Finally Started Updating My Doctor Who Blog Again.
Finally started updating my Doctor Who blog again.
11 months late isn't that bad, right?
More Posts from Jjgaut and Others
Natalie Portman is Asian. She was born in Jerusalem, to Jewish parents. Two of her great-grandparents died at Auschwitz
She should still be listed.
No asian woman has ever won “best actress” from the academy awards.
Just nominated. Once. In 1935.
If there are no leading roles “written” for asian women, that is still a problem.
A leading role doesn’t have to be written to be asian. Or black. Or any other race. A POC can just be a person, you know. A person in a leading role.
And I’m tired of real life POC people being played by white actors, taking that opportunity away from POC actors and actresses.
The wiki page used to say “natalie portman” as a winner. Which has since been corrected. Natalie Portman is a wonderful person and amazing actress, but she isn’t asian. I don’t know why she was put there.
I’m sorry friends, but “just google it” is no longer viable advice. What are we even telling people to do anymore, go try to google useful info and the first three pages are just ads for products that might be the exact opposite of what the person is trying to find but The Algorithm thinks the words are related enough? And if it’s not ads it’s just sponsored websites filled with listicles, just pages and pages of “TOP FIFTEEN [thing you googled] IMAGINED AS DISNEY PRINCESSES” like… what are we even doing anymore, google? I can no longer use you as shorthand for people doing real and actual helpful research on their own.
My review of John Krasinski’s spectacular upcoming horror film.
Paizo, AI Art, and Copyright
So you may have seen that Paizo, the (unionized) tabletop roleplaying company behind Pathfinder, has decided to ban AI art and writing from both its own products and its community-created marketplaces. As you might expect, this has caused a certain amount of righteous indignation among pro-AI tech bro types.
I think one thing that the tech bros who are screaming about Luddites and the inevitability of market forces and blah blah are completely ignoring is that we’re not talking about personal use of AI art and text - we’re talking about commercial uses of AI art and text. That means what really matters here is contracts and copyrights.
In case you haven’t heard, it is very well-settled law that art produced by non-humans cannot be copyrighted. More specifically, the U.S Copyright Office has repeatedly ruled that AI-generated pictures and comic book art cannot be copyrighted.
No matter how much you say that you “created” something by typing into a search bar and hit a button over and over again, if you don’t own the copyright to a piece of art, you can’t sell it because you don’t actually own it. Which means that Paizo isn’t going to buy it, because they can’t purchase the copyright to it as part of the contract, which means they can’t sell any products that use it.
Dude, you're *rocking* that frog costume
Oh no, was that too strong, oh no *hides in hole*
you look great in that frog costume
please fucking vote
My review of Black Panther -- and why it’s the finest film of the MCU.
Okay I know that Nick Cage is the Internet’s favorite movie lunatic but we really need to talk about Sam Neill
Like, sure, he’s more simmery-crazy than explody-face crazy but this motherfucker kook it up with the best of them.
Like, if all you know him from is Jurassic Park, just take the SIX INCH RETRACTABLE CLAW scene, multiply it by a thousand, and you get the rest of his career.
Motherfucker was in a movie with Isabelle Adjani (The Queen of the movie lunatics) where she contorts herself into a miscarriage that makes her bleed from the ears and gives birth to a demon-fetus-doppelganger-monster and held his own.
He was scarier than any of the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park…
Then there is this shit:
(Seriously, if you ever feel like watching the Omen series, you can skip Omen II and just go to Omen III because Sam motherfucking Neill. If you really have to know about Omen II — there is a bowl cut and some birds. That’s about it.)
The guy makes Malcolm McDowell look like Morgan Freeman.
(I just love how fucking pleased with himself he is)
In conclusion Sam Neill is an underrated mad genius thank you for coming to my TED talk.
Who are the Anti-Stratfordians?
People who think Shakespeare wasn’t actually Shakespeare, but that ‘Shakespeare’ was a secret pseudonym for someone more important and better educated, like the Earl of Oxford.
See also: imbeciles.
