The Committee on Rules is meeting at 1600 EST on 18 Nov 2024. The agenda includes HR 9495.
If this bill passes, the Secretary of the Treasury would have the power to strip any non-profit group of it's tax-exempt status with no due process.
If you are part of the fandom community and you are in America, please contact your reps and ask them to vote NO on HR 9495.
You know you're trash when deerphos. (Sorry for poor photo quality my scanner is broken)
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We have a temporal job that helped us afford groceries this week and pay off the debt/tab we had at the corner store.
We still need help paying off debts, getting medication and keeping my healthcare another month.
Still offering whatever kind of trinket you want me to make through my Kofi.
We still need help getting rid of the mold but at least we don't have a hole on the roof, thanks to you all's support!!
Had to use the last funds to get emergency meds full price and my MiL's uhh faja, thing, forgot the damn word, without discount.
Have until the 17th for my healthcare.
PLEASE HELP SHARING, ANYTHING HELPS!!!
We have 30 days until the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) laws are rescinded. This is the 50-year bedrock of American conservation. Normally, these actions take years but the administration has provided 30 days for public comment gutting clean water and clean air. Drop what you’re doing, before you make any more calls or read any more social media posts, please populate the Federal Register with dissent.
A. Go to https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/02/25/2025-03014/removal-of-national-environmental-policy-act-implementing-regulations
B. Click on the green rectangle in the upper right corner ("SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT") .
C. Fill in your comment, and info at the bottom, and SUBMIT COMMENT.
Remember this guy? I had a dream last night I was put in charge of the Christmas livestream when it went down (and then wept real tears when I woke up), and Nilesy was there like "oh, I'll start up minecraft for ya" and then sat and gave encouraging hand signals. I found a diamond sword in a deep cave, and people actually enjoyed my commentary. It was awesome ;0;
[S] Forgive
Younger dork has some more terrible fan art that happened a while ago in various classes Also in pen But that isn't really an excuse I'm actually just terrible It's still minecraft tho 1-Old ES! He's different now, but I still felt like drawing his old self. 2-Chelly, and I couldn't figure out how lower halves work 3-Simmon, LOWER HALVES WHY but at least the hands are ok 4-Endy, and this is a drawing of his older self that I felt like drawing. IKNOWITWASANADDICTIONBUTISTILLFINDTHISDRAWINGCUTEOK??? I was wayyyy too embarrassed to try and submit them to them myself, but at least nobody will find my terrible art here <3
What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
This description used to have the word casserole in it. Now that I've mentioned that, it still does. Anyway I do art, ask box is always open, etc etc.
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