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This is a couple of MONTHS ahead of negotiations:
Also something important for anyone who knows any SAG-AFTRA people on here:
non-it/its users need to get their shit together fr
ok time to elaborate.
earlier today i was talking to someone and i mentioned one of my friends, and said 'yeah it was saying-' and before i could finish my sentence she interrupted me and went "it?" as if i'd misspoken. when i said "yeah, it said-" she looked at me as if i'd like insulted her or something and went "why are you calling your friends its? don't you mean they?"
i pretty much just went "nevermind" because that's not worth it (and no i'm not misgendering a friend for someone else's "comfort" like wtf) but the issue is
this. happens. every. time.
you tell someone else you use it/its? they look at you like you're fucking insane. 99% of the time they will refuse to use your pronouns because it's "offensive" to them (yknow what else is offensive? purposely misgendering me when i literally just told you my pronouns). when you talk about a friend who uses it/its pronouns, 99% of the time the other person will try to like. correct you or stop you even though they don't even know who you're talking about.
"well they/them is gender neutral too so just use th-" no. my pronouns are it/its. they/them is not it/its. they/them is misgendering.
"but it's gender neutra-" okay and? if dude said he uses he/him and you used they/them that's misgendering. why is it okay when it's it pronouns?
"but it's offensive to refer to people as-" bitch i am literally referring to myself as it/its. i am telling you directly in plain words that these are the pronouns that make me comfortable. i don't give a fuck what you think of them they are my pronouns
at this point i settle with they/them because i'm just done having people look at me like i said a slur when i tell them what pronouns i'm comfortable with.
mutual 1: fuck this stupid job im killing myself
mutual 2: Isn't it so crazy how we're all getting older and our bodies are breaking down and we all know we have to start living healthier and better but we're just stuck in a terrible cycle and the patterns are repeating and repeating and repeating
mutuasl 3-5: I need kpop boy hole NOW
mutuals 6-7: I need weird old man hole NOW
mutual 8: Send roman roy to the reeducation camp
mutual 9: [painstakingly detailed director's commentary on the fanfic they just posted]
mutual 10: I can't stand [mutual 4]'s ass
mutual 11: who else 4loko drunk at work on a wednesday at 11am!!!!!
mutual 12: fuck this stupid grad program im killing myself
mutual 13-18: having ego-killingly intense sex with a fifteen-foot-tall anthropomorphic half-crocodile, half-blasting furnace whose flesh is honeycombed iron and liquid obsidian and whose teeth are sharp, sharp, sharp, would fix me
mutual 19: cheryl blossom is frantic vriska. nanami is sickly vriska. makima is immortal vriska. it could not be simpler, people.
mutual 20: [link to a nine-hundred-page ashcan pdf of the unedited first draft of their diceless tabletop roleplaying game set in Chełm. it is the single greatest game you will ever read, and you will never, ever play it.]
[ID: a screenshot of a comment from reddit, with no username visible. The commend reads: This doesn’t make a ton of sense to me either. Setting aside the question of whether gender/sex is assigned or observed at birth, the gender I was assigned at birth was ‘boy.’ The gender I have now is ‘man’. Boys and men have different gender roles, and few adults identify as boys anymore. From this standpoint, every adult has a different gender than the one they had at birth. End ID]
Framing “girl” and “boy” as separate genders from “woman” and “man” is such an amazing take. it’s a framework that accommodates and explains so many trans experiences. Some trans people never were their AGAB. Some feel like they were their AGAB, but that that changed (usually when puberty hits, which is when you start “becoming a man/woman”. The accepted societal path is that girls grow up to into women, and boys grow up into men. But some girls grow up into men, and some boys grow up into women. This guy was a boy who grew up into a man, which generally works out pretty well for people. Some boys and girls grow up into people who aren’t men or women, even! It’s like this random cis guy skipped right over transgender 101, 102, 201, etc. and stumbled directly into Transgender Nirvana.
I guess you could say that this poll is going...
swimmingly
if I were in the house I would simply leave
What tha fuck
Why did the Danny phantom community get ahold of this this is an untagged post at 4am.
Fair enough.
HOLY SHIT GUYS
Ok ok, so, apperantly in the background of Dante's notes the only ID? thingy? BIO? That's not censored is GREGOR'S... And somehow no one talks about it besides some Russian project moon fan acc, SO I THOUGHT I HAVE TO SPREAD THIS AROUND
We had no idea how old any of the sinners are and all so we finally have info like that- Officially, Gregor is 35. He used to be a soldier (obviously), he's 167cm (5'6 feet) tall, he weights 66kg (145.5 lbs). Apperantly his blood type is B+ and there's some info about his eyesight. Also his name is in Hebrew
German is not my first language so I can't translate much but this is something, I just find this SO interesting... Does that mean we'll get uncensored IDs of other sinners too? There's 2 weeks left of Dante's notes besides this first one so maybe we'll get Rodion's and Sinclair's IDs too, maybe it's gonna be revealed every week... I have no idea, maybe it's a mistake, but idk how they would make such mistake
OH FR?? I have to check this out, I might try and dig into files cuz I wanted to do that for a while anyway. My partner is Korean so they can help with Korean (I'm sure you meant Korean cuz Yi Sang is Korean not Japanese!)... I don't know anyone who speaks french but maybe Google translate will be good for it
yi sang’s n mersaults censored n uncensored for convenience, theyre very bad quality though, but thats a given considering its a background image
Info confirmed!
Just woke up from a dream where one of my Tumblr mutuals taught me about an image processing transform called the "communist transform" that was... apparently part of some specific open source movement to track changes in DRM'ed media?
and I pulled out a whiteboard and fucking worked through a 4x4 example by hand
I think my brain is broken
@medium-amount-of-gay asked for more context, so: this is the code for the Communist Transform (it's basically a five-point estimation of Gaussian curvature?)
and here's what it actually looks like (on a picture of Karl Marx for thematic coherency)
I have no idea what it has to do with communism, or open source software, or anything, but that's dream logic for you. I'm just kind of amazed that something someone told me in a dream was mathematically coherent enough to code it at all.
Oh, it's really sensitive to pixel-level noise. I blurred the original image and it's a lot clearer what's going on -- it's an edge detector.
you see, this is the communist transform because the low signal represents the proletariat and the high signal represents the bourgeoisie, and therefore
...the funny thing is, you were the mutual who taught me this in my dream
Matchup 3
Only your vote can determine which of these autistic girlies will move on to the next round.
DON QUIXOTE MASTERPOST LUNELLA LAFAYETTE MASTERPOST
[Image ID. Image with a purple to pink gradient background that is split down the middle by a jagged white line. There is a purple 'VS' symbol in the centre. On the left of the image is Don Quixote from Limbus Company. On the right of the image is Lunella Lafayette from Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur. End ID.]
neopets forum posts i reference all the time but nobody gets
here are some more really good neoboards screenshots
how could you forget
I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.
(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)
The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.
So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.
I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.
First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?
And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:
Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.
Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.
I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!
Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.
Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).
Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.
So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.
They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.
I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.
Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.
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god media giants like google and twitter putting in inactive account deletion policies is just. horrific. it'd be one thing if it was just inactive empty accounts. but any inactive account being at risk of deletion fills me with dread. we all pass away one day, and so do our surviving relatives, until one day our online legacy gets wiped out because nobody was around to occasionally check our emails, i guess?
google's statement says that its because older accounts are at more risk of being hacked and repurposed into phishing accounts. but theres no reason they couldnt put in a mechanic of, say, locking inactive accounts from use while still keeping the content up. its not like they cant afford the server space. we've been forced away from physical media only for the internet to continue spiralling its way into a digital dark age. its depressing, man.
CW: racism, anti-indigenous violence, police brutality (including images), youth incarceration
Today the Aboriginal community of Perth, Nungar Elders, and allies held a rally outside Banksia Hill, intending for their young people to hear the voices of their mothers and women community leaders on Mother's Day... However they were prevented by WAPol from reaching the facility or being within hearing range of their young people detained within.
These young people have not been rioting simply because violence is in their nature, they have real grievances that are not being addressed. They are baking in summer and freezing through cold winter nights. They are children fenced in within a racist carceral system, within the state that has the worst record for Aboriginal deaths in custody. These boys deserve to be heard, understood, their needs and grievances remedied... Regardless of their convictions.
The WA Premier Mark McGowan has no grounds or right to call these children terrorists for rioting in their cage, not least while the police are literally holding guns to their heads on national television.
Sovereignty was never ceded, this land will always be Aboriginal land, Perth is a Colonial city built on the lands of the Nungar nation... The act of terrorism here is by the WA Police and corrections officers against the disproportionately Aboriginal population of the Youth facilities.
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Consider donating to the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia.
So the Australian Government is starving the Aboriginal Legal Service... I am seething.
On May 3rd, Google released 8 new top-level domains (TLDs) -- these are new values like .com, .org, .biz, domain names. These new TLDs were made available for public registration via any domain registrar on May 10th.
Usually, this should be a cool info, move on with your life and largely ignore it moment.
Except a couple of these new domain names are common file type extensions: ".zip" and ".mov".
This means typing out a file name could resolve into a link that takes you to one of these new URLs, whether it's in an email, on your tumblr blog post, a tweet, or in file explorer on your desktop.
What was previously plain text could now resolve as link and go to a malicious website where people are expecting to go to a file and therefore download malware without realizing it.
Folk monitoring these new domain registrations are already seeing some clearly malicious actors registering and setting this up. Some are squatting the domain names trying to point out what a bad idea this was. Some already trying to steal your login in credentials and personal info.
This is what we're seeing only 12 days into the domains being available. Only 5 days being publicly available.
What can you do? For now, be very careful where you type in .zip or .mov, watch what website URLs you're on, don't enable automatic downloads, be very careful when visiting any site on these new domains, and do not type in file names without spaces or other interrupters.
I'm seeing security officers for companies talking about wholesale blocking .zip and .mov domains from within the company's internet, and that's probably wise.
Be cautious out there.
A malicious actor sets up a page with an auto-downloader squatting on a domain name that matches a common zip file name like photos DOT zip. This website is set up to start an auto downloader upon being visited, downloading a zip file with the same name as the URL which contains malicious software (virus, worm, keylogger, etc).
Scenario.
Someone you know well sends you an email or text with promised photos attached. The email even reads something like this.
Because .zip is now a TLD, that plain text is automatically formatted into a link to malicious actor's website without them having to send you anything.
Folk with family with iPhones or iPads that are sent multiple photos in one go might be familiar with iCloud's tendency to automatically compile them into zip file for the sender and less savvy tech users have trouble NOT doing that.
These same less savvy users, or even just someone just not thinking in the moment, will click that .zip link, not realizing it isn't the the same as clicking on the promised attachment.
They download a file that matches the name they expected. They open it because they were expecting that file and it's from a trusted source. Except the file they downloaded isn't the one that was sent by their trusted source and now they have malware.
Another Scenario.
An IT person tries to send you an email with instructions on how to resolve a problem with a commonly used filename like install-repair DOT zip or to install new software like microsoft-office DOT zip.
The email may start with instructions of where to go get the legitimate file to do the install or repair, but now a line later in the instructions is also has a link to a .zip URL. A user, already frazzled by IT problems, may click it to ensure they have the right file. Again, they download malicious code from a squatting website or it prompts them with a fake login and now the squatting website has stolen their login credentials for a legitimate site. All due to an expected email from a trusted source.
Above you can see microsoft-office DOT zip is already out there with a fake Microsoft login screen waiting to steal your credentials.
These risks are already out there now because the TLD has been activated.
Plain text on old post are already being resolved into links to the new websites.
Here you can see a tweet from 2021, long before .zip was a domain name, now resolves that plan text into a clickable link. You'll start seeing this everywhere, and malicious actors do not have to lift a finger to send it to you.
Yes, a lot of users aren't going to click that, but a lot of folk will. Whomever is squatting on photos DOT zip domain name has made a one time payment to have access to anyone that ever sees that file name typed out.
In an example of an existing squatter site, clientdocs DOT zip is exactly one such pre-setup .zip domain name that initiates an automatic download. This one may be harmless, but the set ups are already out there and waiting to catch folk.
It's an unnecessary and risky can of worms that's been opened up.
Holy Unforced Errors, Batman.
im so bad at complimenting art i go “OOGGGH” and “THAT IS SO EPIC” which is not enough but i mean those so genuinely
