Tenka Fubu

This my personal Tumblr. Meaning it's just going to have a bunch of random stuff I like. Which is really just a mess of comics, anime, tech news, culture and any number of other things. Occasionally I post original content. It's just my own weird art...

[wumblr]

i genuinely love all these sacrificial lambs slaughtering their own careers using AI. i mean we all know i'm saying this for refined, knowledgeable reasons, from my community college computer information systems certificate, but i'm kissing each of them on the heads as they try to cite legal precedent that doesn't exist and get published for the first and last time ever in frontiers in cell and developmental biology and i'm watching them herd each other off a cliff. they're so wooly to me and so, so stupid

[wumblr]

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot

Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

wow! a whole airline

[generalevilg]

Class traitors—hell traitors to humanity—all of them. Fuck "AI", fuck ChatGPT, fuck Midjourney, fuck Gemini, fuck CoPoint, fuck OpenAI, fuck all of them. This garbage and go ahead and generatively pre-train and transform itself out of my life.

[mysharona1987]

[ushimimihandjobs-deactivated202]

What if jayez was a cow girl with huge sloshy tits and said “mega milk drops january 7th” and then ran and his tits jiggles lol

[kira-serialfaggot]

[generalevilg]

Reblogging despite the fear of manifesting this into reality.

[cannibal-sarracenian]

"Alright, time to see what this animated poetry movie is like-

Oh jesus christ"

[generalevilg]

Never before has alcoholism looked this exciting. Gotta get some of this wine!

[alternative-snake]

make a Beast

eyes

wings

legs

teeth

bioluminescence

spikes

fur

nose

claws

scales

height

length

Voting ended onJan 22, 2024

i must ask you reblog this so said beast, you know. actually has attributes

[aplpaca]

[generalevilg]

Reblogging for attributes.

[pubby-pupperoni]

Heads up to not use Duolingo or to cease using it

In December 2023 they laid off a huge percentage of their translation teams, replacing them with ai and having the remaining members review the ai translations to make sure the translations are “acceptable” (Note how they use the world acceptable and not accurate)

Link to the tweet that informed me of this:

https://x.com/rahll/status/1744234385891594380?s=46&t=a5vK0RLlkgqk-CTqc0Gvvw

If you’re a current user prepare for an uptick in translations errors as I’ve already seen people in the comments say they’ve noticed

[redsixwing]

Duolingo has been shifting toward AI since last September according to their blog.

https://blog.duolingo.com/how-duolingo-experts-work-with-ai/

The rate of mispronounced words (mostly on/kun substitutions in Japanese) has gone dramatically up in my lessons, and I'm willing to bet this is why.

[generalevilg]

Sick of this Owl.

[spooksier]

passages that make you whisper "oh my god"

[transmutationisms]

spam emails are horrifying on an entirely different level once you actually begin to grapple with the material reality of ‘cyberspace’. how many servers were involved in dumping this message into my trash folder, where are they located, how much water goes into cooling them every day? where did the metals come from to build these facilities, who maintains them, how much labour and suffering and exploitation is required to bombard me with 50 messages a day i don’t even look at for products i will never buy? not just useless or a nuisance, but actively harming the earth & its people, and for what. zero social value, zero human communication, just capital trying to metastasise

[mightyoctopus]

Blind Tumblr users: don’t get the latest iOS app update!

I just updated my tablet to the newest version of the tumblr app for iOS and it completely broke screen reader access for both VoiceOver and Spoken Content. This has happened in the past already, so I will file a support ticket and copy-paste my text from last time, but this really sucks. I sincerely hope this doesn’t affect all screen reader users, but I’m unsure how they could program this bug in a way it only affects me. If you rely on a screen reader to use the tumblr app, I’d advice to not get the latest update to be on the safe side.

When I say “completely broke access”, what I mean is that no posts on my dash or on individual blogs get read or recognized at all. No plain text, alt text, tags, etc. Note count and buttons still work though.

If you also run into this bug, here’s my advice. If anyone has something more useful, please tell me

File a support ticket and report this bug

Use the browser web version, which still works for me

Interestingly, if you save a post to your drafts and click on “edit” the post text seems to get read correctly. This might be a work-around for some people.

If you have the latest version but your screen reader didn’t break, also please tell me! I would be fascinated to know if this bug is only affecting some people

TL;DR: The latest tumblr app update for iOS made it so screen readers no longer work in the app

Please boost!

[electricpurrs]

i think of this ProZD video constantly its always so fucking funny

[taahko]

every so often im struck by the memory of one of my college professors getting very angry with our class (art history of pompeii 250) because when she excitedly detailed the ingenious roman invention of heated floors in bathhouses via hearths in small crawlspaces, we asked who was tending the fires. she said "oh, slaves i suppose. but that isnt the point". and we said that it actually very much was the point. she had just told us that in roman society there were dozens of people, maybe hundreds, who spent every day of their enslaved lives crawling in cramped, hot, smoky tunnels to light fires to warm pools of water (which they were not allowed to swim in). how could that not be the point?

she wanted us to focus on the art, on the innovation of heated plumbing, on the tiles and decorations of the bathhouses, and all we wanted to do was learn more about the people under the floors. and she didn't know anything more about that. in fact, she said she thought we were focusing too much on superfluous details.

it feels almost hokey to put too fine a point on the idea im getting at here but i will anyway: There are a lot of people who are still under the floors. all these beautiful, convenient, brilliant innovations of modern society (think fast fashion, chatgpt, uber, doordash) are still powered by people working in inhumane, untenable conditions.

the people who run these systems want you to focus on the good - who doesnt love warm water? - but if anything is going to improve or change in our lifetimes, you need to examine these things with an attentive, critical, and empathetic eye. and for fucks sake stop ordering from amazon

[skopostheorie]

This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy

[curiooftheheart]

I don't speak French so thank you to the many, many, many people in the notes going "Wait that's not 'can it' that's 'Shut the fuck up'"

[home-and-having-tea]

@ok-be-nice-to-me-pls

[bigpeepee]

@eyeldritch

[pasta-is-magnificent]

[kingscrown666]

[anarchist-rat-swarm]

M-M-M-MULTIKILL!

[what-if-doctor-who-was-yuri-yaoi]

[enraged-chihuahua]

ur first and last recent emojis are ur gender now. mine is 🅱👨‍❤‍💋‍👨

[medianox-astrum]

[eclipxium]

[generalevilg]

😆🙄

[cosmicanger]

Lucky 7 cow reblog for good luck

[krudman]

[pastperfectcontinuous]

Jeanette Winterson

[azspot]

“Silicon Valley has ultimately become beholden to venture investment, which has in turn created an incentive to resemble a certain type of founder or a certain type of company. When these investments succeed — either through raising a big round, garnering media attention, or experiencing a liquidity event — investors begin to favor similar-looking investments and resemble the venture capitalists that invested in them. The result is that the valley begins to experience a form of intellectual inbreeding, where venture capitalists fund their own biases, which in turn creates a culture within founders to resemble said biases, which leads to a monoculture shaped by money. Instead of blazing a trail to the future, the Valley has created its own digital Habsburgs. These are the people that want to control the future of our genetics, put chips in our brains, make us live longer on their terms and build our cities in their image — a conveyor belt of mediocre men who have convinced themselves they’re gods.”

— You Are Not The Man In The Arena