t quite remember why. Maybe because of the downvotes.

Oh. By Bruce Schneier.

Maybe it’s time to have a little think about that word, “influencer”, and how that is a job with which people make money.

Outage is ending.

Oct 20 2:27 AM PDT We are seeing significant signs of recovery. Most requests should now be succeeding. We continue to work through a backlog of queued requests. We will continue to provide additional information.

https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

Could be that your region relies on different servers, could be that only the sign-in is down.

I doubt there’s anywhere where the phone book wasn’t digitized. In Germany, the requirement to publish your address + number was eventually dropped, though; maybe because the phone system was privatized.

It’s kinda funny how times change.

In Germany, it even used to be that your phone number, along with your name and address, was published in the phone book, by law. If you wanted to be delisted, you had to provide a valid reason, such as being stalked. Just because was not good enough. At every street corner was a phone booth with the phone book of your town with your name and address. At post offices, you could find phone books from other towns. (The phone system was run by the postal service, which was a government agency.)

Phone books were a bit of a plot point in Terminator. The terminator gets the list of Connors from the phone book and kills them in that order.