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You must be pretty bored too if you're reading this // he/him, 25, Gemini, INTP 9w8 so/sx , Pan, Poly, GMT-8 // If you need something tagged tell me // Message me about anything
The Random Darknet Shopper, an automated online shopping bot with a budget of $100 a week in Bitcoin, is programmed to do a very specific task: go to one particular marketplace on the Deep Web and make one random purchase a week with the provided allowance. The purchases have all been compiled for an art show in Zurich, Switzerland titled The Darknet: From Memes to Onionland, which runs through January 11.
The concept would be all gravy if not for one thing: the programmers came home one day to find a shipment of 10 ecstasy pills, followed by an apparently very legit falsified Hungarian passport– developments which have left some observers of the bot’s blog a little uneasy.
If this bot was shipping to the U.S., asks Forbes contributor and University of Washington law professor contributor Ryan Calo, who would be legally responsible for purchasing the goodies? The coders? Or the bot itself?

I am still laughing about this.

Where art isn’t quite crime, crime not quite art.

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Such algorithmic flagrancy

I really really love this.

This is REALLY fucking interesting.

do you ever draw something SOOO self indulgent and dirty u just have to take a moment and be like

Because gay people are dirty and erotic and disgusting and drawing them is sinful and shameful and naughty.

lmao hi, i’m OP

1. i’m queer.

2. this post was about kinky transformers porn.

3. tbh its hilarious how wrong you are lmao fuck off.

this image actually makes complete sense & that is a fucking trip & a half.

You can take it back even further to the Archudke’s assassin just bumping into him deciding to get a sandwich. One man’s need for lunch 100 years ago gave rise to tentacle porn half the world away. What a world.

Is anybody going to explain?

No? Okay.

1. Archduke Ferndinand is murdered, causing World War 1.

2. The Allies win WW1, imposing the Treaty of Versailles on Germany.

3. This causes tension between Germany and the rest of Europe, something Adolf Hitler takes advantage of and begins WW2.

4. Japan joins the axis in WW2 in order to expand their empire.

5. The Axis is defeated, and Japan comes under US occupation.

6. American soldiers bring comic books, cartoons, and other American mediums to Japan which stay behind even after the occupation is over.

7. Post-WW2 Japan imposes strict censorship laws that include the banning of most conventional porn.

8. Japanese citizens retaliate by drawing comics with women having sex with vaguely penis-shaped objects like tentacles to exploit loopholes in the law.

9. It establishes itself as a fetish even after the laws are relaxed, and so Hentai was born.

Butterfly effect

….oh my god.

just throwing in my two cents in as an artist who draws horny content: it’s about context.

if you’re drawing fictional characters in titillating poses for cheesecake or straight up porn purposes, that’s one thing. the context is a sexual one. keep living your best life, i know i am.

however, all those old comic book artists are drawing female-shaped characters to look sexual in a non-sexual context. they’ll draw spiderwoman climbing a building with her suit suctioned to her tits and ass, basically making her look naked covered in bodypaint, when the situation straight up does not call for that. she’s a woman essentially at work and yet they’re gonna objectify her anyway. (fuck you milo manara.)

one of my favorite old articles is this one comparing ed benes’ art of wonder woman to cliff chiang’s. ed benes draws wonder woman and a bunch of other justice league women, who are all captured and imprisoned, like they’re ready to be “punished” in a BDSM scenario. it’s stupid and distracting– why have wonder woman’s breasts center in the screen like this?? this does NOT suit the context of the story and it’s just plain uncomfortable.

cliff chiang has four pages of wonder woman nude and yet he never exploits it, because it actually isn’t important to the story. she sleeps nude because that how Diana just do, she’s woken up by a girl in trouble, so she has to get dressed while they talk. seriously go read that article, it has more pictures.

imagine what this scene would have looked like if it were drawn by ed benes, or milo manara or greg land (who would’ve traced porn anyway) or j. scott campbell or ALL OF THOSE FOOLS IN THE COMIC INDUSTRY. this is why i like cliff chiang’s art so much more, because aside from it actually just looking better in all ways, he also knows how to draw women characters with respect.

context matters. draw tittilating sexualized art of superheroes all you want, but keep it where it belongs: in a sexual context. NOT in every scene ever, because why the FUCK would i want to find a corpse, a torture victim, or an otherwise serious battle randomly sexy? or for that matter, women just doing their jobs? they’re superhero stories, not low-budget pornos featuring plumbers and pizzamen for fuck’s sake.

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For years, most victims of revenge porn — people who have had their nude photos shared online without permission — basically couldn’t do anything about it.

According to one study, over 50% of all adults engage in sexting, and 70% admit to having received a nude photo online or over the phone.

And yet, despite the fact that we all (or at least more than half of us) do it, there’s still this weird, persistent, harmful notion that if your naked pictures get leaked or shared maliciously by an ex online, it’s your fault for taking them in the first place.

It’s completely backward, but sadly, the law seems to at least kind of agree.

As of September 2014, New Republic found, putting someone else’s illicit photos online without their consent was illegal in just 16 states, though laws have been proposed in more states. Not only is it typically impossible to prosecute the perpetrator, they note, it’s impossible to legally compel websites to take the images taken down most of the time.

And here’s how to do it on Google.

HEY GUYS CHECK THIS OUT

So if a porn bot reblogs and puts a link to your selfies you can do this

SO IF A PORN BOT PUTS A LINK TO A PORN SITE/VIRUS YOU CAN FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO HAVE IT REMOVED. ALSO IF ANY REMOVES THE ORIGINAL CAPTION OF YOUR POST TO BOOST THEIR BLOG YOU CAN REPORT THEM (AND GET THEM REMOVED) TOO.

YOU CAN ALSO FILE A DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) AGAINST THEM TOO. http://tumblr.com/dmca 

WHY DOESN’T THIS HAVE MORE NOTES?

so SAG-AFTRA finally released some official guidance for fans, viewers, creators/influencers, critics, and more during the strike. here's what you need to know:

  1. if you see a publication/news source/journalist talking about a piece of struck work, that's ok. they're allowed to do that.

2. they're asking regular viewers and fans to DONATE TO STRIKE FUNDS, SHOW UP TO PICKETS IF YOU CAN, and please do NOT boycott streaming services or movies in theaters.

3. influencers, content creators, cosplayers, and anything in between is still a bit of a grey area, but they're asking people to use their best judgement. "organically" means UNPAID promo (like an invite to a premiere without being paid, being sent a publicity box, letting the company's social media post a photo of you in cosplay, etc).

obviously this doesn't answer every question, and isn't hard and fast rules for fanworks, but it can at least inform how you personally choose to move forward when posting online and moving publically. i hope this helps!

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In light of increasing anti-trans and anti-abortion laws in the United States, I am once again humbly requesting you inform yourself about jury nullification, your ability as a juror to vote against convicting people being prosecuted under unjust laws. Nullification was instrumental in legalizing abortion in Canada - it informed jurors can use it to help protect healthcare workers and protesters in the US, too.