An Experiment in Creative Commons

Ramadan Mubarak.

What should be a time for the people in Palestine to spend joyfully with their families is still a nightmare. Resources like food, water, and medicine are still scarce and bombs are still falling on children in tents.

If you have the means, please consider donating to my friend Hamza during his and his family’s time of need. They have had such a rough go of life, and could use the help, especially during the holiday. If you can’t donate please consider reblogging — everything is helpful!!

Prior to 2023, almost half of all food in Gaza was produced locally. Over the past three years, 98.5% of Gaza's cropland has been destroyed or made inaccessible by Israel's ecocide, leaving the people of Gaza dependent on aid trucks for nearly all food, fuel, medicine, and basic goods.

When crossings close, famine follows. These closures reduce the food entering from the bare minimum needed of 600 trucks daily to only around 200, creating artificial scarcity and surging prices.

"Israeli forces resumed intensive bombardment while maintaining a complete blockade that has now entered its eighth week, preventing all humanitarian aid and commercial supplies from entering. This has left Gaza's 2.2 million residents facing starvation as food stocks deplete, bakeries cease operations due to lack of flour and fuel, and nearly 90% of the population remains displaced with critical infrastructure almost entirely destroyed."

My wife @cannilyuncanny hosts her family's campaign and transfers donations directly Mahrah (@mahrahpalestine). The campaign is vetted by @90-ghost and was shared by fairuzfan.

73% of the way funded so far €36,139 / €50K 1.8k donations total 5:00PM EST on March 30th

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Write it badly or it'll never be written

Welcome to Republican Rape Culture politics.

Paternalism destroying children every way possible. Direct threat. Existential threat.

Republicans have no emotions, just fear.

Welcome to Republican Rape Culture politics.

Paternalism destroying children every way possible. Direct threat. Existential threat.

Republicans have no emotions, just fear.

CONCEIVED IN SIN,

BORN IN INIQUITY,

NURTURED BY TYRANNY,

DIED OF ACHRONIC ATTACK OF PUNCH

https://gofund.me/a2d6da576

It looks like his jaw might be dislocated and he’s got a few scratches but thankfully my sister was able to stop the fight before he was injured anymore.

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Over the past two years, the mess that is generative AI has barrelled its way through human creative spaces. It’s been… a shit show.

The effects of this hostile takeover are well reported: slop, enshittification, deepfakes, misinformation. AI came straight for creative work first (because it was illegally trained on it 🙃)—and yet, beyond the (very real) concern of industry redundancies, and the (dubious) claims of AI “replacing” human creatives, there’s notably a lack of discussion about how it’s impacted creatives just being creative.

Writing, scrolling, reading online—the basic ways we live our daily creativity are being impacted by This Thing, and it deserves more attention.

We know you have an opinion—and we know it’s good. We’d love if you’d share it with us.

The survey is anonymous and takes about 3 minutes. We’ll compile some of the findings and publish for all to read. (And if you want to be quoted in a future essay or social posts, please feel free to leave your name/pseudonym or social handles in the optional contact form at the end.)

We're committed to supporting human creatives in the age of AI—and we’re working to build a human-led, human-affirming network to make sure that human creativity is protected. Because without art, we’d be really screwed.

So please, tell us how we can help! Take the survey here.

Sounds like an Opus Dei talking point justifying a break with the papacy.

Pope Leo canceled his US trip becasue he did not feel safe. US conservative Catholics picked a side and it will have consequences. You don't side with rape/abuse/trafficking and then tell the Pope he is wrong about the dangers of war.

Denial about the diabolical nature of Thiel, Vought, and Miller is a choice.

Traditional Comics!