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[eriong-inactive]

not online. all new posts are queued posts. find me on @khlur. won't be responding to asks and DMs.

[blemgoid]

been selling spells on etsy lately. $50 a pop and i just send the customer a photo of a burnt candle. thank you mentally ill women 🙏🙏🙏

[blemgoid]

to all da lamers/haters out there: i only offer shitty spells like for making people break up, lose job/money, get sick etc. so all my customers deserve 2 get scammed. i am a moneymancer and my only real spell is summon dollar

[transjemder]

God what’s that one poem abt homosexuality. Of all definitions of homosexuality I’ve read not one mentions love. That one

[transjemder]

Not a poem but from annie on my mind by nancy garden. I get it. I get it.

[sawasawako-archived]

the quickest gateway to anti-capitalism is understanding that the making of and engagement with art should not be considered a luxury

[hjbender]

The Four Discoursemen

[twinicegiantorbiters]

wasp girl captured under a glass. slide the paper under there

[fortooate]

the wasp girl has written her number on the paper wdyd

[urobsessedwme]

why would I want to date a protestant

[czesca]

new reblog game actually put in the tags what the blog you reblogged from tastes like

[geniusoflove]

i cannot get mad at myself for not being good at answering texts and dms n emails n returning phone calls when i know in my heart that human beings were never meant to receive this much correspondence. even half as much would make you a busy person. like its ridiculous what we’re all doing to each other. smash your phones

[gutslithroat]

50 years ago today, Indira Gandhi got the Indian Air Force to bomb its own people

The attempt to quell an uprising left deep scars on the collective memory of Mizoram, and led to an insurgency that lasted 20 years.

No one had imagined that the Union government would bomb its own territory. “It took us by surprise that the government had the courage to deploy jet fighters to bomb Aizawl that it dared not fly inside China or Pakistan,” said Remruata, a village council member. “Well, charity begins at home.”

[gutslithroat]

Following the bombing, the Union government implemented what it termed the “regrouping of villages” in which thousands of Mizos deep in the hills and hamlets of what is now Mizoram were forcefully displaced – their homes and villages burned – and relocated in centres along an arterial highway under armed guard ostensibly so that the Indian state could keep an eye on them.

[gutslithroat]

On this Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day, we urge for broader conversation on questions of women’s bodies, impunity and erasure as processes, and militarism as an ideology, in which we are all implicated.

Militarization exacerbates both public and private patriarchies, by both state and non-state actors. We, as Kashmiri women, find our selves constantly navigating the complexities of speaking about the everyday violence in our lives as women, without being seen as strengthening statist narratives, within Kashmir. At the same time, the intensive militarization of our lives and how it deeply affects every aspect of our relationships, communities, and identities remain unwritten in ‘feminist’ narratives about gendered violence in Kashmir.

[jacktheripperjrarchive918r737472]

[nicethingsinuglyhandwriting]

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it // Jeanette Winterson.

[luxlightly]

It's so important to remember that tumblr is bad. Has been bad. And will likely remain bad for the foreseeable future. And that is vital to our survival. If Tumblr was a good website that worked, it would get turned into a corporate hellscape like every other site. It's so important that Tumblr is broken and poorly run and impossible to effectively navigate. It's all that's keeping us safe.

[ghiresteem]

tumblr management know we feel this way though. They’ve just added trackers to sharing urls/links. The first step to targeted advertising, yay!

don’t get complacent about the possibility of tumblr becoming a corporate hellscape

[pokette]

remember that ANY text in a link after a ? is only tracking information and can ALWAYS be safely removed

[tainbocuailnge]

such a bitter irony to how everyone knows art doesn’t pay. nobody respects artists if you want to make money you need to go to tech school. I have a degree in what I like to call ‘the art school of tech school’ because a good third of the people enrolled including me had considered art school but ended up going for the promised employability of tech school instead and this particular degree boasted of being the most creatively oriented so that’s what us art school candidates flocked to. my dad got accepted into art school and they told him he wasn’t gonna make money with it though so he declined and studied AI instead.

but once in and out of tech school many techbros, the ones who never even considered art school because artists are airheads who should get a real job, inevitably find out sooner or later that they need art. not even necessarily to make the website for their latest startup look like anything other than shit but just to make the cataclysmic experience of being alive bearable. however they don’t respect artists because art doesn’t pay so they rack their brains for a way to make art pay the only way they know how, by running it past the increasingly less immutable truth that “tech is what pays”, and that’s how we get bulled shit like NFTs and AI art. look, the computer can do it too! us computer wranglers still provide more valuable contributions than those deadbeat artists who don’t make money!

maybe they don’t even consciously look down on artists. or maybe they do, I went to the art school of tech school so my sample population is biased. but either way the reality is that tech is losing its shining future and its trying to save itself by clinging to something they’ve always looked down on as having no future. it pisses me off, it threatens my livelihood as artist, but even more than being mad about it I have to pity them because all of us and them were promised futures that don’t exist anymore and perhaps never did. its unfair to the artists but it’s not fair to the techies either. none of us should have to be in the situations that lead us here.

[feotakahari]

“Programmers don’t understand the beauty of art” sounds suspiciously like reskinned “scientists don’t understand the beauty of nature.” Like, you can’t argue that Harold Cohen didn’t love art. AI was simply his approach to it, just like some folks approach their love of penguins by getting really into the study of penguins.

[tainbocuailnge]

hi! if you read the post again closely you will see that I say right at the top that a third of my fellow tech students were artists and I am thus in no way claiming that programmers as a whole don’t understand art! I know many programmers who deeply love the arts because I went to tech school with a number of people who deeply love the arts and some of us went on to earn our money as programmers instead of artists! if you read the post one more time you will notice that I clearly specify that I’m talking about the subset of programmers who look down on art (and implicitly by extension the humanities in general) as jobs that don’t pay in this post! it is because many programmers do in fact not respect or understand art that they have no qualms about using artists’ hard work as fodder for their “real” jobs even though a tech degree is no longer the guarantee it was promised to be either!

[feotakahari]

To try to explain where I’m coming from, I don’t believe in a distinction between AI art and “real” art. I think it’s as real as Duchamp’s urinal or Warhol’s soup cans.

You’re talking about how there are these people who create AI art because they don’t respect real art, but … well, there isn’t a polite or delicate way to say this, but I don’t trust you. For all I know, you could just as easily have seen people who create AI art, and decided that they must be motivated by a lack of respect for real art, because why else wouldn’t they stick to art you approve of? If you’re reacting to someone you’ve actually encountered, then I take it back.

[tainbocuailnge]

I disapprove of AI generated art because it is fundamentally stolen art. putting a few prompts into an AI and having it spit out something that matches based on the database of other people’s work it’s connected to by definition cannot result in anything actually new, original, or creative. the ingenuity behind the programming of the artificial intelligence itself can be considered a form of art, perhaps, and it is indeed a fascinating field with many potential applications. I don’t think all AI art is necessarily useless, I think it could find use in for example feeding it photos of landscapes to then generate fantasy locations to reference. there’s a conversation to be had about the artistry of an artist feeding their own work into an AI to see what it comes up with.

but the way it’s being applied, and what I’m complaining about when I say it disrespects art, is that techbros think their AI trained on original art created by real people can replace the people who created the original art that trained the AI in the first place, because they think programming is real work and art is not. the people messing around with AI image generators for fun may not necessarily lack respect for art, but the people who made the AI and fed it stolen art most certainly do. self proclaimed “AI artists” aren’t subtle about it being stolen art either, they will outright admit to just ripping off specific artists’ work.

it’s not about the realness of the art, it’s about the ethics of how it’s being applied. you could compare it to the urinal or the soup cans in that it opens up a conversation about what should be considered art, but my answer is that this is the wrong conversation to have, because regardless of whether it’s art or not it’s unethical

[transmechanicus]

MAKING AN AI OFF A LIVING ARTIST’S WORK AND FUCKING TAGGING THEM LIKE A SMUG CUNT SHOULD BE GROUNDS FOR DECAPITATION

[tsscat]

While I agree with the general sentiment of this post, I do object to call AI art “fundamentally stolen art” because that is simply not true. Art generation in AI is not just a computer collaging a bunch of pre-existing images, it’s a machine that develops constructs about how specific things look after looking about at a bunch of images and generating an image based on those constructs. It is somewhat comparable to how humans also after seeing something will develop constructs for how that thing might look like, and drawing it based on those constructs (like the architecture of GANs and diffusion models is not exactly the same as our visual cortex but whatever it’s more at a higher level).

However, this technology can very easily be used to essentially steal from artists. If you only train a machine on art from one artist, that machine will only produce art in the style of that artist. If you ask an AI to draw something that looks like Disney art, it’ll draw something that looks like Disney art. Notice that both of the examples given involve very intentional art theft. AI art technology doesn’t inherently steal art, art theft with AI is a choice you make that lies is how you choose the training data and prompt. This is not a trivial issue by any means. Intellectual property policy hasn’t caught up to AI art so it’s often a grey area when corporations and tech bros attempt to use AI to create art that looks like it’s from specific artist without compensating that artist. But this issue can only be combatted by 1) applying intellectual property policy to AI art, which inherently means recognizing the actual artistry that can occur with AI art generation, 2) in that vein, creating policy that targets rights for images to be used in training data and 3) a cultural shift in the tech community that acknowledges and values the work artists do and how it is essential for the development of generative AI models, something that is very in line with the core what you’re saying, op.

[peelingmandarins]

“Karl Marx is most famous as a critic of capitalism, but at the heart of his critique can be found a desperate plea for the transformation of work. People, he argues, express themselves and create the world through creative and collective activity. This natural tendency is twisted into something unrecognisable in work under capitalism. He didn’t just think work around him was bad because it took place in noisy and dangerous conditions, or for low wages and long hours. The problem of work was a fundamental one: under capitalism, work takes something human and turns it into something monstrous. The forces of capital become ravenous, eating up all that is human, sucking on the very lifeblood of society.”

— Amelia Horgan, Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (via probablyasocialecologist)

[taohun]

anyways

[improbablecarny]

it is absolutely anti-intellectualism to speak with authority on something you blatantly do not understand while simultaneously refusing to learn any more about it. that’s like a hallmark of anti-intellectualism. it doesn’t matter if you’re talking about horror or climate change lmao it’s a fox news ass approach to discussing ANYTHING