You Only Live Forever in the Lights You Make

British. >40. Bi af. Still fandom (fangirl for life); but shit's getting real around here too. Side blogger like woah: for black sails head to tlamytruestloveisblacksails. For the untamed/cql check out tlawangxian.

[mudwerks]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

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 🔮

[instant-yuri-machine]

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

The dumpster is a lot less likely to catch fire and kill people

[prof-grace-aspen]

The dumpster keeps trash OFF the streets.

[krisrisk]

the design of the dumpster had more thought put into it.

[fullyfunctionalminiaturebeehive]

The dumpster will last longer

[theyhaveacavetroll]

Anyone in the dumpster is probably quite agreeable, really.

[mobius-m-mobius]

Oh, Crowley. Nothing lasts forever.

[woolandflax]

None of us are going to hate-watch Rings of Power, right?

We’re all going to let it’s view count tank, right?

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

What Rings of Power? There’s no such show

[traveling-spartan]

There is no Amazon Tolkien show.

[incorrect-lord-of-the-rings]

[digitalisnarcissus]

It's Internet Explorer's last day, so it's mandatory to post this relic.

[two-thirtyy]

Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

Look buddy, i’m just trying to make it to Friday.

[fanlore-wiki]

Terminology Thursday: Stage Gay

[ID: Manip of a dark concert arena with fans cheering and throwing their hands in the air, while a band performs on the stage amid bright lighting that is tinged with pink and purple. In the foreground, text reads, ‘Terminology Thursday’ and underneath that, ‘Stage Gay’. /end ID]

Happy Terminology Thursday! This week we’re talking about stage gay, a term that refers to male singers—usually those associated with Bandom, K-pop, or J-pop—playing up homoerotic tension on stage for fanservice or publicity purposes. Some enjoy it, but it has also been the subject of wank and controversy.

Have you seen stage gay in action, or have a take you’d like to share? We’d love to hear about it over on Fanlore!

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[beneaththeblacksails]

*eyes the fandom babies * J-Pop?

[thelastatlantean]

[fiberglasscotttoncandy]

[woodelf68]

That explains a lot.

[thelastatlantean]

[singlepringle2023]

how can you reasonably call what's happening in palestine a war/conflict/clash when you have one of the most heavily funded, advanced militaries in the world versus people who literally don't have a military

[libraford]

I think part of the issue is people assuming that everyone MUST want to move upwards. Like... it's the next logical step for a person to want to move up the chain: from worker to manager, to district manager, eventually owner.

But I always think of growth like plants.

Aspens grow tall to reach the sun, for sure. But dandelions grow deep, understanding themselves fully so that if some misguided fool tries to uproot them they'd have to try damn hard. And then there's thyme and other creeping plants, which spread themselves out so much that if you chop a part of it off it roots wherever it can find dirt to root in.

It's okay not to have lofty dreams. You know what kind of plant you are better than anyone else.

[aphony-cree]

This reminds me of a business problem called The Peter Principle that’s been written about for years but few businesses have been willing to make changes because of it

The concept is that a worker is really good at their job, so good that they clearly deserve better compensation for all they bring to the company, but business is structured so that the only way to get more money is to be promoted to a higher position. A new position comes with new job requirements, but not everyone is going to be right for those. Example: an amazing computer programmer might be useless at managing staff, but if you promote that programmer to head of the department they’ll be required to manage staff. It seems like the best thing for everyone, the company included, would be to put that employee back in their original job and let them keep the higher salary since they clearly do the job well enough to deserve it. However companies want those lower level jobs to be seen as undesirable so workers will feel upper staff deserve their higher wages. Because of this, putting the employee back in the job they’re right for is considered a demotion, so instead companies let the employee keep the upper level job they’re bad at forever or until they have just cause to fire them. Clearly the company was better off with them in the job they were good at, but the illusion of hierarchy to justify higher waged employees is more important

Just because capitalism says everyone should climb the corporate ladder doesn’t mean it’s actually the right thing for everyone

[i-was-today-years-old-when]

i learned that actor Danny Trejo has the most on-screen deaths of anyone in Hollywood history, with 65. Followed by Christopher Lee (60), Lance Henriksen (51), Vincent Price (41), Dennis Hopper (41), Boris Karloff (41), and John Hurt (39). (x)

[splend-42]

Yet poor Sean Bean is stuck with the reputation for dying in every movie. Unfair.

[deliriumcrow]

Give him time, he still has many years of dying yet to come.

[cipheramnesia]

Also there’s the question of density vs quantity. If you make a hundred movies and die in 50, and someone else makes 30 movies and dies in 30, the first one has died more, but the second one has died more often per movie.

[patrickat]

It’s the DPM ratio that really counts, IMO.

[avron]

65/402 16% Danny Trejo 60/282 21% Christopher Lee 51/259 20% Lance Henriksen 41/211 19% Vincent Price 41/205 20% Dennis Hopper 41/204 20% Boris Karloff 39/209 19% John Hurt 33/117 28% Sean Bean

[digitaldiscipline]

I’m so proud of the statistical side of tumblr for coming through on this.

[drugstoreperfume]

im writing this email and wishing you well mama we all go to hell

[ngalitzine]

— Annelyse Gelman

[shirleyjacksons]

i know this will make me sound old and boring but once i’m home for the night i’m home. i don’t like upsetting my plans even when i don’t have any. yes it’s only 8pm but i spent the whole evening believing i’m not going anywhere, i cannot perceive or be perceived right now, try again later

[colemckenzies]

you can make nearly any object into a good insult if you put ‘you absolute’ in front of it

example: you absolute coat hanger

[ggiornojo]

as well u can just add ‘ed’ to any object and it’s sounds like you were really drunk

example: i was absolutely coat hangered last night

[colemckenzies]

#i was gazeboed mate #i was absolutely baubled

[animatedamerican]

Meanwhile, “utter” works for the first (e.g., “you utter floorboard”) but somehow “utterly” doesn’t seem to work as well for the second (“I was utterly floorboarded”).

[nentuaby]

Utterly doesn’t work for drunk because it’s the affix for turning random objects into terms for *shocked*, obviously.

[animatedamerican]

… huh.  I thought that might just be the similarity to “floored”, and yet “I was utterly coat hangered” does seem to convey something similar.

I have to tell you, I am utterly sandwiched at this discovery.

[thepioden]

Completely makes the phrase mean “super tired”.

“God, it’s been a long week, I am completely coat-hangered.”

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Something is

Something is wrong with our language

[rooksandravens]

Is it a glitch or a feature?

[cranberrybogmummy]

Feature

[s-peak-in-tongue-s]

this neat feature is called collocative substitution, and it occurs when certain words are strongly linked to certain context and/or phrases. when you read/hear a pair of words that usually wouldn’t go together, your brain fills in the context with what would normally be inferred, given the originally phrased pairing. thus, finding out that there’s a term for this phenomenon may indeed leave you utterly sandwiched. lesser known or less strongly linked phrases and pairings may not be able to translate substituted words to appropriately fit the inferred context, so you were not utterly floorboarded at the club last night, but rather you were absolutely floorboarded, and as this explanation continues to drag on, you may by the end of it find yourself completely coathangered from read it all.

[lizawithazed]

I, like all linguists I have met or even heard of, have a deep intricate love-hate relationship with the English Language because of complete and total coathangering like this

[thecyndimistuff]

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?

[butchflirt]

Westworld did this as well. Storytelling is dead!

[katjohnadams]

IF FAN THEORIES ARE RIGHT IT IS A SIGN YOU HAVE TOLD A WELL-PUT TOGETHER AND FOLLOWABLE PLOT, NOT A SIGN YOU NEED TO MAKE UP SOME BULLSHIT FOR A TWIST ENDING. FUCK OFF WITH THIS SHIT.

[katjohnadams]

No wait, I’m not done here:

If the fans get where you are going and ARE STILL HAPPY, you KEEP GOING THERE. It shows they’re invested and your story craft is setting up and paying off properly. 

It is not a sign you need to M Night Shamaylan things until narrative is fuckin dead and “surprise endings!” reign supreme. If no one can guess what will happen, you don’t have a plot, you have deus ex machinas strung together like a child’s macaroni necklace. It might be endearing and beloved but its hardly a fuckin masterpiece. 

To be utterly frank, this is where “NO SPOILERS! NO SPOILERS EVER! NO ONE IS ALLOWED TO BREATHE ABOUT THE PLOT UNTIL IT’S BEEN OUT ON DVD FOR FIVE YEARS” attitude has left us – And the studios ACTIVELY encourage that shit because first week viewing numbers are their whole lifeblood.

Sure, an “oh shit” moment is great, but if you’re doing it well, I should have that moment watching the show the second, fifth, or hundredth time, knowing how it will go. If being surprised were truly so important to a narrative, why even make a Shakespeare play? Is anyone out there still hoping Romeo and Juliet still get together at the end? Why make mystery novels into movies? Spoiler warning: Hercules Poirot gets the bad guy. Movies that directly follow historical events? Clearly worthless.

Come on, now. Sure, try not to spoil shit for people intentionally, don’t be a dick, but can we calm the fuck down and can Hollywood stop pushing this shit both in social media and with business choices like this?

[swimmingferret]

“You know, I have certain things I’m laying clues for that there will be revelations for later on. Some people had put together those clues even as early as 1998 or adding things together. I said ‘well what do I do with that? These people have guessed the secret I’m gonna reveal in book 6 and people have already guessed that here and book 2 is just out.’ You have 2 choices there; you can ignore it and proceed with your plan despite the fact some people know where you’re going…or you can get all panic-y and say ‘Oh my god, they’ve already figured it out, I can’t let that be! I’ll have to change it, I’ll have to go in a different direction.’ I think some writers do that and I think that’s always a mistake. You know, if you planned your book that the butler did it and you read on the internet that someone has figured out that the butler did it…and you suddenly change in midstream and it was the chambermaid who did it then you screw up the whole book. Because you’ve got this foreshadowing early on and you’ve got these little clues you’ve planted…and now they’re dead ends and you have to introduce other clues and you’re retconning…an it’s a mess.”

George. R.R. Martin

AKA STOP PUNISHING YOUR FANS FOR PAYING ATTENTION, PLOT TWISTS SIMPLY FOR SHOCK/CONFUSION SUCK

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Ok but seriously this is actually a really great example of what literally all tasks look like when you have Executive Dysfunction issues.