Nara

30s, she/her. Flannel-buttoned-all-the-way-up kind of lesbian. Writer (occasionally) and corporate shill. Fountain Pen enthusiast. Day drinker. Some 18+ stuff occasionally.

[heavensenthale]

you know what? fuck it *reads the fanfic I spent hours writing for my own enjoyment*

[wynnyfryd]

if you’re not rereading your own 3yo one-shots every once in a while so you can shake your head at the ao3 tab and mutter god i’m fucking funny then what are we even doing all this work for?

[gaygraviturgist]

me: oh cool i got a new follower, i hope it isnt a porn bot

salinamarcil805:

[bitethebullets]

the loss of the audio jack is due to puritan culture hating on penetration

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Google has once again force-enabled AI into everyone. Get rid of that shit by:

Go to your Gmail account.

Choose "See all settings."

Scroll down under the "General" tab until you see "Google Workspace smart features."

Select "Manage Workspace smart feature settings."

Toggle off both "smart features in Google Workplace" and "smart features in other Google products." This will not remove the stupid Gemini button, but it should disable it.

Source

[rowan-tarragon-and-sage]

If you have more than one Gmail account on your app, you have to do this for all account indiviudally. You go to settings→[nnn]@gmail→manage workspace smart features

(This is according to my Android app)

[postalpacalypticllamas]

There's actually two different AI settings to turn off for Gmail. There are the settings that are under 'Google Workplace Smart features', and there's an additional one above it just called 'Smart Features'.

Turning off the settings under the 'Google Workplace Smart Features' doesn't seem to affect your inbox. But if you turn off that top 'Smart Features' option, you can no longer use the different inbox categories that Gmail would default sort emails to.

With Smart Features enabled:

With Smart Features Disabled:

It's really shitty that they've tied those inbox categories into the AI stuff. I turned Smart Features off, and now my phone is being inundated with notifications for a lot of the emails that would have gone in those categories. Previously, I would only get notifications for emails that end up in the main inbox when my notification settings were set to 'All'.

There is a way to create your own sorting labels (like the one I'd been using for Dracula Daily in the screenshot above), but they don't quite work the same way as the inbox categories. If you create a label, you'll be able to view only the emails you set to be categorized underneath it, but those emails will still show up underneath the main inbox, too.

Say you create a new 'Social' label for social media notifications to replace the Social category Inbox. If you click the 'Social' label, you would see all the emails that are filtered to go there, in addition to those same emails showing up in the main inbox. With the inbox categories enabled (and now AI features too), you would only see social emails in the Social inbox, and they would not show up under the main inbox, nor would you get notifications for them by default.

If you do want to go the label route and create your own, here's a link on how to do so. It can be done using a computer or through the Apple apps, but it won't work in the Android app (which makes zero sense to me).

To organize your emails into categories like “Work,” “Family,” or “To-Do,” you can create labels in Gmail. Labels are different from folders

There might be a way to play with the app notification settings so they're more filtered, but from what I see initially, it's not promising.

If you were relying on 'Important First' sorting for your inbox or 'High Priority Only' for notification settings, those are disabled when the AI feature is disabled as well.

(I can edit this later to add alt ids to the images when I'm not on my phone)

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Thank you so much for this detailed addition, this change has been pretty enraging. The inbox categories had nothing to do with AI, but they've combined them to make your experience worse for no reason.

[fixyourwritinghabits]

Hey y'all this update now enables Google to train Gemini on your personal emails, go through and turn off "Smart Features" or switch email providers now.

[5bi5]

I really feel like Xena: Warrior Princess should be even bigger on here than it is. Like, there's a fantasy-action-adventure-comedy show based around Greek (and, increasingly, other) mythology, and the main character is a former warlord who's only just woken up to the error of her ways. Her name is Xena and her favourite things in the world are fighting, fishing, horses, and booze flamethrowers. And then she meets this woman Gabrielle, who is all the things that Xena isn't: sheltered, optimistic, excited about the concept of experiencing the world, and above all a deeply good person. And they start traveling together, so now Xena's favourite things are fighting, fishing, horses, booze flamethrowers, and Gabrielle, not in that order.

They go on adventures, encountering monsters and greek gods and people Xena knew ten years ago. And also sometimes pirates, vampires, and various incarnations of Jesus. In the meantime, Xena struggles with what it means to try and redeem herself after doing incredible harm, Gabrielle grapples with what place violence has in her life and her identity, and the two of them (at least, implicitly) fall in love. Also, the show experiments wildly with both form and content, doing things like a mockumentary episode, a modern timeline where Xena and Gabrielle are historical figures, and various musical episodes, bodyswaps, clip shows, and alternate timelines. The only thing that's always consistent is that Xena and Gabrielle are soulmates. It's goofy, awesome, and basically tailor-made for tumblr's userbase, and you should watch it if you haven't.

[ekingston]

Hacker, Hater, Hero, Spy | M | COMPLETE

Lena hums. “And here I thought you were supposed to be saving me, tonight.”

Kara blinks up from the food to Lena’s chest—oops—before meeting Lena’s eyes. “Save you?” she says. “Haha. What. Like, uh, like Supergirl? Or whatever?”

“No, silly,” Lena says, smiling so fondly at her that it makes Kara a little lightheaded. “As my bodyguard, of course.”

“Oh right! That’s me!” Kara grins, puffing out her chest and clicking her heels and keeping her eyeline firmly above Lena’s shoulders. “At your service, ma’am. Ready to guard your—um.” She halts. “Your… body,” she finishes, flinching.

-

In which Supergirl attends a fancy party in D.C. to stop a mysterious assassin, and wow, would you look at that? Lena Luthor is there too! What a complete and utter coincidence!

[ad-wills]

[glowingghosty]

[thevioletcaptain]

[wheezecheese]

[hattersarts]

gossip rag

[hattersarts]

post-movie Andy + Miranda backstage during an awards show :^), commission for @babywarrior5

[noah-wyles]

she's the best of us

[naralanis]

Accisentally became "important" at work and now I'm averaging 3 Teams calls every 15 minutes SOMEBODY MAKE IT STOP

[naralanis]

Wife and I just finished The Penguin and while are both losing it with Cristin Milioti as Sofia Falcone my brain is just going brrrr with making Sofia Falcone and Lena Luthor interact in SOME WAY I just need to combine that energy

[mikkeneko]

"this is DEFINITELY written by AI, I can tell because it uses the writing quirks that AI uses (because it was trained on real people who write with those quirks)"

c'mon dudes we have got to do better than this

[mikkeneko]

I am big AI naysayer but I think making it into the latest of a series of unprovable accusations that you can use to harass anyone who annoys you slightly for any reason is literally the worst way to push back against its encroachment into our spaces

[mikkeneko]

#the only AI quirk I believe is the use of the em dash (—)#just because it’s a pain to properly type out and real people really don’t use it that often

hey so. not meaning to pick on you for this, but:

there are various types of word processors or other text inputs which will automatically convert -- to —, meaning its difficulty in being typed out is irrelevant

there are a lot of people on tumblr, including in the notes of this thread, who have actively said that they use the emdash in their writing

the whole point of LLMs is that they train on real people's writing; they are not just randomly picking characters from the US-ASCII charset to include; AI would not generate text with emdashes if its training base did not also include writings by real people that used them

this is exactly the sort of thing I'm saying is a problem. people saying that they think they can tell that something is an "AI quirk" because "real people" don't use it, because their personal experience does not encompass its usage

[slitherpunk]

"the new pope is problematic" well folks it's the catholic fucking church so im not really sure where your hopes were at

[brandyllyn]

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope.

[oliveksmoked]

Thank you for this joke.

[sioltach]

Today's high schoolers romanticizing 2016 as if there weren't the clown incidents

[naralanis]

I feel like when I die it's going to be from my sheer idiocy stubbornness of thinking "maybe THIS TIME I won't be allergic to shrimp" one too many times.

I'm from a tropical country. I shouldn't be allergic to shrimp AND THE FUCKING SUN.