literarily.winged

[literarily.winged @lit_winged]

The tragedy of life is not the endless struggles and hardships that we face as we journey through it.

[Publisher in a Box @publisherinabox]

Another one.

A publisher cleared the 300k challenge and the invite came through on schedule, right inside the window Facebook had called.

Do the work in the right order and it shows up.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Personally, I think stuff like this should be preserved in a Museum of Female Treachery so that schoolgirls of the future can watch in horror, then offer up a silent prayer of thanks for their rebellious, thoroughly TERFy great-grandmothers.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.

If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.

If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.

If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Nearly thirty years as a published writer and this is the first time I’ve used a new device that became instantly irreplaceable (no, I’m not being paid to say this.) It feels like using ink and paper and does everything I want it to do and nothing I don’t need it to do.

I know I’m late to the party, but my son gave it to me on my birthday so to me it’s a very recent revelation. It’s already joined my laptop at the top of my Things I Dread Losing list. #supernote

[Mikael @mikael_jibril]

A friday full of blessings —

[~X~ (xgrrrl1) @jnsqxgrrrl1]

https://t.co/cYKn61rFkE

[~X~ (xgrrrl1) @jnsqxgrrrl1]

I do make lots of mistakes. Lots.

As one does when kept in the dark about secret things. I take the risk of trying to engage and connect with you while I stumble, flail.

I spread myself thin because my reach exceeds my grasp as I try to give- without knowing how many you are.

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 BREAKING: Apple filed for a PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION against OpenAI AND asked a federal judge to put them under forensic supervision

"Apple respectfully moves the Court for a preliminary injunction to stop THE THEFT OF ITS TRADE SECRETS"

Apple filed NINE sworn declarations, a 28-page memorandum and a concurrent motion for expedited discovery

What Apple now says, under oath:

Chang Liu: 8 years at Apple, now OpenAI "Member of Technical Staff" exploited an authentication bug to steal Apple trade secrets "on AT LEAST FIVE SEPARATE OCCASIONS" from February to April 2026, WHILE working for OpenAI

Liu downloaded "THOUSANDS OF PAGES of Apple's most sensitive trade secrets"

The stolen files, NAMED:
>DisplayNotes.key — "several hundred pages" on Apple's custom display power development program
>Architecture analyses. Fabrication decisions. Testing results
>Engineering data for an UNANNOUNCED Apple product: 'touch, display, and power systems"
>Final.key + V2.key — compilations of two undisclosed Apple R&D projects
>and those are "only four of the dozens of proprietary documents Mr. Liu stole"

Liu fed OpenAI "a steady stream of Apple proprietary information that he actively concealed"

Liu also "coached Yu-Ting "Alyssa" Peng, then still INSIDE Apple, how to access and copy files from Apple workstations "to avoid trouble with the security team" and directed her to communicate with him on the encrypted LINE app "to avoid detection"

Tang Yew Tan: 24-year Apple VP, now OpenAI's Chief Hardware Officer, "used an Apple internal project codename for an unannounced product to elicit still more trade secrets from job candidates."

Tan's own messages, quoted in the motion:
>"Just like last time, bring some parts you worked on" >"mlb, battery, shields type of stuff is interesting"

OpenAI recruiter, quoted: "No, you won't sign anything at the exit interview. If they do ask you to sign anything, let me know asap."

APPLE TOLD FEDERAL JUDGE:
>"OpenAI knows its misappropriation is wrong and has tried to conceal it."
>"This is not a case of 'mere hiring'... it is a case of repeated instances of deliberate theft."

Apple says OpenAI went after its SUPPLIERS:
>OpenAI "directed a trusted Apple partner [name redacted] to perform [Apple's proprietary metal finishing] process for them, knowing it was proprietary to Apple... because they were involved in this partnership while at Apple."

Apple put its own Surface Finishing Manager, Jackie Hughes, under oath to prove it.

Apple named ELEVEN MORE former Apple employees at OpenAI — beyond Liu, Tan, and Peng — Fourteen people total.

Apple also filed a concurrent motion for EXPEDITED DISCOVERY demanding depositions:
- Liu. Tan. Peng.
- A fourth unnamed OpenAI employee
- Plus OpenAI itself, under oath, through Rule 30(b)(6)

Apple has asked a federal judge to put OpenAI under forensic supervision RIGHT NOW:

>Forensic inspection of ALL OpenAI devices
>ALL cloud storage, Slack, email
>Including anything that "previously contained" Apple data — deleted included

Demanding the "first available hearing date," citing "imminent threat" to its trade secrets.

APPLE:
> "The harm is happening now — every day that passes without an injunction allows OpenAI to embed their knowledge of Apple's stolen information into its hardware development efforts."

Hearing: October 1, 2026. Judge Edward J. Davila.

ITS HAPPENING

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Charlize Theron shaved her eyebrows and gained between 20 and 30 pounds (10–15kg) for her role in Monster (2003).

After winning the Oscar, she said interviewers obsessed over how a pretty, thin person could possibly be “brave” enough to gain weight.

When the first photo stills from Monster were published, no one could believe that Theron would downplay her ‘greatest asset’ to become a homeless lesbian prostitute and serial k*ler.

[✒️ @Literariium]

I'm a lover with or without a lover.

[Charles Bukowski Legacy @Bukowskiquot]

this changed my life

[✒️ @Literariium]

—— Madison Julius Cawein, “Apart”

[The Awazaar Sain @adeelzsiddiqui]

I’m tormented on the rack, but I exist. I see the sun, and if I don’t see the sun, I know it’s there. and there’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there.

[Nostos @NostosLit]

― Anaïs Nin, The early diary of Anaïs Nin