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I was reading through the U.S. Copyright Office's "What Does Copyright Protect?" page, mostly to make sure that I wasn't being wrong on the internet, but I absolutely love that this is part of their FAQ:
How do I protect my sighting of Elvis? Copyright law does not protect sightings. [,,,]
There are only 12 questions on the FAQ, and this is one of them.
Just watched Adam Conover (of Adam Ruins Everything) make such a solid point that I think we should spread far and wide. Yes, having AI write your emails is lazy, sure, but people love being lazy. We need to really emphasize that sending AI emails (or using AI responses on social media, or publishing AI flyers, or or or) is rude.
It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.
It's rude.
It's not just rude to make me read something you didn't want to write. It is that you expect me to respond to your email written by Claude. You don't even want me to talk to you. You want me to talk to Claude so that you can make Claude respond for you. It is rude to expect me to talk to a chatbot when I wanted to talk to you.
It is also rude for you to receive correspondence or documents from me and have your chatbot of choice determine what to do with them without them ever being examined by a person, whether the chatbot also writes a response for you or not.
Botting these tasks also will result in more actual rude behavior from actual people over time. This isn't speculation about moral decay, I mean that if you eliminate all of the easy, normal tasks by giving them to a robot, you are left only with the hard and exceptional tasks. Doing nothing but these will quickly erode your social stamina. A gap will widen between a person and the messages sent on their behalf that real humans notice negatively.
The other side of the interaction gets ruder when bots are involved, too. Ask any call center customer service employee if they get treated with more or less patience after callers weren't helped by the bot they were diverted to.
Convenience isn't bad because of some inherent value in toil or it rots your soul. Convenience is bad because it often comes at the cost of an exploited underclass. I don't care if someone wants to taxi their meal to their house instead of making it themselves or even driving to the restaurant themselves. I care that meal delivery apps underpay their workers (they don't even consider them their workers), provide no workplace protections, and prey on their desperation.
The desire for convenience is a morally neutral thing (no matter how many capitalists want their workers to see unproductivity or aversion to the "grind" as a moral failing). Companies that sell you only convenience by making it worse for yourself and for others are not.
I'm sorry but this is the exact thing I was talking about when I said "convenience does not rot your soul."
You talking to a person over the counter to order food at a restaurant is not an anymore meaningful interaction than talking to someone who delivered that food. Delivery and take-out have always existed. That option to pay more for that convenience has always existed. The major difference now is that most restaurants no longer employ people in-house to do delivery, because it's being done by contracted gig workers who get absolutely no benefits or protections. The major difference now are the working conditions.
I agree societal connections are good, but you just going outside to order food and the coming back is not meaningfullly participating in society. Removing deliveries or any sort of accesibility service (cafes not having wifi for example) will not force people to interact with strangers if they don't want to do that. Convenience facilitates people who already don't want to interact with others, but convenience isn't what's making people lonely! You cannot passively consume your way to community.
Most people aren't gonna talk or build relationships with folks in that restaurant. They're gonna eat and leave, and that's less "community building" than someone who ordered take-out so they can stay home to participate in an online book club or zoom their loved ones in another country. Do not romanticize past toils and lack of accessibility. Convenience and accessibility leads to people having more time to connect with each other, not less.
Yep! Well, maybe not since the stone age, but since before 79 AD in Pompeii's thermopolium at least.

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girlfriend keeps a kyubey plushie just to beat up when she's angry so sometimes i'm running down the list of questions to ask to help her figure out what would make her feel better and "do you want to hurt kyubey" is often one of them
I was thinking of a pride art challenge people could do with their OCs, because I thought it'd be cute! A queer/trans artist with their creations.
but then I realised that same challenge would be infinitely more funny with folks who have atypical or horror OCs
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me and my beasts.
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It occurs to me that Lower Decks is the first series to really make explicit what was implicit on Deep Space Nine but never really said outright, namely that the Dominion War was fought largely by a bunch of people who'd joined Starfleet to catalogue alien fungus and spatial anomalies, not save the Alpha Quadrant.
CSF leak week info from the Ehler-Danlos Society FB page ✨
One big asterisk to the lumbar puncture thing —
I guess it can be used to diagnose CSF leak?
It can also cause one. And it does so quite often in hypermobile individuals and younger AFAB patients (particularly but not exclusively those with a lower BMI).
Which is a risk that they, uh, don’t always mention when suggesting a lumbar puncture, even if you have the exact Venn diagram of high-leak-risk characteristics.
I’m sure it has nothing to do with the female predominance or the tendency to ignore symptoms in young women who “look healthy” or “are in great shape” ie they’re thin bc acknowledging them would require admitting that weight is not the sole determinant of health
Anyway. If you get a lumbar puncture (colloquially called a spinal tap), and you subsequently have an orthostatic headache that doesn’t clear up within about 24 hours, go back to the doctor and tell them you’re leaking. (Don’t word it like that, but you get it.)
Oh yes! the neuros I have talked to who did it, I always asked them if they repair the area afterward. The good ones do as a matter of course, so if you are going to get one, ask about what they do to repair the dura afterwards!!!
graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge
sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses

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the original got flagged with no way to appeal it when every contributor is deactivated but I will never let this post die. it's monday and we are getting on it cunts
The thing about Lovecraft's work is that he did write about some genuinely fucked up critters, but he doesn't seem to have had a clear picture of which ones those are. "Dog that inhabits right angles" and "sapient colour" are treated as exactly as mind-bending as, like, "guy who looks like a fish" and "big penguin".
The idea that all of existence is a fictional dream of a sleeping god creature from an entirely different reality that could wake up at any moment, ending all life that never truly existed at all, is a fascinatingly terrifying concept but the god is not nearly as popular as the Really Big Guy who is Squid
To be fair the hounds of tindalos are a great example of what we like to think Lovecraftian means because they're never actually described like dogs or described at all, they're "hounds" in the sense that they track some kind of quarry for some kind of master. The only other thing known about them is that they can travel through right angle corners, so you have a guy who knows he's marked and he spackles every corner he can find until it's like he's living in a giant egg, and everyone thinks he's just "crazy" until the spackling gives out and he poofs out of reality.
There's great mind bending horror there that doesn't rely on knowing what the monster is or what it looks like, but the unexplainable mechanisms by which it operates and what that can do to the mind of someone living all alone with a fear no one else can accept.
But then, yeah, there are also the Lovecraft stories in which the threat is "what if big limpets could read."
I guess the reason all that Backrooms stuff has never really fazed me is because I worked in on-site networking support for a while, and literally every city's downtown district is just Like That once you get off the beaten path. Not just the really big cities, either; the one I'm currently living in has a population of less than 250 000 – metro area included – and a downtown area about six blocks across, and the service corridors still manage to do some House of Leaves shit. At one point I was trying to map the route of a misbehaving network cable, started out in a shopping mall parking garage, and ended up surfacing in the basement of the casino across the street. Totally unsecured – apparently neither the mall's administration nor the casino's managers knew that particular service corridor existed.
Like, I once bumped into a fully stocked and operational Coke machine in an unlit maintenance corridor twenty feet below ground level. Its display lighting was the only illumination for a hundred yards in either direction. I don't even know what it was plugged into.
Somewhere below this city there's a room the size of a high school gymnasium filled floor to ceiling with rotting mattresses. I've seen it with my own eyes – and, more importantly, smelled it with my own nose. I can't recommend the experience.
(That last one isn't even mysterious. The room in question is within easy walking distance of the basement of a major hotel, if you know where you're going; I imagine the hotel started stashing their old mattresses there at some point rather than pay to have them hauled away, and over the ensuing decades the situation got out of hand.)
In response to a couple of recurring questions in the notes:
I don't have any experience with the weirder corners of university campuses – my work in that particular job just never happened to take me there. I did, however, once have to do a cable trace in the basement of a former Christian elementary school. It had haphazardly been subdivided into numerous tiny rooms, some as little as ten feet across, with no central hallways or apparent floor plan. Every single room was, for reasons that were and remain unclear to me, full of broken kitchen appliances. One room in particular contained an enormous industrial freezer unit that was larger in its smallest dimension than any of the doors leading to it. Was it delivered in pieces and assembled on site? Did they build the room around it? That one still bothers me a little bit.
No, I did not drink the Morlock Tunnel Coke. What are you, nuts?
men who use arthurian knights as an example of Gritty Real Men Who Don’t Cry read one (1) piece of medieval literature challenge

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Via Fiona Tribe: "Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term 'dark matter' which is impressive, but he also coined the term 'spherical bastard' to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more."
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This reminds me of the time that I asked if anyone had resources on the history of Shinto and while nobody had book recs, turns out an actual Temple Maiden followed me on Tumblr and was down to chat.