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simonbitdiddle:

wundernerd:

winged-curry-of-ra:

acyanrust:

teal-deer:

The title is an article link that explains what’s going on. Essentially, Apple Music scans your computer for basically ANY sound file, either 1. matches it to a sound file on their cloud or 2. converts it to .mp3 and uploads it to the cloud. It then deletes all the files.

This means that: 

1. If you have any in-progress tracks you’re working on in .wav? Too bad! They’re now in .mp3 and not on your computer anymore. 

2. Do you have a rare live recording of a band? Too bad, because Apple has a lot of false positives and will often only match based on title and artist alone, so your personal live recording made for your personal use at a garage concert before they were famous is now replaced by the regular CD release that you’re not so hot on. 

3. Do you have spotty wi-fi? Do you often work with the internet turned off, so you can be free of distraction? Well, welcome to life without music, because you can’t use the service without wi-fi. 

Seriously DO NOT USE THIS SERVICE unless you want your ENTIRE personal music collection completely wiped in favor of an Apple controlled cloud service. 

Whoa holy fuck

Apple Music doesn’t work like that, and it will not delete or alter files on your computer. If anything it creates duplicates of anything opened into the iTunes library(which is what iTunes does anyway).
There are A LOT of red flags in the article that makes the author come across as flat out lying. It’s possible that through his error or some random fluke(because all computers have glitches sometimes) that his music collection got wrecked, but it wasn’t Apple Music’s fault, not directly and not due to normal function.
Not saying Apple is without its problems, and Apple Music has even more, but I guarantee you that Apple Music did not delete or “steal” his music.

Reblogging for the updated comment. I don’t use cloud computing anyways but it’s good info if you’re worried about this.

What happens is that iTunes moves the file to your Trash. It doesn’t ‘delete’ the file outright, it just moves it. The problem is that people don’t LOOK in the Trash before emptying it.

A /wise/ thing would be to have it move the file to a separate folder in your home directory instead of just going “They’re going to delete it anyways, might as well help them!”

The summary is also incorrect. It doesn’t “scan your computer for basically ANY sound“, it scans your iTunes Library and only moves files around if you tell it to manage your library.

vassraptor:

lemonsharks:

calleo:

meeshay:

notahyper-specific:

waterofthevalley:

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quinbot:

lady-feral:

vortexsophia:

I swear by all the gods it’s a damn good thing I got out of NC when I did or I’d be burning down everything associated with these fucking clownshoes.

what the actual fuck, NC. What the actual fuck.

“To report suspicious bathroom activity, North Carolina residents can call the 24-hour ‘HB2 Offender Hotline’ at 1-800-662-7952. For individuals living outside of North Carolina, please call (919) 814-2000.”

Let’s spamcall the fuck out of this, please.

919-814-2050 – This is the number to the governor’s office.  Call him and express your displeasure while you’re at it.

Also, I was so busy skimming the article for the numbers I didn’t actually read it. 

“With the information gathered from this hotline, we’ll be working closely with local law enforcement agencies to make sure this law is enforced and those who break the law see jail bars. We are sending a clear message to all the transsexuals out there; their illegal actions and deviant behavior will no longer be tolerated in the state of North Carolina.”  How in the fuck is this an actual thing that came out of the mouth of a government official?  This reads like unfunny satire.  It’s just flat-out bigotry.  It sounds like the shit you’d hear at a Klan rally.

“We encourage North Carolina’s residents to take photographs and report as much detail as possible when calling.” Also holy SHIT the governor’s office is TELLING PEOPLE TO COMMIT A SEX CRIME.  WHAT IN THE ACTUAL FUCK.

These people are fucking assholes. For those who are being targeted by this, here is a resource for safe bathroom spaces in NC. Please pass it on. https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?authuser=0&mid=zL2fEel0lp_I.kkesJKJtTr1Q

Reposting to spread the resource link.

what the actual fuck

“We encourage people to take pictures”…?!

YEAH JUST GO AHEAD AND LEGALLY TAKE BATHROOM PICS OF PEOPLE THAT WON’T END BADLY. 

I don’t give a shit who you are, if I see you trying to take my picture in any public bathroom, I’m breaking your face with your own goddamned phone because you’re a sick pervert.

Please correct me if this is unhelpful:  

it strikes me that a useful thing for cis allies to do here would be 1) for in state allies to shut down anyone taking photos in a public bathroom and 2) for out of state allies to spam the hotline with reports that it is very suspicious the state of north carolina is spending money enforcing and running a hotline for this bigoted law when they have child poverty rate of over 25%. 

Here is a script for #1): 

You taking pictures in a bathroom is rude, inappropriate, and makes me feel uncomfortable. You need to put the camera away.

Whatever their response gets a broken record of, “(Well bless your sweet little heart), it is still inappropriate to take pictures of other people in a bathroom. You need to put the camera away.”

Cis people: you are not safe either. Under this law, someone can decide your voice is too high for the men’s room, your feet or your hands are too big for the ladies’, or they just don’t like you and want to make your day harder, and they will use this law against you too. If you don’t care what happens to us, think about every shitty joke you ever heard about a schoolmate or a celebrity who looked ‘too masculine’ or ‘too feminine’, and remember that not all of you can ‘pass’ as the gender you were assigned at birth.

And make no mistake, there will be more bashings. When governments pass laws like this, it tells the community bigots that society is on their side, that nobody’s gonna care what happens to a [insert slur here]. They get bolder.

If you’re cis in North Carolina and know a trans person whose bathroom of choice is the same as yours, another ally thing you could do is offer to go with them.

werewolf-noises:

howlingbastards:

werewolf-noises:

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Say it with me: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

Reminder: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

rejectedprincesses:

rejectedprincesses:

YASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

(this is a breaking report, so take with a bit of salt, but it’s coming from Politico, which generally has a good track record)

UPDATE: IT’S OFFICIAL!

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/20/474983292/treasury-decides-to-put-harriet-tubman-on-20-bill

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/20/harriet-tubman-20-bill-andrew-jackson-alexander-hamilton

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/20/treasury-to-leave-hamilton-on-the-10-bill-put-tubman-on-20-politico.html

catbountry:

teratomarty:

hypotheticalwoman:

nojackkennedy:

And then Craig Mazin, Cruz’s former college roommate had something to add:

so wait is he saying that you’re only allowed to have things you can prove you have a right to?

Yes, it’s called prescriptive law. Very big among fascists.

Ted Cruz, you can have my dildo when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Don’t give him any ideas.

sulamoon:

Going online working on a new warcraft piece 🙂 come come!

robotlyra:

jackscarab:

“We believe the American people need to decide who is going to make this appointment rather than a lame duck president,” said Majority Whip John Cornyn. 

Sen. Lindsey Graham said that “there’s no use starting a process that’s not going to go anywhere and we are going to let the next president decide,” when asked why there would be no hearings.

“Presidents have a right to nominate just as the Senate has its constitutional right to provide or withhold consent. In this case, the Senate will withhold it,” McConnell said. “The Senate will appropriately revisit the matter after the American people finish making in November the decision they’ve already started making today.”

To Congressional Republicans, but particularly to you three hog cocks:

Fuck you.

Your Congress is already legendary in doing the least work in the least number of work days of any Congress since the 18th century, and your sole aspiration in life is to drive yourselves to exhaustion in order to do even less. You know the arguments against, you know the morality against, you know the most base humanity against, but you still proceed in receding because you cannot abide that a black man has more power than you or your bloodlines ever, ever, ever will.

Furthermore, fuck you.

You squalling snotty children in leather geriatric bodies, you melting homunculi of blind loyalty, you feeble furious fear-fellating fanatics, your behavior, your choices, your exercises of free agency, your actions are why you have wrought your own trump, why you are without a future. I curse you to live long enough to see your precious patriotic Reagan-party conservative continuity disintegrate. I curse you to linger thirty more years in existential dread as you watch the world do far better when it forgets your very name.

There is no profanity eloquent enough to condemn you and your entropic kind to the flea-shit dust of the history that you so proudly stand athwart. So go take turns fucking and eating out a goblin shark, you molerat-faced white trash.

Additionally, fuck you.

Reblogging, so you folks can get a good look at who is actually “destroying America”, but also for my friend Jack’s commentary, whose craft in profanity rivals both the Bard and Dennis Leary.

tevruden:

The ancient darkness surrounding him did not
stop him from seeing any more than his lack of eyes
did. He had been a sorcerer once, a very great one.
His spectral sight revealed every inch of his cell
with far more clarity than eyes of flesh ever could.
He could navigate this prison even without
it. He knew every flagstone on the floor, every
enchantment that bound him. He knew them by
sight, by touch. He knew the way his footsteps
would echo with every one of the nine steps it took
him to pace across the chamber. He felt the flows
of magic all around. Spell after spell, enchantment
after enchantment, their soul-crushing power
intended to do only one thing: to make sure he
stayed buried here, unremembered, unforgiven.

The ones who incarcerated him intended this
place to be his tomb. They had forgotten about him
over the long millennia. They should have killed
him. It would have been kinder. Instead they let
him live, pretending it was mercy. It let those who had bound him—such as his brother, Malfurion
Stormrage, and Tyrande Whisperwind, the woman
he loved—feel better about themselves.

Not going to lie, I read like half of this preview in Illidan’s voice

Oh by the way this is on page 26:

Illidan strained against him and glanced at
Prince Kael’thas. The blood elf licked his lips like an
epicure catching sight of a feast. All this unleashed
magic clearly aroused something within him.
“Kael’thas,” Illidan croaked.