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ALL. OF. THIS.

Human relationships are not transactional but they are reciprocal, which I think many of you with your ‘i don’t owe anyone anything’ shtick are too happy to forget

aromanticduck

Transactional: everything has to be exactly 50/50 all the time, pay me back for the £5 sandwich or buy me something worth exactly £5, I refuse to make an effort for you if there’s nothing in it for me

Reciprocal: you were there for me when I needed help, and I’m going to do the same for you, it doesn’t matter if one of us needs more or is capable of less, because the point is not equivalent exchange but mutual care

misscromwellsmonocle

The New American Gothic (2017) by Criselda Vasquez

gracklesong

From Criselda Vasquez's Instagram (3 April 2026):

Hi everyone, Thank you for taking the time to read this. On Tuesday, March 31,… Jorge V needs your support for Help Bring My Father Home

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drake?

hazeleyedcat

josh?

vampireapologist-archive-deacti

where’s the body of christ?

wyrddog

mudwerks

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

flippyspoon

like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮

novella-november

originally posted August 8th, 2025.

Authors have until March 30th, 2026 (That is just 9 days as of this reblog, which I am posting on March 21st, 2026) to file their claim against Anthropic to be reimbursed up to $3,000 per work found in the list.

Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits b

Please click the above link for all of the exact details of how to file a claim and to check for your works, and share this post as far and wide as you can before March 30th, 2026!

shi1498912

!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!

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bone-and-brawn

official-lucifers-child

no no that’s a bop, i love it

flightyfinch

“Woman!” cried I, somewhat tearsome,

“Who are you to stand so fearsome

With your wavy locks of auburn hair and eyes of emerald green?”

Quoth the woman, “I’m Jolene”

finjico

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aro-narcissus

Starting a collection

charlesoberonn

♫ It's fun to stay at the ♫

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i-add-sources

Universal healthcare is a study from 2020. This number is correct

Universal background checks for gun ownership is a study from 2023. This number is correct.

Sick, maternal, and paternal leave are from a 2017 study. These numbers are correct.

Free childcare is from a 2022 parent confidence rapport. This number is correct.

Minimum wage is fro ma 2021 study. This number is partially correct. This study proposed a $15 min wage and asked whether respondents supported this. 62% were completely in favour. 71% of the respondents who disagreed still support raising the minimum wage, just to less than $15. The total percentage of people in favour of raising minimum wage was therefore 89%.

Free public college is from a 2021 study. This number is correct.

I cannot find a study claiming 73% support for funding social security. I can find a study saying 79% of respondents do not want social security to be reduced in any way.

Wealth tax is from a 2024 navigator study. This number is correct.

These numbers are either correct or too low.

prokopetz

While it's true that mandatory identity verification will inevitably be leaked on a massive scale, the thing you need to understand when framing these arguments is that a lot of the folks in favour of such measures don't see that as a bad thing. Full de-anonymisation of the Internet is their explicit goal. Like, the actual objective here is for everyone to have a public record of everything they say and do – online or otherwise – linked to their government ID. The universal panopticon is the good ending as far as these people are concerned.

evonnagale

So what's the better way to frame these arguments? Is there one?

prokopetz

If your aim is to persuade, you can't just stop at "your identity and activities will be made public". A lot of the people you're trying to convince don't see that as bad in and of itself, and as far as they're concerned, the fact that you do means you've got something you hide. You need to take it past "your identity and activities will be made public" and hit specific, actionable negative consequences of that disclosure.

canadianwheatpirates

Negative consequences such as, for example, identity theft going through the roof

elf-kid2

-Identity Theft through the roof

-Kids stealing their [parent/older sibling/aunt/uncle/grandparent/babysitter]'s ID to access inappropriate content online

-Stalker's Paradise!

-Bullies doxxing their targets just got WAY EASIER

-Burglers & Robbers want to know when YOU'VE been planning a vacation! Thanks to Everything You Do Online, including "researching beaches & tourist spots" and "purchasing plane-tickets" being PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE, these nefarious thieves KNOW that they can rob and/or vandalize your house when you're out of town!

-Your Boss can now monitor if you've been searching online for other job-opportunities, researching employment-laws, or googling "how to start a union." Your Boss can punish you for googling things.

guardianofscrewingup

I reverse uno and tell Republicans it will mean that Democrat politicians will be able to trace any criticism of the Dems to their names.

nudityandnerdery

From the media that brought you "Millennials are killing [insert industry here]" articles for years and years and years, now we have....

"Hey, Gen Z, we're gonna relabel vacations into something else now and tell you how you really should be wary of taking vacation because it might impact your financial future."

This is a goddamn dystopia, we know this, right?

rabid-transcendentalist

crabussy

"dolphins are completely evil" I actually don't think we should assign human morality to animals with no concept of law or civilisation with an intelligence roughly equating to that of a toddler

crabussy

bottlenose dolphins use "baby talk" when communicating to their babies and smile at each other like humans do when they play. be nicies to them

autisticexpression2

"Dolphins are evil" is just a reactionary backlash to years of earnestly believing dolphins were all benevolence and rescuing sailors only to find out they can be dangerous and violent like any other large wild animal.

"Sharks are nice" is a similar phenomenon in the opposite direction. Pop culture portrays sharks as malevolant killing machines who crave human flesh, so when people realize they're just animals who don't attack people any more than other predators, they overcompensate into thinking you can just swim with great whites with no danger.

The reality, of course, is that both dolphins and sharks are large wild animals who should be approached with caution and respect if at all. It's probably best for you and the animal to admire them from a safe distance.

weaselle

some humans will try to help you if it's not too much trouble for them and some humans will try to bully you or take your shit or kill you if they think they can get away with it and sometimes those two examples of human can be the same person... and it's the same with every other species too.

Sometimes wolf spiders will simply abandon their eggs after laying them, sometimes they will eat their own young, sometimes they'll take an active parenting role -- and sometimes a wolf spider will adopt and raise a batch of baby spiders that are not even her own! And that's just wolf spiders.

Orcas are compassionate and tender and wonderful. Orcas are heartless and cruel and horrifying. And the reason those things seem to contradict is because we are trying to fit orca sized reality into a human sized expectation of how things are. It's the same with most creatures.

Everything on this planet is a complex interplay of situational variation, and we can only see it through the false lens of our own human values and limitations , so animals being "good" or "evil" or whatever is all just nonsense that ignores the strange and wonderful reality of their full existence

soberscientistlife

So many people do not understand the relationship between climate change and cold weather.

headspace-hotel

If you see this post it is important to send it to someone else so they too can understand

headspace-hotel

People hardly ever change their minds in front of you...the conversation becomes one of a series of slow drips that builds up to a realization

recurringwriter

WHOA!!!!! i love my friends' ocs

memingursa-deactivated20250625

This really makes the Studios costing themselves even more money (and getting more unions involved) by prolonging the strike for the promise of free ai labor even more fucking funny. you dumb fucking bastards lol

avaricesstuff

I personally said the same thing when AI art was first really taking off. Oh and you can thank PETA for this.

For those that don’t know, there’s a semi-famous story of a wildlife photographer who had her camera stolen by some monkeys she was taking pictures of. When she got her camera back, she discovered one of the monkeys had taken a selfie, and she published the image in a journal as a “look what happened” kind of story. PETA, being the insufferable waste they are, took it upon themselves to sue the photographer, claiming that because the Monkey took the picture, the monkey owns the copyright and thus the photographer was not allowed to publish it. The courts ruled this whole thing stupid and that now art can only be considered protected by copywrite if it was made by a human. So, this “only made by humans” ruling could easily apply to AI as well, meaning Hollywood is gonna screw themselves over if they try to replace their writers with bots.

ekjohnston

Me: I don't want to thank PETA for anything. Me: ...actually, that's funny, they can have this one.

tomboy014

I don't want to thank PETA. I'm going to thank the monkey instead

ekjohnston

Good point! Thank you, monkey.

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

I mean. This is of course not true.

The photographer in question is David Slater, a wildlife photographer who spent weeks befriending a troop of macaques and setting up his camera equipment in such a way that if a curious monkey pressed a button, it would take what appeared to be a selfie. The above image is one of a set. He was not a woman whose camera was stolen and just happened to result in a monkey selfie.

The lawsuit that reconfirmed that "non-human people" cannot hold copyright in American law was nothing to do with PETA - it was actually the Wikipedia Foundation. They were hosting the image on the Wikipedia Commons because they held that as the monkey took the photo, it therefore fell under public domain. And that's true, and the court re-affirmed that works created by non-humans can indeed not be copyrighted, but made no judgement on whether David Slater was the true owner or not. Legal experts reckon he does have enough of a role in the creation of the images to establish copyright.

The PETA thing was a completely separate challenge where they swung on from stage left and insisted that animals SHOULD be allowed to be copyright holders, and therefore the macaque should get the money from the picture, but as the macaque can't use money, the money should go to PETA on its behalf.

Which was totally dismissed as being motivated by furthering PETA's own interests, rather than the rights of the monkey

So, it's actually Wikipedia you can thank for this, and you can go back to laughing at PETA and stuffing them in a locker.