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About This Blog
This is a personal blog. It's one part personal stuff, one part media that I'm into, and one part sociopolitical issues I care about.
Things on my mind lately include Battlestar Galactica, the fate of River Song, the challenges of traveling solo as a woman, and how to transcend misogynistic narratives in traditional Appalachian music.
Stuff I typically blog:
→ politics (American and international)
→ international relations
→ social justice (especially intersectional feminism)
→ language & linguistics
→ the Balkans
→ Palestine
→ gymnastics → personal stuff
→ Alison Krauss
→ fandom
This blog doubles as an Alison Krauss' boobs appreciation blog because for some reason, when you do a Google search for Alison's boobs, my blog is generally the first relevant result. I don't know how this happened, but I will accept it. If people are gonna be googling her boobs, better they find the blog of a fangirl expressing solidarity than that of some skeezy dude objectifying her.
If I ever disappear or get hacked, find me at iellaantilles.tumblr.com.
Adult Swim making an unholy amount of sense.
This can be applied to most other types of media piracy as well. Very insightful.
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NEVERMIND I FOUND A WAY TO GET IT
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAAA
You should see me right now, I’m laughing maniacally and withering into a tiny shriveled being of rage and glee.
OH MY GOD I JUST SAW THE PICS FROM THE SONGWRITERS GALA AND I AM IN A STATE.
THIS PICTURE COULD’VE BEEN TAKEN IN FUCKING 2004, LIKE. THE MAKEUP AND EVERYTHING AND YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL ABOUT 2004 ALISON. YOU KNOWWWW.
I’m just so glad no one else is in the office rn because I just made gasping sobby noises for like five minutes straight.
AND of all the pictures on Getty, of course THIS ONE isn’t available on WireImage so I can’t get it without a watermark, and just— if I can’t get this image without a watermark, I am about to go legit Rains of Castamere on Getty Images’ collective ass.
It looks like Getty Images has reversed their policy of offering unwatermarked images to people with free accounts.
Fuck corporations so fucking much. Seriously.
One of the things is we get ISPs to publicise their connection speeds – and when we launch in a territory the Bittorrent traffic drops as the Netflix traffic grows. So I think people do want a great experience and they want access – people are mostly honest. The best way to combat piracy isn’t legislatively or criminally but by giving good options. One of the side effects of growth of content is an expectation to have access to it. You can’t use the internet as a marketing vehicle and then not as a delivery vehicle.
Netflix’s Ted Sarandos talks Arrested Development, 4K and reviving old shows | Stuff magazine
Jesus, every single line in there could serve as an article headline in and of itself. This, right here, is almost a tl;dr of why Netflix is becoming the dominant player in television.
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…it’s almost like they KNOW WHAT THEY’RE DOING.
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Artsy Fart of the Day: The DRM Chair
This is the DRM chair, an art project and social commentary on the digital rights management (DRM) technology by Swiss interaction designer Thibault Brevet. As it is implied by the name, the chair has only a limited number of use before it self-destructs.
haha. neat.
Awesome.
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Message on mimeographed copies of lyrics distributed by Woody Guthrie to fans in the 1930s (via oracionessucias)
This is beautiful.
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This one goes out to all you Saula fans out there.
My instructor gave us a list of made-up words.
One of the words was “pawler.”
…CELTA doesn’t think “Pawler” is a word, you guys.
This is precisely what I was saying would happen and why I choose to not post copyrighted files for download.
Yesterday I posted a download of my personal live recording of Jerry Douglas performing “The Boxer” with Mumford & Sons in Nashville and Mediafire suspended my account for a violation due to materials related to Jerry Douglas.
I will work to rectify this matter, if at all possible, and I sincerely apologize for the terrible inconvenience.
Jfc I hate copyright so much.
I’m really sorry about this.
