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grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)
rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it
free fic idea up for grabs. godspeed
is jake gyllenhaal gay??
why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this
happy pride month to this post specifically
this is so silly.
rocky mate bad as hell statement.
“hi welcome to mcdonalds what can i get for you?”
“yeah can i get a deluxe quarter pounder with cheese?”
“absolutely, do you want the meal or just the sandwich?’
“uuuuuh hold on”
*fishes something out of my pocket*
“mikey what do i do?”
“get the fries. youll need the energy in the coming days”
*stuffs it back in my pocket*
“uhh yes please the meal would be great”
serious question: can anyone else see this post? am I hallucinating?
this is like Schrodinger’s fucking meme because half the time the pic is deleted and the other half it’s visible
extra crazy to see people swinging so hard for big corporate copyright lawsuits on tumblr dot com tbh. alright girl whateverrrrr, I hope the lawyers come for your favorite fan artist next if you're so in favor of it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
you're all frothing at the mouth for a queer climate activist getting sued now but oooh just wait until you can't order astarion keychains and baby yoda plushies and whatever the fuck else off etsy anymore
I guess in light of all the feedback I've been receiving tonight I'm going to turn over a new leaf and become a good citizen who defends copyright law. first up is snitching out the nice lady at the local farmers market who sells crochet pokemon plushies, I want to see nintendo sue that cunt into the ground
in conclusion I've never felt this post more strongly
This is the central delusion which allows capitalism to exist in general.
I had to look up what the actual situation is that all this is about, and it's so much worse than I thought.
I had assumed that some section of Tumblr sided with a media conglomerate against a fan artist because they sold fan art and they said something unpopular on Twitter once.
Y'all it's so much fucking worse.
Patagonia is suing a transgender drag queen for using a parody of their logo and the name Pattie Gonia for environmental activism. The thing Patagonia claims to support.
They're not going to succeed, because nothing she's doing is actually trademark infringement. But the fact that they're trying is appalling, and the legal fees she's going to have to pay to fight it...
Short version of what's happening based on what little reading I did: Drag artist has been using the name Pattie Gonia for years. Patagonia the company knows about this and was fine with it. She's an environmental activist and she's parodying Patagonia because they're all doing the same work to protect the environment. It's cool. She got into talks with Hydroflask to sell Pattie Gonia merch. Which is the point at which Patagonia got in a snit. They're suing her, it sounds like not even for selling anything, but for wearing something that had a logo on it that resembles their logo.
Short version of why this probably won't get them anywhere and also why it's evil:
Trademark protection is extremely specific. Often trademark suits over reach what is actually protected by a legal trademark. What's actually protected is a name or symbol which is similar enough that it might reasonably confuse the public, and crucially, it must be in the same business. So if you take the Patagonia logo and change the color and then slap it on your ice cream store, that's not trademark infringement. But if you use it to sell hiking equipment, it's trademark infringement. If you name your business Patagonia but you sell hand made incense or something... you could probably make an argument for why that isn't trademark infringement. If you name your store Pategonia and sell clothes, that's absolutely infringement.
Suits that over reach what's actually protected are rarely won, but sometimes they do put the smaller brand out of business with legal fees before a verdict is even reached, and then the damage in done. But in the US that's called a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) lawsuit and it's actually kind of illegal to file them to begin with. But that law is poorly enforced. You're not supposed to sue someone to drown them in legal fees and scare people into not expressing themselves. But it happens anyway (Trump does it every few months to someone). In this case Pattie is being sued for $1 so it's like, blatantly obvious Patagonia knows they have no case and they're literally doing this to make a point.
No reasonable person is ever going to read Pattie Gonia and actually think that's the same thing as Patagonia. Nor is anyone going to think that the name Pattie Gonia on a waterbottle with a picture of a mountain range in trans pride colors is being sold by Patagonia. It's obviously parody. We all know it's parody.
Parody is explicitly protected. You can't sell a drawing of Mickey Mouse. But you can sell a drawing of a scruffy rat named Mikey who has the silhouette of Mickey Mouse, and Disney can't do shit because parody is explicitly protected. Though they'd probably still try to sue you because it's Disney and then you'd end up in court and have to get a lawyer, which is why no one does that.
Patagonia is going to lose. They know it. Pattie knows it. We all know it. But they're doing this to punish her. And the fact that they're doing it to an independent trans artist and activist is utterly vile.
YO I WAS JUST READING A THREAD ABOUT THIS PERSON WHO TRIED TO TRACK DOWN THE ORIGINAL IMAGE OF HEROBRINE AND COULDN'T FIND IT, BUT HE FOUND SOMETHING ELSE
HEROBRINE WAS FORMERLY FEMALE?????
Diversity win! The creepypasta haunting your Minecraft world is trans!
"life is so hard for men because *starts describing the events of a mafia city ad*"
this happens every day and yet people believe men arent oppressed
many lv1 crooks finding a way to get genuinely mad about this post
can you guys watch my squab for me im gonna go on my smoko
baby need smoko
BABY DOES NOT NEED SMOKO
IS THAT FUCKING FELTED????? THIS IS GORGEOUS BABY SMOKO
The concept of being 4 months clean from ai...
idc what you guys think I'm proud of him
Several AI services (chatbots ) are purposely addictive, the same way people can become addicted to gambling or shopping. We’ve literally seen in real time how ChatGPT has caused psychosis and delusions in people; it can have a huge affect on someones’s mental stability. Just because it isn’t substance-based doesn’t mean that doesn’t count as an addiction, and shaming people who are trying to move on and improve themselves is counterproductive. Im proud of that dude and his 4 month mark!
AI chatbots can fuel emotional dependence and blur boundaries. Emerging research highlights significant mental health risks. Here are import
Large language models often prioritise agreeability over truthfulness to the detriment of users
AI addiction includes the overuse of AI chatbots and companions, often leading to adverse psychological effects.
Some articles to back my statements, and this isn’t even mentioning about the predatory chatbots who do this on purpose
Then I'll mention the predatory chatbots who do it on purpose! Character.ai is one of many AI chatbot websites that're designed to be addictive.
None of the signup methods require a password. It only takes email and birthday. Minimizing time on the signin or signup screen makes it harder for people quitting to avoid relapse.
"Characters" on the website will send messages "on their own" (prompted by the site) to try to invite inactive users back after as soon as 1 day of inactivity. This is likely to force FOMO, or make users feel more like they owe the bots a response. Unhealthy attachment stuff.
Account deletion is an essential part of every service that should go smoothly, right? Right? Wrong. It takes 1-2 weeks for a Character AI account deletion to be finalized, and account deletion requests have a high chance to not go through if you're not using the app.
Rephrasing: People leaving Character.AI are pushed to download the app in order to delete their accounts, if they haven't already. This makes it harder for people to quit and stay gone. Failing to quit an addiction makes it harder to quit successfully in the future, so this feels like a feature, not a bug. On top of that, the delete account menu reads like this:
Tell me THAT doesn't sound like a bad ex. It's a carefully crafted yet hostile environment to those who are already addicted to the technology. I am so so SO happy, downright delighted that they've managed to quit, and I wish the best for others in recovery spaces or considering quitting as well!! While AI addiction is an emerging condition, there are already therapists and other mental health professionals trained to help people plan to quit and do so a bit easier. (If anyone seeing this is in need of them, there are several tumblr Communities here devoted to quitting, too. They provide a mix of advice, venting spaces, and proof that you aren't alone.)
there a lot of details of american macroculture that have caused what I'd describe as a reality fracturing mental reset when I learned about them. one was learning that children do literally swear their allegiance to the american flag every morning before school and that's not a quaint comedic exaggeration left over from the 1950s like rabbit ears on a TV. one was learning that Americans have to pay for ambulance transportation. one was learning that Americans are taught the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were tough brave necessities that made the world safer and not horrific war crimes on a footing with the nazi holocaust.
and one was learning that the cultural cachet of veggietales is completely unironic and a lot of you watched the parables of God from the bible and his son jesus christ the cgi vegetable for real real and thought it was good, no goofing, not a bit
thank you small americans in my phone for correcting me: beloved cgi bible show did not portray the son of god as a vegetable, because that would have been sacrilegious
watching/rewatching a show when you already have an established favorite character is great because every time they come on screen it's like
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Outlines of two alligators that slept through the rain.
outlines of two alligators that got raptured by the lord himself
I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING!!!
It's always "the Jedi failed at this," "Anakin should've done that," and never "Darth Sidious is so good at his job, he deserves to get Sith Lord of the month."
To be fair, while he's often quite good at his job, it's easy to get Sith lord of the month when there are only 2 Sith lords.
Two? Don't you mean one and a half Sith lords?
whats cool about being trans is my parents are totally right. i did kill their beautiful son. im the thing that animates his corpse in an ever more convincing parody of a happy girl. i devoured him from the inside out and now there is nothing left of him and he is dead dead dead and there is only me, with my hollow eyes and dark eyeliner and long hair, and my big smile. my limp, effeminate gestures belie the marionetting of the boy they loved. my fagginess is his death. already his body becomes a fitter home for my parasitism in full; the tits, the hips, the thighs. sorry about your kid. thanks for the biomass <3
