a voiceless mass of ultimate moral victims

now you should call me medha. adult, savarna ex-hindu, tme. live in the they/them zone. atheist. leftcom. fuck copyright. year of the linux desktop since 2009. bad at video games but good at robots. tshirt that says i want to have sex with industrial machinery.

[nyantara]

its really nice to be back

there will be more #fandom #sportsblogging #rpf and #haterism than before that were previously cordoned off to their own blogs. content purged irregularly.

you will not call me desi or a person of colour.

ko-fi

[lawrenceleemagnuson]

Yvonne Jacquette (USA b.1934 ) Night Wing: Metropolitan Area Composite II (1993) oil on canvas 204.8 x 144.1 cm

[laurbyboom]

[godkissedme]

[bsaka7]

What are the values that are paramount in the institution of sport and how have they affected disclosure and scrutiny of sexual abuses within it? How have such values been dominant enough to supersede and suppress the stories of sport-based sexual abuse and harassment? How is it that sport has resisted vast social changes in attitudes and values surrounding sexual abuse in general? As Celia Brackenridge states in our preface (p.11), "recognizing that sexual abuse occurs in sport requires no more than recognizing that sport is simply part of society." Why, then, has sport proven so resistant to the trends in other social institutions? How is sport different or more complicated? What is the place of sport in our culture and how has this insulated sport from analyses of sexual violence?

Sandra Louise Kirby, Lorraine Greaves and Olena Hankivsky, The Dome of Silence: Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Sport (Fernwood, 2000), 21.

[dgilse]

Goodreads reviews are a sort of inoculation against the notion that reading is a particularly more thoughtful means of engaging with shit vs like, watching or playing or whatever.

[teenjournalist]

URGENT: MAN HEARD MOANING WHILE EATING RICE

[filenesdebasement]

it’s that time of year again: our little thermometer says “WET 😐” next to the humidity%, as though resigned to its fate

[nyantara]

it is genuinely funny that of all the free trade rhetoric that is spouted by the nation state, american sports leagues are disproportionately anti-competitive monopolies. they are closed systems insulated from the pressures of market or sporting "merit." what with no pro/rel meaning teams can be as badly run as owners like without losing access to the top flight tv money and exposure, being protected from their own bad decision making with draft systems guaranteeing you good and even generational young amateur athletes every few years. collective bargaining and salary caps prevent athletes from really getting their salaries worth as a percentage of revenue. its also why such systems can't maintain their primacy when there's international competition – basketball, american football, baseball and ice hockey have no equivalent for revenue elsewhere in the world. but footballsoccer? yeah, the nwsl wanted to be the top flight for women's soccer and it had to end the draft in 2024 and moved to free agency.

[nyantara]

the talk i'm seeing re: knight is that vegas likelefo-ed her but she didn't want to go to vegas hence the sign and trade deal, so she didn't have the choice to stay in seattle...

i hate draft and expansion systems in pro sports... i really do not cope well with my favourite players leaving already like i have not emotionally recovered from sam kerr leaving chelsea after 6 years. but to know its not even her choice makes it so much uglier. labour rights now!!! i hate that hockey is such a small market that there's no pressure like there was in the nwsl in moving to a player contract system

[titleknown]

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Historically Fucked Over Artists On An Institutional Level:

Sampling rights becoming prohibitively expensive to use by small artists

Musicians being forced to sign over sampling rights to their record company, making any benefits they would hypothetically gain moot.

The Digital Milennium Copyright Act leading to the vidmaker-stomping nightmare that is ContentID

The DMCA leading to making it harder than ever to preserve media due to the way it prohibits tinkering with any locks the megacorps put on it, meaning it's way easier for artists' hard work to end up vaulted and lost.

The way basic chord progressions and musical styles have become copyrightable thanks to various lawsuits by the Marvin Gaye estate

The fact that the artists of the past used to be able to remix; adapt and iterate on art made within 56 years of them, likely created in their lifetimes, and now artists can only do those things with art produced nearly a century ago by people long dead.

New and independent artists being crowded out of the market by megacorp-owned IPs that would be public domain (and thusly convey less of an overwhelming advantage-via-marquee-value to megacorps) if the US had its pre-1976 copyright laws.

Times That Copyright Expansion Has Actually Materially Helped Artists On An Institutional Level:

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[carolxdanvers]

Times that Copyright Expansion Resulted In Something Kinda Funny:

When Metallica did a twitch concert and got a copyright strike on their own music as a direct result of their lobbying for copyright expansion

[skinilivein]

[iamoutofideas]

[grantmentis]

Hilary Knight will play for PWHL expansion Detroit via sign-and-trade with Las Vegas, AP source says

Hilary Knight is heading to the PWHL’s expansion team in Detroit as part of a sign-and-trade deal involving one of women hockey’s most recog

[homunculus-argument]

Peacocks are hilarious, really. They really are just like

[zutalorsihavemissedone]

[boccher]

ok that last solar storm ended up being a dud so the sun is looking for redemption. another G3 watch for June 8th from SWPC due to a large and fast CME from an otherwise unassuming M1.86 flare. The bulk of the CME is headed southeast but we may graze the edge of it

[boccher]

[boccher]

i think the SWPC is overestimating the speed of this CME again it looks like it's got at least another 8 hours until it hits earth. which might mean it arrives weaker as well but not necessarily

[maidthings]

"this is unbecoming of me" is genuinely a useful thing to have in your mental toolbox

[fake-lancelot]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

I get the historical reasons for it but it's still wild to me that "[Person name] and the [nouns]" used to be such a common band name pattern. If I was forming a pop/rock band in the 50's/60's and the singer/band leader/most famous member proposed calling ourselves that I'd try to convince everyone else to beat him up together.

[nyantara]

idk reflects how the solo artist has given the session/touring musicians who they work with a promotion effectively. turned em into sort of employees from coworkers hired by the recording company.