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tannertan36
art blog(derogatory)
Andulka
Xuebing Du
Product Placement
Mike Driver
let's talk about Bridgerton tea, my ask is open
Today's Document
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year
One Nice Bug Per Day
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YOU ARE THE REASON
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Doug Jones
$LAYYYTER
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@aerstic-spire
once you realise that fandoms are shaped by white fans and a lot of these fans hold very conservative and reactionary views when it comes to their personal relationship to things all the while professing they’re the fourth wave of feminism or whatever, you stop caring about what any of these people think and you find peace
patents are so fucking evil though. you can patent game mechanics and limit the kinds of games people are legally able to make. you can patent medicine to be the sole producer of that medicine. you can patent fucking, crops to ask a premium on specific variations of crops. it's so fucked
there is no ethical way to own an idea. Under capitalism, the only reason to have sole ownership over ideas like this is to drive personal profit and prevent other people from replicating it, which in the case of all three examples listed above either kills people's ability to make art or straightforwardly kills people. IP, copyright, and patents are all tools for capitalists to buy ideas and prevent everyone else from benefiting from said ideas, including the artists who made the things those capitalists now own.
IP, copyright and patents are all tools for monopoly building, to put it in a more capitalist sense.
the empress ✨
no more suffering
no mercy for the wicked
your existence is victory
beast of the revolution 👹⚔️
A self indulgent Koala redesign :)
Going for something cute that has the ability to look normal among mid to upper class civilians in case she needs to mingle with nobles, but just a bit more militaristic and practical for fighting! Thinking of doing a layer by layer breakdown for her outfit as well
M-miss nami sir...
Nico Robin 🌸
words cannot sum up my love for neil shubin
love hides in questions, you cannot ask a thing without giving yourself away. how was your day? (i hope it was good) when can i see you again? (i pray it's soon) do you feel safe with me? (i feel safe with you) what is your favorite color? (i wish to enrobe you in all that makes you smile)
I spent the evening looking into this AI shit and made a wee informative post of the information I found and thought all artists would be interested and maybe help yall?
edit: forgot to mention Glaze and Nightshade to alter/disrupt AI from taking your work into their machines. You can use these and post and it will apparently mess up the AI and it wont take your content into it's machine!
edit: ArtStation is not AI free! So make sure to read that when signing up if you do! (this post is also on twt)
[Image descriptions: A series of infographics titled: “Opt Out AI: [Social Media] and what I found.” The title image shows a drawing of a person holding up a stack of papers where the first says, ‘Terms of Service’ and the rest have logos for various social media sites and are falling onto the floor. Long transcriptions follow.
Instagram/Meta (I have to assume Facebook).
Hard for all users to locate the “opt out” options. The option has been known to move locations.
You have to click the opt out link to submit a request to opt out of the AI scraping. *You have to submit screenshots of your work/face/content you posted to the app, is curretnly being used in AI. If you do not have this, they will deny you.
Users are saying after being rejected, are being “meta blocked”
People’s requests are being accepted but they still have doubts that their content won’t be taken anyways.
Twitter/X
As of August 2023, Twitter’s ToS update:
“Twitter has the right to use any content that users post on its platform to train its AI models, and that users grant Twitter a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to do so.”
There isn’t much to say. They’re doing the same thing Instagram is doing (to my understanding) and we can’t even opt out.
Tumblr
They also take your data and content and sell it to AI models.
But you’re in luck!
It is very simply to opt out (Wow. Thank Gods)
Opt out on Desktop: click on your blog > blog settings > scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle
Out out of Mobile: click your blog > scroll then click visibility > toggle opt out option
TikTok
I took time skim their ToS and under “How We Use Your Information” and towards the end of the long list: “To train and improve our technology, such as our machine learning models and algorithms.”
Regarding data collected; they will only not sell your data when “where restricted by applicable law”. That is not many countries. You can refuse/disable some cookies by going into settings > ads > turn off targeted ads.
I couldn’t find much in AI besides “our machine learning models” which I think is the same thing.
What to do?
In this age of the internet, it’s scary! But you have options and can pick which are best for you!
Accepting these platforms collection of not only your artwork, but your face! And not only your faces but the faces of those in your photos. Your friends and family. Some of those family members are children! Some of those faces are minors! I shudder to think what darker purposes those faces could be used for.
Opt out where you can! Be mindful and know the content you are posting is at risk of being loaded to AI if unable to opt out.
Fully delete (not archive) your content/accounts with these platforms. I know it takes up to 90 days for instagram to “delete” your information. And even keep it for “legal” purposes like legal prevention.
Use lesser known social media platforms! Some examples are; Signal, Mastodon, Diaspora, et. As well as art platforms: Artfol, Cara, ArtStation, etc.
The last drawing shows the same person as the title saying, ‘I am, by no means, a ToS autistic! So feel free to share any relatable information to these topics via reply or qrt!
I just wanted to share the information I found while searching for my own answers cause I’m sure people have the same questions as me.’ \End description] (thank you @a-captions-blog!)
In case anyone finds it helpful because mobility aids are horrifically expensive and inaccessible…
And for those people who have access to mobility devices but might benefit from a second chair they can abuse without risking expensive damage…
Erik Kondo has made a website, Open Source Innovations, that details plans for DIY wheelchairs. These wheelchairs can be made from common materials like wood, plastic, and pvc. They are lightweight and can be custom fit to the user allowing from the same degree of movement you would get from a custom chair. And they are durable and easily repairable. (he has been stress testing his latest design by dropping it down stairs, dropping it out of a car, launching it across a driveway, and throwing it off a deck). Its 12lbs and I think he said its was in the $200 ish range for parts.
He also is working on cheap, open source, accessible designs for beach chairs, off road chairs, motorized attachments (think smart drive), and so on. Plus he skateboards in his wheelchair. Cool dude, helpful info, pass it on.
It's incredibly sad people have to resort to this, but it's a damn good resource. Use it. Spread awareness. Maybe one day people with physical disabilities won't need DIYs like this. But until then, reblog and share.
My Malaysian friend once said the US army will come over one day to steal our water once they run out of water in California
I asked wouldn't they go to LaTam first
That's because LaTam's water gonna be Coca Cola's
Her vision is getting nearer today
they are already effectively doing this with mexico (sans full-on invasion) via the diversion of the colorado river within us borders to feed agricultural and municipal irrigation in the usamerican southwest
worth noting is that the recent headline grabbing millionaire family that uses more water than all of LA on their pistachios are also one of the highest funding sponsors of anti-Iran sanctions and other policy.
this is not ideological. It's because Iran is the world's second largest producer of pistachios.
in san cristobal de las casas, chiapas, mexico there are some communities that straight up see coca cola as sacred, what nestle has done to embed themselves in different parts of the culture of the towns of mexico they employ is beyond evil.
kdk what will it require for them or the people to abandon the land, the center is a slave to the companies using the underground reosurces, not just them but specially the cars industry and every other nestle and unilever product has factories using all of the resources constantly with almost no taxes, by law all companies that use water are obligated to build a water plant for recycling, none have ever done so, the shitty salaries the companies as well as government officials themselves fight to keep low make sure the south is disconnected culturally and economically from the industrial center and the agricultural north, but more and more southern land gets sold to white foreigners at the cheapest possible rates which they make into farms or touristic "spiritual" spots where they employ at horror rates the locals.
The Bogotá Capital District, a metropolitan area with over 11 million inhabitants living over 2600 metres above sea level, have been continuously having critical water supply shortages since drought season last year (despite there having been a heavily rainy season afterwards) precisely because the city's own and nearby La Calera municipality's administrations have upheld Coca-Cola's privatisation of some of the district's most abundant springs for decades:
La Calera municipality is a representative case of the debates surrounding water hoarding in Colombia.
The Manantial plant was built in 1981 and is one of Coca-Cola’s seven bottling plants in Colombia. Like all the others, it extracts industrial quantities of water. It’s authorized to draw 3.23 liters per second from seven sources, according to the water concession granted to Coca-Cola by the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Cundinamarca (CAR), which expires this year and is in the process of renewal Since the plant operates 24 hours a day (the work force is divided into eight-hour shifts), Manantial can draw 279,000 liters of water daily from seven authorized sources in the village of Santa Helena, the very village where Leonardo Santiago and his neighbors ran out of water a few months ago and were forced to purchase it. That’s about 101.8 million liters a year, enough to fill 40 Olympic swimming pools. The number of bottles that leave the plant daily depends on the size. Coca-Cola did not agree to answer that or any other questions for this report, but a source of the company (who asked to remain anonymous) told VORÁGINE that on a day when they bottle only 600-ml bottles, this is the equivalent of more or less 420,000 bottles. The number of bottles that leave the plant daily depends on the size. Coca-Cola did not agree to answer that or any other questions for this report, but a company worker (who asked to remain anonymous) told VORÁGINE that on a day when they bottle only 600-ml bottles, this is the equivalent of more or less 420,000 bottles.
This happens all the while we are the wettest country on Earth by average annual rainfall volume.
The United States of America must be destroyed.
“It’s the nation that does not permit you to live.”
Death by Hanging (1968), dir. Nagisa Ōshima
The context of the film is vital as it is relevant more than ever. The film is about an ethnic Korean in Japan who is set to be executed by hanging. Koreans have historically lived as marginalized members in Japan and have been heavily discriminated against despite many of them having all the makings of citizenship by being born and brought up in Japan. Oshima examines how the state legitimizes violence and racism as it permeates in the Japanese conscious of who is deemed worthy of life and who is not. An underlying theme is that guilty or innocent by state-set terms of criminality, marginalized people are guilty at birth.
