Edgy on Accident

hi I run sideblogs. tfw you only go on social media for fandoms but your main blog has too much other shit on it already so you just let it die quietly

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Voting ended onJun 11

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Voting ended onJun 11

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

🫶

[morelikeassassin]

This came up at a museum where I volunteer. One of the curators wanted to use generated images in a book we are planning to publish, and the project team had to gently point out that A) we are a historical institution concerned with the provenance of text and images, and B) these images will disengage a huge portion of customers anyway.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[twilightofthesandwiches]

Surprise! You’ve been Isekai’d into a D&D World… but it’s specifically a 3.5 Edition D&D world and due to a weird Glitch in the system you have been assigned not just a Base Class, but also one of that edition’s weird and wacky Prestige Class as well! Spin this wheel to see what you got!

(I added a short little summary for each Class explaining the basic gist of it. Although obviously you can also look them up to get more detailed info)

So…how are you feeling?

HELL YEAH THIS IS THE BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO ME

This class is perfect for me! (complimentary)

This is pretty cool!

Not bad but… could be better

Some parts of this sounds GREAT and some sound TERRIBLE

I’m pretty sure I’m gonna die but at least I’ll be cool as hell until then

Well, I’m gonna hate being this Class but at least I’m gonna survive

I feel utterly indifferent about my Class

This class is perfect for me… (derogatory)

This isn’t good for me, but… could be worse

Yeah, this sucks

OH MY GOD THIS IS HORRIBLE I AM GONNA BE MISERABLE AND THAN I’LL DIE

Voting ended onJan 11

[goldensunset]

the nearest depiction of an animal or other sentient fantasy creature to you at this moment comes to life right where it is (i.e. cat photograph, shark plushie, dragon painting, etc)

what happens to you

i am so dead

i need to go to the hospital

maybe a few things to be looked at but i’m fine in the end

i’m totally fine

i’m totally fine and i’m happy

my situation is really really really specific lemme tell you about it

n/a

Voting ended onJan 11

assume it doesn’t know you (unless it’s actually a specific animal you’ve met) and that it’s normal for its species and would do whatever was natural for it. including being too giant for and destroying the room it’s in. as well as dying immediately if its environment can’t support its life

[junkmixart]

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Link below to shop, Read the comic pages/behind the scenes/exclusive drawings on my Patreon, or check out the opening kill on the Slasher U webtoons!

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[the-wanton-house-wife-deactivat]

You’re welcome 🧄

[rongzhi]

A naked eye 3D pterosaur installation at Shanghai Natural History Museum

(The guide is describing the exhibit and talking about the various "flying dinosaurs" and their appearance through history as they emerge from the fossil displays)

[tiktoksijustthinkareneat]

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[charlesoberonn]

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

That "what" at the end is gut-punchingly perfect for expressing The Emotion.

[miraclemango]

got told other people would like having a look-see at this, so!

The Don Bluth Studios Animation Archive was donated to Savannah College of Art and Design in 2005. The collection includes all aspects of the animation production pipeline, including concept art, color models, animation cels, animation drawings, story sketches, and other materials created by Don Bluth Productions and later iterations of this company. Also included in the collection are administrative files, legal documents, musical scores, scripts, and publicity-related materials.

The archive is HUGE. While the library itself isn't open to the public, what's been digitized is available for anyone to look through. If you're interested in the work of Don Bluth's studio or just animation history in general, I 100% recommend taking some time to look around.

productions include:

All Dogs Go to Heaven, 1989

An American Tail, 1986

Anastasia, 1997

Banjo the Woodpile Cat, 1979

Dragon's Lair, 1983

Dragon's Lair II, 1991

Dragon's Lair 3D, 2002

Rock-a-Doodle, 1992

Space Ace, 1984

The Secret of NIMH, 1982

The Pebble and the Penguin, 1995

Thumbelina, 1994

Titan A.E., 2000

Unrealized productions (concepts)

[theweirdwideweb]

[rudjedet]

hate hate hate the current attitude of "haha we have so luckily evolved away from dark and dusty paper archive jobs :) we are all snazzy much tech now :) tech good n ever fail :)"

no. let me be the guardian of physical words and tangible paper. let me keep the annals that will persevere long after your technology collapsed under the weight of its own hubris. i am not letting your short-sightedness destroy knowledge.

[thebookewyrme]

I just wanna say, as a digital archivist…yes. Digital archives are good and important, and can help with preservation and access. But if we’re not talking about born-digital assets like emails and digital photography, then please please remember that what you see in the archive is a COPY of something that is hopefully being stored safely away in a climate controlled room in a special box just for it (and if it is born-digital it’s also more than likely a copy that you’re looking at). It is not a replacement for the original. And having originals is fucking IMPORTANT. Preservation is IMPORTANT. Because yea, what do you do when the file holding that digital copy corrupts to unreadability or the software you made the copy in becomes obsolete? The original has lasted hundreds to thousands of years, and will with careful preservation last hundreds to thousands more. We have no idea yet if tech can do that, and by the time we do know it, it’ll be too late if we haven’t preserved the originals.

[rudjedet]

Oh yeah absolutely agree that e.g. digital accessibility and digital archiving is also very important work. Things like the current prevalence of museums photographing and putting their collections online for the public, in an easily searchable format? Amazing, and that has entirely been an effort of the last decade, because trust when I say that when we first made @ancientpeoples, all that shit had to be dug up from archival links that you already had to know to even be able to access.

But on GOD does it get my goat when IT-related folk start touting whatever new cloud-based program they've coughed up last week as the natural end point for paper archives. Like come tf on dudes.

[morelikeassassin]

Absolutely wild to me that anyone who claims to know how this modern tech works believes it can safely archive so much as an Arby's receipt. Hardware failures are one of the things that make digital-born archiving so difficult. Locally hosted servers are unreliable enough, you simply cannot trust that cloud storage is going to persist Under Any Circumstances. Companies go under. Internet goes down. APIs get merked. Paper has none of these problems.

[pawberri]

"Game maker wants you to feel bad for playing the game" well sure. Only because feeling bad can also be fun and interesting. Book and movie also make me feel bad emotions

[pawberri]

Sure the media might be making you feel bad for being the audience of the media but the artist made the thing for you to engage with and wants you to engage 90% of the time. At most they want you to introspect about fiction and your relationship to it and if there's anything bad about it. But not actually turn off the game. Its fun to feel bad. Honestly I like when creators hate their audience and spit malice at me directly as well. Slay

[pawberri]

This is the truest summation of this post

[omgthatdress]

Learn to appreciate September for what it is. Better yet, learn that anticipation has its own sweetness and is an enjoyable experience in and of itself.

Now is the time to be planning for Halloween and making your costume. Don't wear out its welcome too soon. It will taste so much better because you've waited for it, and make it so much more fun for all of us, I swear.

[molombo]

Where's the African mythology?

The Kickstarter is live now!

[boycarofchilladelphia]

I know I have close to zero Tumblr fame, which I normally appreciate, but I would love it if this made it into the world and got fully backed. You can even pledge to get the digital content and send a real copy to a school in Africa or to a HBCU or community library of your choosing!

[ominous-signs]

Misusing my blog again so more people can see this then

[only-tiktoks]

[ms-demeanor]

I reblogged this last year and then immediately bought some of this tea and it was the best decision. It is *SO AWESOME* to have a pitcher of Thai tea ready to go in your fridge.