Rants and Randomness

1.5M ratings
277k ratings

See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
the-beasts-have-arrived
i'm american but i drink an unhealthy amount of lemonade it's so good though
dingdongyouarewrong
ex-covid-haver

private corporations taking advantage of a commons for commercial use should be responded to by breaking said corporation...not in a massive privatization effort.

ex-covid-haver

framing ai art in the abstract as theft and demanding say chatgpt pay up for analyzing your work and procedurally generating derivative works based off the data,

beyond being a perilous framing (is all derivative art theft? if so, millennia of human culture have a massive problem)

is the means by which major tech corporations can safely avoid meaningful accountability while artists both using and used by ai art, whose means increasingly becomes poorer and poorer as time goes on, would bear the brunt of the new legal frame

framing a relation as theft by which remedy is royalty compensation and attribution will play out the same way it did with sampling. rich corporations can hire legions of lawyers. poor artists cannot. using a privatized model of intellectual work will mainly benefit those who benefit most from capitalism: the bourgeoise.

we could, potentially, kill the whole issue in the beginning by rejecting a copyright-style framing. by rejecting the idea that cultural heritage of humanity cannot be owned by corporations. and instead demand the protection of the creative commons and those who contribute.

max1461
yandere-angela

*reads the torah* i wonder how ancient israelites and their taboo on bull worship would react to hindus’ veneration of cows *thinks about timeline* actually i wonder when the veneration of cows started in india, and if it was contemporaneous to ancient israel

yandere-angela

image

it turns out ancient israelites and the veneration of cows in india were in fact contemporaneous

yandere-angela

the ancient israelites and the ancient indo-aryans would have SO much beef over the veneration of cows

elancholia

Is nobody going to point out that there was a plausibly para-Vedic/Indo-Aryan culture in the Levant until the late Bronze Age.

max1461

It’s not just plausible, I think the overwhelming evidence is that the Mitanni ruling class was indeed Indic. Indic gods are mentioned in the treaties between the Hittites and the Mitanni, the rulers’ names appear to have Indic etymologies, etc. The everyday people were definitely not of Indo-Aryan origin though.

assuming all the above is accurate the taboo on bull worship could have been a reaction to neighboring people worshipping cows there's a lot of instances in the torah where there are rules specifically meant as a way for jews to distinguish themselves from caananite idolatry more generally iirc is one of those things at least partially it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch that the golden calf was chosen in the story because of calf idol worshippers nearby obviously this is all speculation though
max1461
tanadrin

fascinating to watch society increasingly work itself into contortions about how to make a principled distinction between boy tits (pedestrial!) and girl tits (taboo!) because even as the rigid gender binary is slowly chipped away, we can’t handle the fact someone somewhere might be turned on

some breast cancer survivors have breasts but no nipples; are their chests nsfw? if they have their nipple transplanted to their forehead, must it be covered? if i have my nipples moved to my forehead but then later acquire tits via hrt or breast implants, then are they nsfw? why is a trans man’s chest post top surgery sfw but not pre? why is a flat-chested woman’s chest never sfw? what if someone refuses to disclose their AGAB? must they wear Schroedinger’s Sports Bra at all times? if someone transitions, has top surgery, then decides to go back to identifying as a woman, does their chest become NSFW again, or does it remain SFW?

so many philosophical questions! and what a waste of human brain power and technical ability to spend it all on arcane points of content moderation. at what point does this all become such a drag on our economy, that we have to jettison our hangups or else permit innovation to grind to a halt?

yeah also like a lot of places require that nipples/female presenting nipples are covered but like the rest of the tit can be out and like why do they draw the line there like i guess they think they have to draw the line somewhere but they don't really why is a nipple attached to a tit not ok but a nippleless tit is ok and a nipple not on a tit is ok it's just bodies
gatesofember
i am a math student so i'm still good at math in school?
solange-lol
ben-learns-smth

I always bring a book just in case but today I forgot and now I'm bored on the train, so

what is the one (1) thing you always bring with you that isn't your phone, wallet, or keys?

a book

a snack

a drink

a fidget toy

headphones/earphones

an extra piece of clothing (jacket, sweater, ..)

a hat/cap

none of these, it's actually... (tags pls!)

actually two or more are integral to my survival (tags pls!)

show results

reblogs appreciated!

waterbottle i think that counts as a drink