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I'm Muslim with an M.A. in the history of SWANA and East Africa. But I mostly post about lefty things and dungeons and dragons, these days.
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If our leadership came from these kinds of movements, would we be incentivizing performativity? Manipulation of media? Idk.
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The suit includes the legal definition of Shrek
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Yeah they're suing Midjourney for infringing IP including the Minions, Star Wars, Marvel and Shrek. Joke as we might about any of these properties but this is like stealing from the mob and telling the media you can't help doing it
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"Bad news, everybody. We are being sued by Sauron, and somehow there's also another Sauron. They're also working together"
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It feels like a bad thing to cheer on Disney and universal, but in this case they must cook
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Maybe you don't get to be a billionaire without being fundamentally joyless, so there is nothing that they care about sufficiently to do this?
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And apparently, they think the European bison might be the descendants of hybrids of (now-extinct) steppe bison and (now-extinct if you don't count cows) aurochs.
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This led me down a rabbit hole and at the end of it (so far), I learned that Europe has bison.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europea...
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This is definitely part of a general idea I’ve been rolling around for a while - people need to grow up
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In the AC Hotel, we got word from a staff member that the agents were staying here and questioning the workers—the workers that were cleaning their rooms, the workers that were making their food. They were questioning them and asking for their ID and in a very aggressive way.
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Astra is beautiful
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The fact that a hyphenated American isn't any less American than anybody else is literally the best thing about this stupid-ass country, the thing that most clearly makes it a redeemable project.
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Well, that adds some context. Lol.
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And then it said they transported stones 25km like THAT was supposed to be impressive.
I mean, sure, some of them are really big stones. It's impressive in a vacuum.
But comparatively? 25km is just across the way.