vityanikiforova:

remember guys: pride month gives every lgbt+ person +10 in charisma but a +5 penalty in stealth

mitsouparker:

lctor:

As of July 4th 2018, the Internet as we know it might be dead for good. 

The European Parliament is passing a new Copyright Directive. 
Article 13 #CensorshipMachine will impose widespread censorship of all the content we share online. Art, fanfiction, parodies, remixes, mashups, memes, etc.. Anything that you do not hold the rights over will be taken down. 

Article 13 would force all online platforms to police and prevent the uploading of copyrighted content, or make people seek the correct licenses to post that content. Internet platforms hosting large amounts of user-uploaded content must monitor user behaviour and filter their contributions to identify and prevent copyright infringement. 

Such filters will be mandatory for platforms including YouTube, Facebook, Tumblr, Reddit and Instagram, but also much smaller websites. 

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This doesn’t just affect Europe. The content creators you love are going to be in hot water for sharing their art and writing with you online. Any and all content that doesn’t belong to us will be filtered. Even memes are at risk, as the person who took the original photo may want to file complaints against any platform that allows it to be used without permission. But it goes even further than that.

Last Tuesday (19th June 2018) a group of more than 70 people who have played important roles in building the internet and developing it (Tim Berners-Lee, Vincent Cerf, Jimmy Wales, Mitchell Baker…) into what it is today addressed an open letter to the members of the European Parliament:

“As creators ourselves, we share the concern that there should be a fair distribution of revenues from the online use of copyright works, that benefits creators, publishers, and platforms alike.

But Article 13 is not the right way to achieve this. By requiring Internet platforms to perform automatic filtering all of the content that their users upload, Article 13 takes an unprecedented step towards the transformation of the Internet from an open platform for sharing and innovation, into a tool for the automated surveillance and control of its users. […] The damage that this may do to the free and open Internet as we know it is hard to predict, but in our opinions could be substantial.”

Here is the original Article 13. It’s even scarier. / Link 2 

Here is how to contact your MEPs. 

Here is a full list of everything that will be affected.

Europe is facing a huge problem, and unlike with Net Neutrality, the world doesn’t seem to care. 

THERE’S A PETITION!!! 

https://www.change.org/p/stoppt-die-zensurmaschine-rettet-das-internet-uploadfilter

FOR ALL LANGUAGES/COUNTRIES

SHARE THIS LIKE WE SHARED THE POSTS ABOUT NET NEUTRALITY!!!!!!!

kramergate:

on our way to the expo this morning we were driving through a junky little town an hour or so away from home and my mom passively said “oh, mike wazowski lives here” and for one uttersly devastating, emotionally obliterating moment i forgot that my mom formerly worked with a guy with the same name as the small green monsters inc characters

peterquillsuggestion:

reblog to be yeeted into deep space

elfwreck:

curriebelle:

Watsonian response: Ocean’s 8 has a smaller cast than Ocean’s 11 because they’re pulling a different heist that requires fewer people.

Doylist response: Ocean’s 8 has a smaller cast than Ocean’s 11 to differentiate the movies from each other.

Critical Feminist response: Ocean’s 8 has a smaller cast because they couldn’t think of eleven different jobs women could do.

The Truth: Ocean’s 8 is true to life because women have to pull off the same shit as men with 70% of the resources.

Crone response: Everyone knows 27% of the men in any organization are just dead weight that the rest are too cowardly to kick out.