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[prokopetz]

One of my favourite bits of media history trivia is that back in the Elizabethan period, people used to publish unauthorised copies of plays by sending someone who was good with shorthand to discretely write down all of the play's dialogue while they watched it, then reconstructing the play by combining those notes with audience interviews to recover the stage directions; in some cases, these unauthorised copies are the only record of a given play that survives to the present day. It's one of my favourites for two reasons:

It demonstrates that piracy has always lay at the heart of media preservation; and

Imagine being the 1603 equivalent of the guy with the cell phone camera in the movie theatre, furtively scribbling down notes in a little book and hoping Shakespeare himself doesn't catch you.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Thou wouldst not downloadeth a car

[meyerlansky]

SON OF THE WHITE MARE aka FEHÉRLÓFIA dir. marcell jankovics (1981)

[paparoach]

[thekimonogallery]

Torii Kotondo Morning Hair

This image was considered so wildly provocative in 1930s Japan, that it was banned from further publication, remaining prints being destroyed.

[holdoncallfailed]

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to deny location sharing and turn off personalized ads and reject all non-essential cookies and not set up siri and face ID

[ahotknife]

and i’ve been afraid of changing cus i built my life around you but time makes you bolder even children get older and i’m getting older too

[tsotea-deactivated20210727]

happy april fools. please take this egg

hahahahahha………………..

youve been fooled………………by the april fools beeper……………..it was a fully grown bird the entire time…..no egg………………it tells u it hopes u hav a good april 1st

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

I just queued this for a year

[normal-horoscopes]

Everyone shut up and look at this carving of a whale from the 1200-600 CE Chumash culture

[theslowesthnery]

ohhhhhh my godddddd

[kagayuzen]

Can you hear the melody of Mozart’s piano sonata?

[johnny-depp-is-loved]

[dawaxxenpith]

At risk of sounding like a hater and an asshole this looks like AI and if its somehow not, the editor who reworked images and sharpened them up made it look like AI

Edit: yeah its AI

[theromanbarbarian]

This is the actual image (from a 6 year old reddit post so def not AI). Either someone asked AI to recreate it or AI, being the plagiarism machine it is, was asked for a pic of dogs finding humans in the snow and just ripped off the first image it could find. Another reminder that AI doesn't actually create anything. Also real cute dogs.

[badboneszone]

Actually a fantastic example for when you need to illustrate to someone that AI art is theft, blatantly, and not in some abstract way

[wildspringday]

[hannahlockillustration]

My comic Lazy Cat Sundays is out for Shortbox Comics Fair! It's a silly auto-bio comic about my boyfriend, friends and I up to hijinks. You can purchase it (alongside lots of other lovely artist's comics) here.

[lakevida]

cancel your plans we’re thinking about the pale blue dot voyager pic tonight

[danlisreal]

this image of earth from saturn rattles around in my skull at all hours of the day

[all-hail-the-antler-king]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[bundibird]

So from what I read, theyre asking a judge to throw out the case on the grounds that: "if everyone we stole from chooses to join the class action against us, it would financially ruin our company and would also be a precedent for people to sue the OTHER ai companies too, and it would financially ruin THEM as well.

Their argument isn't "we didnt steal," or "we broke no laws by using their stuff without permission" ---- their argument is "but if you hold us legally liable for stealing their stuff, itll be super expensive for us :( "

Needless to say, i hope that the class action goes ahead, and i hope it finds the company legally and financially liable for a fucktonne of money, and I hope that every other AI company also gets sued and has to pay damages into bankruptcy.

[redarmyscreaming]

[nemfrog]

No. 58. Fish-riding cat.  Illustrated catalog of day light bomb shells. Hirayama Fireworks. Late 19th century. 

Yokohama Central Library

[velartis]

“what radicalized you” bro EMPATHY

[antifainternational]

How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood

Here’s a step-by-step guide.

Get organized and protect your community against ICE raids!

[cazort]

What the fuck world are we living in where this is in Teen Vogue?

Like...great article...but...shit. Jesus. Fuck.

[addamatic]

Big takeaway (read the whole article):

In many cases they were able to make ICE leave just by watching them.

You don’t have to be ready to get in conflict, you can still make a difference.

[teenslib]

I attended an optional What to do if ICE comes to your library training and was given much the same advice: make sure someone is recording. Keep them out of arm's reach of any agents, but don't hide that they're recording. Simply being recorded changes the agents' attitude and behavior.

[omgshiftercat]

Re. Teen Vogue:

The true story of how Teen Vogue got mad, got woke, and began terrifying men like Donald Trump

Femininity is not a form of stupidity.