Directo Al Infierno

Cedar/Cerbin If you’re here for flaming hot garbage, you’ve come to the right place! Mostly shitposting, occasional fandom content. 18+ plz Ask me about commissions!!

[bruzum]

[lastvalyrian]

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

[jijidraws]

Oh won’t someone free a poor, defenceless, sweet mermaid? 🥺🖤✨✨✨

prints available xx

[sztupy]

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers

A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previou

[ayeforscotland]

Let’s fucking go

[made-in-manetheren]

This is HUGE.

1. The court holds Google responsible for statements made by its AI, considering them Google's statements (search engines have limited liability for results in their engine as they're the words of other sites/companies/people), meaning when their AI lies/hallucinates they're liable for the defamation/harm resulting from those statements.

2. Google's defense that customers are generally aware of the lack of reliability and are responsible for fact checking was dismissed. As the court pointed out, that would "significantly diminish" AI Search's stated purpose and it can't be distinguished from Google's business practices/statements as a search tool.

3. Studies have found about 91% of Google's everyday AI responses are accurate, leaving millions of searches per HOUR with potential liability for falsehoods. 56% of correct responses weren't supported by the sources the AI listed. Both of which mean Google is now liable for a LOT more AI "errors."

4. Google was held liable for 80% of court costs in this case and this precedent is expected to reverberate around the world. This is a massive shift from the 3rd-party search provider role Google has previously played and it comes right as they've tied ALL searches to their AI search.

TL;DR Google reeeeeally stepped in it this time.

[sackboys-moved]

Love not having a ”””fandom””” specific blog. Something new will just consume my mind and everyone has to accept it. My house

[orbcube]

one must imagine sisyphus bouncing on it and moaning

[flaque-de-sang-savoureux]

Unfortunately every time he gets close it slips out and he has to start over

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

One must imagine Sisyphus edged

[grayintogreen]

I think what might help the whole "low engagement in fandom spaces driving creatives out because they don't see the point in sharing anything only to get crickets or critics" is not the shaming tone of "look this is how you get nothing, you entitled shits" that tends to be very pervasive, but rather pointing out how actually rewarding it can be to leave nice comments.

I like to leave very long rambling comments on people's fics and that has actually netted me some very real, genuine friendships and we've become cheerleaders for each other. My friend has a D&D Podcast that she doesn't get ANY sort of engagement out of, so I started listening to it at work and livereacting the things I enjoy about it and showing her my investment and it makes her very happy and it makes me happy that she's happy.

Being nice to people... is actually a good enough reason to do things, shockingly enough. You don't have to do it. No one should shame you for not doing it. But it doesn't actually cost anything to make other people happy, especially if they created something that made you happy.

[thatoneanon20]

[Wakes up in cold sweat] SIMON FAIRCHILD IS ITALIAN

(Editing this to clear some misunderstandings SPOILER FOR I THINK MAG154?: Simon says he was a student of Tintoretto, an Italian painter from the Reinessance. I'm not pulling shit out of my ass or making a headcanon. This is canon. I just realized this stupidly late 😭)

[factual-entropy]

I motion the Four Seasons Theory, patented and trademarked by myself.

In the National Galleries of Scotland there are three paintings attributed to a Flemish pupil of Tintoretto that depict the Four Seasons. (Autumn is presumed lost.) The personifications of the seasons in the paintings have strange proportions, particularly with regard to their arms and legs, but good lord are the skies well-done compared to the rest of the shot. The perspective and depth given to them is shocking. In the case of Spring, it extends down past where the horizon should be.

Tintoretto, also known as Jacopo Robusti, was notorious for being very tight with who he let learn from him - he primarily taught to his sons and had fewer pupils than other artists of the time. The styles of his descendants were studied enough by historians that they would have been recognisable. These weren’t painted by any of his children.

The three surviving Four Seasons paintings are dated to around 1600 with a decent margin of error. Simon died from a fall during the construction of Il Paradiso, sometime around 1595.

In 1560, Jacopo drew an unidentified man seemingly in the pose of a bird.

Somebody drew his son’s name over the bottom, presumably because they thought it was his drawing. It wasn’t. This was Jacopo’s style. The way the picture was divided implies he had intended to make it into a painting.

Lord knows why he didn’t pull the trigger after having that drawing on him for over thirty years.

I postulate that Simon was the Belgian pupil.

[thatoneanon20]

OOOH THIS IS SUCH A GOOD ANALYSIS, it's incredible! I accept Belgian Simon but in my heart he's an insufferable Italian man

[factual-entropy]

Perhaps conditions are favourable to drop my other theory as well.

Tintoretto’s oldest son, Domenico, had a particular love for extremely stark and intense shadows on figures. His early style was so similar to his father’s that it was at first impossible for historians to tell what had been painted by Domenico as opposed to Jacopo.

Tintoretto could not finish Il Paradiso due to his age preventing him from climbing the scaffolding. So he had his son do it.

Following Il Paradiso, Domenico’s interests divulged from those of his father. He developed an obsession for landscape and background work as opposed to the actual people in the paintings, and he grew increasingly better at making them. He gave up his studio to another painter rather suddenly after a stroke rendered his painting hand inoperable. He died of unknown causes less than a year after the incident. Seemed to be in quite a hurry to get his affairs in order and pass away.

Funny how a bloke can die and yet never stop living.

[thatoneanon20]

LITERALLY JUMPING ON WALLS also Domenico does fit for Simon's name ngl

[factual-entropy]

There is one hole that I can find in each of my theories, but the Domenico one is generally more credible. You might have your insufferable Italian grandpa after all.

Simon is Belgian: Tintoretto only let his son work on Il Paradiso as he did not trust anyone else; the likelihood of a secret pupil working on it is low. Could be a result of more historical figure shipping (which the Magnus fandom loves).

Simon is Domenico Robusti: Domenico would need to have faked his own death when he was seventy-five, and due to being a high-profile artist, it would have been noticed if somebody else’s body had been interred in the grave. I don’t know if Simon would let himself be put in a coffin.

Source: Simon is my blorbo and I think about him and his life frequently. Go peepaw go. 🪂

[thatoneanon20]

10/10 would go on a roller coaster with Simon Fairchild and spend the time roasting Reinessance painters

[artfray]

Hen, 8"x8" Oil on canvas

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[iftadwascool]

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[kness]

Chicken cup 🐓🐓🐓

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[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Life must be a rollercoaster for the D class. You live in a shitty prison cell for the remainder of your probably extremely short life. One day some security guards show up and take you to a big room where a scientist tells you to copy an image onto some paper. You do. The scientist shrugs and writes something down and you're taken back.

One day a scientist hands you a poptart and says "eat this". You say "is it full of some kind of fucked up interdimensional poison". The scientist says "eat it or that security guard will tase you and tie you down and make you eat it". You eat the poptart. It is not full of fucked up interdimensional poison, but it is kind of stale. You describe the taste to the scientist and he shrugs and writes something down and you go back to your shitty cell.

One day a security guard takes you to a big room and there's a flute sitting on a table. A scientist tells you "play Hot Cross Buns on that". You explain that you do not know how to play the flute. You are instructed to try. You play the flute and get immediately get dragged into some incomprehensible shadow dimension and torn to pieces for no reason that makes any sense to you. You are very lucky to have survived so long and died so quickly.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This guy will spend hours staring at his blank wall and wondering what the fuck was in that chamber and why they thought he might know.

[ymfingsteadilyon]

Image transcription:

Experiment Log 426-1. Date: [censored] Subject: D-class personnel D/426/1 Procedure: D/426/1 was asked to describe what he believed was contained in my chamber. He was not informed about my identity or properties. Details: D/426/1 stated, "I'm probably some huge monster holed up in there. That's what you guys have all over the place, right?" D/426/1 remained oblivious to his use of the first-person pronoun.

End of description.

[magiclilybean]

[xanaxfarts]

Artist: Lindsey Marie

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[decompose1]

ohhhh shit. target is recalling their up & up baby wipes (fragrance free & fresh cucumber scented) because they're contaminated with Burkholderia cepacia complex and Burkholderia gladioli, multiple people are reporting discoloration & infections. i just got a call about it cuz i had purchased those but i've already gone through them 😅 so no refund for me. but im fine. if you have these they're saying you need to immediately stop using them and bring them back to target for a full refund. this bacteria can cause life threatening infections in children/infants and people with compromises immune systems (ESPECIALLY cystic fibrosis!!) and i know lots of other chronically ill people follow me!!!!

[decompose1]

Hold on i should've been more specific.

First: THIS RECALL IS NOT STATE SPECIFIC. IT IS NATIONWIDE.

here are the specific products and dates:

FDA page on this:

Target Recalls Up & Up Fragrance Free and Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes Due to Potential Microbial Contamination

Target is voluntarily recalling Up & Up Fragrance Free and Up & Up Fresh Cucumber Scented Baby Wipes following customer complaints of produc

[stitchthisfiona]

Today in niche genres of joke that I can never get enough of and will probably still be secretly thinking about four years later

[cleolinda]

[cleolinda]

[lotus0kid]

[lotus0kid]

[pomme-poire-peche]

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[sashaforthewin]

[ploobytumbls]

I took a bus to a conference today and the bus driver fully stopped the bus to identify and chastise a person who was playing music out loud on their phone. That is how you get me to actually complete the customer service survey specifically so I can give you top ratings

[ploobytumbls]

It's days later and I'm still thinking about this man. Full ass bus pulled over to the side of a state highway with the hazards on, stalking down the center aisle intoning "ALL RIGHT. WHO'S GOT IT. YOU CAN'T HAVE IT ON SPEAKER." I want to commission a statue of him. a hero. a king.

[roswellsoup]

bonus/proof:

we tipped her well dw. best waitress ever 🍒