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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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The thing about those people cynically going "people are inherently selfish, all social interactions are transactional, nobody ever does anything unless there's something in it for them" is that they're right, but they're saying it like it's a bad thing and really want somebody to sweep in and prove them wrong. But like... Yeah no shit? That is how things work. You look after people who look after you. The only people who are willing to give you something for absolutely nothing are the people using you as a tool to punish themselves, a form of self-harm.

I've got people in my life who keep my stupid ass alive in exchange for companionship, social advice and emotional support. What the fuck are you doing with your life that you've observed that people consistently leave you every time when they realise that they get nothing in exchange for being a part of your life?

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cant believe i look like this now

6 long years of hard work, but totally worth it ♥️🖤

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Adora: so, it's a cleaning outfit, but you can't clean in it.

Glimmer: _Maid_ outfit.

Adora: the actual maids don't wear this.

Glimmer: No, it's... I doesn't have anything to do with cleaning. It's a... Ya know. Sex thing.

Adora, frowning: it is? But it's all... Poofy.

Glimmer, defensively: there's nothing wrong with poof!

Adora holds the maid outfit up to thoughtfully. She summons her She-Ra powers to transform her clothes into a maid outfit, and considers the results.

Adora: It doesn't make me look strong... I guess my legs look nice? What do you think?

Glimmer: Glck.

Adora: Glimmer?

Adora turns around, letting Glimmer see the front.

Glimmer: GLCK

Adora: Really? Catra, what do you--

Catra has passed out on the floor. Adora turns her clothes back to normal and hands the maid outfit back to Glimmer

Adora: why isn't anyone else turned on by normal things? Like fangs or tails?

Glimmer: HAHA haha yeah, totally, I wasn't-- I'm fine.

Glimmer takes the outfit. She holds it up, thinking about trying it on herself.

Glimmer: Where'd you find this outfit anyway?

Adora: it was in your mother's room.

Glimmer:

Glimmer: I don't know why the cleaning staff would put one of their uniforms in there.

Adora: I mean it was probably your mom's

Glimmer: I DON'T KNOW WHY THE CLEANING STAFF WOULD DO SUCH A THING

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That's honestly a Genius career for a supervillain. The worst you can ever been charged with is Vandalism and Extortion, but you can be a world-class nuisance if you pick the right targets to color-change.

If I ever wrote a superhero story I’d want there to be a recurring shitty C-list supervillain in the background whose power was changing something’s colour and all her villainous plots would be colour-themed things like “If the city council doesn’t give me a million dollars, I will turn the city of GREEN Bay into the city of RED Bay!” and she’d turn the Golden Gate Bridge magenta or whatever.

So it’s all low-stakes villainy, but everyone absolutely hates fighting her because her very shitty superpower works really really well, and there are dozens of background characters who’ve fought her that are just permanently green now

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If I ever wrote a superhero story I’d want there to be a recurring shitty C-list supervillain in the background whose power was changing something’s colour and all her villainous plots would be colour-themed things like “If the city council doesn’t give me a million dollars, I will turn the city of GREEN Bay into the city of RED Bay!” and she’d turn the Golden Gate Bridge magenta or whatever.

So it’s all low-stakes villainy, but everyone absolutely hates fighting her because her very shitty superpower works really really well, and there are dozens of background characters who’ve fought her that are just permanently green now

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They honor the Carny/Circus code. They don't turn on their own.

The entire circus community HAS to know the identity of the bats. There's just no way dots weren't connected between the youngest Flying Grayson and the first Robin.

Tim Drake is just Like That, but if you've worked alongside fliers wearing those colors, throwing those tricks, swinging those moves - it has to be obvious. Especially considering how tight-knit the circus community gets at the level the Graysons were performing at.

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Vriska

Hey heard about that animated series announcement.

I don't know anything about Homestuck so here's the most goonery thing I could think of drawing.

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So talented

(via)

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it must be said the ancient greeks got a little funny with it

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Those trou-de-culs keep poo-pooing the fancy new french words we Québécois keep inventing, like "Courriel", which is literally a direct translation of "E-mail." They'd rather just keep using the word E-mail.

They can lick my balls.

my favorite thing right now is how mad the official french language people are that parts of african languages are getting mixed into french

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One of my favorite hoaxes was in early 1962. There was a musical that debuted in 1961 called Subways are for Sleeping that was doing very poorly. For bizarre reasons (ads were banned in the New York subway system lest people take it as permission to sleep there) and normal (the reviews were poor).

But in 1962 an ad came out full of effusive praise from every prominent theater critic in New York. Every single one. From the Times to the Post, all of the famous theater critics in New York LOVED Subways Are For Sleeping

Except...

One of the papers paid to run this ad noticed something...off. Namely, that the editor knew Richard Watts the theater critic and he wasn't African-American.

It turns out that the producer of the musical had found seven New Yorkers with the same names as the seven biggest theater critics in New York, since while he couldn't lie and say they liked it, he could pay for *a* John Chapman or *a* Robert Coleman to see the musical and quote them next to their photo truthfully, bc how many people even knew what the leading theater critics in NYC looked like?

Turns out the producer had wanted to do this for ages, but had to wait for the NYT's critic to retire bc he couldn't find anyone with the same name. Anyway it worked: it went from being about to close, to running another hundred shows and winning a Tony

Here's the main source for this, btw

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These two have a history.

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Thank god for Russian dash cams to bring us wonders like this

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I think you're a few years ahead of schedule.

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Nothing stops you from adopting your own eunuch advisor, as long as you do it ethically and are responsible with them.

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