J.K. Rowling also writes under a pen name of "Robert Galbraith", publishing over half a dozen titles under that name, most of which have TV adaptations.
Robert Galbraith Heath was the American Psychiatrist who pioneered Gay Conversion Therapy to convert homosexuals through electro-shock therapy.
@ned@Wen@toxomat 🤔 So say, a trans or nonbinary person were to write a novel under an assumed name. What's to protect them from having their real name leaked, if a shitty lawyer can just blab like that with no consequences?
I've been monitoring the ups and downs of rebuilding subscriptions post-Amazon for the magazines that have been impacted. Unsurprisingly, it turns out that survival depends on us being more shameless. So...
@datarama@mcc I don't see how it would be up in the air. Humans feed that data into AI and use the churned remains so it's still a human violating the copyright.
@mcc And no one accepts that because of what I'm saying. A rose by any other name would smell as sweet. People need to start recognizing that fact. That's the only way things will change.
#Biden “Takes Aim at #Musk’s SpaceX’s Tax-Free Ride in American Airspace
President Biden wants companies that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes into a federal fund that finances the work of air traffic controllers.”
@Snowshadow@GottaLaff@BernieDoesIt TBH that is why I am considering just not voting this election. If the only opposition to a fascist is someone who will ultimately bend to one in the face of actually having to take responsibility and use force otherwise, then either way we'll have fascists running things.
@inquiline The rest of the world, including she, is figuring out what the right already believed back when covid first started: that life can't just stop because of some disaster.
At least that's what I want to say. The truth is that the husband is the one who stands to lose the most because of this, and for the wife to get what she wants, his rights would have to be violated.
LISTEN: Don’t lose the plot. Today’s #SCOTUS decision in the Sec 3 case is not just about Trump, it’s also insulates congressional insurrectionists. More alarming is that the concurring justices are telling us in stark terms what is going on with the conservatives on the Court. And it may be worse than we thought.
@flexghost They're learning the language of sexual assault victims and are exploiting it to get their way like any salesgoon worth their salt. And I used to do salesgoon work, so I know how they are.
What if our accounts had a hidden "likely mansplainer" score based on how big of a portion our replies are to people who don't follow us back, and then we added a setting to hide notifications from accounts that have this score above certain level? 🤔
So was there a study over the last couple months showing evidence that the strength of dark energy is not consistently isotropic/homogeneous in space and time?
And if this study happened… how reliable/definitive is it?
I saw a popular press article that seemed to be saying this, but it was a popular press article and those mangle physics studies all the time.
@mcc I don't see why it would require NASA getting knocked down a peg. If anything, it's probably evidence of another universe or something outside of our universe pulling on our own. That would go a loooooong way toward explaining why the various pushing and pulling we're seeing is inconsistent.
Facebook has certainly become a dumpster of #ai generated ”science” groups that are just honeypots for tinfoil sites.
However, these operators fool the algorithm into thinking it’s important precisely by putting on the front lies that the science-minded will want to correct, but enough will support because it fits their confirmation bias. This promotes a fight.
It’s like an industry repeating the pattern of antivaxx groups in mid 2010’s. 🤦♂️
I live in america on half the poverty line. I'm pretty poor by any measure. When i fry eggs for myself, i usually fry four. I know that's an absurd luxury by the standards of most people in history, but financially it's silly for me to ration eggs.
"A man carrying his child's body parts in bags, a child blown to pieces and hanging from a wall, starving humans mown down as they get food aid, a person tied down and flattened by a tank. I dread to think what we haven't seen. There is no language to adequately describe this evil." - Alex Turrall
So I want to leave .social for a better server that doesn't federate with Threads, but the ones on the fedipact website either actually do federate with Threads anyway (looking at you mas.to) or they're invite-only. :(
@tokyo_0@trumpet I signed up for an account there and the other users warned me that's what was going on. I deleted my mas.to account promptly afterwards. 🤷