I’ve posted this before but it’s worth reblogging!
Just a reminder - if you’re drawing a team superhero book and more than one of your characters has the same build YOU’RE DOING IT ALL WRONG
Always reblog
This is excellent.
This always makes me a little angry because a lot of those numbers for the women are still fudged to make them lighter than they are. I was 5 8′’ and skeletal looking, nothing but bone and a little muscle and still weighed 134 lbs.
reminder: you can start over at anytime. your day is not ruined. your world is not over. take a deep breath. start over.
2018 is the year we forcibly collectivize JSTOR
morally correct but historically incorrect, since as a matter of fact scihub was founded in 2011
until scihub has articles on the intersection of Brecht, feminist theory and chinese operas ill be waiting outside jstor’s offices with a molotov cocktail in one hand and my burning desire to read about obscure theatrical history in the other
hi can somebody please translate this into regular street english for me please? i feel like im having a stroke reading this
JSTOR is a commercial archive of scholarly papers, and has many (though not all) scientific journals. Professors (mostly, but in principle it could be anyone) of various disciplines (e.g. Brecht, feminist theory, chinese operas, organic chemistry) write these papers, which is sort of like posting, except it takes much longer because moderation is much stricter, and if you don’t get enough reblogs you die. If you have a university affiliation as student or faculty, you probably have access to a JSTOR subscription.
If you don’t, you can read most of their articles online. This is a policy that JSTOR adopted after bad press and the apprearance of free alternatives - young activist Aaron Swartz downloaded their entire archive for it to be freely distributed to the internet (much as you would download a movie), for which they tried to throw the book at him, leading to his suicide. JSTOR was angry about this because it gets money by charging people (mostly universities) to view its content.
Sci-hub is a site that breaks (some countries’) copyright laws to make files freely available, like Pirate Bay but for science and the humanities. A young scholar, Alexandra Elkabyan, set it up on many of the same principles that inspired Swartz - that scientific findings and scholarship should be publicly available. Just about everything is on SciHub, because there are always people motivated to make the findings of their fields available, just like there’s always someone who wants to distribute the latest Game of Thrones right after it airs, even though HBO doesn’t like this.
The easiest way to use scihub is to use Google Scholar, which is Google for scholarly papers like these, to search for subjects you are interested in, and then to paste in the title or more reliably DOI number (which is a purely technical number that most papers have, sort of like their social security number) into scihub, which will typically get you the pdf of the paper. There’s also Book4You, which is similar, but for books.
Most of the papers you find through this will not be this will not be accessible from common language, which is partially a result of scholars needing specialized terms for new ideas they’ve developed, partially because of how any group of people starts using words distinctly, and partially because they’re afraid that other people will think they’re stupid. But reading a wikipedia page on the subject will often make things a little (if not always a lot) clearer.
(Hopefully this answer was itself written clearly!)
To explain a little further why some people feel like all these texts should be freely available: many researchers (people who write these papers) work in universities or other formal research organisations and their work is often at least partially funded by government money in form of grants that they have to apply for.
So the idea is a little bit offensive to some, that you, a Tax Payer, pay for research to be done through your taxes, but some commercial entity then gets all the rights to the results and you have to pay through the nose to read the stuff – when you paid to have it made in the first place! And when it’s put like that, well, hell yes it sounds like bullshit!
The Federal Communications Commission’s decision last week to repeal net neutrality was a major blow to internet freedom, but it’s only the first in a long line of actions that the FCC will take to tell itself that America’s broadband situation is better than it actually is. Up next: redefining high speed wired internet to include cell phone service. Because, according to FCC chair Ajit Pai, that’s totally the same thing.
This idea to reclassify smartphone data as broadband was first proposed in August, but with the net neutrality repeal out of the way, the FCC is expected to vote on the proposal by February 3. Currently, the FCC defines broadband connection as 25Mbps download speeds and 3Mbps upload speeds minimum. The new proposal would keep these minimums in place for fixed wireline broadband but also expand the definition to include cell phone data coverage.
This would not only camouflage many of the communities in the US with no access to the internet, but could prevent them from getting necessary funding to build that access. Cell service is often slower, more expensive, and comes with data caps, and even tethering a computer to a phone for internet isn’t a long-term solution, especially for families with multiple people trying to log on at once to do homework, or work, or watch Netflix.
“It seems antithetical to all the other efforts we’re doing,” said Deb Socia, the executive director of Next Century Cities, a coalition of municipalities aimed at expanding local broadband access. “I spent a good part of my life as a teacher and a principal. If I had a classroom full of children that included a lot of failing students, I wouldn’t change my standards [to increase the number of passing grades,] I’d change the intervention.”
Though the process to change these definitions is not as formal as what was required to roll back net neutrality rules, there was still an opportunity for groups to comment this summer, and if there’s enough public backlash, it could potentially meet a different fate. Like net neutrality, it ultimately just comes down to the FCC to make the decision, but groups like Next Century Cities are hoping to hold the agency’s feet to the fire in the meantime.
In January, the group is launching a campaign called #MobileOnly, challenging people to spend one day in the month using only their cell phone data for internet access—no laptops, no computers, and no Wi-Fi. It’s a challenge that’s so unappealing I refuse to even entertain the idea, but it’s one that millions of Americans will be left with as an only option if these broadband definitions are changed. Socia herself will be doing the challenge, as will the two Democrat commissioners on the FCC, Mignon Clyburn and Jessica Rosenworcel.
“Promoting deployment of mobile broadband services alone is not sufficient to bridge digital divides in underserved rural and urban communities,” Clyburn said in a press release for the campaign. “By standing together through this movement, we will demonstrate why it is so
essential for all Americans to have access to a robust fixed broadband connection.”
Net Neutrality was first. Canada came after.
Our phones are next.
Nolite te Bastardes Corborundorum.
excuse me.
my
phone
too?
No amount of backlash will change their minds, we need to jump on our reps to fight it.
We also need to keep fighting them, I see much less coverage which is what they want.
At this point I think maybe it’s time to dismantle the FCC since they don’t care about the American people
Reblogging for awareness but also reblogging for the furby.
If other progressives are on the fence about running for senate or other local areas this upcoming cycle please do speak up to others, We need representation like decades ago.
Turning anarchist concepts into a simple meme format and then spreading them through anarchist social media is actually helpful and if there’s nothing else you can do that’s still good.
Make sure to link to more substantial sources of information somehow. Making images from anarchist quotes is a good place to start if you have no other ideas.
This is the political poster of the modern day, but don’t be afraid to step outside of tradition or to otherwise experiment. The worst thing that could happen is that it doesn’t get saved and circulated by anyone.
Plug into anarchist meme reddits, facebook groups, and discord chats to share. They’ll often end up on facebook pages, circulating through chats and imageboards, reposted to tumblr and facebook, or making their way around groups.
Quantity is more important than quality here. Lots of content is better than a little.
This being said, if you can produce a podcast or video material this is another and often more effective propagandizing device.
But really don’t worry about “not doing enough” or having tasks that seem unimportant but that are within your means to accomplish. We need people doing all kinds of things if we intend to break through to a normal position in politics. To where people say “oh yeah the anarchists” and don’t have heart attacks at mention of us.
Doing what you can is better than doing nothing.
If you wanted you could even form an anarchist meme squad to design and circulate memes together.
Here’s a very simple organizational infrastructure.
The Discord chat would need just 3 channels, one for general discussion, one for posting memes, and a last for identifying places to repost.
Optionally, the group can manage its own facebook page.
Recruit friends and people you see making memes in their free time.
Additional useful thing about a crew is that you can boost each other’s content in groups and boards by thumbing it up.
Also, always verbally encourage people to share. Part of the point is to get these seen by non-anarchists and on someone’s personal FB wall is where that’s most likely to happen.
