It’s not that the money comes directly through Instagram, it’s that the artist grows their audience through Instagram. The benefit is the size of the potential audience pool.

A lot of time has to be spent marketing yourself, unfortunately. To find people who are willing to pay you for your art, you have to be present, you have to be visible. You could be the most talented artist in the world, but if nobody sees your work it won’t matter, you’ll die in obscurity, penniless.

but how will we sell you all the things you didn’t know you needed

This doesn’t work for artists who need to make a living. The art-buying audience is not on the platforms you are talking about.

If you’re not in the party you don’t count as people, therefore it’s OK to exploit you for the benefit of the people.

Party lines will be redrawn as necessary to ensure a constant supply of labor for the people. Unpaid, because communism or something.

Bluntly, the burden of proof is on the purveyors of the mass plagiarism machine to demonstrate that their mass plagiarism machine did not commit plagiarism, which will be difficult because the only thing the mass plagiarism machine is capable of is massive amounts of plagiarism.

Holy shit this article is fucking gold. Everyone should read it.

Is this the new Tide Pods?

Alternatively: Never tell the same lie twice.

Bleecker Street will open the film in select U.S. theaters Oct. 16 before expanding nationwide Oct. 23.

The burden is on you to provide evidence for your claims, at all times, especially when making a direct accusation against another person or persons. No one should ever have to ask for the evidence. Ever.

By Grabthar’s Hammer… what a burger…

It’s common for China to do.

The police operations are generally illegal in the host countries, but they’re “allowed” in the sense that most countries can’t afford to end their economic relationship with China.

She’ll be thoroughly clucked.

Right, so then why are they describing this as “correcting” the distortion, when in fact it is simply choosing a different version of distortion?

He had the backing of the French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, who said his ministry was going to stop using the Mercator map.

Hmm, use it for what, exactly? In the present, nobody is using these maps for navigation, and hopefully not for any serious geography study beyond say the history of cartography… so I guess mostly lower-level education purposes? That’s important, the way we teach children to think about the world certainly matters.

“Changing the map obviously doesn’t change the world. But correcting a representation that distorts it is already an act of truth,” he said.

The pedantic part of me wants to point out that every projection of a 3D object onto a 2D surface requires distortion, especially in a case like this where the entire surface area of the object is shown on a single unbroken plane. At some level, describing one projection as better than another is akin to saying that one way of drawing a cube on a sheet of paper is better than another. More important than picking a winner is having the discussion about the limitations of all forms of projection and how they affect our perceptions, in all subject areas.

If there is a real benefit to making a change like this, it’s in provoking those discussions.

Besides, we all know the Waterman Butterfly is superior:

Sci Fi rocks?

He wants to show her his pecker.

I could see this as a replacement for a highway interchange/cloverleaf. Are we sure it’s not intended for that?

As a replacement for a 4-way stoplight intersection, yeah this is nuts.

SPACESHIP!