listen I say this with patience bc some people may genuinely have not thought about this before but if you firmly say “AI art is terribly unethical and steals from artists” (which is correct) but then turn around and use voice AIs to generate songs/voice lines that sound like your favourite voice actors or singers……………………………………that is also AI art and it is also terribly unethical
just a few examples of voice actors making their stance clear for all the ppl who are trying to disagree w me
remembering that time I explained on Twitter that Jews are 0.2% of the world’s population and control like 1.2% of its wealth
while Christians are 30-something percent of the world’s population and control 55% of its wealth
so, like, there IS a minority of the world’s population controlling the majority of its wealth
Christians.
and of course a bunch of utter walnuts were like “SEE??? this proves that Jews ARE disproportionately wealthy!!!”
which, like, sure
sure
we have $1.20 to Christians’ $55
but sure, individually we average out to having a bit more pocket change than the world’s average
a couple of things, though:
-those are AVERAGES—it doesn’t mean that every Jew you meet is wealthy, especially because…
-we are such a small population that the existence of *one Jewish billionaire* would skew the average, learn what an average is ffs, if there are 10 of us and 1 is a billionaire and the rest of us have $0 dollars, on average we each have $100,000,000 but in reality 9 of us still have $0 dollars
-y’all killed off a LOT of our poor people less than a century ago which also tends to skew the average
The minority group (in the sense of being less than half the population; they’re still the largest religion) controlling the majority of the world’s wealth is Christians. Sorry about your favorite conspiracy theory.
y’all killed off a LOT of our poor people less than a century ago which also tends to skew the average
i want to print that out and staple it to ppl's foreheads. a lot of the jews who fled extreme violence, genocide, and ethnic cleansing were only able to do so because they had the funds. those who couldn't afford to leave were killed. and those who were barely able to scrape by enough to escape usually were forced into assimilation wherever they immigrated because poverty doesn't give you much of a choice.
jesus fucking christ
"i wish i could do something 😔 / i wish the wga had a kickstarter or a gofundme, i would throw money at it" good news! it's amazing how you can literally go onto the wga strike website or the wgawest linktree from their twitter and find links to support writers and other workers affected by the strike
Becoming convinced that cars are one of the greatest evils ever foisted upon society
Like. There’s just so much.
- allowed the growth of suburbs, and with it a racial pseudo-gentry that concentrated wealth even more firmly among whites
- take up so much space that we demolished entire blocks of buildings so you can leave them there for 10 minutes at a time
- expensive, require so much up-front investment that borrowing money to purchase them is essentially mandatory
- truck nuts
- pioneered planned obsolescence. The fact that everything is disposable and replaced within 2 years is a direct result of the automotive industry.
- Tetraethyl Lead
- massive environmental damage
- Huge public health hazard from collisions
There’s just So Much
- pioneered planned obsolescence. The fact that everything is disposable and replaced within 2 years is a direct result of the automotive industry.
Does anyone have a source for this?
From the Wikipedia article on the subject
UK folks!!
There's some new 'guidance' for schools in the works, which aims to force teachers to inform parents if a child is questioning their gender, or identifies as trans.
This would also involve refusing to acknowledge a child's gender identity without express consent of the parents AND the personal approval of the head teacher.
I can't stress enough how dangerous this will be for trans and queer children in the UK. Some of you may remember Thatcher's Section 28, a piece of legislation designed to "prohibit the promotion of homosexuality".
Practically, this bill legalised homophobia and orientation-based discrimination for years.
THIS guidance for teachers will be worse. This guidance directly targets trans children and puts them at risk of discrimination, harassment and abuse by the people supposed to protect them.
Below is a link to a petition you can sign to counter this guidance. If you can, PLEASE write to your local MP. If they are labour, it is likely they will have opposed Section 28 when it was released and, if enough determination is shown CHANGE CAN HAPPEN.
We cannot let this guidance get a foothold.
We cannot endanger trans children.
DON'T GIVE THEM AN INCH.
This is devastating to trans youth but a secondary effect is gong to be making the school hostile to queer staff. Let's be real, the staff members who are visible queer are the ones who these kids are overwhelmingly going to come out to who are going to be put in this position where they have to choose between protecting that child and their legal obligation to report (which is obviously the government's fault, not the kids). This is going to push those people out of education which is then going to make the environment even more hostile for young queer kids and reduce non-queer children's exposure to queer people. You don't have to make a law saying trans people can't teach, you just need to make teaching ideologically impossible for queer people.
Does anyone have an update on where things are at with the writers strike? It's disappeared from my various feeds and algorithms.
The writers' strike is ongoing and the studios are still not returning to the negotiating table. Unfortunately a lot of the coverage has tapered off because we're on 50+ days of striking and it's not new anymore. The last strike in 2007 lasted 100 days, so don't be surprised if this strike lasts as long, or even longer.
The biggest recent news is that the Directors' Guild of America (DGA) voted to ratify their new agreement with the studios (article from June 23), and it appears likely that the actors' guild (SAG-AFTRA) will also take a deal instead of striking (article from June 24). Although this is disappointing news, it's completely expected. During previous strikes, the WGA held its own without other unions going on strike. Which is to say—don't be disheartened by the news that there won't be a triple strike. The WGA is strong enough!
Please keep vocally supporting the WGA online to keep the pressure on the studios & to keep WGA members motivated and encouraged! There are many ongoing donation drives, such as the Star Trek fan snack squad (Twitter account required to DM the organizer) and the Our Flag Means Death snack squad (opens the PayPal fundraising page—no Twitter required). There's a longer list of ongoing donation drives here.
The Entertainment Community Fund is also always accepting donations to support entertainment workers affected by the strike. Please boost and encourage your friends to keep supporting the strike. Hashtag #IStandWithTheWGA #DoTheWriteThing to boost the cause!
Anyways remember that time that JK Rowling, who has never spoken to an indigenous American person in her whole life, was like "but what if the Natives had four schools and they were also bloodthirsty savages who started the residential schools with their fictional beings as their mascots and Christians weren't actually at fault" right at the time when we started getting some traction around getting recognition for the heinous crimes that were the mass graves of children, then went on to make a whole spin-off franchise in America using that """lore""" and rhetoric, where the one wizard guy who tried to stop the Holocaust from happening was villainized and played by Johnny Depp (who played Tonto in the Lone Ranger and said he was going to buy the Black Hills and Wounded Knee and "give it back to Lakota people" then never did that at all) and who she later defended as saying he wasn't a domestic abuser because she believed him over a woman who has since been proven to be telling the truth several times over?
The woman's a violent colonizer.
Hello <3 I deleted this original post but in light of the fact that there's a Twilight TV series reboot/spinoff in the making let's talk about how these women are one and the same in their actions against indigenous American people!
Stephenie Meyer is a Mormon with Mormon views. Mormons have extremely racist ideology embedded within their religious texts about indigenous Americans and Jews - that indigenous people are quite literally the Actual Real Jews (I'm mixed, this is truly insane cult rhetoric). Through the decades the LDS church has successfully funded, advocated, and carried out forced conversion and cultural genocide. THEY ARE THE ONES ACTIVELY TRYING TO OVERTURN ICWA, THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT.
Her views on this are very, very clearly written into the pages of her books, here's clearer documentation about how she fucked over the Quileutes tribe and the inner workings of white supremacy in the book.
Are you seeing the pattern here? Are you seeing the undercurrent of antisemitism and anti-indigenous racist imperialism?
Get rid of your attachment to these franchises, stop making it a question of what media you will replace it with, get involved with US. We want your allyship and understanding more than these white supremacists even want to think about your humanhood.
Correct. The company is not your friend. You may be friends with your colleagues, with your boss, and that’s fine. The reason I’ve stayed at my company for a long time is the people I get to work with. But the corporate entity is not your friend.
I get tasked with finding savings every goddamn quarter. And we’re not talking staples and printer paper. More quarters than not, I have to work out how to make our revised cost targets. If I’m lucky, we have vacancies we can freeze or shut down. If I’m not, it’s colleagues who need to be made redundant. Because market analysts say that we should have a higher margin to be market competitive. So you get taskings from finance to squeeze out ever single dollar saving you can. And it’s the same at every other company, no matter the happy clappy “we’re so chill” marketing.
Your employer is. Not. Your. Friend.
Know your rights. Unionise.
People with most mainstream tastes imaginable should not open their mouth on how anti piracy they are btw. Yea no shit you can depend on legal sources to watch Marvel and listen to tswift and Maroon 5. Thank you so much for signing the petition to close that platform that was the only one i could download this 2008 romanian dungeon synth ep from
Cheryl Dunye’s directorial debut, The Watermelon Woman, was out of print between 2000 and 2018. Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace was only available to watch on a pirate channel on YouTube until last year. There is still no way to watch the X-Files spinoff, The Lone Gunmen except to own a dvd box set that has been out of print since 2005. Or to pirate it. It’s on YouTube.
Piracy is incredibly important to keep media that’s weird, or out there or just embarrassing to someone in power, alive. We need piracy and we need to stop being snitches when someone pirates stuff.
Add this to list of shitty things silver-spoon knobheads get away with. #Hyperloop
so funny when people are like "this is the first pansexual Thai person in overwatch!" like girl u know that's a video game right
scandal-based development schedule
Twilight fans: Haha the cast HATES twilight that's hilarious
POC (especially Natives): we hate it too
Twilight fans: hey :(
Granted, I never read Twilight but...is this referencing some racism in Twilight or is there something I'm missing here?
Twilight literally caused so many myths & misconceptions about Native & Quileute people that the Quileute tribe had to put up an entire site dispelling the shit Stephanie Meyer caused. I literally cannot begin to explain how insanely racist twilight is as a series with the number of bullshit that happens to not just the Native characters, but other characters of color (but Stephanie Meyer targeted Native Americans specifically)
Here's the site so you can research the specific ways Twilight has harmed Native Americans & specifically the Quileute tribe.
Or you can look at my #Twilight anger on main tag to see me talk about how bad it is.
The Quileute tribe is currently attempting to relocate their community outside of the active tsunami zone they currently reside in and have an ongoing fundraiser. First thing they are trying to move is their school, which teaches kids from multiple tribes in the area. They have had no support from anyone involved in Twilight, not even the funny cast who hates it. I know times are tough, but anything helps.
Fucking Nestle is one of the worst goddamn brands on the planet.
Here is everyones reminder to block every goddamn brand that shows their face here. as fun as bullying this piece of shit resource stealer would be, block them so that they get no notes. make them leave this website so we dont become fucking twitter.
Remember, we are shunning/exiling major corporate brands, not small businesses. This is a community; we like our mom and pop shops but we reject the greedy, heartless companies.
I don't want to encourage anyone to do anything blindly and that includes listening to me, and you should always do your own research especially when something appeals to your current understanding of the world, but to make things easier, here's a big old list of why Nestle sucks shit
"ooh you hate cops but who are you gonna call when you get robbed?" uhhhhh your moms house? a great tragedy has befallen me and i need to have sex immediately
Every time someone’s like “who are you gonna call when you get robbed?”
1. Know how I know you’ve never been robbed?
2. I am going to call my insurance company and file a claim, the only usefulness a cop has at this point is generating a report number for said insurance company to refer to
3. Seriously all a cop’s gonna do after establishing that the robber/burglar/whoever isn’t there anymore is say “what do you want me to do about it?” and leave
Once the bugs get ironed out, AI Image Generation will forever change propaganda and how easy it is to make and distribute.
A trans child was just violently murdered but you worthless bitches still wanna argue that it's okay to line the pockets of one of the richest terfs in the world just because you just gotta play the shitty wizard game.
You know our society is fucked up when people seriously think being a criminal defense attorney is like. A moral evil. Like people seriously jump to “wow you defend murderers” as if the majority of “crime” that happens on a daily basis isn’t literally stuff like addicts being caught possessing drugs or homeless people being arrested for loitering or fucking poor women stealing food and clothes for their kids like… the average person is just one or two paychecks away from also being deemed a “criminal” by society but yeah sure you should definitely act like needing to be defended against the state makes you an automatically morally bad person
It's not a mistake that in popular police procedural dramas legal defense for the suspect is portrayed as comically evil and the viewer is lead to believe that criminal defense gets in the way of police helping people lol
seriously. so many of them sound like hostage letters. ‘the game runs poorly, there is no enemy verity, i had multiple cases where i fell through the floor, the gameplay gets stale quickly……9/10′
plus i’ve noticed very few of the reviews mention JKR and if they do, it’s basically along the lines of ‘there is no doubt she’s a controversial figure’ but it also shouldn’t be forgotten that the former lead dev has an anti-sjw youtube channel complaining about trans folk.
oh, and potterheads. i’m all for separating the art from the artist but when the artist is currently has a net worth of a billion dollars, has surprisingly high revenue from her IP and keeps using her platform, money and connections to send hate to trans creators (look up the jessie gender situation), it’s difficult to claim you’re a trans ally, even if you donate money to charity.
a small list of organizations you can safely donate to in the wake of the horrific earthquake that struck our brothers in sisters in turkey and syria:
