"I Only Blog Freestyle."

Maíra, 30 years, Brazil. Here you gotta see some things I like (mostly anime, cartoons, etc) , random things, and sometimes I post my drawings and stuff.

[cosmonaut775]

Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

[flamie87]

and there was even less talk when openai did the exact same thing more recently

[flamie87]

So for those who are, very understandably uninitiated on this story:

On 23 October last year (2024) the New York Times published an interview with former OpenAI researcher Suchir Balaji who worked on organising and gathering data for OpenAI until 2022 when he begun thinking about the morality of it. He eventually came to the conclusion that what OpenAI is doing blatantly violates copyright law and decided to leave the company altogether in August 2024.

After he came out with this accusation he was set to appear in court to testify against OpenAI’s data-gathering practices, something which had the potential of being a complete disaster for the company and the generative AI industry as a whole.

That was until 26 November, just days before he was due to appear in court, when he suddenly and mysteriously was found dead inside his own apartment. Investigators concluded that the death was self-inflicted, something which his family has disputed.

There was also “sign of struggle in the bathroom and looks like someone hit him in the bathroom based on blood spots”, and his apartment showed signs of having been ransacked for evidence: “The pin drive is missing. His computer was messed up.”.

Overall it feels pretty clear-cut what happened, that is to say that OpenAI had him killed because he was a legitimate threat to their business, indicating that they are fully aware that the way they’re gathering data is completely illegal.

Sources:

Alys Davies, 14.12.2024, OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment. BBC News

Barney Davis, 16.1.2025, Suchir Balaji’s family demand outside investigation into OpenAI whistleblower’s death. The Independent

Cade Metz, 23.11.2024, Former OpenAI Researcher Says the Company Broke Copyright Law. The New York Times

[motorcyclles]

GIF COMMISSIONS OPEN!

Here I am taking the dust off of this broken and forsaken hell of a website to ask for your help, I've been unemployed for months and barely making ends meet, so I'm opening some commissions! If you want to have your own custom animated gif for your social media, Twitch channel, Discord server or whatever else, please hit me up on Fiverr!

fiverr.com/colaresmaira/make-animated-chibi-gifs

[sapphling]

bigots can now reblog your selfie or personal post, mock it, and block you, and if you don't see it the second it happens, it can spread to thousands of their ilk with literally no possible way for you to know, unless you happen to be on one of their blogs and come across it. are you comfortable with this? i know i'm not.

[grogblogging]

core tumblr elements this update breaks:

discussions between 2+ users, as they will no longer all be notified of added commentary

the ability for OP to return to clarify intent or correct misinfo after more than 1 person has commented

gimmick blogs. having a rat or a car or any of the words in the bible in your post now means those blogs get credit for your entire post

the ability for OP to identify where harrassment is coming from if the harasser did not reblog directly from them

any joke that has more than 1 comment. 'what the fuck are you two talking about', furry artists are more valuable than doctors, etc -- not impossible, but once more than 1 person has commented the OP can never return to the chain or even see what people have added

feel free to add to this post and i guess i'll hear about it so long as no more than 1 of you comments on the same branch dsfkgjh

[virtualgirladvance]

[serdunkthelunk]

Everyone shut up about destiel. Mega spider city discovered on the border of Albania and Greece

[serdunkthelunk]

[the-grollican]

they live in complete darkness!! the stream which flows through the cave is rich in sulfur, and microorganisms in the water are the primary producers. since theres no light they use chemosynthesis, not photosynthesis, to turn the sulfur into energy. the cave is really rich in fauna not despite but because of its complete lack of light

[moniquill]

so is this the cave the Spiders Georg lives in?

[squirrelstothenuts]

[ryanthel0ser]

[alena-draws]

What I'm taking from Stargaze ep1:

[calugaritsa]

they weren't lying, that trigun sure can stargaze

[dreichsmirr]

My abortion was really one the most hated kind of abortion. I wasn't underage. I wasn't raped. I wasn't in medical need.

I got pregnant not through some fluke or 1 in a 100 contraceptive failure. I got pregnant because I was knowingly and willfully having unprotected sex. Out of wedlock too if that matters.

It was my own fault, I was being irresponsible because I knew I could always get an abortion if I got pregnant. My abortion was as close as it comes to 'using abortion as a contraceptive' as anti-choicers love to say.

I didn't abort it because my health was in danger or because I didn't have the ability to care for it or whatever else. I did it purely because I didn't want a child. I wanted sex and I didn't want to deal with any consequences from it.

There's no moral here. I don't feel bad about it whatsoever. I suffered no karmic consequences or punishment from god. My life is amazing. I want to rub this in the face of every conservative and anti-choicer. I did the terrible thing. I had an abortion for the most selfish of reasons and literally nothing happened. Suck it.

[razielim]

🙌🏼

easy peasy political position! don't even gotta support women's wrongs for this one bc no wrongs were committed here, only rights

[hollowboobtheory]

no but "He's on a work trip with Jesus to afford your blueberry budget" is so fucking bad

work trip -> she's gonna think he's coming back

YOUR blueberry budget -> puts the blame on her even if that isn't what you intended

your BLUEBERRY budget -> what if she just stops eating because she thinks that will being her dad back? bc girls growing up in the usa don't already have enough of a complex around food i guess

your blueberry BUDGET -> teach your kid early to minimize herself and her needs by associating her favorite healthy food with her dad dying and leaving forever

congrats that's the worst anyone's ever done it

[hollowboobtheory]

great question! its what Charlie Kirk's widow told their 3yo daughter

[idontfeellikedrawing]

Ok, I'm starting to understand why these people think two ladies getting married is so hard to explain.

[xoxo-otome]

I kept finding early design sketches online but never an original source (they were always a twt or p*ntrest with no verification). Finally found out people had attended a Trigun 25th Anniversary and Nightow Exhibition and posted pics (then others snagged them and didn’t source). Anyway, here is the main event twt and sources of pictures.

Main twt: @/nightow_sekai

Artwork pics thread.

[your-senpaaaai]

so are we gonna talk about how mirror pieces around jinx’s face are literally in the form of warwick jaws ???? like omg ?????

[not-so-local-lesbian]

This is what I mean when I say everything is purposefully in animation. They have control over everything. When I babble about symbolism of the glass breaking, it’s because they have absolute control over the physics of how it happens, as they’re drawing it, and they chose to have it break looking like this. It’s purposeful, symbolic, and it means something. No, I’m not reading into it!! It’s just the art of animation, which is why I love it so much.

[marsipanart]

always sketches but I need to get everything out of my head -THE FEELINGS

[citationneeded]

Enema

Link (Thanks, so-called-classics)

[ryan-sometimes]

Twitter is about to be banned in Brazil, why?

Have you seen the news about Twitter (now X, but I refuse to call it that) being banned in Brazil? Have you been wondering why that is? I’m Brazilian, and here I am to explain things to you.

You’ve likely noticed that since Elon Musk took over the social media network, hate speech on the platform has skyrocketed. White supremacist and Neo-Nazi groups have been using Twitter to disseminate racist propaganda and hate speech. And although the United States might not be doing anything about this, other countries are not so indulgent. Brazil being one of them.

Racism and incitement of hate (including speech) are crimes in Brazil. So is political disinformation, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. Hate speech of any kind is a CRIME in Brazil.

The Brazilian Supreme Court ordered Elon Musk to do something about the political fake news and hate speech on his platform, and Elon responded by shutting down all offices in Brazil.

The Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) then ordered Elon Musk to appoint a legal representative in Brazil, as NO BUSINESS can operate in the country without a legal representative that can be held responsible to crimes and answer to them in a court of law. The STF gave Elon 24 hours to appoint this legal representative, and now that the deadline has passed and Elon has not complied, it seems that Twitter will be shut down in Brazil.

TL;DR: Elon is salty that he’s not above Brazilian law.

[ryan-sometimes]

In my opinion, the funniest thing to emerge from this is that Elon used the X Global Government Affairs account to say that Brazilian minister Alexandre de Moraes gave him these orders in “secret”. And no one else other than the OFFICIAL BRAZILIAN SUPREME COURT ACCOUNT responded to this with the ACTUAL FULL LEGAL DOCUMENT LMAOOOOOOO