[angel--mess]

☁️🩷 You are worth happiness, love, and safety 🩷☁️

[toddycats]

My hope for whoever is reading this is that your life starts making sense and coming together. I hope the good days are right around the corner for you.

[willgrahamscock]

KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

[heylsgowt]

[thatdisasterauthor]

I think the thing that annoys me most about AI on a personal, day to day, level is what it has done to grammar checkers. If you've never done a lot of editing, or used to 5+ years ago but haven't really in the last couple years, I can't even begin to describe how fucking BAD this shit has gotten. And as an author it is EXHAUSTING.

I just want to catch spelling errors and accidental double spaces and repeated phrases and whenever I use the wrong too/to or affect/effect and shit. But no. They've shoved AI up the ass of every grammar checking software out there and now they all fucking suck and make the most random, obnoxious, nonsensical suggestions.

And yeah, I can ignore all the times it's trying to get me to cut out any semblance of my own voice, or shove things into the wrong tense, or make the most random suggestions on comma usage. But if it's getting all that WRONG, what is it just straight up missing that I SHOULD be correcting? What real spelling and grammar errors are still lurking in there?

[elisecairo]

[katherynefromphilly]

As someone who was alive when Bob Ross (and William Alexander before him — that’s where the approach is from) was on PBS, I can 100% testify that you can paint along with him.

You may need to learn how to set up your paints and such… but this is what people did, live, while the show aired. That’s what the show was for. I had family members create lovely works of art they enjoyed, which I still have on my walls, because William Alexander and Bob Ross both said:

SCREW METICULOUS CLASSICAL ART PRACTICES — JUST GRAB A PALETTE KNIFE AND BIG OLD BRUSH AND PAINT!

They freed a whole generation of people who were taught to paint detail and realism and exact representation of reality — people who largely gave up this kind of thing because it got tedious.

I watched the joy of family members as they rediscovered art as a messy fun spontaneous half hour activity.

Give it a try.

[princess99posts]

[angel--mess]

New Style Boutique girly clothes coded🎀🌸🐩👜

[boccher]

i think every british journalist should just be gunned down

[maidthings]

On the small soggy wet archipelago that makes up the modern day united kingdom, sunny days are a rare phenomenon. As such, the peoples of england cherish each and every one, even going so far as to write songs about them in their local music. With sunlight in such high demand, to block it deliberately is nigh unthinkable, hence their cultural confusion at the invention of the parasol.

[cythraul]

So if you read the article, (1) you'll see the reporter is Japanese, and (2) the article isn't even about the sun.

Across much of the world, umbrellas are simply used to shield people from the rain or to shade them from the sun. And while visitors to Japan may see many locals using them for these purposes, parasols also serve a far more powerful role in Japanese culture: they're spiritual vessels. According to Tatsuo Danjyo, Professor Emeritus of humanities at Beppu University in Japan's Ōita prefecture, Japanese tradition holds that certain objects – including umbrellas – can serve as yorishiro (an object that attracts gods or spirits). This belief is deeply rooted in history. Umbrellas first appeared in Japan between the 9th and 11th Centuries, but instead of shielding people from the weather, they served as symbols of spiritual or political power. Early umbrellas, such as the long-handled sashikake-gasa, were reserved for religious and political figures and were held by attendants over the elite.

It goes on.

[becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys]

I vividly remember this happening a few years back, when a Tumblr user posted a screenshot of a published journal article about why Indian food tastes particularly good. "White people spend all this time and money trying to work out why someone else has better food than them to discover the answer is 'spices'," they sneered

And I remember someone tracked down the actual article and discovered that (a) the authors were Indian, and (b) the answer was actually a super cool exploration of how Indian cookery uses spices to create contrasting flavours, unlike almost every other cuisine, which tries to pair similar/harmonising flavours.

Something something when your desire to dunk on white/British people makes you erase the work and cultural discussions of POC

[chzdavmpr]

Honestly even without this context I felt like OP's sentiment was kinda dumb. To me this article exists for a very specific reason; someone sees an image of Japan where people are using umbrellas in the sun and thinks "I wonder why that is" and looks it up. Articles like this exist to appear at the top of the results when people have questions like those. Maybe it's a kid who's looking this up, maybe it's just someone who somehow hasn't seen this practice before. Either way; people don't inherently have knowledge of other people's cultures. Even if the question seems silly you can't judge people for wanting or providing a resource to learn! This is literally the definition of "no stupid questions".

[boccher]

i think every british journalist should just be gunned down

[maidthings]

On the small soggy wet archipelago that makes up the modern day united kingdom, sunny days are a rare phenomenon. As such, the peoples of england cherish each and every one, even going so far as to write songs about them in their local music. With sunlight in such high demand, to block it deliberately is nigh unthinkable, hence their cultural confusion at the invention of the parasol.

[angel--mess]

Way too many people reblogged this, insulting British people and tried to sound smart and snarky, not realising it was written by a Japanese journalist about the spiritual significance of a parsole/umbrella in Japanese culture...🤦‍♀️

Before judging an entire country of diverse people and its journalists based on one line from an article you didn't bother to read, maybe think before posting with more kindness and thoughtfulness. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to read past a title instead of posting how you think they should be gunned down🫤.

[theatsthetic]

female-presenting vitruvian

[theatsthetic]

i appreciate the amount of people reblogging this despite me not really tagging this at all. im glad many of people feel the same anger i do.

[talentlesshuman]

Vent art

[talentlesshuman]

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[kitkhat]

The AI Boom Could Use a Shocking Amount of Electricity

AI already uses as much energy as a small country. It’s only the beginning.

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

AI is poised to drive 160% increase in data center power demand

AI Is Pushing The World Toward An Energy Crisis

[blozs-blog]

[witheringsapphic-deactivated202]

please reblog this until i find my true love. i am so alone

[tables-but-with-a-very-long-name]

Made it poly friendly

[witheringsapphic-deactivated202]

oh hell yeah even better

[courtjester69420]

Made one for aromantic trans people 👍

[queen-mihai]

Reblogging for poly people, mono people, and people who need their keys

[sassyphantomkoala]

Thank you for reminding me of my privilege, by helping me remember that as an allo person I never lost my keys.

[miawasthere]

tumblr angels do not support ICE btw 🩷🪽

[reagan-slayer69]

“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

[mel-155-a]

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

[brinnanza]

one person does not cure cancer. teams of scientists who rely on funding from the government cure cancer. one person's singular novel ingenuity is not what is stopping us from curing cancer; fucking CAPITALISM IS.

[liminalbeauty]

Literally.

Kseniia Petrova - Wikipedia

[squeakitties]

wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

[ichorandpride]

#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it

no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)

you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results

there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around

[nicenice7]

I'M FREE

[alistairsprayerwarrior]

FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!

[littlfrekgallery]

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

Do you think translating my fics with ai counts as ai-generated? Maybe it's a silly question, but I want to make sure to tag correctly

okay this is a tricky part because I feel like you will get different answers from different people. but in my personal opinion? no, it doesn't count as ai. sure, it's translated by ai. but from how I personally see it, an "ai-generated fic" is a fic that is written from scratch by ai, entirely from start to finish (so no human input, except for the prompt).

but if you wrote something yourself and you just want a translation machine, then personally I would not consider the fic ai — because the original version is still human-made.

[kriegswaffel]

It’s AI-assisted at best, but philosophically the question is how far removed does the original work (because all LLM generated work is based on human works) have to be from its source to be considered AI-generated? Does it need to be more than one work the LLM is pulling from? Commercial authors are being criticised for using LLMs to ‘edit’ their work, or feed their ego (aka generated ideas), so is just feeding one work to an LLM and tell it to change it into a different language really just assistance when LLMs are meant to imitate human languages?

Regardless, it still comes with many issues of AI work:

It’s still feeding the slop machine. It still feeds AI the original work and profit on human work for free.

In the professional workplace LLM have been used to make translators’ jobs obsolete.

Translation isn’t just producing a different language version, translation is also a point of interpretation: some words don’t have direct expressions, some words come in a variety of nuances in meaning, idioms need alternatives, syntax can deliver a certain tone, writing can convey hidden meanings parallels in etymology, syntax, paint pictures with words that simply don’t happen with LLM based translations.

If you’ve ever taken a foreign language in school and were frustrated with translation exercises getting marked up for using words that were too close to a common etymological root, that was because translations conveying the meaning of the text accurately are damn hard, and translators don’t get enough credit for literary interpretation.

LLMs *will* hallucinate a text that sounds right, even though it has the source material right there, inevitably altering the translation to be LLM-friendly, rather than an actual (literal or intentional) translation.

And, again, giving AI companies your original work is still feeding the machine and wasting water and energy (which often wastes more water).

Why would you want to put your work into the slop machine?

[kasmikassim]

Sure, the semantics are different, but the process is the same. You're feeding into the slop machine that steals from real translators, who are now out of jobs thanks to AI.

It's one thing to do it for yourself if you're desperately in need of help for something, but to put out more slop no one asked for... is the world really so desperately in need of more slop?