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unrestrainedbytaste:

So I guess you would be down on the EU monetary union, and pro-nationalism.

Do you think a post-scarcity economy needs copyright?

I think worship is dumb in general and that includes worship of any state or society so I will always be very suspicious of nationalism even if it happens to be serving a useful purpose

Copyright is supposed to combat plagiarism and unauthorized publication. The latter won’t be an issue because exposure will be valuable and compensation won’t.

Plagiarism is tough for me to discuss with most people because I have an unusual outlook on it. I’ve anonymously distributed a lot of creative works, and despite not being credited for them I can still take pride in the effect they have on people as art, and the popularity they’ve achieved in real life and on the internet. I don’t ever expect to convert other people to such an atypical worldview, not even by example (since my name isn’t attached to my deeds) so I’ll just take a neutral stance and leave it up to everyone else to decide if plagiarism would be a problem.

(Source: teal-deer)

tutelariussagittarius:

theworstpersonintheworld:

I neglected to take pictures of these, so I’ve reproduced the text below:

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Two months. For two months I’ve tried putting that paper in blacklight, putting it under different lighting angles, unfolding the envelope and thinking the text was inside it. FOR TWO MONTHS I’VE BEEN WONDERING WHAT THE HELL THIS LETTER CONTAINED, and I just barely found out it had nothing written on it ;___________;

Thanks though, that was surprisingly pleasant, and I like the envelope, it’s really fancy :’D

Sincerely,

The Equius you trolled

I’m sorry.

I’m so sorry.

teal-deer:

to bring it full circle

which working parts do we need to change?

or, if we can’t change them

that is

if I must work within a system which is built on pain

what do I need to break

what do I need to destroy

to get a broken machine

Okay so the long-term goal is to build a post-scarcity society so everyone can be transhumanist artists/inventors/polymaths, right? I mean if the human race succeeds at that then pretty much all our other problems will work themselves out over a generation or so (there have been studies™)

So assuming this is possible at all, we just wanna make sure that we’re advancing towards that goal at a reasonable pace

From a capitalist/entrepreneurial perspective, that means the short-term goal is to localize failures. If the world has three basic plans for advancing, the least suitable one should fail fastest, while leaving the global system intact enough to quickly reallocate whatever precious resources (land, wealth, human lives) it was consuming at the time. That way, the more successful plans can rescue whatever value the bad plan had.

From a political perspective, you want to avoid unbridled anarchy wherever possible, because it reliably gives way to systems of government that are harmful to their neighbors. So if the United States fails, for example, you want the individual states (and its “colonies” since it’s pretty much an empire) to be highly self-sufficient.

If you can gradually isolate a troubled country from the rest of the world then the damage it can do to its neighbors while collapsing can be minimized as well, so maybe letting the xenophobic US immigration policy run rampant is a good thing, just in case

(Wow I don’t know where I’m going with this I’m just kind of rambling but I’m gonna post this so you can shoot holes in it wherever it happens to need it)

(Also this has nothing to do with how to run your life as an individual so)

caelhammer:

the tension between you and miranda cosgrove has been palpable all night. her hair shines in the moonlight and her skin seems to glow. she is so beautiful. you lean in, suddenly, to kiss her. her mandibles open in surprise. miranda cosgrove has taken off her skin, and will now show you her people.

(via homestruck)

ipgd:

please source your gifsets

i cannot count the number of times i see stuff pop up on my dash that i would like to see in a format that is not a series of 3 second looping gifs but cannot because the original poster included no relevant or searchable comments, sources or tags at all in their post

sometimes i can wade through the notes section with the thousands of people just reblogging with “ISHJGIUHGUAGA GBDFHS PRECIOUS BABBUS I LOVE THIS SO MUCH” to find one person who mentions or tags the thing it’s from, but often that is not the case

really is it that hard to add “this is from season 2 episode 5 of series X” or “this is from Y’s interview with Z” to your post or tags when you’re doing this stuff

(via c1qfxugcgy0)

softowl:

beanie-beanie:

I’m trying to work my way through that; I’ve tryed emailing AH about these hat designs I have but he never responded.

Also for MLP hats I have no idea who to go to to even begin to ask if it’s cool to make MLP hats.

Also I thought it was OK if it was non-profit. But yeah, I’ll go back to the books.

Thanks for the information.

“Non-profit” in this sort of case would mean “free.”  As I understand it, when money changes hands, no matter how much money it is, it’s a problem.

Also, you shouldn’t email Andrew about permissions; he gets way too much email and he doesn’t deal with those kinds of questions.  You should email me or mspaquestions@gmail.com (you can find this sort of info in my “Contact” section).

The term you guys are looking for is probably “noncommercial.” It is actually more restrictive than just giving something away for free, because showing ads on a website can be construed as commercial usage. Even if access to the site is completely free, money is still changing hands.

Also, if you don’t have a license that explicitly permits noncommercial usage, it is not even legal to give something away for free if it’s covered by someone else’s copyright. Music piracy is the obvious example. You’re not gonna make money uploading your Beatles albums to The Pirate Bay, but it’s still illegal without explicit permission from the Beatles.

teal-deer:

pandalot:

teal-deer:

Can someone explain Nielsen ratings to me?

Pretty much the Nielsen company selects certain families, about 5,000, with specific demographics, then installs a meter on their televisions that records the data of what they watch, and from that sample size they estimate what the…

Ok the fuck!? That’s inefficient, artificial, and stupid.

How do we overturn this? Kill it?

It’s actually not quite as bad as that, but yeah, it’s still pretty bad.

Good luck with disrupting it, though. The carriers (broadcast and cable) don’t want to move to a different system because they’re afraid it would make them irrelevant. The advertisers would flip their shit if their long-term contracts turned out to be worthless. And the studios don’t care at all what people actually want to watch. In their eyes, writers and directors are unskilled labor, and viewers are either debtors or a captive market (because alternative forms of low-price, high-value entertainment are quite scarce).

Probably the best way forward is just to produce content outside the system.

pancakestein:

you know what you were all saying five years ago instead of YOLO?

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