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Why do you have an antisemitism section. antisemitism isnt racism. jews are white.
"White" is a social construct created by white supremacy to mark who is and is not part of the "correct" demographic. Many ethnic groups we now consider white, such as people of Irish and Italian descent, were not previously included and have since been (mostly) assimilated.
While many Jews could individually be considered white, Jews as a whole are an ethnoreligious group that has not been assimilated into whiteness. They are the subject of a lot of bigotry and frequently violently targeted by white supremacists, who generally believe Jews are a threat to the "white race". There's a reason neo-Nazis are the figurehead of violent racists; you cannot fully understand white supremacy without also understanding antisemitism!
If you aren't familiar with antisemitic tropes and conspiracy theories (such as the one linked above), I recommend reading through some of these:
Brief explanation of antisemitism & overview of stereotypes:
I recently had the privilege of giving a presentation on antisemitism in fiction and fantasy, a topic I care about deeply. Antisemitism is i
Explanation of antisemitism in imagery & social media:
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With the whole "Markiplier making his own DVD copies of Iron Lung to sell" thing, it's been fascinating and slightly concerning how many people seem to genuinely believe that if a physical release isn't coming from a giant corporation, it must automatically be a bootleg.
Look at me.
Look me directly in the eyes while I say this.
You can just make things.
You can simply create something and put it into the world.
That's allowed.
People have been doing it for centuries.
They sell blank VHS tapes. They sell blank DVDs. Blank CDs. You can buy flash drives by the bucketful if you really want to. If you create a movie, an album, a game, a documentary, or a four-hour video essay about the mating habits of fictional space goblins, you are entirely permitted to put that thing on physical media and sell it.
That is not piracy.
Piracy is taking something that belongs to someone else and reproducing or distributing it without permission.
If I buy a DVD of a movie, I own that copy of the movie. I do not own the movie itself. I didn't acquire the rights to duplicate it, press a thousand copies, and start selling them out of my garage like I've become the regional distributor for Warner Bros.
The copyright, distribution rights, and intellectual property still belong to whoever created it or whoever legally acquired those rights.
If I start burning copies of Iron Lung and selling them myself without Markiplier's permission, that's piracy.
If Markiplier, who made and owns the rights to Iron Lung, burns copies and sells them himself, that's just distribution.
He's the rights holder.
He's distributing his own work.
If you made it, if it came from your own mind, your own work, your own time, your own resources, then congratulations. You own the thing. You don't need a corporation to bless it with legitimacy.
The corporation is not what makes it real.
The fact that it exists is what makes it real.
I think we've accidentally spent so many years living inside a world dominated by mass-produced media that some people have developed the strange assumption that all media emerges from a factory somewhere. As if films naturally occur in shrink-wrapped plastic cases and descend from the heavens aboard a pallet truck.
But independent artists have been burning discs, dubbing tapes, printing books, pressing records, and mailing things directly to people for longer than many of us have been alive.
I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard
Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.
Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.
Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.
Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.
SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.
SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.
Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.
Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.
Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.
Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.
Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.
MapCrunch. Environment artists rejoice. Random locations, filter by indoor or outdoor, rural or urban, specific country. Great for realistic/authentic building ref.
Tinfoil hat moment but I don't think he was dumb, I think he was strategic. He put her in a situation in which she had to either: sell her car (so the only means of transportation is now in his name), or maybe even to drop out (to have time for the second job) if she wants to feed the kids. He did it right when she was aaaaaalmost done with her degree. Either way, it's sabotage.
Sometimes when an action makes NO sense to us ("he's like a stupid alien"), it's bc we are not understanding its true motivation/purpouse. If his goal was control, financial pressure and limiting her options due to lack of funds, it makes perfect sensie to buy the truck.
This is classic abuser behavior: maneuver the partner into a situation where they feel trapped and cannot escape. The timing on this is too perfect; he saw her gaining agency & power in the relationship and moved to short circuit that.
I am SO GLAD she got out.
If this happens to you, try reaching out to friends & family first. Chances are they've been watching your situation and are aching to help, but have felt powerless. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this scenario unfold. Ask. For. Help. Nobody will judge you, and they're probably waiting for you to make a move. People notice abuse and want to help.
if you feel truly alone, start out with some free online resources.
There's also online legal help for filing no-fault divorce papers or how to find a lawyer you can afford.
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The actor, who died at age 78 on Monday, embodied a passionate approach to research and positive masculinity in his role as paleontologist A
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor who died at age 78 in Sydney, Australia, on Monday, had a long and varied résumé. He played everyone from an international spy (Possession) and a detective chief inspector (Peaky Blinders) to a legendary wizard (Merlin). He even played the literal spawn of the devil (Omen III: The Final Conflict).
But throughout his career, Neill was also known for scientist roles in films like The Dish and Event Horizon, with none more celebrated than Dr. Alan Grant, the rugged paleontologist and undisputed hero of Jurassic Park.
As fans paid tribute to Neill, remembering both his wonderful performances and the charming updates about the farm animals on his idyllic New Zealand vineyard, one clear theme emerged with respect to the iconic Dr. Grant.
“How many of us were inspired to become scientists after watching Dr. Alan Grant and Dr. Ellie Sattler?” wrote Lucky Tran, the director of science communication at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, in a post on X that included an image of Neill and costar Laura Dern examining a sick triceratops in a scene from Jurassic Park. Thomas Ronge, a marine geologist working for the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office at Texas A&M University, shared on Bluesky that the sci-fi blockbuster had led him to pursue studies in paleontology and that while he had ultimately gone into a different field, “I'm always Dr. Grant at heart.”
Speaking for myself, I can say that after seeing Jurassic Park at age 9 I entertained great dreams of being a paleontologist like Alan Grant (or perhaps an actor, like Sam Neill). Just what was it about this character that had kids clamoring to apply to STEM programs?
“The heroes of my favorite movie were level-headed scientists who used their wits, not guns or physical strength, to overcome obstacles,” Kevin Holloway, who worked as a neuroscience researcher at the University of Oregon in the late aughts and early ’10s, tells WIRED. “They also had a clarity of purpose and absolute conviction in their beliefs.”
As Grant, he says, Neill was “the quintessential ‘man of science’ role model [by] which all others are measured.” Ultimately, Holloway didn’t pursue a PhD, and he now works as a nurse “doing diabetic foot care, advanced wound care, and street outreach”—but he still “absolutely” credits Neill’s turn as Grant for steering him into science.
Jurassic Park hit theaters when Jim Porter was 23 and completing his undergraduate studies with a geology field camp in the western US, he recalls. “I read the [Michael] Crichton novel on the way there, then saw the movie in a small-town theater,” he says, noting that the fieldwork was “certainly different after that.” He loved Neill's “convincing and endearing portrayal of a scientist whose priority was understanding and revering Earth's history rather than opportunistically monetizing it,” saying this “reinforced my career choice as an environmental scientist.”
It wasn’t merely Grant’s distinction and principles as a researcher that made him such an aspirational figure for so many. He was also a potent counterexample to the violent, macho action stars of the 1980s and 1990s.
“He's believable as a field scientist and also has such a gruff kindness about him,” says Jamie Anderson, who earned a DPhil in archaeological sciences from the University of Oxford in 2018 and calls Jurassic Park her favorite film. She cites “the way he takes on looking after the kids even though they've been driving him nuts” and his treatment of Dr. Sattler “as his equal and someone he's proud of” as reasons that Grant made “a great antidote to more toxic masculine figures in many other action movies, especially from that era.”
James, who works as a civil engineer in Orlando, Florida, and requested to withhold his last name out of professional concerns, offers a similar assessment of Grant as a direct, accomplished, and brilliant man without the off-putting arrogance. “Sam Neill’s character and how he responded to everyone with confidence but also kindness really stuck with me,” he says. “It’s clear he knows his shit, but he’s not an asshole about it. Simple enough but shocking how uncommon that is.” While James may not have pursued his childhood ambitions of becoming “a paleontologist, or an archaeologist, or volcanologist, or some sort of ‘-ist,’” he aims to bring Grant’s values to his engineering work. “I get to use my brain and also try to be decent to people,” he says.
Like just about everyone who grew up obsessed with Jurassic Park, Richard Ferro, a family medicine physician in California, has memories of wearing out an old VHS copy. When he was 5 years old and sick with chickenpox on a visit to family in Costa Rica, it was all he had to entertain himself, and he rewatched it continuously.
“To me, Dr. Alan Grant was the epitome of what it means to be a scientist,” Ferro tells WIRED. “He was thoughtful and analytical. He could be lighthearted in one moment and muse about the philosophy of scientific theory in another. But when he saw a triceratops for the first time, he was a kid again, grinning from ear to ear while lying on its chest, feeling his body rise and fall with each breath. His character taught me at an early age that intelligence and wonder can and should coexist.” Ferro says he wouldn’t be where he is today without Neill’s “monumental performance.”
With Neill gone, that guiding light will nonetheless endure—if on streaming platforms instead of videocassettes and DVDs—and another generation is bound to be swept away not only by Steven Spielberg’s thrill-ride adventure but the people who made it seem real.
James says he can’t wait to introduce his young son to Jurassic Park and its beloved star to his “little guy,” and though he notes that his wife thinks it “may be a bit scary,” he has no such reservations.
The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...
Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?
eviewisdom is another scam artist, very similar to other scam artists out there - vastly different art styles, almost each image claiming to be a "commission from a client" and these generic prompt-y descriptions.
Her cover art is stolen
The first art she uploaded is also stolen
The others are hard to track but like I said, they differ in style a lot and are often uploaded in pretty bad quality.
Some of them seem to be AI-ed stolen artwork (I'm pretty sure I've seen OG art for that one)
and another exaple of AI, look at the hands and heads
damn! you even did the work for me.
a thing you didn't point out is that evie has reblogged evrenn's crashout
...among other things.
...which is such a shame because they can do art.
This doesn't look all that bad. ...but unfortunately I can't trust this because the image could be traced from somewhere.
If you aren't being honest with your skills as an artist, then you're a scammer. Plain and simple.
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The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.
Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.
#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op
The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.
You know, when I've remarked that a lot of the responses to my posts feel like people are just plucking out keywords they think they recognise based on the shape of them and replying to what they imagine the post says based on that, the possibility never occurred to me that this is actually how many American schools are currently teaching kids to read.
Like, my assumption this whole time has been that when folks go "I misunderstood this post that says [thing] as saying [unrelated thing] because I mistook [word] for [completely different word that happens to start with the same letter]", that was a bit. What do you mean they're teaching kids a reading method that's tailored to produce this exact error?
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