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This parade is one of the most thrown-together low-energy events I've ever seen. Our high school float parade had more enthusiasm.
The best part... Trump is bored out of his skull.
Though every once in a while he stands up and salutes.
It's really weird.
Also, they just paused the presentation to thank a sponsor.
Classy.
And now we present...
This slow moving truck!
Brought to you by...
Coinbase!
The President's app of choice to launder money from his dipshit followers.
Let's check in with Marco Rubio to see how he is enjoying the parade.
This deep sigh was brought to you by...
They started playing some 80s rock music to pep things up. But then I noticed none of the songs have vocals.
They are karaoke tracks!
One of which was Fortunate Son. And it is a good thing they didn't actually play the lyrics because, umm...
This really is the weirdest parade.
The audience is bored, the soldiers are waving to their moms, and Trump keeps saluting.
"I am the most Army-friendly President in history, from the standpoint of saluting."
Oh, brought to you by...
I've been liveblogging the parade.
It's like watching our tax money be set on fire.
They just had robot dogs.
Trump did not salute the robot dogs.
Also, Lockheed Martin is the new sponsor.
The US government is their biggest customer. 70% of their income is from the Department of Defense.
"Sure, we'll use some of the money you paid us to help pay for your little parade."
It's like a financial auroboros.
This must be the worst energy drink in existence.
The lowest energy crowd I've ever seen.
For one of the final acts, a walking corpse came on stage.
Turns out that corpse was Lee Greenwood, famous singer of "God Bless the USA."
He used up a fresh bottle of Just For Men and doesn't look a day over 112.
He kept trying to get the crowd into his song and he was getting frustrated that they weren't hyped to see an octogenarian sing.
He yelled, "Sing it with me!"
And they cut to Trump and his birthday entourage.
Very lively.
Pete sang along though. He was the only one.
Then Lee yelled, "Light up your cell phones!"
And then, finally, he won the crowd over and everyone swayed in unison—creating a majestic light show.
I'm just kidding.
8 people did it.
The night ended with a very lackluster fireworks show intercut with a military propaganda video.
And then everyone just kinda shuffled away.
I'm pretty sure Trump wanted a North Korea-style spectacle.
And instead he got the world's slowest truck.
He was having trouble hiding his disappointment.
What a waste.
How can somebody with this much money and this many guns have such a sad parade. His side of the line are constantly decrying "crisis actors" and paid protestors, you'd think they'd be able to hire some. He's got a literal army of soldiers, most of whom I'm sure know how to look disciplined on parade, in a country overflowing with up-and-coming actors desperate for a gig, and while a lot of actors might refuse such a gig for moral reasons or because it would put a black mark on their careers, there's plenty of right-wingers, short-sighted people, and guys who have to pay rent this week and not in five years when they have a better job to go around. A wedding planner could have done a decent job of this.
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February 21st 2024. Lama Jamous interviews other kids at the beach in Ghazzah. They all recount their displacement and survival of air strikes.
Well, see you, friends
https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/
Internal documents obtained by 404 Media show that Tumblr staff compiled users' data as part of a deal with Midjourney and OpenAI.
Don't go after staff members because of this, for what I know they weren't even informed until later in the process. You know who this comes from.
full article, for those who don't want to sign up for an account:
Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals.
The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 Media make clear that deals between Automattic, the platforms’ parent company, and OpenAI and Midjourney are imminent.
The internal documentation details a messy and controversial process within Tumblr itself. One internal post made by Cyle Gage, a product manager at Tumblr, states that a query made to prepare data for OpenAI and Midjourney compiled a huge number of user posts that it wasn’t supposed to. It is not clear from Gage’s post whether this data has already been sent to OpenAI and Midjourney, or whether Gage was detailing a process for scrubbing the data before it was to be sent.
Gage wrote:
“the way the data was queried for the initial data dump to Midjourney/OpenAI means we compiled a list of all tumblr’s public post content between 2014 and 2023, but also unfortunately it included, and should not have included:
- private posts on public blogs - posts on deleted or suspended blogs - unanswered asks (normally these are not public until they’re answered) - private answers (these only show up to the receiver and are not public) - posts that are marked ‘explicit’ / NSFW / ‘mature’ by our more modern standards (this may not be a big deal, I don’t know) - content from premium partner blogs (special brand blogs like Apple’s former music blog, for example, who spent money with us on an ad campaign) that may have creative that doesn’t belong to us, and we don’t have the rights to share with this-parties; this one is kinda unknown to me, what deals are in place historically and what they should prevent us from doing.”
Gage’s post makes clear that engineers are working on compiling a list of post IDs that should not have been included, and that password-protected posts, DMs, and media flagged as CSAM and other community guidelines violations were not included.
Automattic plans to launch a new setting on Wednesday that will allow users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties, including AI companies, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, and internal documents. A new FAQ section we reviewed is titled “What happens when you opt out?” states that “If you opt out from the start, we will block crawlers from accessing your content by adding your site on a disallowed list. If you change your mind later, we also plan to update any partners about people who newly opt-out and ask that their content be removed from past sources and future training.”
404 Media has asked Automattic how it accidentally compiled data that it shouldn’t share, and whether any of that content was shared with OpenAI, but did not immediately hear back from the company. 404 Media asked Automattic about an imminent deal with Midjourney last week but did not hear back then, either.
Another internal document shows that, on February 23, an employee asked in a staff-only thread, “Do we have assurances that if a user opts out of their data being shared with third parties that our existing data partners will be notified of such a change and remove their data?”
Andrew Spittle, Automattic’s head of AI replied: “We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. I want this to be an ongoing process where we regularly advocate for past content to be excluded based on current preferences. We will ask that content be deleted and removed from any future training runs. I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point. I don't think they gain much overall by retaining it.” Automattic did not respond to a question from 404 Media about whether it could guarantee that people who opt out will have their data deleted retroactively.
News about a deal between Tumblr and Midjourney has been rumored and speculated about on Tumblr for the last week. Someone claiming to be a former Tumblr employee announced in a Tumblr blog post that the platform was working on a deal with Midjourney, and the rumor made it onto Blind, an app for verified employees of companies to anonymously discuss their jobs. 404 Media has seen the Blind posts, in which what seems like an Automattic employee says, “I'm not sure why some of you are getting worked up or worried about this. It's totally legal, and sharing it publicly is perfectly fine since it's right there in the terms & conditions. So, go ahead and spread the word as much as you can with your friends and tech journalists, it's totally fine.”
Separately, 404 Media viewed a public, now-deleted post by Gage, the product manager, where he said that he was deleting all of his images off of Tumblr, and would be putting them on his personal website. A still-live post says, “i've deleted my photography from tumblr and will be moving it slowly but surely over to cylegage.com, which i'm building into a photography portfolio that i can control end-to-end.” At one point last week, his personal website had a specific note stating that he did not consent to AI scraping of his images. Gage’s original post has been deleted, and his website is now a blank page that just reads “Cyle.” Gage did not respond to a request for comment from 404 Media.
Several online platforms have made similar deals with AI companies recently, including Reddit, which entered into an AI content licensing deal with Google and said in its SEC filing last week that it’s “in the early stages of monetizing [its] user base” by training AI on users’ posts. Last year, Shutterstock signed a six year deal with OpenAI to provide training data.
OpenAI and Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment.
who would even want to opt in anyway?
Like great on giving the option i guess but as soon as it drops I can't imagine that anyone is going to pick any other option but opt out.
The rumour mill within ex-employees say they already sent the data to openAi, but I can't validate if that's exact or not
I feel like if there is/will be an opt out it violates the spirit of the option to not have even warned users this was coming.
Yeah that's a pure damage control setting. Once they have sent your data to openAI and Midjourney, you opting out won't take your posts out of the LLMs. It's shit and they know it.
2010s Black Tumblr didn't die organically. It was killed. Not just by staff, not just by the porn ban, but by the white userbase as well. Black bloggers were (and still are) being mass-reported and harassed off the platform constantly. White Tumblr users would post gore in problack tags, racefake left and right in Black people's askbox, pick random AAVE to call racist/misogynistic/transphobic, etc then get the Black people who were nice enough to explain what it means to them mass reported for harassment, the list goes on.
#yeah people forget the black community on tumblr was once so visible and massive we had Events#the blackout has p much been forgotten#the popular aesthetic blogs that created things like the art hoe movement are GONE#black tumblr is still here its just suppressed by unbearable whiteness#thats why we all get genuinely annoyed by your silly little polls and posts proclaiming loudly that you dont know donna summer.#or james baldwin#black people had a very active and connected community here once with its own subcultures and we were sundown towned out
The rest of the original tweet says "political justification to take their own life."
ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR
since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it
here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)
Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)
Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)
Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)
i think it's possible to feel several ways right now. to be horrifically disgusted and disappointed that the word ceasefire wasn't even considered. but to be excited and optimistic that the case is against the colonisers, that their reputation is smeared by international law, that the ball is rolling ever-steadily forwards. it's how i've felt for months. multiple feelings are possible, and i simply hope that what good happened today only accelerates
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Got high thought about power drills made a image. You know how it is. Happy new year Love you.
White stag shedding velvet
There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.
not me realizing that people are…defending alex jones? for “calling out” ye west? you know that he didn’t “call out” ye for being antisemitic, right. he did it because ye was being Too Obviously Antisemitic. ye killed his plausible deniability.
alex jones has made his living for over a decade on walking RIGHT up to that line and not overtly crossing it. he goes off about a “globalist conspiracy” every time he’s on air. he talks about the “jewish mafia.” ye just walked right over the line and said “Hitler was a good guy actually.” alex jones isn’t horrified at what ye said. it’s that ye said it OUT LOUD, ON AIR, WHILE STREAMING.
i refuse to live in an era of rehabilitation of alex fucking jones. jesus christ you guys.
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