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bundibird:

derinthescarletpescatarian:

detectivehole:

detectivehole:

detectivehole:

i do not care if someone learned compassion from a cartoon or a comic or an anime im just glad they’re here with us now a better person fighting the good fight. should it have taken something so trivial? maybe not- but it’s in the past! and this is the now! and if they’re objectively better for it who cares

“it took gay shipping for this adult to stop being homophobic 😬” ok but they stopped being actively homophobic. that’s what you just said. that’s literally the only important part you understand that right? this is a win for everyone you get that?

we all start somewhere and im going to be real buddy i only care about the harm you did or didn’t cause on your journey and where you ended up. whatever set it off only matters as much as you want it too

Surely that is a major part of why we want more representation in mainstream media in the first place. It’s very weird to campaign for good portrayals and then get mad when they work.

“They were homophobic until their own kid came out as queer!!!!” Ok. So what I’m hearing is that they’re not homophobic anymore. What I’m hearing is that their child came out as queer and their parent then looked at their prejudices and questioned whether or not those prejudices outweighed their love for their child. What I’m hearing is that their love for their child won out against the prejudices they’d spent years espousing. What I’m hearing is that they grew as a person and they’re an improved version of themselves now.

“It’s very weird to campaign for good portrayals and then get mad when they work.”

darthlenaplant:

softboyshaven:

Thinking about the Holmes story where a blind girl goes to him and is like “My fiancĂ© is missing and he kept telling me the week leading up to his disappearance that he would always love me and come back for me,were anything to happen so I think he knew he was in trouble and I love him so much and I’m going to wait for him but I’d like to find him faster,ya know?” And Holmes figures out that it was this girl’s parents to scam her out of money she was owed from an estate which she gave to them because she was still living at home,which she wouldn’t be if she ever married,so her step father PRETENDED TO DATE HER for MONTHS to keep her from ever getting engaged to a real person and when Holmes finds out he confronts this man and this man is like “Well,you caught me! But it wasn’t illegal:) so:)” and Holmes is like “No,but it was sickening and cruel and if she had a brother or good male friend he should post you up and whip you but she doesn’t.” And the man is like “No,she doesn’t.” And does the Victorian version of sticking his tongue out and Holmes is like “Well,I guess I’ll do then!” And HE PULLS OUT HIS HUNTING WHIP.

Holmes really went:

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

ekjohnston:

tomboy014:

ekjohnston:

avaricesstuff:

memingursa:

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

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.

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

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

Good point! Thank you, monkey.

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.