I'm a queer trans dude that"s at least 30 that likes art, music, (old) tech, photography, history, the sky, writing, and video games. i'm currently learning how to build websites and used to make art all the time. i’ve been using tumblr on & off since 2010 + terminally online from 2002-ish. i regret everything lol.
I recently had someone like AND reblog a bunch of my posts. Please do not do this, or something similar. It was really panic-inducing for me to see bunch of notifications when I barely go on here.
i have a new theory called alive internet theory where i propose that the internet is full of real people and you can befriend some of them even and maybe actually kiss them and more
Recall uses AI features "to take images of your active screen every few seconds."
I think every computer user needs to read this because holy fucking shit this is fucking horrible.
So Windows has a new feature incoming called Recall where your computer will first, monitor everything you do with screenshots every couple of seconds and "process that" with an AI.
Hey, errrr, fuck no? This isn't merely because AI is really energy intensive to the point that it causes environmental damage. This is because it's basically surveilling what you are doing on your fucking desktop.
This AI is not going to be on your desktop, like all AI, it's going to be done on another server, "in the cloud" to be precise, so all those data and screenshot? They're going to go off to Microsoft. Microsoft are going to be monitoring what you do on your own computer.
Now of course Microsoft are going to be all "oooh, it's okay, we'll keep your data safe". They won't. Let me just remind you that evidence given over from Facebook has been used to prosecute a mother and daughter for an "illegal abortion", Microsoft will likely do the same.
And before someone goes "durrr, nuthin' to fear, nuthin to hide", let me remind you that you can be doing completely legal and righteous acts and still have the police on your arse. Are you an activist? Don't even need to be a hackivist, you can just be very vocal about something concerning and have the fucking police on your arse. They did this with environmental protesters in the UK. The culture war against transgender people looks likely to be heading in a direction wherein people looking for information on transgender people or help transitioning will be tracked down too. You have plenty to hide from the government, including your opinions and ideas.
Again, look into backing up your shit and switching to Linux Mint or Ubuntu to get away from Microsoft doing this shit.
Steps to Disable or Uninstall 'Recall' in Windows 11 24H2
there are multiple options here depending on how comfortable you are digging into your computer's registry. You can either simply disable it surface level through settings or excise it entirely from the system registry
reblogging again as a cautionary tale to please PLEASE fucking make a system restore point before you do anything. i consider myself tech savvy and still nearly bricked my computer. and make sure you know how to access safe mode
I don't have much more to say that hasn't been said before about the whole situation w/ tumblr implying that users should assume anyone from the global south with a fundraiser is a scammer.
But I will say, after having staff in my DMs talking down to me about scammers and now this? This whole situation isn't coming as a complete shock. I was reached out to by staff prior to this happening (like earlier this year), and was sent a list of the same "signs of scammers" that zionists were weaponizing against us (and still are, I suppose).
They couldn't provide me with any solid proofs of people being scammers beyond weak arguments and the classic "just trust me, bro" They did not want to listen to or take in my perspective, which is built on my lived experience as a Palestinian, knowing Palestinian culture, knowing how we talk and our attitudes and how to communicate. And they insisted that they were right and I was wrong. They dismissed any clarification I gave on the vetting process and how Gazans on tumblr operate. They dismissed when I pointed out the flaws I saw in their own methods.
And I didn't press the issue at the time, just said that I'd be careful and moved on. My friends and I kept brainstorming to take more measures to make sure we were even more strict and even more careful that every single person we add to our list is legit.
(side note: they proved they were staff by answering a months old ticket where I'd reported blog #398534394 by that ox/ford comma loser, as if he hasn't remade another billion times since then. And I know this post is about something else, but WILD that this dude's been allowed to harass Palestinians on this site for YEARS and staff does nothing about him)
Anyway this is staff, yet again, thinking they know better than Palestinians, speaking down to us, acting like we don't know what we're doing or what we're talking about.
I was told that if I wanted to check on blogs, I could just submit a ticket and send it to staff and they could run a check to see if it's legitimate, and honestly? With staff's track record of deleting Palestinians on this site? People like Mohd Ayesh who has time after time proven he is a real genuine Gazan. This man was trekking through a war zone, putting himself though intense stress to do this for YOUR benefit. So you can have peace of mind knowing that you're donating to real legitimate people. And tumblr staff seemed to be certain enough he's a scammer apparently to delete his blog every single time he remade it.
There is no way I can trust tumblr staff to tell whether or not someone is a scammer, not back then, and certainly not now.
My name is Amira, I am 8 years old 👱🏻♀️. I spent my childhood in northern Gaza, where I was in school every day, dreaming of a future full of achievements 🏫. But suddenly everything changed. My house 🏡, where I lived with our family, was bombed, and there was nothing left. We will plan your business hard, and I never imagined you would plan to start a monthly days like this. 😞🌹🌹
After the bombing destroyed our house, we had no choice but to flee to the south. We are now living in a tent ⛺ on an empty lot 🏫 with hundreds of other families. This tent has become our new home, but it doesn't look like it. There are no walls to protect us from the heat of the day or the cold of the night. During the day, the sun is ☀️ so hot that it feels like my skin is burning, and at night, the cold 🥶 is unbearable. Sometimes, I cry because of the extreme cold, and I cover myself with everything I can, but it is no use.📢
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The school I live in is now a place that holds all our pain. I no longer go to school like I used to. Standing in long lines to get water has become part of my daily life.❤💔
I dream of returning to my old life, where I used to go to school and play with my friends. I used to dream of becoming a great person in the future, but now I feel like those dreams are getting further away from me every day. The war took everything from us: our home, our safety.
Part of our suffering.😞🙏🙏
I live in this place, and I don't know when we will be able to escape this nightmare. I wish I could scream as loud as I could, but no one hears. We are here in the shadows, in a world full of destruction and sadness. All I ask now is for this war to end, and for us to find a way out of it. We just want to live a normal life, away from fear and destruction. 💔🇵🇸💔
Nour’s accounts get deleted as soon as she makes them, but she was vetted by 90-ghost and I know the people who transfer money to her, who have her address, bank info, etc. — which are all very much Gaza-based. GFM used their ID verification software to validate her Palestinian ID too. She’s legit but either tumblr staff itself has decided to delete her or people here are reporting all of her accounts. Please help Nour, she doesn’t deserve this. The funds get used among her whole family, more than just her and her kids.
can't ask for donations, can't film their genocide, can't show scans of sniper bullets, can't express anger, can't express support for the resistance, can't even pet post. everything is inherently suspect, a play on emotions, a trick, an angle, a setup. this shit is disgusting.
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link to his family's gofundme. i linked his twitter above.
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My deepest darkest fantasy is that I collapse on the street and I am rushed to the hospital. They perform a bunch of tests and find out I am severely deficient in some kind of vitamin. Then I start taking the vitamin and I become the happiest cleverest person alive because all my problems were caused by this one deficiency
Moreover, everyone gathers around to be tremulously compassionate and discreetly admiring: all this time, you lacked the Vitamin? And yet you persevered?
my mom just had a 7cm brain tumor removed and since she's woken up she's been talking nonstop about this dream she had about going to an art gallery full of colourful paintings by a 'homosexual artist' named klimsdorf who was ethereal and wise, both young and old... at first she was convinced he was a real person but after failing to find him online she's accepted he was a figment of her subconscious mind and is now determined to bring him to life via painting his portrait herself. she's 67 and has never drawn in her life. and now this. blorbo from her tumor
there are a lot of people reblogging this again and tagging it with "wow.. this kind of looks like that one cup" again. you guys would not believe what "solo jazz" means
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