tumblr is like wading through everyone else’s garbage until you find something good and go “ah. this is good” and take it and display it in your own garbage pile
My wife is a super techie person and told me about something thay actually FIXED this problem for me.
There’s an app called IfThisThenThat(ITTT) and you can tell your phone to do all sorts of cool stuff, but the big one for me was that you can set it up so if you get a text with a key phrase(i think the default is “lost phone”) and only that key phrase, it turns on your volume and cranks it to max.
This has helped me so much, I hope it can help some of you.
I’ve seen a bunch of pics of Madara with short hair recently, and wanted to do my own take. For reasons. One is that I think it wouldn’t look too different from when he was a kid. Second… Imagine the reactions of anyone around if he decided to chop it off. ♡ ┏(＾0＾)┛
Memes and YouTube videos are *not* in its jurisdiction. Social media sites may *choose* to take down memes en masse, *pinning the blame on* the new policy, but that’s their evil, that’s a pretty common tactic that eurosceptic agents pull. In all likelihood, what will happen is things will get taken down and you’ll have to appeal to the EU *instead of* appealing to YouTube or Facebook or whatever the fuck.
Like. “Loads of people will lose their source of income!” Yeah! The social media giants *already do that to people!* They *already* discriminate arbitrarily and remove shit based on enigmatic algorithms, then take ages to listen to appeals! The EU is pissed at them for *relying on* algorithms that they never disclose! That’s what’s being regulated here!
This is not the first time this kind of thing has happened! It’s just the first time it’s happened to social media! And naturally, the social media companies are paying *a lot* of money to convince their users Article 13 will be the end of the world.
They don’t want to be regulated. They are not acting in good faith.
…come to think of it, who all actually took the time to read it over? To actually pick it apart for themselves, and understand what was really going on with it?
It’s all been one cyclical grapevine. Believing people who said this was a bad thing, spreading that idea in good faith, and not really taking the time to check the source material.
You’ll have to copy and paste this into your browser, but this’ll take you to the full text of Article 13.
“[A]uthors and performers often have a weak bargaining position in their contractual relationships, when licensing their rights. In addition, transparency on the revenues generated by the use of their works or performances often remains limited. This ultimately affects the remuneration of the authors and performers. This proposal includes measures to improve transparency and better balanced contractual relationships between authors and performers and those to whom they assign their rights.”
(Authors/performers = content creators. Users. Those to whom they assign their rights = the websites whose Terms & Conditions we literally legally sign.)
Before that, it mentions that it has identified three kinds of Internet content that should receive more protection than they currently do: Education, research, and preservation of cultural heritage.
The EU may talk old-fashioned, but they’re not stupid. “Preservation of cultural heritage” is what even the most ‘pointless’ memes fall under. (Memes aren’t made in a vacuum. They are *a new language for* culture. Europe sees a hell of a lot of that in practice.) And that’s not even getting at the memes that fall under education, or even research (think memes that compile vast amounts of information).
You’ll notice there are still some memes that would be a bit questionable here. They’re the ones that propagate hate speech, or advance political purposes. The EU is a *stickler* for those. Those will be the kinds of memes that any changes will most directly affect.
Like. I know people are afraid the EU will turn out to have the same kind of greed as American corporations do. But let me tell you: if that were the case, websites like youtube wouldn’t be so scared.
THIS IS ALSO IMPORTANT:
“Furthermore, the proposal will not affect retroactively any acts undertaken or rights acquired before the date of transposition. The transparency obligation contained in the proposal only aims at rebalancing contractual relationships between creators and their contractual counterparts while respecting contractual freedom.”
So any memes already on the Internet pre-Article 13 are *not affected*. I’ve seen the opposite being said a lot lately, and often not even by people who live in Europe?
And! Oh! Look at this!
“Access and availability of audiovisual works on video-on-demand platforms: A non-legislative option (Option 1), consisting in the organisation of a stakeholder dialogue on licensing issues, was not retained as it was deemed insufficient to address individual cases of blockages. The chosen option (Option 2) combines the organisation of a stakeholder dialogue with the obligation for Member States to set up a negotiation mechanism.”
In other words: the EU consulted the big-name corporations (like record companies) for their input, the corporations said “we should get to say if individual videos (like lyric videos) stay up or not.” The EU concluded that was not sufficient, and that instead each member state– each EU country– should have a specialised appeal process for individuals to contact if their content gets unfairly taken down.
So. Yet another common point I often see getting touted around turns out to be misleading.
And my favourite one so far, read it carefully:
“New technological developments have been carefully examined. The proposal includes several exceptions that aim at facilitating the use of copyright-protected content via new technologies. This proposal also includes measures to facilitate access to content, including via digital networks. Finally, it ensures a balanced bargaining position between all actors in the digital environment.”
Fans should be fine. If the proposal goes through, it would be easier to *access* the content we’re fans of. Cross-border region blocking is a thing the proposal addresses a lot, seeks to circumvent.
I’m gonna stop with this chain of reblogs for now. I need sleep.
Just. The EU aren’t out to get you. Not unless you’re a billionaire who’s found a way to avoid paying taxes. *That’s* who they’re out to get.
@deadcatwithaflamethrower and some more info. I personally have not done any research or reading on it, but these people have. Still plenty of room for people to concerned about loose wording that could be exploited, I think, but not as big a panic as some people make it out to be?
I think, with ANyTHING that speaks of regulating content on the internet, that its’ best to proceed with caution. But also reblogging so there is a counterpoint out there.
i know ive talked about this before but we literally have no reason not to bring the original gay flag made in the 70s by gilbert baker back to regular use!
the pink originally symbolized sex and the turquoise was for magic/art and it would just be really cool if we could bring both the stripes back into regular use again since there wasn’t any significance behind the removal of the stripes and we’re perfectly capable of mass producing flags with all the stripes again!
if anyone is interested, in 2017, shortly before he died, gilbert baker added a 9th stripe in lavender to represent diversity, partly in response to trump’s election. while i dont expect it to gain any kind of widespread usage, it is an interesting fact!
For the past 27 days, a small Protestant church in The Hague has been conducting round-the-clock religious services to protect an Armenian refugee family from deportation.
By law, police officers in The Netherlands are not allowed to enter places of worship during religious services. So, reverends from around the country have taken turns holding services at Bethel Church to prevent officials from arresting the Tamrazyan family, who have been in The Netherlands for nine years.
“By giving hospitality to this family, we could give them time and place to [demonstrate] to the secretary of state the … urgency of their situation,” Theo Hettema, chairman of the General Council of Protestant Ministers says.
The last report was 26 nov 2018, at which time the service was still going on and there hasn’t been news since, so it seems that right now (nov 28th, it’s 34th day), the service is still going on.
I don’t know that I’ve reblogged anything faster in my entire tumblr life.
I want to know the story behind this?
Like. Look at the movement of the water. The color. They’re not in a tank. That’s the motherfucking ocean. Or at least, a large closed off area in the ocean. The man in the video is on some sort of raft.
But those dolphins know the dude well enough to beach right next to him, and while I’m no expert in dolphin-ese, I know enough to make a pretty solid guess that those dolphins are trying to communicate with that clarinet (dolphins have their own languages! And I think the fast, lilting notes of the song combined with the clarinet’s natural sound mimics a dolphin’s clicks and chirps pretty well, all things considered)
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