The United States has the most comprehensive social safetynet and system of redress on Earth.

…exclusively for the tiny sliver of the population that already owns everything and controls our government through institutionally legalized bribery.

As has happened for all of human history, we have devolved back to the golden rule: those with all the gold make the rules, and surprise surprise, the rules say they can’t lose and you can’t win.

Identity theft is not a joke

You appreciate the transcription because you’re blind.

I appreciate it, because kbin expands images inelegantly.

We are not the same!

I actually don’t understand the need for this, don’t images have an alt tag where you can put the image transcription?

Is it necessary to put it in the text of the post as well? (Aside from your kbin UI issues)

The way kbin handles images is really annoying right now. It’s definitely something the developers need to improve.

Did you see the little photo icon at the bottom of the post preview?

That will expand the image (so you don’t have to open the post).

I am Lucy Liu. Give me your spines.

Lol!

Me neither but I’ll do an ignorant take and invite someone more knowledgeable to correct me: The tech to make films without human actors is available, and Hollywood studios think that they have unlimited rights forever to the digital likenesses of the actors they have contracts with. Which is pretty fucking rich from the same corporations that think we should pay for the same film on dvd, on blu ray, on blu ray in a different region, on the apple store, on the play store, and reserve the right to revoke our access to any of these where possible.

And the ad was one of their anti piracy ads (“you wouldn’t download a car”), from the time where they made the nonsense claim that every pirate download was equal to lost revenue, as they tried to erode Internet privacy and bankrupt people who didn’t have enough money to defend themselves in court.

Studios want to hire actors for a single day’s pay then use their image in whatever “AI” generated horrors they feel like forever

The meme refers to the following:

Back then™ actors would mostly get contracts that contain residuals this recurring money assured a steady cash flow for actors and actresses throughout and even after their careers.

But nowadays, the pay is worse (because inflation) and most contracts even for well known actors/actresses don’t include residuals.

Sure, but in the case of a show dealing with the question of what would happen if the general public could download celebrities despite the non-consent of the celebrities involved, literally Futurama did it.

Holding onto anger is drinking poison expecting the other person to die.

Spez is garbage, and yes never participate in whatever he’s selling, but he isn’t worth your anguish. He doesn’t know you and he wouldn’t care about your anger if he did.

Damn dude, how many apartments is he taking up in your head?

It’s a Tumblr post.

On Tumblr you can buy two blue checkmarks for a one time payment of $7.99. Much better value than that Twitter stuff.

tumblr made fun of Twitter, you can have like a dozen checkmarks

Can screen readers read pictures correctly?

Before we get there, it is wise to re-examine what we lose when everything is commodified. You might not mean to sound anti-woman, but you do sound anti-woman, anti-personhood even, because what you’re saying is that a person’s body (regardless of gender and sex) and likeness can be commodified without the person’s consent, or even knowledge that it is happening. You might be interested in reading Michael J. Sandel’s “What Money Can’t Buy” and examine your fantasy from an economic-political point of view.

Companies would be happy to sell it if that is profitable. But we aren’t prepared for that. Imagine what hole would create a working and accessible sim where you can just copy a person into a porn. Being spammed with a livestream of anon doing your underaged children or a dead grandmother is not that far from now. One another Pandora’s box.

While TERFs are mad at transwomen for “replacing woman”, AI pretty much could replace them, especially in the arts. Won’t be very good, but would be good for whatever theocratic fascist governance, that see problem with not all women being relegated to be incubators.