Observations on Mostly Insignificant Things

An attempt at a blog by someone who's usually not into such sorts of social media. Expect things relating to music, various media I happen to like (including pics from ye olde 4Chan), the world at large, and the people that happen to be within it. Pretentious enough for ya?

[queen-zigzag]

[wonderarium]

hey people love bloopers where the puppeteers stay in character so heres the MST3k version

[s4ltedcod]

sometimes when I get frustrated I just draw picard after falling on the ground

[souperluminal]

Thinking about a duct tape wizard

[kamenwriter]

Red Green plays DnD

[macklesufficient]

rb to give it up for laura hall and linda taylor

[factoryangelheaven]

me, unsure of how to add an additional piece of context to my sentence:

the humble parentheses:

[faketype]

hedgehog stew

[zeroblogshere]

HEDGEHOG STEWSDAY

[jv]

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

[jv]

And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.

Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.

[jv]

Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.

[salora-rainriver]

Just tested. It’s possible to swap out pictures on already-published posts. So in that case, a solution:

Nightshade your photo posts now.

Even if you don’t post your own art anymore, go back to your old stuff and watermark it.

Do it ASAP, before the deal goes through and the scraping begins.

This will not only protect your art, but has the opportunity to fuck over this deal on a pretty large scale. The more of these posts that are glazed or poisoned, the less valuable this deal becomes for tumblr and midjourney.

Share this with everyone. And i do mean everyone.

[gwendolynewood]

[wrestlingvideogames]

[lohboh]

[lohboh]

Posts that Tumblr will blaze:

• Blatant NSFW that breaks community guidelines

• Christian proselytizing

• Vent posts

Posts that Tumblr won't blaze:

• Spoilers for a shitty game that lines a transphobe's pockets

[transarsonist]

🔥All Organic Blaze It Is Then🔥

[junkfoodcinemas]

The Fantastic Four (1994) dir. Oley Sassone

[kamenwriter]

Unironically still the best Fantastic Four movie

[doccywhomst]

may i present... them <3

[memewhore]

That took a turn.

[lovely-english-rose]

what a week huh?

[greentrickster]

NEVER FORGET

[greentrickster]

If anyone’s feeling a little tense at the moment, and can’t quite put their finger on why, here’s a reminder of how last November started and why this might be the case. o_o

[freak60000-moved-to-uniduck600]

moodboard for when you

[ggnnbvfgbjmbfgj-deactivated2020]

silly pictures of knights are my absolute favorite so heres a compilation. feel free to add more

[scrapconfirmed]

here’s a little bit of what i’ve got