being pro-copyright is like a cartoon “i hate cool things” political stance
“you have to respect an IP owner’s right to take down content in breach of copyright licenses” - person who spends their free time stomping on flowers and calling the cops on local skaters
I think the concept of ‘Intellectual property’ is ridiculous. Patents, copyrights, and other things under that umbrella are just the government giving a certain person a temporary legal monopoly over a certain idea. The person does not own the idea. You cannot own thoughts. You just got a legally mandated monopoly for the supposed purpose of rewarding you for thinking up that something.
Sure, it got turned into basically property through constant extensions and increases in power but it was not supposed to be that way, and it makes no sense either.
Copyright terms shouldn’t last longer than 20 years under any circumstances and fair use should be a thing again that hasn’t been stamped out of existence by the courts.
The only sane IP is the trademark and even then people are using it for stuff that they really shouldn’t be allowed to.
Don’t you mean classist Typo, as in discriminating against poor people, and not classicist, the type of academic who studies antiquity in southern Europe?
6 has three 2’s which is a good amount but of a relatively smaller number, whereas 6 has two 3’s, which is fewer, but 3 is a bigger number, so it really comes to about the same. so youve got options
6 also has six 1’s, which in my opinion is just an excessive number of small numbers
love when weapons YouTubers get deep into the weeds and they start calling a specific year of a specific type of sword that only other weapons YouTubers know about “overrated”.
Don’t forget that Saint Patrick is not the only saint whose feast day is March 17. It is also the feast of Saint Gertrude, the patron saint of cats and the people who love them.
i do think we need to start treating spraying harmless “weeds” in your lawn as utterly absurd princess and the pea level of obsession with needing the world to revolve around your every whim, like.
Okay a flower grew out of the ground outside and you can’t cope with it. Do you need to sleep on thirty feather beds as well
in my meeting with one of the people who is over grounds on my college campus i was told that when the college stopped spraying weeds, they would actually get calls from people. complaining about the dandelions
and I was sitting here like okay this is why I shouldn’t be in a public facing job because i would be the rudest motherfucker imaginable about that.
what, are you some kind of spoiled child monarch who drinks out of a golden sippy cup? Do you have a retinue of servants at home to dispose of anything and everything that you might arbitrarily dislike? have you considered leading a life where you might encounter something that could be described as a real problem? do you call the weatherman to complain when it rains?
some of y’all need to learn more compassion for adults who are severely mentally ill or disabled… like schizophrenics who still depend on their family members and probably always will have to, autistic people who live in group homes, people with bipolar disorder who attend partial inpatient programs, etc…. people who couldn’t get college degrees, who can’t work. not everyone is like you.
I ran into this before, and figured out what’s happening. This isn’t a glitch, it’s entirely on purpose: what they do is say “word X is 123456789 syllables” on the page. Google indexes that, showing a useless summary.
But if you go to the actual page, they use javascript to determine that you’re not Google, then hide all the wrong numbers, making the page now look like “word X is 3 syllables”.
Why do they do this? Because otherwise you wouldn’t go to the page. They only get advertising revenue if you click the link, and if Google extracted a correct summary of the page, you’d never click it.
if anyone wants to get off of windows and miKKKro$oft’s private data AI monetization train you can DM us and we will literally walk you through installing linux.
we prefer mint for new users for the same reason i prefer mint in many cases- its just going to work and do what most people need of their computer in a way that is better, quicker, and more intuitive than anything Microsoft’s investors want to push on you
(then you get to go crazy and run arch or a special focus distribution or something funny like uwuntu)
Tip: Prepare yourself by checking which of your necessary programs don’t support Linux and by then installing the alternatives that do support it on your Windows. This way you can get used to any alternatives that you may have to use before everything becomes unfamiliar and new.
Oh, also, for any programs that literally don’t have alternatives for your use case you can always keep the windows installation on your computer alongside Linux just for that, if you have enough storage space, of course.
Obviously if you spend most of your time on the computer using a program that simply doesn’t run on Linux and can’t be replaced by anything that can, then you may be in a pickle. But that’s relatively rare considering the ‘main program’ for most people is a browser, music or video player, an art or 3D modeling program, or a word processor. All of which either run or have competent* replacements which work on Linux.
* Yes, Libreoffice is somewhat uglier than Office 365 but switching the user interface to tabbed makes it significantly more familiar.
i hate magicians because when i was seven i was watching a magician perform during my friend’s birthday party and he did this one trick where he would take a black statuette and a white statuette, cover them each with a cloth, and then lift the cloths off to reveal that they were in separate places. and i thought i had figured out the trick so i yelled to the magician that the back sides of the statuettes were painted with opposite colors and he was just turning them while they were covered by the cloth. and the biggest, shit-eatingest grin spread across his face as he turned the statuettes to reveal that the back halves were painted yellow and red. everyone clapped and cheered and he bowed like five times. to this day i dont know how he pulled that shit off and every time i’m reminded of it i get a brain hemorrhage from pissing myself off real bad
if anyone wants to get off of windows and miKKKro$oft’s private data AI monetization train you can DM us and we will literally walk you through installing linux.
we prefer mint for new users for the same reason i prefer mint in many cases- its just going to work and do what most people need of their computer in a way that is better, quicker, and more intuitive than anything Microsoft’s investors want to push on you
(then you get to go crazy and run arch or a special focus distribution or something funny like uwuntu)
if somebody you knew for a year said “listen. im just gonna be honest here. i know ive known you too long to not know your name. but i simply do not. i dont know how this happened. im reasonably confident you told me your name at some point. could you remind me please” how would you react
“Oh, thank god, because I have no idea what yours is either.”
6 has three 2’s which is a good amount but of a relatively smaller number, whereas 6 has two 3’s, which is fewer, but 3 is a bigger number, so it really comes to about the same. so youve got options
You can really tell who’s never experienced poverty and food insecurity when it comes to discussions around food costs and how unhealthy food is cheaper. Some fucker always comes in with the price of like… lettuce or… apples. And it’s like yeah bitch but can you work an 11 hour shift after eating some salad and an apple!?! Find me something cheaper, and more filling than the broke ass staples of boxed mac and cheese, hot dogs, noodles, bread, beans, and rice. I’ll wait.
It also ignores the mental toll that poverty takes like maybe your home made veggie filled recipe isn’t crazy expensive but it also involves prep time and cooking time and organization in terms of fresh food that a lotta poor people can’t manage.
Not to mention if you can only afford to get to the store once every couple weeks via bus or cab then you can’t keep fresh veg on deck.
Each week (or so), we’ll highlight the relevant (and sometimes rage-inducing) news adjacent to writing and freedom of expression.
This week: AI continues its hostile takeover of creative labor, Spain takes a stand against digital sludge, and the usual suspects in the U.S. are hard at work memory-holing reality in ways both dystopian and deeply unserious.
OpenAI (ChatGPT) announced a new AI model trained to emulate creative writing—at least, according to founder Sam Altman: “This is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI.” But with growing concerns over unethically scraped training data and the continued dilution of human voices, writers are asking… why?
Spoiler: the result is yet another model that mimics the aesthetics of creativity while replacing the act of creation with something that exists primarily to generate profit for OpenAI and its (many) partners—at the expense of authors whose work has been chewed up, swallowed, and regurgitated into Silicon Valley slop.
But while big tech continues to accelerate AI’s encroachment on creative industries, Spain (in stark contrast to the U.S.) has drawn a line: In an attempt to curb misinformation and protect human labor, all AI-generated content must be labeled, or companies will face massive fines. As the internet is flooded with AI-written text and AI-generated art, the bill could be the first of many attempts to curb the unchecked spread of slop.
Project 2025 is moving right along—alongside dismantling policies and purging government employees, the stage is set for a systemic erasure of language (and reality). Reports show that officials plan to wipe government websites of references to LGBTQ+, BIPOC, women, and other communities—words like minority, gender, Black, racism, victim, sexuality, climate crisis, discrimination, and women have been flagged, alongside resources for marginalized groups and DEI initiatives, for removal.
It’s a concentrated effort at creating an infrastructure where discrimination becomes easier… because the words to fight it no longer officially exist. (Federally funded educational institutions, research grants, and historical archives will continue to be affected—a broader, more insidious continuation of book bans, but at the level of national record-keeping, reflective of reality.) Doubleplusungood, indeed.
Fox News pundit-turned-Secretary of Defense-slash-perpetual-drunk-uncle Pete Hegseth has a new target: banning educational materials featuring the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. His reasoning: that its inclusion in DEI programs constitutes “woke revisionism.” If a nuke isn’t safe from censorship, what is?
Things are a little shit, sure. But even in the ungoodest of times, there are people unwilling to go down without a fight.
Archivists, librarians, and internet people are bracing for the widespread censorship of government records and content. With the Trump admin aiming to erase documentation of progressive policies and minority protections, a decentralized network is working to preserve at-risk information in a galvanized push against erasure, refusing to let silence win.
Let us know if you find something other writers should know about, (or join our Discord and share it there!) Until next week,
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Implicit or implicit enumeration of uncountable things (example: taking inventory of the fucks which one gives)
Suggesting the divisibility of things which are not customarily thought of as able to be subdivided (example: “six whole people”)
Using words that aren’t numbers as numbers (example: “one William dollars”)
Technically correct but contextually misleading estimates (example: looking at a group of several thousand things and observing that there are “at least three”)
Incongruous qualifiers for apparently simple sums or tallies (example: she was twenty-seven years old, not counting 2014)
I love all of these, plus I would like to propose two additional, both things that I do on the regular:
6. Comparing a stated number to a somewhat larger number in a context where this adds no information. (example: “I found 50 dollars!” “Wow, that’s almost 60 dollars!”)
7. Improper use and conversion of units. “I’m turning 21 tomorrow!” “Wow, that’s 69.8 in Fahrenheit!”
if I may add a couple of my personal favorites:
8. Saying “maybe more!” when someone very clearly states an exact number, ie, “I have $2.45 on me right now.” “maybe more!” “no, just… just $2.45”
9. dismissing a legitimate fact because the method used to confirm it is also completely legitimate: “it looks like there’s 75 copies of this book in here.” “I mean sure, if you count them.”
Quote from the recent suggestion of adding a code of conduct to the librwolf project:
“Until then though, it should be clear: I’m very opposed to ‘keeping things apolitical’, because keeping things apolitical / trying to have a (false!) balance is taking sides and is political: it sides with the oppressors.
So LibreWolf should definitely be considered a 'very woke’, and certainly quite political project, where queer- and transphobia, racism, ableism, antivax stuff, etc. are not tolerated. I’ll gladly see a hundred racist people be pissed and leave if that makes only a single person from a disadvantaged / minority group feel safer.”
Honestly really cool, might make the switch to librewolf, especially after the recent Firefox stuff.
I keep seeing people put accommodations for people with epilepsy on the same level as sensory accommodations for autism and like… no??? Obviously both are important but epilepsy can kill people, SUDEP is a thing. If you expose someone with photosensitive epilepsy to strobing lights they could suffer permanent brain damage or die. Epilepsy is a condition with physical, sometimes deadly consequences. I’m not sure how many different ways I need to say this before it sticks, but epileptic seizures are physical neurological phenomena that can cause lasting neurological damage or death. Epilepsy can kill you. You can die from epilepsy.
I’d like to co-opt this post and complain briefly about how irresponsible hypno pages/posters will bombard people with WRETCHEDLY flashing/strobing images/spirals. Your lazily slapped together Ai BS slop could actually harm someone. Tag your shit or find a way to format your post so that it isn’t potentially harming someone
told my girlfriend that if she proposes i want a secondhand wedding ring. i explained i don’t want to contribute to a vanity-based industry like diamond mining, and that it would be important to me to continue marriage traditions in a way that causes minimal environmental and personal harm. she asked me if i was just trying to roll the dice on obtaining a haunted object, and i told her i can want two things.
Here, you can have some test pages. Been tired and slumped with school work, was finally able to breathe yesterday.
I’ve had this comic in mind for a while, and I had drawn it out (I redrew it), these are only the first 2 pages. I don’t think I’ll get to the full thing. There’s another thing i’m working on 🐛
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