The American Freak Show

Hello Mags Here! Female. Sun in Taurus with moon in Cancer.  What is this blog?

[iamthemaestro]

found this at an antique shop the other day and was immediately like oh this belongs on tumblr. sniles sneetly. fwowns fwangry.

[teaboot]

I hate you Ozempic craze I hate you 'heroin chic' I hate you weight loss ads on public radio I hate Burn Fat Fast ads every thirty seconds I hate you I hate you I hate you

[dirtypuzzle]

two unbelievably frustrating things are true at once:

1. the amount of policywork to fix some of the things that desperately need fixing in this country (esp healthcare) is fucking astronomical, and it’s largely invisible work that either magically seems to get done or isn’t blamed when a political project fails without it

2. this work could asbolutely be done by willing stakeholders if anyone in power had a fucking spine or even a teaspoon of leadership ability

[dedalvs]

By special request from the LTS Discord…

Who’s more sexually desirable: Scar or Thanos?

No context; no middle ground. Choose your fighter.

Who does it for you?

Scar

Thanos

Remaining time: 1 day 12 hours

[pauljpeg]

I wish all the pee came out in one go like a shotgun blast

[dovv]

[shrimpkidd]

[equius]

you just dont get this on other websites

[olreid]

help

[catgirlhell]

[jess-abides]

This is it, this is the one

[fictionalauthorityii]

Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted

Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine

[wageronancap]

[odessa-edmundson]

'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a

[sophiemars]

TLDR: company is bulk buying millions of books - including really old/rare/unique ones - to train AI. But in order to scan them quickly, they cut the spine out and trim the pages, effectively destroying these books, and then "recycle" the remains. A judge says it's legal. The company knows it's unethical and actively tried to hide the practice. None of the scanned copies are available to the public.

[sailorsmoon]

[puppygirldick]

Viktor Lyapkalo Artwork: 'Blowing bubbles' & 'Evening' Painted 9 years apart.

Same woman

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Yooo I went and looked up the Artist responsible for these masterpieces and holy shit did this guy love Big Women:

[nudity under the cut]

A man of excellent taste, I dare say!

[theanswertoyourquestionisyes]

Reblogging a second time to add that this is an active, alive artist and you can find him here:

http://www.lyapcalo.ru/

Website isn’t linking properly but if you google him, you’ll find him!

[cloudabserk]

i knew the dallas mavericks gave up two really good point guards (luka dončić and jalen brunson) in disrespectful & stupid ways but i didn’t know they also called both players fat in the process

this is so embarrassing for the team. how do you fumble like this

[cloudabserk]

like all fatshaming is childish & disgusting but when it comes to professional athletes at the top of their game it just exposes the whole thing as a completely nonsensical facade

[captain-price-returns]

[1dietcokeinacan]

#GOOD #MORE

[maswartz]

[fractally]

This has been my main argument against "AI" from the very beginning.

OpenAI scraped the entire web. All of which had been a labor of love from humans. Wikipedia is the backbone of a lot of LLMs, and that was volunteer human labor. They stole it and now they're selling it back to us.

And worse, they're trying to destroy the free sources that they stole from. It's destruction of human knowledge on an unprecedented scale. The burning of the library of Alexandria has nothing on this.

[byjove]

at least now we know why he has yet to return when Britain is in peril

[kitkatmoose]

We need a flick where King Arthur wakes in modern Jamaica and is very confused.

[byjove]

I think that would be so much funny. He wakes up on a remote beach in Jamaica and he only speaks/understands Brythonic and Medieval Latin. Locals assume he was a tourist who fell from a cruise ship or received a head injury and floated away from a resort. The authorities cannot match his description to any missing persons reports and his fingerprints and DNA produce no hits on INTERPOL. They suspect he may be Welsh or French because the language he speaks resembles Welsh or Breton but France and the UK both state he is not a citizen of their country. Stateless and deeply confused, he is taken in by the community near the beach where he was found, being cared for by a number of local families and doing odd jobs. He slowly learns English and adjusts to the contemporary world, uncertain if his belief that he is the legendary King Arthur was formed by whatever traumatic event caused him to end up Jamaica or if he is actually King Arthur and Prydain is in eminent peril. Mysterious letters from Morgan begin to reaffirm his belief he is King Arthur. He must choose between staying in Jamaica and continuing the happy life he has made for himself or finding a way to get back to Britain without any documentation.

[a-daks]

ancient king white boy stuns locals by ordering in perfect Jamaican Patois

[byjove]

He gets to Britain and everyone expects him to sound like a posh noble Englishman because that is the picture Malory painted but he prefers to speak Welsh and when he has to speak English, he speaks with a thick Jamaican accent.

[threehams]

This comment on HBomberguy’s plagiarism video had me cackling, but also grateful we’re not in that timeline.

[iamwizzzzz]