Peter….I’m rooting for you, brother. Not to get MJ back because you not winning that fight with him, but rooting for you with the superhero stuff for SURE.
Nobody seems to understand this but I cannot stress enough that a judge told Anthropic that training their AI models didn't constitute copyright violation as long as they 'transferred' the text instead of 'copying' it, legally necessitating the destruction of the books
saudade de quando a unica coisa q eu fazia da vida era ler fanfic despreocupadamente
agora eu continuo lendo mas preocupadíssima com tudo q eu tenho q fazer
i know it gets said a lot but so many dystopias for straight people is just what governments have done/are doing to LGBTQ people. “what if it was illegal to be in a relationship and have sex?” wow i wonder if anyone has ever been in a situation like that before
judith butler had an extremely fascinating lecture a decade ago “who owns kafka” on who legally could have ownership to kafka’s manuscripts which israel had made a claim to, and butler made the point that by israel’s logic they would have the right to every work by every jew ever
This remains the most poignant scene to me. Kara believes her place is in the dirt with her people & her family, while her dad believes her place is in the stars, in the unfurling future. Adds a bit of poetry to her embracing “Supergirl” & finding her place in the sun at the end.
I do think that the 8-hour workday is intimately connected with the rise of brainrot. It's not so easy to maintain interest and motivation in outside projects when most of one's waking energy goes toward drudgery. You want to unwind with trifling, stupid TikTok videos; I get it.
Maybe this distinction is missed if you haven’t actually read the odyssey but gods are physically constantly present. Their existence isn’t implied through things like thunder. They actually stand there talking to Odysseus & each other. And that’s lacking in the film