[chronicrow]

just made a cohost, feel free to follow me! its ugly rn but i will improve it i prommy

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[gazehoundz]

Thanksgiving

Past and Present

The first Thanksgiving was different because they ate clams.

The first Tanksgiving was The same because we go to the super market.

[claypigeonpottery]

sold

a copy of an older design, based on the unicorn tapestries

[thecollectibles]

Art by Eldar Akmanaev

[cannibalchicken]

[gradschoolcryptid]

[elizabro]

please consider how you engage with aaron bushnell's death. you may react to it as you will, but it's crucial to remember that his death was specifically a call to action. it was not meant solely to shock but to draw attention to a vast moral hypocrisy: that to many, a soldier dying in a campaign backed by the U.S. government is noble, even if the soldier kills innocents to do so, even if the cause is morally bankrupt--but this? this is insanity. a man taking his own life, on his own terms, in an attempt to help others while hurting nobody else, is somehow less rational and more horrifying than the mass killing of civilians.

of course aaron's death was horrific. but as he said beforehand, it is realistically no more horrific than what's happening in gaza. if we can't stomach this, then why can we stomach children being bombed? thousands being starved? for all that self immolation is, it brings death in a matter of minutes. it is a fraction of the amount of pain, fear, and grief that people in gaza are experiencing. it's just that we are able to quantify it. and this tiny, quantifiable sliver of horror is still so unbelievably awful. how can anyone bear to think about anything else when this horror is happening a millionfold in palestine? this is the question aaron bushnell was asking. and he wanted you to face it, head-on, watching him burn to death.

I've been seeing people make fanart. minimalist graphics to sell on t-shirts. to commodify his death, to mythologize it not a day afterwards, is not only in poor taste but a hindrance to his message. the answer is not commodification, nor is it defeatism, nor is it rejoicing in his death. if you want to honor aaron's legacy, take action. channel your horror and your outrage into making a material change. this wasn't about him. this was about palestine. remember that it was always about palestine.

[wombrion]

[wombrion]

[wombrion]

[opencommunion]

incarcerated people are shutting down Alabama prisons and asking for your solidarity

Alabama prisons are the deadliest and most crowded prisons in the US. Their violence extends to gas chamber executions and illegal organ harvesting. The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is currently facing two federal lawsuits: one for enslaving Black detainees by denying them parole and leasing out their forced labor and another for targeting strike organizers. ADOC rakes in more than $450 million annually in profits from forced labor, and that's not including the profits incarcerated people generate for private corporations such as McDonald's and Raytheon. In response to these abuses, and in particular the horrific beating of six handcuffed detainees by Lt. Edmonds at Donaldson Prison on February 24th, the Free Alabama Movement (FAM) has organized a minimum 90-day statewide prison shutdown/work stoppage. They are calling on supporters outside the prison walls to show solidarity. If you're located in or around Alabama, show up to the protest at St. Clair Prison in Springville, AL on Saturday March 2nd. For rideshare coordination contact the Tennessee Student Solidarity Network on IG or by email: [email protected] "Outside support for us starts at the prisons. That's where we need people. Come to one of the protests, show your face, and tell us that you support us. That's how we know that you support us. Outside support is the first step." - FAM

Everyone in the US, call Donaldson Prison at [phone] and ask them to fire Lt. Edmonds for his brutal violence against incarcerated people.

[opencommunion]

incarcerated people are shutting down Alabama prisons and asking for your solidarity

Alabama prisons are the deadliest and most crowded prisons in the US. Their violence extends to gas chamber executions and illegal organ harvesting. The Alabama Department of Corrections (ADOC) is currently facing two federal lawsuits: one for enslaving Black detainees by denying them parole and leasing out their forced labor and another for targeting strike organizers. ADOC rakes in more than $450 million annually in profits from forced labor, and that's not including the profits incarcerated people generate for private corporations such as McDonald's and Raytheon. In response to these abuses, and in particular the horrific beating of six handcuffed detainees by Lt. Edmonds at Donaldson Prison on February 24th, the Free Alabama Movement (FAM) has organized a minimum 90-day statewide prison shutdown/work stoppage. They are calling on supporters outside the prison walls to show solidarity. If you're located in or around Alabama, show up to the protest at St. Clair Prison in Springville, AL on Saturday March 2nd. For rideshare coordination contact the Tennessee Student Solidarity Network on IG or by email: [email protected] "Outside support for us starts at the prisons. That's where we need people. Come to one of the protests, show your face, and tell us that you support us. That's how we know that you support us. Outside support is the first step." - FAM

Everyone in the US, call Donaldson Prison at [phone] and ask them to fire Lt. Edmonds for his brutal violence against incarcerated people.

[sumikatt]

the darling Glaze “anti-ai” watermarking system is a grift that stole code/violated GPL license (that the creator admits to). It uses the same exact technology as Stable Diffusion. It’s not going to protect you from LORAs (smaller models that imitate a certain style, character, or concept)

An invisible watermark is never going to work. “De-glazing” training images is as easy as running it through a denoising upscaler. If someone really wanted to make a LORA of your art, Glaze and Nightshade are not going to stop them.

If you really want to protect your art from being used as positive training data, use a proper, obnoxious watermark, with your username/website, with “do not use” plastered everywhere. Then, at the very least, it’ll be used as a negative training image instead (telling the model “don’t imitate this”).

There is never a guarantee your art hasn’t been scraped and used to train a model. Training sets aren’t commonly public. Once you share your art online, you don’t know every person who has seen it, saved it, or drawn inspiration from it. Similarly, you can’t name every influence and inspiration that has affected your art.

I suggest that anti-AI art people get used to the fact that sharing art means letting go of the fear of being copied. Nothing is truly original. Artists have always copied each other, and now programmers copy artists.

Capitalists, meanwhile, are excited that they can pay less for “less labor”. Automation and technology is an excuse to undermine and cheapen human labor—if you work in the entertainment industry, it’s adapt AI, quicken your workflow, or lose your job because you’re less productive. This is not a new phenomenon.

You should be mad at management. You should unionize and demand that your labor is compensated fairly.

[the-composite-doll]

I am reading the subreddit page and it's by the r/StableDiffusion subreddit

Which is not to say there is no case, but a "Consider the Source"

https://www.reddit.com/r/ArtistLounge/comments/11u36fa/what_do_you_think_of_glaze_the_ai_that_protects/

Here, artists have noted how AI image generators are already trying to 'break' Glaze and that the technology is brittle, but better than nothing.

https://www.businessinsider.com/glaze-artificial-intelligence-artists-intellectual-property-midjourney-openai-stability-2023-7?op=1

https://haveibeentrained.com/ seems to be able to tell if your art has been scraped

I'm going to keep looking into this.

[sapphicteaparty]

OP uses AI image generation in their works so before you all spread this post at least be aware of this bias. the only other ppl that call these free non-commercial tools (glaze & nightshade) a "grift" are AI bros.

the issue with generative AI has never been its lack of originality, that's a misdirection from the ethical issues of this technology: namely that artists' works have been scraped and trained on without their consent, credit and compensation. these AI models are not able to generate anything without all the artwork they have plagiarized. that's the core issue here.

last i checked neither glaze nor nightshade have been successfully bypassed on broken, despite what AI bros claim. at best they can detect the images that have been shaded or glazed and exclude them from training sets which would be a win and a proof that they work as deterrents. keep glazing and nightshading.

[sumikatt]

That is a lie. I’ve used AI exactly twice in my art and that was to discuss it. I was very open about it. I have an “real” art tag dating back to 2017 that you can click on. I drew my own icon! I just happen to also have an interest in programming and machine learning and how generation actually works.

I am saying that Glaze isn’t good protection. I am advising that you should use a proper watermark with your username/logo if you don’t want people to make models of your art style. Watermarks deter more than Glaze would, but also doesn’t prevent your work from being used.

I am also advising that artists organize and unionize to combat worsening conditions under the guise of automation. I’m literally on your side. I’m kind of shocked how nastily people are reacting to this.

[wizardarchetypes]

It’s so frustrating to see the post about chronic fatigue and dysautonomia regarding my struggle with long Covid going around, with extremely bitter and presumptuous tags like “lol! welcome to being disabled! you didnt care about us before!”

I really get the sentiment there. The bitterness. The rage that able-bodied people didn’t listen to you until they were disabled themselves. After they threw you under the bus during the pandemic and didn’t care what happened to you until they were you. The emotional conflict between welcoming newly disabled people into the fight  for accessible and equitable care and the resentment that they never fought for you.

Do you know how I understand that?

Because I was already disabled before covid! I have had a physical and a developmental disability since birth.

I’ve gotten some extremely nasty comments on my post about how Covid has further disabled me, from members of the very community I have belong to since the day I was born. It’s so disheartening. It costs you literally nothing to not presume to know a person’s three decades of health history.

Idk. Again, I understand the bitterness, because I’ve experienced it myself. But it’s misplaced, and some of y’all are extremely quick to judge and mean-hearted!!

[wizardarchetypes]

and even if I weren’t previously disabled. How do you go about assuming that I didn’t care about disabled people or the pandemic?

As a disabled person, of course I have complicated feelings about the way the world finally cares about us, now that previously able-bodied people are experiencing what we’ve experienced our whole lives.

But I am also thrilled beyond words that one result of this nightmare is that people are finally paying attention. Research into treatment for our disabilities is finally getting the funding that just four years ago seemed impossible.

And yes. I’m sure there are people who broke lockdown. Who didn’t mask. Who didn’t care. Who considered it survival of the fittest. And now they’re complaining about living the lives we’ve been living for years. That sucks.

But do you know who else is newly disabled as a result of Covid infections? Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people belonging to some of the most vulnerable communities in the world. People in homeless shelters. Refugee camps. People making poverty wages as cashiers who didn’t get the privilege of working from home. Healthcare workers. Teachers, who are so often thrown under the bus in our country.

The data started coming in as early as summer 2020 that Black and Latino communities were being disproportionately affected by the pandemic. 

They do not deserve our anger! They were just as abandoned as us!

[getrope1]

You cant make this shit up

[beeftony]

[stuckinapril]

the situation in sudan is dire. allied militants are targeting sudanese people in darfur on the basis of nothing but their ethnic identiy. telecommunications in sudan have all but shut down, impeding access to details of the atrocities that are being committed as we speak. people are being killed, their homes are being looted, they're having to relocate to other cities--only to fall prey to militant forces again, which are going out of their way to pillage more and more areas. although it's been difficult getting hold of footage in sudan, the ones that have managed to come out have been entirely horrific. just like palestine, sudan is falling victim to ethnic cleansing.

ramadan is coming soon, and it's a time of selfless giving and kindness. as we come closer and closer to it, please consider donating to ramadanforsudan--an initiative started by SAPA to raise humanitarian aid for sudan. as always, even the smallest penny counts. if you can't donate, make sure to spread this to someone who can. this is extremely time-sensitive, and it could use all the donations and coverage it can get.

[stuckinapril]

if you haven’t seen any footage about sudan yet, it’s because they literally have a telecom blackout, giving militant forces the perfect chance to go on committing atrocities with no one the wiser. even so much as giving a sudanese journalist spotlight puts a target on their head—that’s how dire the situation is getting. it’s important to elevate sudanese voices that are trying to communicate the severity of the mass cleansing happening in real time.

with that in mind, please consider donating—however little it may be.

[helicalsymmetry]

i forgot how fucking hilarious "informational" mental health diagrams can be.

[glorianas]

a lot of YA and fantasy stuff has always been a little cringe and silly but at least it used to be cringe from the heart instead of designed in a lab to get teens on tiktok to use a certain sentence from it

[zebrabyopn3]

It's frustrating to see people already moving on. Showing vocal, explicit support for us is still important

People keep harassing those who are talking about transmisogyny, racism and anti-blackness, arguing the validity of these real problems in our communities; people keep harassing and sending threats to us for showing our faces and bodies, having kinks they personally dislike, and being vocal about our issues; people keep thoughtlessly sharing call-outs purposefully targeting transwomen; and, people keep loathing or ignoring any kind of socially unacceptable, weird, awkward, loud, horny or annoying person in our communities, further ostracizing us

Keep loving the trans women in your life. We're not welcome here, but we'll stay, and we won't shut up

[enki2]

[noadventureshere221b]

LISTEN TO ME. THIS IS COMPLETELY TRUE. THEY WORK EXACTLY THE SAME. GET THOSE INSTEAD.