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Kurisu • she/her • 30+ • master doodler, hobbyist writer • cat-loving nerd

[kurikurikurisu]

Hi.

I decided to leave Tumblr for good.

Bye folks. It's been great.

[make-way-for-the-tatooed-girls]

[prydonianrenegade]

Buddy, I’ve had the lease on my condo in hell signed since second grade.

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign

[classicalcanvas]

First Steps (1890) by Vincent van Gogh

[margindoodles2407]

YOU DO NOT GET TO LEAVE THIS IN THE TAGS.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

[gothiccharmschool]

Oh look, my book is in there. GIVE ME MONEY.

[elodieunderglass]

Interestingly, I reblogged this thinking it might be interesting for my followers - but as I’m not an author I didn’t think further.

Then I did think for a second. I realised I had fallen into the classic tumblr trap of believing that Authorship Equals Fantasy Fiction Writer. It’s amazing how that gets into your own head.

I went back and found a clutch of my scientific papers on there.

Not something that’s worth me pursuing any farther - and a lot of those works are very openly open access, and so they are honestly the exact sort of content that SHOULD be used to train responsible models. But worth remembering that it’s very common on tumblr to think of all writing as, like, genre fiction, and there are other types of writing too.

[cassolotl]

“First of its kind” AI settlement: Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion

Settlement shows AI companies can face consequences for pirated training data.

Authors revealed today that Anthropic agreed to pay $1.5 billion and destroy all copies of the books the AI company pirated to train its artificial intelligence models. In a press release provided to Ars, the authors confirmed that the settlement is "believed to be the largest publicly reported recovery in the history of US copyright litigation." Covering 500,000 works that Anthropic pirated for AI training, if a court approves the settlement, each author will receive $3,000 per work that Anthropic stole. "Depending on the number of claims submitted, the final figure per work could be higher," the press release noted.

each author will receive $3,000 per work

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

[chimso-writes]

When you realize fanfic writers are just fanfic readers who couldn't find what they wanted to read 💀

Reblog to let prev know their presence is wanted

[preserving-tiktok]

[sunderwight]

everybody in the notes like:

[made-in-manetheren]

This is the single best video of a loon I've ever seen. Do you people realize how rare it is to see them that close? How rare it is to see them in that shallow of water? Incredible catch.

[apostasy-is-ecstasy]

congrats on being my hero

[geekandmisandry]

Omg, this note though:

[schreibfederlaerm]

(Cartoon by Will McPhail)

[kittyoperas]

must be the season of the witch.

for @ioncrescent

[yesornopolls]

have you ever gone to a religiously-affiliated school?

Have you ever gone to a religiously-affiliated school?

Yes

NO

Voting ended onSep 9, 2025

[urgetocreate]

Scott Prior (American b.1949), Laundry Line in Autumn, 2016, Oil on linen

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nuclear power is impressive until you get up to why. "we use the most precisely engineered machinery ever created to split atoms to release energy" oh yeah how come? "boil water to turn a fan" get the fuck out

[darinaethelaianprophet]

The power of atom turns out to be, yet again, the power of steam

[kendoola]

[glitterweave]

[wickedwonderlandd]

I….excuse me???

[hungwy]

today someone asked me what my favorite even-toed ungulate is… god, who could decide?

[hungwy]

this was ignorant of me to post. of course its the muskox

[hungwy]

and here comes my favorite boy…

[weaselle]

okay. some of you must surely be getting tired of seeing me say this but i literally cannot help myself- THAT IS AN ICE AGE GOAT. THAT CAN GET TO BE 800lbs BIG.

we called them musk-ox because we thought they must be some kind of cow thing, but they are actually a goat thing; this is to a normal wild goat what a woolly mammoth is to a normal elephant, only these things survived.

and i absolutely cannot help myself because of the tizzy my brain goes into over the twin facts of

1: ice-age megafauna that is still alive! and

2: EIGHT HUNDRED POUND GOAT

you can see the goatishness a little more in their babies

i just, i am crazy over the fact that these guys are still alive on our planet

[headspace-hotel]

MEGAGOAT

[augmentedpolls]

What’s your score on the picky eater test? (Number of foods on the list you will not eat)

0 (wow!)

1-5

6-10

11-15

16-20

21-25

26-30

31-35

36-40

41+

Results

Voting ended onSep 11, 2025

[wokeuplaughing]

well open my bank account and call me johann sebastian bach the way I'm fuckin baroque