fact: astrology used to work perfectly and apparent planetary motion corresponded exactly (+/- 0°0'1") to the progressions of life on earth, until the advent and subsequent ubiquitous adoption of the radio wave introduced so much noise into the ionosphere that communications between the heaven and the earth were irrevocably scrambled; now, astrology still technically works, but it plays out in such a high-entropy set of events (see: pseudorandomness) that it has become functionally indistinguishable from free will.
I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.
If you all will allow me a moment to analyze the competition as it exists, there's something interesting going on with the numbers.
As we all know, thanks to the support of the good people of Tumblr, Tylenol has experienced a meteoric rise to second place. Even though her competition is stiff, I believe in Tylenol's ability to go the distance.
But let's take a look at the competition:
Elmer seems to be a lovely boy. I have no qualms with Elmer, and think he would look fantastic on a beer can. But what about Elmer's campaigns? Who is the power behind the throne here, and how have they managed to find such breakout success on this competition?
A handful of wealthy donors are trying to buy this competition.
At the end of the day, all donations are good donations here. This is a charity event so every penny earned is going to help animals in need. But it's not lost on me that Elmer's current ranking is thanks entirely to a few individuals with the financial means to put their thumbs on the scale.
Tylenol's donors, comparatively, are small and numerous, mostly $1-10 donations from many passionate believers in what she stands for (autism and pain relief I think).
Overall, the donations tell a very different story than what the base ranking shows you. Elmer is held aloft by just 24 donors and bolstered by a few wealthy patrons, whereas Tylenol has won the hearts of literally hundreds of people. Even the current third place, Abby, owes her ranking to numerous small contributions rather than one or two large ones.
Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki is still drawing at 85, and his son doesn’t want him to stop
Hayao Miyazaki may be 85 years old, but his son has revealed that the legendary Studio Ghibli filmmaker has no intention of slowing down any
by James Busby
Published: Jul 08, 2026, 07:05
Hayao Miyazaki may be 85 years old, but his son has revealed that the legendary Studio Ghibli filmmaker has no intention of slowing down anytime soon.
Speaking during a media preview for Ghibli Park’s latest exhibition, Hayao Miyazaki’s son Goro Miyazaki revealed that his Oscar-winning father is still producing new illustrations despite his age.
According to Oricon, Goro joked that part of him wishes his father would finally slow down before admitting he’d rather see him continue creating for the rest of his life.
Miyazaki’s son hopes father keeps drawing
“I get to the point where I think, ‘Come on, enough already,'” Goro said with a laugh. “But at this point, I hope he keeps drawing until the day he dies.”
He then revealed that his father is still producing new artwork today, pointing towards the drawings he created for Ghibli Park’s new Panorama Box Exhibition.
“He’s still drawing new pictures. They’ve started spilling out of the boxes, so they’re becoming like panorama boxes without frames,” he said during a press conference.
Miyazaki’s new Panorama Box Exhibition opened on July 8 at Studio Ghibli’s Park, a theme park in Japan that houses attractions based on My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and other beloved films.
The display features 31 handcrafted panorama boxes that Hayao Miyazaki created over three years and includes three-dimensional art inspired by the paper crafts Miyazaki loved as a child.
Each box layers multiple illustrations together to recreate moments from films like Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Kiki’s Delivery Service, Howl’s Moving Castle, The Boy and the Heron, and works that have never appeared in his films.
“Studio Ghibli has been around for a long time, so many of the older films aren’t as familiar to children today,” Goro continued. “If this exhibition encourages people to discover them and think, ‘I’d like to watch that movie,’ then that would make us very happy.”
This isn’t the only exciting news to come out of Studio Ghibli this year, as back in June it was revealed that fan-favorite film Kiki’s Delivery Service is being turned into a 10-part live-action TV series.
OpenAI ordered to stop using Studio Ghibli content for Sora 2
A trade group representing Studio Ghibli has sent a letter to OpenAI claiming copyright infringement over Sora 2 videos.
by Chris Tilly
Published: Nov 04, 2025, 06:17
A Japanese trade group whose members include Studio Ghibli has sent a letter to OpenAI demanding the company stops using their content to train its Sora 2 video generation platform.
Studio Ghibli has made no secret of its dislike for AI. In a clip that went viral, co-founder Hayao Miyazaki called the technology “an insult to life itself.”
In the 2016 footage, Miyazaki also said: “I am utterly disgusted. If you really want to make creepy stuff you can go ahead and do it. I would never wish to incorporate this technology into my work at all.”
Now Japanese content trade group CODA – which represents the likes of Square Enix, Bandai Namco, Sony Music Entertainment, and Studio Ghilbi – is taking action via an open letter that’s critical of OpenAI’s Sora 2 technology, which creates realistic videos, frequently based on pre-existing material.
CODA claims “copyright infringement” at OpenAI and Sora 2
In a letter dated October 27, 2025 – as reported by Variety – the ‘Content Overseas Distribution Association’ wrote: “CODA has confirmed that a large portion of content produced by Sora 2 closely resembles Japanese content or images.
“CODA has determined that this is the result of using Japanese content as machine learning data. In cases, as with Sora 2, where specific copyrighted works are reproduced or similarly generated as outputs, CODA considers that the act of replication during the machine learning process may constitute copyright infringement.”
CODA also objected to the opt-in policy that was recently in the news when Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and acting union SAG-AFTRA complained about deep-fake videos using the actor’s image unless he opted out.
The organization objects to this practice, by which IP owners must alert OpenAI if they don’t want their copyrighted work used in the generative AI model.
According to to CODA, under Japan’s current copyright system, “prior permission is generally required for the use of copyrighted works, and there is no system allowing one to avoid liability for infringement through subsequent objections.”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously went on the record about this issue, writing on October 4, 2025 that “we will give rightsholders more granular control over generation of characters, similar to the opt-in model for likeness but with additional controls.”
But CODA clearly isn’t happy with the current state-of-play, requesting that that OpenAI “responds sincerely to claims and inquiries from CODA member companies regarding copyright infringement related to Sora 2’s outputs.”
For more on the AI debate, check out controversies concerning Robin Williams, AI creation Tilly Norwood, movies Megalopolis, Late Night With the Devil, and Thunderbolts, and TV shows True Detective and the One Piece anime.
I yet have to see any proof that this so-called “sex” is real and does in fact exist in our world to any tangible degree; and yet the stork exists and we can clearly observe it.
Easily the most annoying kind of vampire in the world are the ones where you finally corner the fuckers and when you're going in with the stake they start spouting off sociology 101 bullshit to try and weasel out of it. "Oh, no ethical consumption under capitalism," "oh, the rich are the real vampires if you think about it-" yeah, yeah, you ate like fifty homeless people, asshole. Hold still
it's weird that so few people seem to know that mormons largely run the troubled teen industry. ppl will imply that I'm religiously intolerant when I badmouth mormonism and it's like well. they child trafficked me. so. lol
it's why Utah has the worst youth rights laws in the country; bc the troubled child industry lobby fights all legislation designed to give kids more rights. it's a state-supported industry of child abuse run by the Mormon church 🤷
mature content warnings on text posts of nothing but letters on a screen. . . remember when you were allowed to post like an adult and not be shamed or silenced for it
there is no acceptable explanation for this post being given a mature content warning outside of saying that you are an adult baby on the cyber nanny website!
i think being proud of where you come from is one of those things that becomes fun the more specific you get. like "proud to be english" bad rancid vibes. makes you sound like the kind of person who rants about immigrants. "proud to be from yorkshire" better vibes. i cannot deny the yorkshire cultural heritage. "proud to be from pocklington" absolutely fucking hilarious please never let anybody kill your pocklington pride.
Jurassic sea monster was smaller than once thought, but no less formidable
A new study has found that Liopleurodon reached just over 8 meters long, replacing decades of inflated size estimates with the most accurate reconstruction yet.
Image credit: Megan Jacobs/University of Portsmouth
