midwest indigo

24 apathy/irony/post-modern anxiety

[cloud-winchester]

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[dykeselfcest]

AN ICON.....

[mudwerks]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

[flippyspoon]

like to charge reblog to cast financial ruin of the AI industry 🔮

[novella-november]

originally posted August 8th, 2025.

Authors have until March 30th, 2026 (That is just 9 days as of this reblog, which I am posting on March 21st, 2026) to file their claim against Anthropic to be reimbursed up to $3,000 per work found in the list.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement

Updated February 18, 2026 IMPORTANT: The Claims Deadline Is March 30 Background  Bartz v. Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits b

Please click the above link for all of the exact details of how to file a claim and to check for your works, and share this post as far and wide as you can before March 30th, 2026!

[shi1498912]

!!!SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOST!!!

[youre-only-gay-once]

late seasons spn lying: we're from the fbi

early seasons spn lying: my gay son's on a justin timberlake trip and he hasn't been home in a few days

[realpokemon]

Why doesn’t everybody have an absol?????? They’re literally accident and disaster detectors! Plus they’re soft and cute!

Sincerely, a confused absol owner

there’s a fine line when it comes to owning an absol tbh. if you have a well trained absol it’s great! a poorly trained absol is about as helpful as a carbon monoxide alarm that’s too sensitive

[realpokemon]

to answer the absol owners question. my absol has been Vocal about horrible calamites such as:

not enough food in bowl

too much food in bowl

snack cabinet locked

I will sneeze in an hour

he will sneeze in an hour

don't forget the classic Stranger At Door (its the Mail delivery) and Home Intruder (cutiefly on porch)

[identitty-dickruption]

surviving child neglect will have you thinking “am I ontologically evil for having needs?” meanwhile the need is. idk. not being yelled at for asking a question. or even. y’know. wanting food to eat

[xxtc-96xx]

financial situation isn't very good so I need to open these again

please consider Ko-Fi or joining my patreon too ^^

[lizleeships]

...Sam's cancelling his next Enochian lesson.

Happy belated Pride (convention season has delayed me a lot this year), with my most sincere apologies for this stupidity.

(Please don't repost, but reblogs are great!)

My kofi | My Patreon

[xxtc-96xx]

when they finally figured it out

hey at least they got a name for him now

[bidoof]

it’s level 100 and all it knows is pound. that’s great

[bidoof]

oh god i took this photo on a frame while it was blinking that makes it look really sad

[tropius2-deactivated20160313]

You made it feel inadequate

[bidoof]

i’m so sorry…………………..

[jawbone-the-tenth]

[thethirdromana]

They had overnight flower delivery in the 1890s??

[animate-mush]

Look the Netherlands takes its flower industry very seriously

[llywela13]

People underestimate how fast the Victorians could move things. There were no cars, so they had lots of trains instead - way more train lines than exist today, with much cheaper and more frequent services, because everything moved by rail so that was where all the investment went. This was the height of the industrial age, after all. And since there were no (or not many) telephones and no internet, they had multiple mail deliveries every day, because all communication was done by mail or telegram so that was where all the investment went. They had a same day mail service, even.

I’m not exaggerating about that, btw. My great-grandfather collected postcards all his life, starting as a little boy in Norfolk in the early 1900s, and among his collection is a postcard sent by a cousin who lived way up north. She posted the card first thing one morning saying that she was coming down by train to see her aunt and would be arriving at just after 3pm that afternoon - the same afternoon she posted the card. The card literally says ‘this afternoon’. Posted first thing, and it arrived in good time for her uncle and aunt to know they needed to meet her off the train at 3pm that same day - and she knew posting it that it would arrive in good time. Same day delivery, and that was something like 1905.

Flower shipments from the Netherlands to London in that same era was a booming business, that’s how all the markets were kept supplied. So yes, van Helsing could get flowers delivered overnight on a daily basis.

[virovac]

Also Van Helsing maybe took a few days to arrange it because he needed to contact a friend with a greenhouse even if the actual delivery was quick

[comicgeekscomicgeek]

Didn’t realize this was about Dracula at first. Tumblr! Come for the Blobos, stay for the history!

[toyota-supra]

What [car] would you build a time machine out of?

an old VW Beetle because it wouldn't look out of place literally anywhere

[aokozaki]

Lancelot: Egad sire! Look at that. King Arthur: Hm, rare to see a VW Beetle this far north. Not impossible, mind.

[xxtc-96xx]

a valentine spic with an actual couple?? that's a first from me :B (I had some boom outfits since they look older in that series)

bonus grown up Tails and also, the last bit was inspired by this animatic lol

[kyleblackpaw]

i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet

Don't feed the trolls

Never give out personal information

Anonymity is the best defense

Don't click suspicious links

Don't click popups and ads

Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true

You are responsible for your own experience

There is porn of everything, act accordingly

[xxtc-96xx]

hap birf, the cats are still angsting all these years later

[lyragoth]

Your comments about AI users being talentless tells me you don't really understand art. It's about the product, not the tools. You can waste your life learning how to use a thousand of brushes and programs and you'll be easily outshone by someone who uses AI to draw what they want. The 'talentless' usually crow on about techniques and tools and miss the point of making art.

"You can waste your life learning how to use a thousand brushes and programs" And there, this is the attitude of the non-artists-AI-lovers in a nutshell. You see, drawing artists like using brushes. "Someone who uses AI to draw what they want."

No. If you instruct the AI to do something, you aren't 'drawing' anything. "The talentless" The 'talentless' is you. Telling an AI what image you want to be drawn doesn't require any talent.

[starshadeemilyart]

yes, and the process is part of the art!

The Art IS NOT THE PRODUCT. IT IS THE PROCESS. The product is the evidence of the process. I learned that in art school, and I know it as an artist. The experimentation and the hard work of creating IS the point.

Art is communication. It is a practice. It is deeply human. What a machine makes is not art.

[thefloatingstone]

Art is not a problem to be solved.

[xxtc-96xx]

What’s the point of art at all if it’s not made by human hands as a product