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the-pen-pot

*SIGHS*

Another AO3 app that's pretending to be official when it's not (or at least isn't making it clear its unofficial.) They're using AO3's name and logo, and embedding ads.

There is no official AO3 app

Someone else is gathering your data, potentially your log in information etc and making use of it how they please. (They say they're not but their privacy policy says otherwise)

They are making money from the ads without the fic writer's consent.

They've also rated it Pegi 3 (which is ludicrous)

Please, even if you care about nothing else, for the safety of your data, please don't use this app. Certainly don't give it your AO3 log in details.

I've told AO3 that it's infringing on its copyright. I will be requesting they remove access of my work as I do not consent to my creative content being used to generate ad revenue for them.

I will be reporting it as incorrectly rated.

The only email address I can find is [email protected] which is included in their privacy policy, and [email protected] as their developer.

#AO3 #AO3 app #fanfics #fanfiction

cosmos-kitty

Finally finished this one after working on it incrementally in my spare time for the better part of a year 🐍

#art #artists on tumblr #painting

vastasynchronicity-deactivated2

Raven

"PLOT! Plot, PLLOOOOTT!"

The raven plummeted from the sky like an arrow, spreading its wings at the last moment to arrest its velocity and alighting upon the top of my side fence like an ancient olden God.

"Plot!" it cried, looking me straight in the eye. I caught sight of one half-gray tailfeather amidst the glossy black and gasped. Birdy Steve!

This was one of my ravens, an adolescent who had abruptly left the flock, once part of the murder that I'd been taking care of for the better part of two years. They'd gone from wary to tentatively accepting under my diligent and timely distribution of sunflower seeds and unsalted peanuts, and once Birdy Pete had brought me some poor woman's gold ring among the usual trinkets and coins.

But nothing like this had ever happened. Until now.

"Plot." He croaked again, still looking me dead in the eye as he held his head in profile. The urgency in his cry was unmistakable.

As much as I wanted to dismiss the sound as just my brain playing tricks from avian mimicry, I knew what I'd heard. I opened my mouth and addressed him directly, feeling a bit foolish despite my senses.

"Uh. Hi, Birdy Steve. Long time no see. What was that?"

Birdy Steve hopped once on the top of the fence, then flapped his wings to traverse the distance to my shoulder. He was heavy. His talons gripped and prickled as his bodyweight shifted, and I was grateful my hoodie and the sweater beneath were both thick.

I tried not to think of what kind of damage his beak could do to my face if he got angry. As he leaned his head to my ear I instead began to think uncomfortably about how most birds carried lice.

"Plot, Plot!" He croaked, his voice a harsh whisper. "I bring tidings terrible and unjust!"

My mouth dropped open.

"A neighbor plots against you, my Lord. A plot most foul!" He continued, undeterred. "The Murder has taken tally and we are agreed; You are Friend of Ravens, granted henceforth the title and status of Lord of the Ground and Earthly Things. We shall aid you in your time need, my Liege, as you have aided us, for we are in accord and have become Friends to Man as well."

I stood there, slightly hunched under Birdy Steve's shifting weight, for probably ninety full seconds. But... you know what? fuck it, why not?This was a really excellent dream.

I opened my mouth to mimic Birdy Steve's old-timey cadence and diction in reply, maybe even ham up the whole 'my lord' bit. Such a wierd way to speak, like another cul-

I stopped myself just before I spoke. Shut my mouth again before I acted completely stupid. If I was suddenly a diplomat at the UN, would I mimic some foreign diplomat's accent and speech? Hell no. That's so rude. I'd speak normally, act respectful, and be grateful they bothered to speak in my language because I didn't know theirs.

Man, I was an asshole.

I turned my head and eyed Birdy Steve. He eyed me back, pushing his head and neck forward. He seemed to be totally fine waiting for my reply.

If these guys had language and could speak English that well, his name was probably not--

"Forgive me." I said, still looking him dead in one eye out of the corner of mine. "I didn't mean to offend you by calling you Birdy Steve. Do you-- What would you like me to call you? Do you have a title? Is-- may I ask your name?"

His eye bored into mine. I did not like that look-- I thought again of how easily that beak of his could ravage my eye. What his talons could do to my neck. He was right there.

"Wisdom." he croaked. "Wise, my Lord, to approach me as an equal, not some dumb beast." He cawed repeatedly. after a second I realized it might be laughter. "I am--" --he made three sounds, two mimicking water drops and the third a shrill cry that sounded surprisingly like a falcon. "I am, indeed, titled, Your Grace. You may also address me as 'Your Grace,' or Earl." He flipped his head and preened. "You have been a good and kind friend to me in the past, and so I shall allow you to call me Hunter. It is a human version of my name."

"May I know your name? I'm--"

He cawed in laughter again. "I know who you are, Patrick James Boole." Then he fell silent, boring into me with his gaze.

"It is not a trivial thing, the giving of one's name." He mused, softer now. Then, abruptly, "I am Hunting-In-The-Rain-Among-Marshes. Earl of Large Upper Cascade to Warm Black Rocks, chosen diplomat of Raven to Man." He dipped his head.

"T-Thank you." I said. "Your Grace." I was a little overwhelmed. It must have looked crazy, me talking to the bird on my shoulder, but he had such gravitas and sincerity when he spoke. The bird was incredibly charismatic.

(I was beginning to hope I was dreaming. The alternative was a psychotic break. Ugh.)

"So." I said. "What's this plot from my neighbor about?"

Earl Hunter ruffled his feathers. "The man called Christian Clemmens. He means to end your life and the life of your neighbor, Frances Hickman."

I froze.

"It is a dilemma of land." Hunter continued. "Man's affairs." He cocked his head at me. "Ah. You know of it?"

I'd had to fight three easement claims against my property from Mr. Clemmens in the last seven years. He owned eighty acres adjacent to my parcel of ten and wanted to run roads for the housing development he was building right through my property rather than pay the extra to the county for an additional connection to the highway.

"Oh, I know him."

Suddenly I was not so sure this was a dream at all. Or a psychotic break. If there was ever a man who was moral-less, able to kill, and lacked any and all scruples, it was Chris Clemmens.

"Please, Earl Hunter, tell me more."

#writing #fiction #short stories

petite-madame

The headcanon I'm drawing right now + a couple of WIPs (a video featuring EXTREMELY simplified historical info 🤭)

#bbc sherlock #sherlock

sandersstudies

Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!

Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.

sandersstudies

Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)

Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.

sandersstudies

Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!

Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks

sandersstudies

Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!

Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row

da gargoyle brothers

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

digitaldiscipline

Art thieves already hate it:

fierceawakening

Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

spooky-octagon-deactivated20240

The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222

esoanem

As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

Recent text-to-image diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion threaten to displace many in the professional artist community

sliceosunshine

A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:

The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)

It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).

Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).

It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.

The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).

It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)

It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)

IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).

Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)

The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)

When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.

Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)

The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles

From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)

You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

locus-p0cus

reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash

ato-dato

Good omens 2: divorce time

#good omens #good omens season two #good omens 2

naiveasf

FUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKKK

omokers

#in dark mode it’s like they’re in absolute agony at coming into existence

luisonte

Pero buatefack

relaxxattack

“oh they’re not taking away chronological dashboard, well everything’s okay then” they also said in the post they’re making reblogs collapsed (like comments on twitter) so you won’t see the full conversation in a post. they also won’t get rid of tumblr live despite it being an annoying and cancerous data-miner that isn’t legal in much of the world. they won’t even let you opt out of tumblr live for more than seven days. they implemented a terrible photo viewer that mimics tiktok and makes it so you can’t zoom in on images. they took away the ability to view prev tags. they’re making it so you have to sign in with your email to view almost any thing on tumblr. they’ve already made it so you have to sign in to send asks, even on anon. they’re slowly phasing out custom blog themes.

the things that make tumblr at all usable and favored by us– the older web blog features, the anonymity– that is still being taken away. it HAS been being taken away for some time now. i am urging you people to reveiwbomb the tumblr app. force them to acknowledge that users do not like these changes.

napstawantstosleep

Guys do u know that one meme where there's a girl and like a bodyguard (???) ordering drinks and the waiter give them the wrong drinks so they switch them on the last panel,???????? BECAUSE I C1NT FING IT^

napstawantstosleep

I FUCKIBG GOT IT RAAAAAHHHHHHH 💥💥💥💥💥

#wholesome

pasteboard

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

pigcatapult

Where do I copy-paste these to? "My filters"? "My Rules"?

gaphic

'my filters'! if you look closely you'll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters

theoutcastrogue

Hmm, I still don't see any ads, or that VERY foreboding youtube message. Maybe it's a regional thing, maybe it depends on what filter lists you've installed. "It's currently unknown across how many regions YouTube is displaying these warnings or if the company plans to stop those using ad blockers from accessing the platform altogether." Regardless, I'm keeping this, it might come in handy later.

#youtube

lastoneout

friendly reminder for the new twitter refugees:

change your icon/pfp and put something coherent in your blog description or you're going to get blocked bcs people think you're a bot

this site is built around reblogs, so please actually reblog posts(especially art and fics!!)

you can set your likes and follows to private

checkmarks here are a meme and mean nothing

follower counts are private and we like it that way, so get used to not judging people by that metric

drama and discourse is boring, use your blacklist and block button liberally

DON'T CENSOR YOURSELF!! we can swear and say kill and make fun of corporations all we want, and if you tiktok-ify your tags people who have things blacklisted for whatever reason will still see them, and people who want to see that content won't be able to find it!! spell words out normally, you won't get in trouble!!

tumblr live is sketchy as hell and full of fake accounts, if you decide to use it anyway may god have mercy on your soul o7

be nice to the reddit refugees, they're our friends <3