#source: the office (us)

[incorrect-agatha]

Alice, tending to Billy's wounds: How would you rate your pain?

Billy: Zero stars. Would NOT recommend.

[im-not-a-l0ser]

Shapiro: Grace Chasity, you have the right to remain- Bailey, interrupting: A loser! Shapiro: Nice. But legally, I have to start over now.

[thejakeformerlyknownasprince]

Hello resident animorphs expert! I'm terribly curious: do you have physical copies of all of the books, some favorites, none? I have all my favorites, but every time I'm in a used book store I wonder if I should clear out every copy just to have them all.

Answered here!

If it's within your budget, I say go ahead and get copies. Used bookstores often have to recycle books that don't sell to make room for ones that do, so buying them is preserving them. And not having to go through Rainforest-Destroying eCommerce Monopoly to do so is a huge bonus — I finished my collection with Ebay and Bookshop.Org, but neither place has everything.

[nullfier]

annoying conversations happening on twitter this week about dazai and his canonical whoreness .... very ableist delivery of people treating him like a tiny 22 yr old minor who clearly doesn't know what sex is and its getting weeeeeiirrrrd ...........

[alienseason]

There NEEDS to be more queers in general machinima. In a day and age where it's more accepted for us to exist verses when machinima was first makes it feels more important than ever. Take back a genre that typically ridiculed us despite the nostalgia and legacy held with it. Anyone can make machinima. People who say they 'can't draw', people who say they 'can't animate'; there's so many tools when it comes to stuff like gmod to help you. You can litterly buy gmod for 4 dollars, get add-ons, download tf2 and you already have plenty to work with. Get sfm for free or start messing around with open source game files. So many articles and videos dating back to the 2010s on how to make any engine or game in general to be your bitch. Anyone can make it. Even the queers that didn't get to take part in it back in the day!!! Make art!! Go fucking mad!!!! Make whatever you want!!! Fight against the world more than ever!!! Seize it!!! FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO VIDEO GAME ART!!!

[frogaroundandfindout]

Nightwing tells Batman he’s going to be a cop and Batman wonders what more he can do as Bruce Wayne (Detective Comics #725)

[i-am-having-an-emotion]

i totally support not catastrophizing but the executive orders DO have an immediate impact in some cases! namely, for federal employees! donald trump is now the uberboss of about 3 million employees who he *can* just boss around and fuck over, and there's very little we can do about it unless we're lucky enough to be unionized.

source: me, at work today, having to work hard last-minute on a project due to one of the EOs issued last night

[gdragonflyy]

Only Friends The Incorrect Series

[goldtoothmaster]

Anyway let's act like twelve year olds who just discovered self insert fanfiction. If you were a dw companion what doctor would you travel with and what would your storyline be like. Get as self indulgent as you want we're having fun here

[alex-gfd]

holy fuck the enshittification of microsoft office's web client has reached unparalleled heights.

I spent 10 minutes trying to find out how to open a new word document (theyve removed any sort of "create new" type of button from the site)... turns out the fastest and easiest (only?) way... is to ask their AI to open one for you.

[ecrivainsolitaire]

Open Art Guild – Testing the boundaries of collective IP ownership

Experimental release: Dr. T’chem’s Office (authorised for personal and commercial use)

I’ll try to keep this brief (you can read the full thesis statement here) but as we all know, intellectual property law is broken. It’s being exploited from every side and art workers are more vulnerable than ever to automation, copyright theft and myriad other unforeseeable forms of theft from the proletariat. We as a collective need to come together and work towards the creation of a better future.

The Open Art Guild is my proposal for the first of many steps towards a far away but necessary goal: the eradication of intellectual property as it pertains to the arts. It’s based on the open source standard and the creative commons, and the goal is for us to start creating a future where we stop thinking of artworks as private property to hoard, and start sharing the responsibilities and the benefits of their creation with the collective. And as I am proposing the idea, I should give the first step.

Which is why I am announcing the release of my short story series, Dr. T’chem’s Office, into the Open Art Guild license. This is an episodic HFY comedy series about the office hours of a sleazy yet well intentioned xenoanthropologist in charge of human integration into the crew of a spaceship, who happens to find them fascinating. You can read the first few instalments here:

| Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 |

The basics of the license go as follows: I’m giving any artist permission to use the assets of my artwork (in this case, settings, characters, plot lines and other unique concepts) both for personal use and for commercial use, provided they commit to crediting the original artist, giving away 30% of any profit back to the hands of the collective in the breakdown the guidelines specify, and giving the same license to any works they create derivative from this series. Any artist can join the Guild by remixing existing artworks in its database or voluntarily submitting their own works. For the time being this prototype model will have to rely on the honour system, but I have outlined the basic guidelines for a platform dedicated to facilitating the Guild’s business and income redistribution.

The purpose of this experiment is to test whether this system is financially viable, what modifications it needs, and how to enforce it. It’s also a way to study what the community thinks of this model. To summarise the implications, here are the pros and cons as I see them.

Pros:

- All fan art, spin-offs, third-party merchandise and other forms of adaptation become automatically authorised and monetisable, provided both the original artist and the remixer are active members of the Guild.

- All adaptations are automatically non-exclusive and must give away the same rights as the original, diminishing the incentive for massive corporations to try and scam an artist out of their intellectual property.

- It effectively unionises freelance artists of all fields to balance out negotiations with non Guild entities.

- It encourages artists to continue their output in order to reap the benefits of the Guild, by using the redistribution system as an incentive, instead of the current status quo where artists are actively fighting market forces all by themselves in order to make enough time and resources to work on their craft.

- It provides a safety net where everyone is invested in the continuous welfare of everyone else, giving a sense of class solidarity and facilitating donations and shared resources.

- It motivates artists to invest in each other, as the growth of one means the growth of the whole Guild.

- Eventually, if the project succeeds and the proposed platform comes to exist, it would effectively create a universal basic income for all Guild members, as well as a self sustained legal fund to protect their assets from IP theft by non Guild entities.

- It will give you complete control over whether your art can be used for AI dataset training, on an opt-in, post-by-post basis, so you don’t have to wonder who might be stealing it. If the platform is created, all works whose creators have not authorised to be used for this will have data scrambling features to make sure thieves can’t use them.

Cons:

- It will require all Guild members to permanently renounce to 30% of their profit, in order to build up the funds and distribution system.

- It will have to be built entirely on trust of the collective, at least until a platform can be established, which may take weeks or may take decades depending on lots of unpredictable factors.

- Leaving the Guild will require all artworks shared with the collective to become Creative Commons; once you renounce your right to monopoly of your IP, it’s permanent, no way to go back. This is necessary in order to prevent asset flippers and other forms of IP scabs to join the Guild, extract other people’s assets and then scram.

- Due to banking regulations entirely out of our hands, some artists will have participating in the redistribution. If the platform ever becomes a reality, one of its main goals will be to remedy this immediately.

This proposal requires a high cost, but it provides an invaluable reward. If the system works, it will empower all artists to profit from their work and protect it as a collective. If it doesn’t, all that will have happened is that you will have created a lot of Creative Commons art, which financially isn’t ideal, but artistically is extremely commendable. Even in the worst case scenario, corporations will not be able to hold your art hostage with exclusivity deals. To me, the benefits vastly outweigh the costs, but I do want to emphasise: there will be costs. This is an effort to subvert the entire way art has been monetised since the 1700s. It will require a lot of work, a lot of people, and a lot of time, to make it work. But I believe it can work. If you believe it too, you are welcome to join the Open Art Guild.

Please do read the guidelines for the Guild and the guidelines for the platform before you start creating, and give me whatever feedback you have. If it’s good, if it’s lacking, if I’m overstepping legal boundaries, if you can find loopholes, anything. I tried to make it airtight but I’m not a legal expert. This is not my project, it is a project for the proletariat. Everyone should have a say on what they’re signing on for. And regardless of what you think, share it with all artists you can. This will only work if as many people as possible participate.

Doctor T’chem’s Office’s license

This work has been released under the Open Art Guild license, and has been approved for reuse and adaptation under the following conditions:

For personal, educational and archival use, provided any derivative works also fall under a publicly open license, to all Guild members and non members.

For commercial use, provided redistribution guidelines of the Guild be followed, to all active Guild members.

For commercial use to non Guild members, provided any derivative works also fall under a publicly open license, with the explicit approval of the artist and proper redistribution of profit following the guidelines of the Guild.

For non commercial dataset training of open source generative art technologies, provided the explicit consent of the artist, proper credit and redistribution of profit in its entirety to the Guild.

Shall this work be appropriated by non Guild members without proper authorisation, credit and redistribution of profit, the non Guild entity waives their right to intellectual property over any derivative works, copyrights, trademarks or patents of any sort and cedes it to the Creative Commons, under the 4.0 license, irrevocably and unconditionally, in perpetuity, throughout time and space in the known multiverse. The Guild reserves the right to withhold trade relations with any known infractors for the duration its members deem appropriate, including the reversal of any currently standing contracts and agreements.

[aerosolsprite]

uhm. i got. a ✨job✨.

i apologize in advance for my inactivity in the future, but i have work monday and wednesday afternoon and all day friday. so.

sorry…

[snapbackslide]

i love how cole leaked that rhp is playing tonight before the team themselves announced it 😂

[pynkhues]

Or a lot of Australian actors farmers in their spare time? Genuine question because i cant tell if it's common

A lot of older Australian actors (and older Australians in general, actually) I know have hobby farms, yes, but I'd say that that's very different from Sam as his family's farm is a (generationally passed-down, from the sounds of it) cattle station and his parents' livelihood.

There is very much a cultural expectation with farmers that I know here that children help out on it during busy periods regardless of their chosen profession. Sam touched on his experiences in animal husbandry in that interview an anon sent me yesterday, but he's talked a bit in press here too about going home for the calving seasons, which I would say would probably be expected by his family given other cattle families that I know.

But yeah, Sam's circumstances are pretty unique, I'd say, given I don't think there are all that many actors who come from actual farming families in Australia.

[fereldanbroth]

dad doesn't work at all imo since it's such a common word, da:d means having to add a semicolon meaning having to hold down two keys at opposing ends on the keyboard at the same time, DAD/DA:D is the above + too omnious

I'll just stick to dadw thank you very much

[possum-tooth]

seeing a lot of breakup things when my bf and i havent talked in over an hour <3