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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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Your friends watching something for the first time and getting to that scene VS you, the knower.

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I fucking hate how social media is becoming so baby proof like YOUR FUCKING TODDLER ISNT MEANT FOR THIS PLACE. SOCIAL MEDIA WAS NEVER MADE FOR PARENTING YOUR CHILD. GROW UP AND BE A PARENT FOR THE KID YOU BROUGHT HERE OMFG

IT WAS NEVER MADE FOR YOU.

Bring your child outside and let them climb a tree. Let them feel the soil breathe and let them hear the sky weep when it rains. Let them know what it feels like to be alive rather than only know what it means to stare at a flashlight and pretend that makes them happy.

and "unalive?" really? at least say "sleeping with the fishies" it's funnier and better /hj.

But seriously, bring back being serious

some points made in a discussion with @skelpiescool

"its SUPPOSED to make you uncomfortable. because its bad"

"you saying unalive takes away from death. saying 🍇 takes away from rape. saying sewerslide tskes away from suicide."

"quit being desensitized. stop being non chalant. feel osmething its what defines u as humam"

so

I feel like it's kinda babying the subject like. Treating it like it's not Actually that serious. If that makes sense. And people get so upset about the word "kill" and they panic and turn it into "unalive" and they even censor "unalive" into "un@l1v3" which is unreadable.

it still makes people uncomfortable anyways because it still has the same meaning in the same sentence and conveys the same story. "🍇" is still talking about rape and "sewerslide" is still bringing up the thought of suicide.

so what's the point.

What's the point in censoring it.

Say fuck

Say piss

Say shit

Say sex

Say kill

Say murder

Say rape

Say suicide

Say death

SAY IT.

SAY THE WORD.

The more you allow mere words be erased the easier it is to let real stories be silenced.

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I can be trusted with an industrial grade sticker machine

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14 Wind Turbines Aligned In A Row In Nevada

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if you wiped every ICE agent off the face of the earth, a hundred million people would become safer overnight. if you wiped every furry off the face of the earth, the entire internet would collapse for good in a matter of hours. i know where my allegiances lie.

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If the creator or something explicitly states they don’t want two characters shipped will you respect it?

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I wish depression were an emergency. I wish someone could take one look at how sick I am and go “oh my god, we need to get you to a hospital!” and then when we get there I get rushed into surgery and the surgeons say “it’s a good thing you brought her here when you did, this is a seriously advanced case” and then they put me under and spend the next ten hours pulling metres of long, sticky black strands of gunk out of my body, throwing it immediately into an incinerator so that it can’t infect anyone else. And then they could stitch me back up and I could rest a few days, and when I leave the hospital everyone can see how much better I am and they congratulate me saying “well done, you’ve been so brave, I’m so glad you’re ok. I love you.”

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one of my major gripes with a lot of contemporary novels is that it feels like you're never allowed to think for yourself and themes are communicated either with incredibly heavy-handed metaphor or by having a character straight-up turn to the camera and say them to the audience

but i'm in this beta reading group and now i'm getting some insight into why that might be, mainly in how people respond to writing that doesn't do that. they don't like being expected to do this mental legwork themselves. they see it as the writer passing off the difficult burden of interpretation onto the audience, resulting in a text that is unnecessarily "hard", opaque, and confusing. being expected to connect ideas that are not explicitly spelled out is treated as though it's totally unreasonable, because part of the writer's job, in their mind, is to make sure the reader is never confused or uncertain.

it just depresses the fuck out of me to see how people who identify as "bookish" before anything else just have zero interest in expending mental effort when they read

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Start

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Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

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

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Reminders for fanfic writers who think it “doesn’t count”

✦ Your writing counts. like, a lot. If someone felt something because of what you wrote, then it matters. That scene you almost didn’t post? Yeah. Believe me, someone out there bookmarked it for a reason.

✦ Writing existing characters doesn’t make it “less than.” You’re building arcs, crafting dialogue, emotion, pacing. You’re studying character psychology like a scientist. That’s not “just fanfic,” that’s storytelling.

✦ “but it’s just fanfic” ...no. STOP, it’s craft. It’s understanding tone. It’s hitting emotional beats. It’s layering theme and backstory and prose into something people feel. You’re doing the work, you just don’t get graded on it. (Which, honestly is a blessing.)

✦ Writing fanfic means you love stories enough to live inside them. You care, deeply. You care enough to reimagine, to explore, to add something of yourself to a world you didn’t create and somehow still make it feel brand new.

✦ Someone out there rereads your fic like it’s their favorite book. Maybe they’ve saved a line to their notes app,or they quote it to a friend. Maybe they just think about it when they’re having a bad day. That little fic you almost deleted, it’s comfort now.

✦ Your comments section is real. Every “I needed this” and “this made me cry in a good way” is proof, you don’t need a book deal to matter. You don’t need a publisher to have an impact, because you already do.

FANFIC IS WRITING! Fanfic is yours.

You’re not “just” anything. You’re a writer, own it. Be proud of that.

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A jelly poem

✨In twilight tides where moonlight swells, The black sea nettle softly dwells. A veil of ink, a ghostly thread, With trailing arms of starlight spread.

🌊And here on shore, our hands can mend The seas these jellies call a friend. We clean, protect, and learn to see That every wave holds you and me.

🪼So let them drift, and let us care— A sea alive, a world we share.

Feeling inspired? Share your poems about ocean life!👇

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ALL kinktober submissions must include:

A description DURING sex of the lovers' tripartite relationship with God.

A scene that takes place BEFORE sex that makes it clear that it is NOT secular.

A scene AFTER which CONDEMNS or SHOWS AMBIVALENCE toward EMBODIMENT.

A depiction of both people SUBMISSIVE before God.

It must be thoroughly clear that a SPIRITUAL LOVE is coming and the bodily habits associated with it will gradually come to WITHER AWAY.

Please make it clear whether or not your characters think that the BOLSHEVIKS are the object of the APOCALYPTIC LONGING of our POETS.

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its annoying how true it is that anyone online called like "littlegoober" and "ittlewittleguy" with a frog pfp is actually the reincarnation of hitler and every person called something like "dogkiller" is the biggest sweetheart on the planet

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the old men need to stop being insecure about their aging bodies and be sluts and whores and post it on the internet where i can see it for my mental health or im gonna start mailing pipe bombs. hope that helps.

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