destinyrush: Jesse Williams Joins Black-Owned Tech Company...

destinyrush:

Jesse Williams Joins Black-Owned Tech Company Scholly To Help Students Find Scholarships.

Jesse Williams is a gift to humanity that just keeps on giving. We all remember his woke speech at the 2016 BET Awards. This time Jesse teamed up with Philly-based mobile app Scholly. Scholly is a scholarship-matching service created to help underprivileged students find money for college.
Williams himself worked as a public school teacher before he started his acting career, which partially inspired him to join the Scholly team and help more talented and smart kids get better education.

#BlackPride

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aladycalledkatie: missvoltairine: phil-irish-artist: By...

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missvoltairine:

phil-irish-artist:

By copyrighting his property as an artwork, he has prevented oil companies from drilling on it.

Peter Von Tiesenhausen has developed artworks all over his property in northern Alberta.  There’s a boat woven from sticks that is gradually being reclaimed by the land; there is a fence that he adds to each year of his life, and there are many “watching” trees, with eyes scored into their bark.

Oil interests pester him continually about drilling on his land.  His repeated rebuffing of their advances lead them to move toward arbitration.  They made it very clear that he only owned the top 6 inches of soil, and they had rights to anything underneath.  He then, off the top of his head, threatened them that he would sue damages if they disturbed his 6 inches, for the entire property is an artwork.  Any disturbance would compromise the work, and he would sue.

Immediately after that meeting, he called a lawyer (who is also an art collector) and asked if his intuitive threat would actually hold legally.  The lawyer visited, saw the scope of the work on the property, and wrote a document protecting the artwork.

The oil companies have kept their distance ever since.

This is but one example of Peter’s ability to negotiate quickly on his feet, and to find solutions that defy expectations.

I feel like this is really important. 

that’s GENIUS.

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"The best fantasy writers don’t write fantasy

“The best fantasy writers don’t write fantasy in the fluffy, hocus-pocus sense, they change the rules by which the world works and then write very carefully and logically by those rules.”
- Terry Pratchett (Quote from ‘A Slip Of The Keyboard’)
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