#collaborative initiatives

[otherworldlyinfo]

Navigating the Copyright Maze in the Age of AI

The Challenge of AI RepurposingThe BBC’s Stance: Safeguarding the Public InterestChallenges in Monetization: Controlling the UncontrollableStriking a Balance: Structured and Sustainable ApproachesExploring Possible SolutionsConclusion In a significant move reflecting the growing concerns surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and content usage, the BBC has blocked access to its material for…

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#Artificial intelligence #BBC #BBC Statement #ChatGPT #Collaborative Initiatives #Content Protection #Content Providers #Copyright Concerns #Data Scraping #Digital Rights Management #Director of Nations #Gen AI Models #Guidelines and Regulations #License Fee Payers #Licensing Agreements #Monetization Strategies #Navigating Copyright in AI Era #Privacy Issues #Public Interest #Repurposing Content #Responsible AI Usage #Responsible Innovatio #Rhodri Talfan Davies #Structured and Sustainable Approaches #Technological Safeguards #Technology Companies #Watermarking

[livingwellnessblog]

California's Homelessness Crisis: Addressing the Tragedy of Unhoused Individuals and Mental Health Reform

In the heart of California, where dreams are often synonymous with palm-lined streets and golden sunsets, there exists a shadowed reality that has long eluded the postcard image – the homelessness crisis. The scale of this epidemic is staggering, with tho

In the heart of California, where dreams are often synonymous with palm-lined streets and golden sunsets, there exists a shadowed reality that has long eluded the postcard image – the homelessness crisis. The scale of this epidemic is staggering, with thousands of vulnerable individuals left to weather the harshness of the streets each night. California’s Homelessness Crisis and Mental Health…

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#access to mental health services #affordable housing #art therapy #brain health therapies #California #collaborative initiatives #compassionate care #compassionate housing #comprehensive reform #deinstitutionalization #economic disparities #economic impact #equestrian therapy #extracurricular activities #healthcare costs #healthcare infrastructure #healthcare strain #hidden healthcare costs #homeless healthcare #homeless individuals #homeless patients #homeless population #homelessness #homelessness epidemic #housing crisis #housing initiatives #humanitarian crisis #institutional settings #job training #Lanterman-Petris-Short Act

[inkskinned]

glory be to the topsoil. to the worms. to the private church of mushrooms. what makes for a better angel than the quiet promise of decomposition - that thankless, endless task. returning to the earth: this is a final prayer.

you said to me - we understand so much of history through the lens of how each society handled death. i have been thinking about the funeral industry. about embalming. how the devil is supposed to be almost-human, charming. i was raised on teflon pans. the poison in my blood came from good intentions; sprinkled over pancakes and scrambled eggs. will those particles go, too, when i go?

i keep thinking about how many cultures personify death as being gentle. as being a friend. as being kind-of-beautiful. an outstretched hand. oh, we scowl so much at carrion birds; but they make their nests by the worship of a carcass. something about that feels beautiful to me.

i am often scared. i understand why some people seek immortality, even if it's not something i desire. i spend a lot of time worrying about coffins. i spend a lot of time thinking about how if they dug me up, my bones would tell very little about my soft spots. so many of my friends say - i just want to be a tree. i want to find a quiet space and go home. the other day, we got the bill from the funeral home, and i just stood there, staring. this is death?

you said: it's learning backwards. from how a society approaches death, we might learn how they celebrate life. i worry about what that means, sometimes. about what others will think about us. divorced from our contexts, maybe alien archivists will have a fondness for our tendency to call death sleep. maybe they will write essays titled towards the light: an analysis on how some sects of humanity worshipped solely facing east.

oh, there's so much about my life that won't survive. especially these days. there's so little that lasts in-the-same-shape. oh, if the universe is kind - i want them to know that we loved moss. that we loved lichen. that even decay could be beautiful for us; the little warm space of mulch. how i will go home, one day, in the body of a bird. in a worm. in a leaf.

how when we lay a body in the ground, we say: be at peace.

oh, to go to sleep so gracefully. when i go i want to leave no mark. i want the dirt to take me. // r.i.d & a.b

#spilled ink #@cryptidfucky #this is probably the right time after 10 years of being on this site #to tell u all that i have 5 names actually #bc im hispanic #and i COULD have used my other initials #which would have been RIP #and the fact i didn't is like. i mean like . where's my award #edit in the tags: i don't know anything about anything. ask alex #i collaborated with them here meaning #alex said a bunch of cool shit and i just stood there like :o

[inamagicalhallucination]

good morning, one day dazai comes to his apartment and sees a wrapped package from the ada and opens it to a collage of pics of him and his friends - even the one at bar lupin and a picture of oda in general and maybe even one w/ chuuya - him and atsushi at a photo booth after atsushi asked what it was, him and ranpo playing chess, him and junichiro playing video games, him out drinking with the older ada members, him and kunikida being him and kunikida, and more - with the words "proof that dazai osamu is human" carved into the frame

#sits in me head rent free #initially i liked to imagine that atsushi gave it to him #but then i decided that all of the ada would collaborate #like maybe it can be atsushi's idea that he brings up to ranpo and kunikida but then it evolves and all the ada members are bringing #pictures and memories #theyre reaching out to ango and chuuya and yeah #dazai #bungou stray dogs dazai #dazai osamu #bsd dazai #dazai bsd #ada as family #ada dazai #the ada #dazai and the ada #armed detective agency as family #armed detective agency #the armed detective agency

[palms-upturned]

For US unions like the UAW — which has thousands of members in weapons factories making the bombs, missiles, and aircraft used by Israel, as well in university departments doing research linked to the Israeli military — the Palestinian trade union call to action is particularly relevant. When the UAW’s national leadership came out in support of a cease-fire on December 1, they also voted to establish a “Divestment and Just Transition Working Group.” The stated purpose of the working group is to study the UAW’s own economic ties to Israel and explore ways to convert war-related industries to production for peaceful purposes while ensuring a just transition for weapons workers.

Members of UAW Labor for Palestine say they have started making visits to a Colt factory in Connecticut, which holds a contract to supply rifles to the Israeli military, to talk with their fellow union members about Palestine, a cease-fire, and a just transition. They want to see the union’s leadership support such organizing activity.

“If UAW leaders decided to, they could, tomorrow, form a national organizing campaign to educate and mobilize rank-and-file towards the UAW’s own ceasefire and just transition call,” UAW Labor for Palestine members said in a statement. “They could hold weapons shop town halls in every region; they could connect their small cadre of volunteer organizers — like us — to the people we are so keen to organize with; they could even send some of their staff to help with this work.”

On January 21, the membership of UAW Local 551, which represents 4,600 autoworkers at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant (who were part of last year’s historic stand-up strike) endorsed the Palestinian trade unions’ call to not cooperate in the production and transportation of arms for Israel. Ten days later, UAW Locals 2865 and 5810, representing around forty-seven thousand academic workers at the University of California, passed a measure urging the union’s national leaders to ensure that the envisioned Divestment and Just Transition Working Group “has the needed resources to execute its mission, and that Palestinian, Arab and Muslim workers whose communities are disproportionately affected by U.S.-backed wars are well-represented on the committee.”

Members of UAW Locals 2865 and 5810 at UC Santa Cruz’s Astronomy Department have pledged to withhold any labor that supports militarism and to refuse research collaboration with military institutions and arms companies. In December, unionized academic workers from multiple universities formed Researchers Against War (RAW) to expose and cut ties between their research and warfare, and to organize in their labs and departments for more transparency about where the funding for their work comes from and more control over what their labor is used for. RAW, which was formed after a series of discussions by union members first convened by US Labor Against Racism and War last fall, hosted a national teach-in and planning meeting on February 12.

Meanwhile, public sector workers in New York City have begun their own campaign to divest their pension money from Israel. On January 25, rank-and-file members of AFSCME District Council (DC) 37 launched a petition calling on the New York City Employees’ Retirement System to divest the $115 million it holds in Israeli securities. The investments include $30 million in bonds that directly fund the Israeli military and its activities. “As rank-and-file members of DC 37 who contribute to and benefit from the New York City Employees’ Retirement System and care about the lives of working people everywhere, we refuse to support the Israeli government and the corporations that extract profit from the killing of innocent civilians,” the petition states.

In an election year when President Joe Biden and other Democratic candidates will depend heavily on organized labor for donations and especially get-out-the-vote efforts, rank and filers are also trying to push their unions to exert leverage on the president by getting him to firmly stand against the ongoing massacre in Gaza. NEA members with Educators for Palestine are calling on their union’s leaders to withdraw their support for Biden’s reelection campaign until he stops “sending military funding, equipment, and intelligence to Israel,” marching from AFT headquarters to NEA headquarters in Washington, DC on February 10 to assert their demand. Similarly, after the UAW International Executive Board endorsed Biden last month — a decision that sparked intense division within the union — UAW Labor for Palestine is demanding the endorsement be revoked “until [Biden] calls for a permanent ceasefire and stops sending weapons to Israel.”

#palestine #free palestine #labor #union strong #recommend reading the whole article bc as the author points out #us labor has had a long history of collaborating with israel and imperialist projects in general #pressure to stop the genocide is not going to come from union leadership #it’s coming from rank and files who are organizing their own initiatives and putting the heat on their leadership #uaw’s divestment and just transition group is intriguing to me bc it sets a precedent to pressure other machinist unions to follow #and bc part of their efforts involves building solidarity with palestine among rank and files nationwide

[jewishcissiekj]

"Star Wars should follow George Lucas's vision" Wrong!

also. Remember when they brought him on set for Mando all excited to show him they gave Boba the weapon he had in the holiday special animated segment only to get slapped in the face when Lucas said he was not involved with that. so fucking funny

#star wars #or write the original trilogy for that matter #star wars had always been about so much more than him #about collaboration of creators #george just had the initial idea who cares about him after that #i'll take it from here thanks #and fun fact! he co-created a 'female boba fett' for the prequels #who didn't flop exactly but he handled her badly nd she definitely didn't get to boba's level of popularity and hype #it's aurra i am talking about aurra she was conceived as babe fett #george lucas #sw #boba fett #he also came up with some of the worst ideas of tcw #so

[rinshairandthoughts]

This is my entry/contribution to the Inu-Spiration event 2023!

I was paired up with the amazing @sereia1313 for the Reverse Bang, which has been an amazing experience. ♥

This goes with the fic Tethered on AO3. ♥

#Inuspiration #Inu-Spiration #Inuspiration 5: a Halloween Reverse Bang #SessKag #Artist Author Collaborations #Fanart #RinArt #This was both very fun #and a little frustrating initially #but I am glad I stuck with it #It was such a fun event to be part of

[hearty-an0n]

idc if he desgined it maybe everyone else should’ve taken the INITIATIVE!!! should’ve shown some HEART FOR THE EVENT!!!!

#<3 #asg lb #connor mcdavid gets all E’s on the learning skills part of his report card #wonderful initiative. great collaboration with the league. need i even speak of the organization

[lucalicatteart]

Poll adventure (paventure? lol) Day 15: read the small story tidbit below the poll for more details, OR just vote based on initial impression

(✦ see past poll results + further information HERE (link) ✦)

Yesterday's poll decided that The Adventurer should purchase some new shoes for himself while he's in the city...

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It costs quite a bit of coin, but in the end he decides that having a new sturdy pair of boots will serve him well on his travels. After he's done in the shop, he rushes back to the local inn before nightfall, eventually settling into a somewhat restless sleep..

The next morning, he orders some cheap vegetable stew from a food stall, then lounges in a park as he has his breakfast, watching the squirrels weave through flowering trees and birds pecking about in the dewy grass.. When finished with his meal (and sufficiently recovered from the emotional turmoil of burning his tongue on the soup), he quickly sells his old pair of shoes to a sketchy pawn shop before finally getting back to his journey...

By his calculations, if he he walks all day, it should only be two more sleeps before he gets to his destination, so he sets out to travel as efficiently as possible. He doesn't have the money to rent a cart, or the skill to ride a borrowed horse, but, he does have some fancy new walking shoes and a renewed sense of purpose. No more meandering through fields looking for flowers, napping in the shade, or scanning the ground for cool rocks.. He's going to focus this time!

......After a few hours, he comes across a broken down carriage in the middle of the road, with few people surrounding it, seemingly stuck trying to repair a wheel or something. It's hard to discern from afar..

Maybe if he helps them, he could get a free ride.. or some coins.. or make a new lifelong friend! Who knows? Possibilities flood his mind, this is what adventuring is all about! Wandering into interesting situations and making the most out of them!! .. But, then he recalls his previous oath.. he's supposed to focus today and not allow himself to sidetracked.. And who says he has the skills to help anyway? It could always just be a waste of time... Hmm...

What should he do?

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Additional Information

the adventurer's current main quest: follow his map to reach the abandoned castle ruins and see the rare animal specialist about the mysterious egg he has

#paventure posting #poll #polls #choose your own adventure #GHWOOPPPs yeah it's been an entire month basically since the last one ghj.. I said I was trying to get back on schedule.. idk what happened #I guess I initially thought that april would be a less busy month but then it actually ended up being MORE busy with a ton of appointments #and stuff so then I had like no time. on top of trying to get a lot of other stuff done... so.. eughhh #I DO STILL want to keepon track of this more though. I want to at least get him to the abandoned castle so he can complete #his quest. I think like. the first poll a lot of people seemed to like and care about and participate in so it was kind of like 'oh! cool! #it can be a fun collaborative story with a lot of people!' but then gradually less people participate or care so then I kind of allow mysel #to slack with it as well liike 'oh its fine if I miss a day or two here and there' which then turns into a month when I have other stuff #to do lol. Because it does still take time. like maybe 2 hours to put a post together. even if the art and writing is relatively rushed and #quick. Especially since polls are not editable once posted so half the time is just proofreading the post and tags 15 times #just to make super sure there's no errors or etc. lol.. But trying to clear two hours of time during an already hectic day for something #that generally speaking very few people are engaged with or care about at all when it's meant to be interactive (like with normal art #or costumes or other stuff I do - low interaction doesnt bother me since that's not the point/it's not as relevant. but with an actual poll #you do want like.. the most poeple possible to vote on it etc. lol) so it's like.. ehhh #I was originally thinking like 'oh i could do this for an entire year and tell like a whole story and it'd be cool to see where it ends #up eventually after so long and the community kind of choosing the direction of everything!' but now its like 'well people care significant #ly less about the following polls than they did the first one so maybe not As Big Of A Thing but I do at least want to finish the current #thing going on' etc. I mean if in the next few posts it becomes More Of A Thing then it's very fluid. I could do it for longer #but with the way things are looking it's like. is it worth the time investment when i ALSO have 800 other creative projects I'm meant to be #working on?? etc. etc. ANYWAY though.. Still there will probably be at least 10 or however many more since there's still like 1-2 more days #before he even gets to the castle plus then doing things AT the place. #I want to continue his journey!!!!! I also have just felt sick and weird and so unfocused for a while eughhh.. sorry #OO I almost forgot about his injury from the fight. i had to just add it in the last moment lol.. SEE this is why I proofread 100 times #I can't edit polls so they have to be Correct the first time.. ueghhh

[usadvlottery]

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#US visa policies #Innovation in visa regulations #Visa policies for skilled professionals #Entrepreneur visa programs #Technology-driven visa initiatives #Startup visa program #US immigration policies for innovators #Visa categories for researchers #Streamlined visa processes #Attracting global talent to the US #Economic growth through immigration #Facilitating entry for skilled workers #Innovation-friendly immigration policies #Advancing technological leadership through visas #Collaborative visa programs

[reisakumaproducer]

So much of Roselia figuring out what it means to be a pro-musician feels similar to reaching adulthood and trying to figure out what it means to be a mature adult. I think it's fitting given four of the girls are in college rn

#bandori #roselia #like in the story that introduces ikura #it's more direct #roselia try to be mature and professional about working with a guy that has hurt yukina's dad #and keeps being rude about it to yukina #and other cases too #like rosella's collaboration with erde #even them initially watching Mira rehearse and going 'hey so this is what pros do!' #yukina minato #ako udagawa #rinko shirokane #Lisa imai #sayo hikawa

[ghostnebula]

it is kinda wild that over 100 years ago, some dude was like "the boys need something to occupy their time; i'm going to start a club for them" and of course the girls were like "hey, us too!" and now there are 60 million+ guides and scouts in over 150 countries all bc of just. some guy. like some dude's after-school club has been going strong for literally over a century and has had an enormous social impact worldwide and we just take that for granted. there are SO MANY kids whose lives are changed every day because of him.

#ghost gabs #im in no way exlcuding agnes and olave from this intentionally #but it really was roberts idea initially #and now look at it #in my district alone there are approximately 100 scout and guide groups #this past week i had to put a cap on scout-guide week celebration attendees #because we were going to overflow the hall #also im watching call the midwife #and just finished the ep with the cubs and brownies doing a christmas play #thats why im thinking about this #70 years ago the scout and guide leaders in the UK were collaborating on projects #this week im working with the scout leaders on a project for my embers #who were called brownies until this time last year lol #some things stay the same

[shoma-enda]

I’ve got an idea, what if a bunch of skilled writers come together and make a rewrite for Ai:Ni and post it on Ao3? And hopefully the fanfiction could actually do all the characters justice! My idea is that there are no split timelines and that the supernatural twist does actually happen.

#ai the somnium files #ai nirvana initiative #aitsf #aiba #aiba aitsf #aistf #shoma enda #mizuki date #aini #fanfic #mizuki okiura #kaname date #hitomi sagan #iris sagan #rewrite #ao3 fanfic #collaboration

[teledild0nix]

nobody asked me to share sentences, but i wish i had some sentences to share anyway. i just finished a fic at the beginning of the month, and i haven't started a new one yet. i have this fic idea that i thought would be easy and short, but. i am not sure how to get into it. it might make a better comic than a fic, but i cannot draw alas.

#it's an animagus harry idea #i have a friend who draws who i have aaaaalmost asked to collaborate w me #but idk if you can write like the dialogue of a comic separately from drawing it?? #i feel like those things kind of have to go together #and i like i say i don't draw so it's not like i can suggest i'll draw the line art and you color #or i'll do the backgrounds and you do the figures #it's just like hey i have this idea that seems to be a lot more visual than i initially thought do you want to draw the entire thing #and i'll boss you around about what they should say?

[butchyena]

thinking abt a zombie story i was writing w some friends years ago and i might just steal all the ideas and do something w it cause i dont think they ever will

#it was incredibly collaborative AKA i came up with all the cool stuff 💜 #besides the main concept #being that the Group were all vidya players from around america who were itnernet friends #and when shit went to hell and the Grid went down one of them who was kind of a weirdo stalker finds them one by one #since they had already figured out where they lived (but never told them that) #i came up w the weirdo character. my beloved. their placeholder name was Vermont cause thats where they were from #also Vermont’s only friend irl who was also in the group went missing a few weeks before the initial breakout happened #and the story itself was like. YEARS after the initial boom. theres not a lot of ambulatory zombies left cause althey dont have shit to eat #so rlly its jsut a wasteland story with the occasional zombie issue #can reworkd that tho

[faerociousbeast]

its bc my procrastinating caught up w me so now my organization is bad

#and ive always beej bad at collaboration and initiative #i do not think i will participate in class discussions more just like i nrver did for every other teaxher #that asked me thst #thanks for trying! #surprisingly i got all e's in Guitar snf Compsci #im a whole 5% higher thsn the averagd in GUITAR #of all things