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I lost my pick . This might just be the worst day of my life

#ITS GONE.#OUT OF EXISTENCE #POOF. LIKE THAT.#ron mcgovney #metallica rp #80s

listen to me. are you listening? tiktok is not uniquely anything when it comes to the internet. it is a tool and a platform like any other, used by all kinds of people—by nearly every kind of person or entity to whom it is available, in fact! and while what the u.s. government is doing right now to force the ownership of the company to change hands is bad and happening for the wrong reasons, to put it mildly—

claiming that the u.s. establishment is interested in shutting down tiktok because its been sooooo good and revolutionary for progressive/left-wing organizing is uhh. horse shit. that's not true. everyone uses tiktok. you, statistically, probably use tiktok. so do some of the congresspeople endorsing legislation that might end in tiktok being banned. so do right-wing influencers and terfs and trad-wives. just like everyone uses every other social media site.

don't fall into that trap of thinking that just because you and the people in your circle use this tool for good, that this tool is only used for good. it is actually just a tool for everyone!

here's an excerpt from a book called, The Wires of War, by Jacob Helberg which, if you're interested in why the u.s. congress is actually pulling this shit with tiktok, is a great read. this excerpt follows a section where Helberg described the role social media played in the Arab Spring in 2011. emphasis mine.

It would be several years before the 2016 election awakened the West to the ways in which the Internet could exploit the vulnerabilities of their societies. But for the autocrats in Bejing, Moscow, and Tehran, the Arab Spring was a technological awakening of their own. Seeing other repressive governments around the world crumble, illiberal regimes in Russia and China accelerated their treatment of the information space as a domain of war. "Tech-illiterate bureaucrats were replaced by a new generation of enforcers who understood the internet almost as well as the protesters," write Singer and Brooking in their book, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media. "In truth, democratic activists had no special claim to the internet. They'd simply gotten there first. "

#tiktok ban #social media #idk man #maybe im too invested in personal privacy to have the same #visceral reaction #to the tiktok stuff that a lot of other people are having #do i think the current tiktok ban (for lack of a more concise phrase) is good?#no. lol #but frankly there's a lot of regulation of social media i'd like to see written and passed #that would probably write tiktok and most every other social media site #out of existence #starting with banning infinite scroll and other addictive user interface details #and ending with banning content suggestion algorithms altogether #or at least making them entirely fucking public #which would amount to the same thing for all these tech companies

deleted Twitter today cause I found a breaking point, why have no one told me it’s so relieving after this shits gone???

#delete Twitter #I wanna yeet it #out of existence #I wish it never was a thing #I wish #cactaetalks #rambles actually #fuck twitter

No one forgets, the song of all things burning.

#out of existence #emma ruth rundle #may our chambers be full #art #illustration #drawing

Hey there’s a glitch where Roman falls through the floor and I wanted to let you know cuz it’s so weird and funny cuz the battle keeps going. Did you know about this glitch?

Oh no

O h n o

He's back..,.,.

#this was a glitch that was in when i was coding that specific attack #bots dont really comprehend that you need to be in the air to use it #so they sneak through my poorly thought out code and just #nyoom #out of existence #it is weird that only happens to roman tho #asks

Does...Mama Maximoff have a said name in the fox movies? Does his younger sister, does his deleted scene other sister? If fox Wanda not exist why deleted scene exist?

No one on Peter’s side of the family has a name :(

#by apocalypse they just erased both of his sisters #out of existence #Anonymous

For years and years we've pointed out that, if they were invented today, copyright maximalist authors and publishers would absolutely scream about libraries and probably sue them out of existence. Some insisted that we were exaggerating, but now...

“....if [librairies] were invented today, copyright maximalist authors and publishers would absolutely scream about libraries and probably sue them out of existence.

"Some insisted that we were exaggerating, but now we've seen nearly all of the big publishers sue the Internet Archive over its digital library that acts just like a regular library.

But, perhaps the most frustrating part in all of this, is that whenever [they]...are confronted about this, they twist themselves into knots to say "well, I actually love libraries, but..." before beginning a bunch of arguments that show they do not, in fact, like libraries.

Sometimes, however rarely, a maximalist just comes out and admits the facts: they fucking hate libraries.The latest example of this is Kenneth Whyte, a small publisher of Sutherland House Books in Canada who seemed to think now was the time to take to the pages of The Globe & Mail to whine about libraries competing with book stores that sell books. Of all the things to be bothered with right now.

Even the setup of this column is just ridiculous, arguing that libraries -- with their public taxpayer funded support -- are unfair competitors to booksellers:...

..libraries serve a public service for people who cannot or would not ever buy those books, but for whom having access to those books might be incredibly useful. This is why we have libraries. "

But to Whyte, it's all very unfair. He seems particularly upset that some libraries have advertised the fact that you can borrow books for free as a cheeky way to get people to pay more attention to their local library"

This kind of "we copyright holders must capture all the value" zero sum thinking is ridiculous at the best of times, but is particularly pernicious here. The nature of value creation is that it's not a zero sum game."

Borrowing books from libraries helps to educate people, enables them to do things that, in turn, may help the world in lots of other ways. Some of that may lead to more books sold. Some of that may lead to just society being a better place."

Whyte concludes with suggestions on how to "fix" the "problem" he concocted himself. He thinks that people should have to pay a subscription fee to borrow books from the library. He also thinks that libraries should pay a lot more for books."

Or maybe libraries should just give authors money. He suggests if none of those are okay, then publishers should stop offering their books to libraries (apparently unaware that fair use rights mean they can just go buy the books elsewhere)."

Of course, this is why we've been concerned that publishers have already been trying to jack up the prices on ebook lending for libraries, while limiting how many ebook licenses they can purchase.

The whole article is quite incredible, but at least it's a copyright maximalist admitting to what many are thinking: they hate libraries and would sue them out of existence if they weren't grandfathered into our broken copyright system.

#copyright abuse #publishers suing #libraries #out of existence #saying the quiet part out loud #queued