The Loser Enthusiast

moved to @sigmatism

[orcboxer]

I just think "data center water usage should be federally regulated," while less catchy and less emotionally charged, is a stronger political stance than "fuck AI." Targets the systemic flaw rather than a product, you know?

[aetherograph]

AGREE But let's take it farther:

Data centres shouldn't be allowed in areas that experience drought or are Koppen classification B category (arid and semi-arid).

They should have federally regulated water usage and be required to have heat and exhaust treatment ON SITE

They should have daily penalties for failing to meet zero emissions targets scaled to their profit margin (i.e. a percentage rather than a set amount) THAT ARE ACTUALLY ENFORCED.

NO DEFERRED PROSECUTION AGREEMENTS. EVER.

They must show provenance for EVERY piece of art and writing in their data sets, and show that they have made contracts to use EVERY SINGLE ONE before they are allowed to use them. Hold them to the same standards as every other form of media.

They must inform the end-user about data privacy and that chatbots are not a substitute for therapy, research, programming, work, school, and are not to be used for anything but novelty.

All of this would severely hobble them and expose how much of a turkey GenAI actually is. I doubt they can make money off it without theft and lies. It's a very expensive toy.

[ao3cassandraic]

I'm in favor of all of this. Let's make it happen.

[kat4884]

the gooners

they’re everywhere

[felixcloud6288]

Dat's right boss. Now just tell us what ya need and we'll get it done boss.

[quadtator-lawful-evil]

who needs ta sleep with da fishes boss

[bananapudding752]

sorry bawss, I was too busy searchin up da anime girls boss. real pretty.

[felixcloud6288]

Forget dem anime goils. Dere only temporary. But da boss is forever. Right boss?

[hellsitegenetics]

String identified: t g t’ at' gt . t t at a a ' gt t . ta t a a, a t ac a a g . a tt. gt a g. ta. t a . gt ?

Closest match: Oeneis jutta genome assembly, chromosome: 18 Common name: Jutta Arctic

(image source)

[felixcloud6288]

Da boss got turned into a butterfly!!

[pfaugh]

Wadda bea-utiful transformation, boss. goes to show youse gotta preciate the lil things in life

[hraeiou]

ay boss congrats on da metamoiphosis

[ma7moudgaza2]

Another short goal

We have reached our first goal thanks to your support!❤️

Thanks to your generosity and solidarity, we have started the winter with our first goal of raising $1,000 to provide blankets for me and my family and protect us from the cold. This is an important step for our family, and we are so grateful to everyone who has supported us at this crucial time. Words cannot express how important your support is to us during these difficult times. 🙏 However, our journey is not over yet. We now move on to our second goal, which aims to provide daily social expenses in light of the return of famine and the interruption and depletion of food supplies and to provide our children with basic needs such as milk, diapers and other things. Our children suffer from defects in baby milk and diapers and basic health problems. Living in tents with scarce resources and the spread of diseases, the situation is dire.

With the high cost of living in Gaza, securing these basic needs, in addition to coordinating travel, has become extremely challenging. The expenses associated with transportation and evacuation are overwhelming, and we need your continued support to help ensure our baby can escape these devastating conditions.

Our second goal is to raise $2,000 for :

Living expenses and daily expenses in light of the high prices and basic survival needs

Baby milk and diapers

Basic health care and providing them with protein

More warm clothes and supplies to protect them from disease

Important note: The price of a pack of diapers these days for a child is $85, as the child needs 3 packs per month due to unhealthy food and cold weather, and we have 4 children who need diapers, meaning we need approximately $1,000 per month for diapers.

Donate to Support Muhammad in Gaza with a New Start, organised by Annie Hall

The Hamam family has decided to focus their attention away from rebuilding their … Annie Hall needs your support for Support Muhammad in Gaz

Living in tents is exhausting and filled with daily challenges; we have no clean water, electricity, or proper medical care. Every day we struggle to survive amidst constant bombings and the dangers surrounding us. Your support gives us hope that we can provide a better life for our child.

verification Link

verification num mahmoud is #149 .

PayPal

@appsa @tsaricides @schoolhater @buttercuparry @feluka

@el-shab-hussein @wherethatoldtraingoes2 @nabulsi @sayruq @sar-soor

@tiredguyswag @gothhabiba @slydiddledeedee @kingskrazzyart @a-shade-of-blue

[guldaastan]

man i don't know how to say this but gazans here are risking their lives to make posts asking for help. they are asking for you to contribute a small amount of money to buy food or medicines or get shelter.

whether we like it or not, we are complicit in this genocide. either because of our silence, or because our tax money if being used to bomb them. i thought that people would be more eager to help gazans, trying to 'reverse' the damage somehow.

contrary to what i thought, people are moving on. they're moving on from the al-shifa hospital strike, they're moving on from refugee camp massacres and from school bombings, they're moving on from dead children and orphaned children.

please don't be indifferent. help my friend alaa amsse [ @alaakh998 ]. she urgently needs money to buy a new tent. she needs medicine for her sick son. her tent was flooded and she needs to buy supplies. please please help her if you have the means to. her fundraiser has been verified by 90-ghost and the butterfly project (#307).

donate

[guldaastan]

€13,450 raised of €15,000

please keep donating! alaa needs us and we can't let her down!

[hashemsamar]

please🙏

⛔Stop a minute‼️

Get to know Hashem's family

My name is Hashem from Gaza. I am 32 years old and my wife, Samar, is 27 years old. We have a child born in the eighth month of pregnancy. His mother was premature because of my wife's fear of war. My large family consists of 8 members: my father, mother, four male brothers and 2 females. My father died in the war due to a lack of medicine in hospitals as a result of the fierce war on Gaza.

My story began when we were displaced from our home in northern Gaza in mid-October 2023 after a letter threatening eviction, and then the house was targeted and destroyed. Between this Exodus and the current fifth Exodus there are many stories and sufferings.

We now live in plastic tents, which are thermal ovens, which are not suitable for living and do not provide the minimum necessities of life, in addition to the spread of epidemics and diseases, which puts our lives in danger.

Through this campaign, we are trying to collect enough money to meet our needs and get us out of the Gaza Strip safely. We ask you to stand by us and protect us from this severe danger.

Support and share🤍

Donate to Help my family survive and start a new life, organized by Hashim Friend

Hello everyone, I hope you take a minute to read our story. I’m Hashem Al-S… Hashim Friend needs your support for Help my family survive an

best wishes:

Hashem alshawish

Note:

The campaign was documented through:

@90-ghost

@gaza-evacuation-funds ( @el-shab-hussein @nabulsi )

Palestine Pride List:

@buttercuparry @appsa @malcriada @palestinegenocide @sar-soor @akajustmerry @annoyingloudmicrowavecultist @feluka @sayruq @tortiefrancis @flower-tea-fairies @tsaricides @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @visenyasdragon @belleandsaintsebastian @ear-motif @kordeliiius @communitythings @brutaliakhoa @raelyn-dreams @troythecatfish @theropoda @4ft10tvlandfangirl @queerstudiesnatural @northgazaupdates2 @skatezophrenic @awetistic-things @baby-girl-aaron-dessner @nabulsi @el-shab-hussein @timetravellingkitty @transmutationisms

[foamingatthemeowth]

€10,844/€45,000

= ~24%

[hashemsamar]

Thank you, my friends, for your support, the remaining 1% to reach the first quarter of the goal.

[goetic-justice]

we have to put mr beast in a blender, for real

[catchymemes]

[prof-grace-aspen]

This is the best description I’ve heard for this method, I always thought it was bullshit because I never heard a description that actually explained how to do this other than “tap your head 20 times”.

I have anxiety-induced hissing, which sounds/feels different from sound-induced tinnitus (which I have also experience). Sound-based tinnitus actually sounds like you’re “hearing” something in your ears, whilst the hissing I have feels like it’s “inside my head”, if that makes sense. But this technique still helps!!

[mieaouy]

Here’s a visual I found because I couldn’t understand the instructions well

[sushinfood]

My ringing just went away for the first time in years. What is this blissful quiet.

[roseverdict]

wait wait i gotta try this, i don’t think i’ve had Actual Silence since i was like 5

[roseverdict]

HOW THE FUCK

[alex51324]

Reblogging to save a life, and also because, even if you don’t have tinnitus, this is totally worth trying if you like new sensory experiences.  

[jordisstigander]

Just showed this to my dad, and in his words, “The cicadas are still there, but the train is gone.”

[quicksilvermad]

I can’t believe it. It turned the volume down on my cicadas (what a perfect way to describe it—cicada season is when everyone gets a taste of tinnitus) for about two minutes.

[earhartsease]

yes! temporary relief from the eternal fax machine in our skull

[colombogramme]

People making post to (rightfully) mock zionists are getting more interactions than the ones on fundraisers. That's great that you are laughing at them but what are you actually doing to help their victims? How much times do palestinian have to wait for you to start caring? Do you need to see another beheaded baby to start donating or is it just performative?

I can't believe than even after posting about the shootings my friend Shahed and her family survived and her showing the BULLETS that got in their house (not the first time it happened) people barely gave attention to her posts and donations are getting even slower. Only 3 in one day.

If I can't post for a day I feel like people on tumblr will forget her and abandon her campaign. And frankly I don't have much hope that people will act to help her get to her goal, be it short or long term.

If you can't donate then please at least share her posts @drshahd and @shahdhatem, make your own posts to reach more people, send her fundraisers to people you know or tag them. Just please do something !

I don't know what to do and what more to tell you to get to act.

Donate here

Vetting by @/nabulsi

[colombogramme]

ONE DONATION TODAY. Please don't forget her, share and donate.

Still around $800 left to reach 21k!

[bublines]

Commissions for Mohammed Hassouna and his family!

Mohammed @rehamoworld, his wife Reham, and his daughters Toleen, Wateen, and Rateel urgently need our support to raise funds to evacuate. Unfortunately, their campaign has been moving extremely slowly, so I’m opening 10 flat color headshot commissions to help with fundraising.

If you contribute at least £15 to Mohammed’s campaign and send proof via DMs, I’ll draw a character of your choice. The same rules outlined in this post apply. Here’s an example of what I’ll draw:

Finally, here is the link to Mohammed’s campaign. Please share his posts and donate if you can. Anything helps!

Donate to Help Me Secure a Better Future for My Daughters., organized by Mohammed Hassouna

Hello, dear merciful souls of the world! This is Mohammed Hasso… Mohammed Hassouna needs your support for Help Me Secure a Better Future

[90-ghost]

What has been happening in Jabalia camp for two days is unimaginable and unfathomable. They are bombing houses over the heads of their people , and now the news is talking about burning houses with people inside them. Massacres are being committed daily, and the world is just watching.

[booasaur]

I've been watching with so much horror and shock. Even after all this, surely they won't allow this?

But they are. Massacre after massacre.

It's live and ongoing and no idea when this will stop.

[tamarrud]

Again, don't forget that Gaza is under siege and has been for 17 years.

So when we say 97,000 are injured in Gaza, understand this number with the fact that no medicine, not even bandages, are allowed into Gaza and no patient, even cancer patients, are allowed out of Gaza for treatment.

Tell me how Israel's genocidal intent isn't as clear as day.

Israeli snipers shot journalist Fadi Alwahidi in the neck today. Another journalist, Ali Alattar, was hit in the head yesterday with shrapnel when Israel struck Al Aqsa hospital. Both of their conditions are deteriorating rapidly and doctors can't do anything.

There are currently calls to evacuate Ali and Fadi urgently for treatment. Imagine pressuring an entity so that critically injured journalists can be airlifted.

Just remember that these are only two stories out of tens of thousands others, many of whom have already succumbed to their injuries and might've never even been counted as casualties of this genocide.

[spoonie-living]

Extreme heat can be dangerous for people taking psychiatric medication

Psychiatric medications can interfere with the body's ability to regulate temperature, and most patients don't know, experts say.

Just a little PSA for all our mental health (and chronic pain*) spoonies out there! A lot of doctors neglect to mention this little side effect, which means a lot of us are suffering extra from the heat without knowing why.

*Many psych meds are used to treat chronic pain as well, if you didn’t know!

[spooniestrong]

[murderandjam]

What?!

[that-gay-jedi]

This screenshot is like art. The underpublicization of this fact, the encroach of climate injustices enacted by the hyperwealthy into every other aspect of social struggle, the asterisk at the end reminding us this is not an exhaustive list.

[handweavers]

wealthy people in the global north will get like irrationally angry at the idea of people in the global south pirating their work but they don't offer sliding scale prices nor price their work differently in different countries to reflect local currencies like of course people will pirate your work, it's their only option. like a book that costs $25 USD costs 110 malaysian ringgit plus import charges, and more if you have to ship it from abroad. 110 ringgit to malaysians is just like spending $110 dollars in the US, but in a country with a national minimum wage of what amounts to $341 USD a month. and this is only one country, like be fucking for real.

[bluerayofsunshine]

I guess this was just a vent post but it's really weird seeing folks like op desperately seeking validation for stealing from other poor people. I'm not going to go into why authors already get screwed over (and how little control they have over pricing) as it's been said more elegantly by those with firsthand experience.

I don't expect people to stop stealing but I do wish they'd stop asking for acceptance of it

ETA: you could have made this post about SO many things that are morally fine to pirate because the creators have already been paid and you chose books? BOOKS?!

[handweavers]

1. did you miss that the first 2 words of this post are "wealthy people" specifically

2. are you from the global south?

3. your tags suggesting ebooks as an alternative really show how little understanding you have about basic economics and how stupid you think people in the global south are. if an ebook costs $20 USD that is still RM 88, which for a malaysian is exactly like an american paying 88 dollars for something. the prices are not scaled, so no, buying an ebook is not magically the solution. yes, this is about books, but also any kind of media that is out there.

4. if someone could never ever have afforded to pay for something in the first place, you have not lost money from them pirating that something. if an author is poor, the problem is not poor people pirating their media but that they aren't being adequately paid for their labour by their publishing house, on top of other fundamental failures of the capitalist system in which they live. the same failures of a system that results in people in the global south as well as poor people in the global north being unable to afford basic forms of entertainment media. "pirates" are not the enemy of a creator who is struggling; it's the system itself for creating and requiring poverty in the first place, as well as for perpetuating and benefiting from systemic inequalities between the global north & south. please get a grip

[qs63]

I was going to add this to the tags but it's too long.

The thing that pushed me to move to the global North was my brother buying himself a Nintendo 3DS while working part time in a supermarket in the USA. I saved a whole year because I wanted one, while working full-time as a college graduate in a fairly well paid profession, and in the end I had to spend that money on new glasses because of an emergency.

It's perhaps a silly reason to move across the sea, but it highlights the inequality in accessibility to commodities (and even necessities) between the global South and North. As a professional in the global South I couldn't afford what a part time minimum wage employee in the global North could. Things aren't exactly getting more friendly for the south with the emergence of the globalized rental economy. If I couldn't afford a commodity of 300$ (less than that actually as I only had half the money) after a year of saving most of my income (while living at my parents' and keeping my expenses low), there's no way I could've afforded to pay X dollars a month/year subscription, even if for something I truly NEEDED (like a software or equipment needed to work). It's NOT possible. The math doesn't check.

You can call it stealing, but the truth is — like OP explained — you DON'T have a market there. Whether they consume a copy of your product is inconsequential to your bottom line because you were NEVER going to get a dime from a market that doesn't exist. In fact, you might get lucky and — after years of saving — someone might be able to afford buying one of those commodities they pirated and loved so much.

Piracy in the global South is a necessity born from a lack of accessibility, and not even just monetary, a lot of times these things are near impossible to find in your mother language. Bless the heart of the fan translators.

Ps: no idea why OP did this post, but it gets old reeeeally fast to have random people whining at you about how you're morally depraved for not devoting years of your entire income to buying a piece of media, or for not stopping to consume media altogether for the rest of your god damn life. They conquer us. They steal our riches. They exploit our labor. And then they have the gals to complain we don't have the means to participate in their made up economic system and laws.

[photosbyjaye]

This is probably one of the most depressingly heart-wrenching photos I’ve ever seen. Native American children taken from their families and put into school to assimilate them into white society. the slogan for this governmental campaign ’“kill the Indian to save the man”. no official apology has ever been issued. never forgotten.

[cravinghiphop]

this hurts so bad.

[rainbowpuddinmonkey88]

I remember learning about this in Native History

[oh--jeez]

they were toddlers taken from their homes, their hair cut. if they asked why their hair was cut, who had died for their hair to be cut, why they couldn’t see their parents, had their parents died, they were told yes. and beaten and starved for crying.

never forget that these prison labour “schools,” who used the boys for free farm labour and infrastructure development in nearby settler towns, and used the girls for free laundry, kitchen labour, and sewing, whether in america or canada, had graveyards.

in canada, specifically, the children were subject to government starvation experiments and deprived of specific nutrients to study the effect on their health, for the benefit of cereal manufacturers. this human experimentation led to the understanding of vital nutrients for settler children, and their inclusion on cereal packets, by learning what would happen if you starved native children of them.

these schools were cultural genocide, yes, but they were also violent, murderous, bloody-handed genocide against our most vulnerable members.

[2spirit-1spoon]

If anyone was curious the photo is of children from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

You can learn more about it here on a website made to commemorate the pain that happened within it’s walls:

We seek to tell the full story—the tragedy and the triumph—of the boarding school era and its impact on generations of Native peoples.

The USA couldn’t leave them in peace either.

I’m gonna throw up, this is what the building is for now:

All I can do is hope that indigenous justice will feel just as good as this hurts because this isn’t justice.

[mohmadelser-deactivated20241227]

I was fine here and my life was normal And everything was fine

But as the days passed, and specifically in the last months of the war, my life began to fall apart, and this made my life complicated and everything different from what it was before.🍉💔

This is one of my pictures, I am cutting up my life now. It has become miserable. I used to live in peace, but the Israeli occupation destroyed my life and everything. I can no longer study or go to💔💔Now I need help and my family too 🙏🏻❤️🍉 Try in any way to help me please we need to get out of Gaza🙏🏻🙏🏻

This is the link to our page. You can help us with anything.

https://gofund.me/f784eeba

@90-ghost @el-shab-hussein @nabulsi @sar-soor @sayruq @queerstudiesnatural @appsa @communistchilchuck @fairuzfan @neptunerings @just-browsing1222 @appsa @akajustmerry @feluka @marnota @annoyingloudmicrowavecultist @tortiefrancis @flower-tea-fairies @tsaricides @riding-with-the-wild-hunt @vivisection-gf @belleandsaintsebastian @ear-motif @animentality @kordeliiius @brutaliakhoa @raelyn-dreams @troythecatfish @violetlyra @the-bastard-king @tamaytka @4ft10tvlandfangirl @northgazaupdates2 @skatehan @awetistic-things @nightowlssleep @baby-girl-aaron-dessner @friendshapedplant @mangocheesecakes @commissions4aid-international

[save-mohamed-family]

To those with compassionate hearts only,

I reach out to you with my broken heart, asking for help from God and from you. We are on the brink of a harsh winter, and I live in a tent that offers no protection from the burning heat of summer nor the biting cold of winter. Imagine, the rain falling, the wind howling, and here we are in Gaza, without shelter, without a roof to protect us, shivering from the cold, fighting every night just to survive.

My life has become an unending nightmare, and my children sleep trembling from the freezing cold, with fear gripping our hearts every time the clouds gather in the sky.

I beg you to share my account and contribute anything that could save us from this winter, which we dread more than ever before.

Look at how my child was in the past, and how he is now. His face once radiated innocence and angelic beauty, but now it has changed completely. This little face, once full of life, is now suffering, fading before my eyes. Where are the compassionate hearts? Who will help me protect my child, to provide the treatment he desperately needs before it’s too late? The pain I see in his eyes tears me apart, and all I can do is hope in God and the kindness of your hearts.

My children are waiting for your donations, even if it's just $5. Please, I beg you for your help.

Donate to Help Mohammed's Family Escape the Gaza Genocide, organized by S G

Hi, I'm a grad student in NYC who has been active in Palestine solidarity for a wh… S G needs your support for Help Mohammed's Family Escape

@nabulsi @sar-soor

@miametropolis

@gotchibam s @ragnarozzys

@troythecatfish

@heliopixels

@90-ghost

@dimonforever @i-am-aprl

@sayruq

@el-shab-hussein

@humanvoicebox

@faggotfungus @ghost-anatomy @three-croissants

@fairuzfakhira @ibtisams @ @vakarian-shepard @palipunk @palestinecharitycommissionsassoc @vakarian-shepard @northgazaupdates2

@tamamita

@stuckinapril

[guldaastan]

man i don't know how to say this but gazans here are risking their lives to make posts asking for help. they are asking for you to contribute a small amount of money to buy food or medicines or get shelter.

whether we like it or not, we are complicit in this genocide. either because of our silence, or because our tax money if being used to bomb them. i thought that people would be more eager to help gazans, trying to 'reverse' the damage somehow.

contrary to what i thought, people are moving on. they're moving on from the al-shifa hospital strike, they're moving on from refugee camp massacres and from school bombings, they're moving on from dead children and orphaned children.

please don't be indifferent. help my friend alaa amsse [ @alaakh998 ]. she urgently needs money to buy a new tent. she needs medicine for her sick son. her tent was flooded and she needs to buy supplies. please please help her if you have the means to. her fundraiser has been verified by 90-ghost and the butterfly project (#307).

donate

[guldaastan]

€13,450 raised of €15,000

please keep donating! alaa needs us and we can't let her down!