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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

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i dont even hate hazbin or vivziepop they are entirely inconsequential to my life and opinions and feelings its just that like. its so hellish to see on the horizon the shitstorm it will cause and the awful sorts of fans it will bring to a webcomic in shambles that can barely even be found to be read and knowing that if this becomes anything at all it will herald a revival of the fandom in the WORST way where all of the worst drama and discourse and annoying headcanons get retreaded by people who dont understand or care about the source posting directly in source tags

and its like, this is all corporate slop by people who dont give a shit and will ABSOLUTELY fuck the tone up taking something that transcended medium and converting it into a medium that CANNOT properly contain it, people who dont even have a track record with adaptation trying their hand at something notoriously impossible to adapt. hussie hates homestuck, VIZ wants more cheap bucks out of it, and they'll all keep trampling all over fans to keep making way for whatever corporate Product they want next, whether that's stealing the homestuck collection for themselves or creating a shitty little tonally dissonant pilot no one asked for using The Controversy Studio that makes mid animations that try too hard to be edgy.

homestuck already holds a pretty tenuous position, being made by a jerk that i can mostly ignore the existence of 99% of the time, but all this recent bullshit just tramples all over my heart. all i want is for them to shut the fuck up and stop touching it. just let it be what it is.

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Historically accurate reconstructions of chinese hanfu, restored from archaeological artifacts (Jinhua Museum collection金华博物馆, cr 中国古代装束复原小组)

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i know it's also a really tragic moment that seals the final fate of every character in the play but the scene in hamlet where hamlet has a chance to kill claudius while he's praying in the chapel but doesn't, not because it would be dishonorable to kill a man while he prays for forgiveness from his sins, but because he wants to send his evil whore uncle directly to hell SO badly, is one of the funniest moments in any of shakespeare's plays to me

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Using my powers for evil (KPop Demon Hunter in ghosts and his roommate style)

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"you act like you're better than us because you don't play gacha games" it is better not to play gacha games. I'm glad I recognized that they are evil and swore them off and I'm encouraging you to do the same. we can both be better. you don't have to play them. why is this something you consider vital to your identity

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Welcome to Preservation! we have nice people and even nicer murderbots.

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Was talking to a coworker today who explained that her grandfather was like Snow White “but Californian. And an old man.” in that the creatures of the forest would follow him around and presumably duet with him.

“When he died the ravens sat in the trees outside for a week, watching. Taking turns. A horde of raccoons tried to break into the house every night, tearing at the siding. Eventually they gave up, but it was unsettling.”

“Aww. They were checking on him!” I said, like a normal person. Internally, I thought “Maybe you could do the thing you do with dead pets, where you show them to the living pets so the living pet understands they’re gone. But I guess if you did that to a bunch of scavenging species, they’d be like “Well, that’s very sad but he IS food now.” So what you’d need, for human sensibilities, is some sort of transparent corpse barrier. Like a see-through coffin oh that’s what the dwarves were doing! You’ve stopped paying attention to this conversation about the loss of a beloved family member you gotta phase back in.”

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You know what blows my mind is when you meet someone who literally does not eat vegetables. #scurvy

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If you ever wonder why authors get annoyed at certain kinds of reviews, particularly those about updating, just imagine your mother saying the same thing about your room.

“You updated!” = “You cleaned your room!”: Pleasantly surprised. This one’s okay.

“You finally updated” = “You finally cleaned your room” Wow, thanks a lot mom. See if I clean it again if you’re going to be so passive-aggressive about it.

“Please update.” = “Please clean your room.” I literally just did.

“When are you going to update?” = “When are you going to clean your room?” Oh my fucking god, mom, let it go.

And when you get it from a dozen different people, over and over and over again, it’s like your mother continuously nagging you about chores that either don’t need to be done or that you just did, like, an hour ago.

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The Bouquet

And taking this opportunity to suggest supporting my work by leaving a tip for coffee 🌟

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Changeover🔊

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The trope where people don't recognize each other because it's been so long since they last interacted and they've both changed so much that they're basically strangers UNTIL one of them does their Signature Thing™ and the other just stops dead because oh. It's YOU. All at once it's so clearly you

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so it turns out that time actually does go by faster as you get older. just like how adults told me it would when i was younger. pisses me off

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a chihuahua shower

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