Okay so SOPA is back, guys. This time it’s trying to make streaming copyrighted material a felony. Do you know what that means? It means you can be charged and even do jail time for
- Making fanart
- Covering a song
- If there’s a song on on the background of a video, it still counts
- Writing fanfiction
There’s a petition to stop it from happening, and it still needs 82,000 signatures so please sign it here.
WRITING FANFICS ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?
Considering how 90% of modern authors got their start with fanfic…
Watch 62 Years of Global Warming in 13 Seconds
Go ahead. Explain to me exactly how this is fake, alarmist, or otherwise not important.
On Stubenville, the news, and victim blaming
We all know what the news did. What we might have missed is WHY they did it.
Ratings.
Angry people gets more people in. It’s free advertising. They all victim blame because that gets them more viewers to who are watching to see what stupid thing they do next.
Therefore, the only way to make them stop is to drop their ratings.
I propose to you: #NoNewsFriday
Deliberately turn off, or tune in to a better channel [cartoon network, discovery, etc] when the news comes on. Every Friday. Blog, tweet and otherwise spread the word that, until the news agencies stop behaving like asshats, you’re not watching the fuckers.
This can, of course, be extended throughout the week. The more asshattery, the more days you’re not watching the asshats.
Just as long as it gets around.
When their ratings drop, they’ll find out why you’re participating in #NoNewsFriday.
Edit: If there is a fair and balanced news source, announce that you’re watching/listening to them and why, just tag it #NoNewsFriday :)
On Wednesday, the US Supreme Court will hear a case that has the potential to give big corporations free rein to write contracts that prevent consumers from ever holding them accountable for fraud, antitrust violations, or any other abuses of consumer and worker protection laws now on the books.
Read up.
Everyone should be up in arms about this.
(via neil-gaiman)
I am a street photographer in New York City. Several months ago, I was approached by a representative of DKNY who asked to purchase 300 of my photos to hang in their store windows “around the world.” They offered me $15,000. A friend in the industry told me that $50 per photo was not nearly enough to receive from a company with hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue. So I asked for more money. They said “no.”
Today, a fan sent me a photo from a DKNY store in Bangkok. The window is full of my photos. These photos were used without my knowledge, and without compensation.
I don’t want any money. But please REBLOG this post if you think that DKNY should donate $100,000 on my behalf to the YMCA in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. That donation would sure help a lot of deserving kids go to summer camp. I’ll let you guys know if it happens.That’s so not okay!
Signal boost! I hope they get the message.WOW WHAT BULLSHIT.
YOOOO.
Apparently, intellectual property theft and copyright infringement are OK if *Corporations* do it…
(Source: humansofnewyork, via the-gay-is-over9000)
More energy from less coal with almost zero pollution
Any bets as to whether or not this actually becomes a thing?
Koch brother building life size play town.
I’m reminded of the story about a pre-revolution French Princess/Queen who had a rustic village built so she could play at churning butter…
Microbe can turn sewerage into black gold
Bet'cha they never go for it because they would lose their stranglehold on the fuel industry.
Goldman-Sachs evil allowed to perpetuate
The complete lack of surprise astonishes none.
