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this is sooo <33
Our Little Prince & The Raccoon
To clarify: slavery as “punishment for a crime” is legal across the US. These 5 states are voting on making it ACTUALLY illegal, even in prisons.
These are NOT the 5 states I’d have expected to be on the forefront of “make slavery actually really truly illegal” and it’s a GOOD thing they’re trying to do.
So go vote if you can.
tl;dr, Five states have measures on the midterm ballots to remove the “punishment of a crime” exception that keeps slavery legal in the US.
The 5 states affected:
Alabama. If you live in Alabama, register to vote by October 24th. Louisiana. If you live in Louisiana, register to vote by October 11th. Oregon. If you live in Oregon, register to vote by October 18th. Tennessee. If you live in Tennessee, register to vote by October 11th. Vermont. Vermont allows same-day voting registration so there is no registration deadline.
Deleted my previous posts of AI-generated art because I got my mind changed and no longer want to glorify these generators but here are how my thoughts on them evolved as someone who commissions a LOT of art:
At first I felt so liberated because drawing is the one creative thing I can’t do AT ALL, yet I have strong visions for a lot of genre-bending art ideas, which take a ton of references and effort to explain. I’ve always felt bad confusing the artists I commission. AI has been amazingly helpful in generating references, especially for the general vibes of an art piece. But I also came to the initial conclusion that it won’t replace human artists any time soon, because it’s still impossible to get the AI to generate super specific compositions. It’s especially bad with prepositions and handling multiple subjects at once. Therefore, I haven’t abandoned any of my commission plans just because AI art is available.
I realized this attitude is pretty specific to me though, because I have set character designs in mind. But what if a publisher or something just needed a generic character design to slap on a cover? I tested the limits of the AI by telling it to generate a “YA fantasy book cover by [popular cover artist]” The AI is wonky with faces and limbs, yes, but by generating variations and doing upscales over and over, I got some renders that look ready to be slapped on a book:
Some of you can probably recognize exactly which artist I put into the prompt (not naming her because I don’t want to encourage others to do this). Now what is stopping a big publisher from generating art bred from her style instead of hiring her? Nothing except $600 a year. That’s how much the corporate license for this AI costs, with “corporation” defined as having a revenue of over 1 million per year. And it’s an OPEN commercial use license. They say all paid members ($10 - $50 per month) “own” any asset they generate.
After talking to many of my artist friends, I now think these loose usage terms are pretty dangerous when artists are already systematically devalued and struggle with art theft and industries that cut corners whenever they can. People talk a lot about how AI sucks at faces and limbs, but what about non-portrait artists? I think environmental artists, background artists, concept artists, and especially artists who do surreal horror type stuff are most at risk of losing jobs to AI, even though it’s THEIR WORK that’s being fed into the AI to generate renders. There needs to be more transparency about where the images being fed into the AI are coming from, and options to limit the pool to only creative commons images or something. That or ban all commercial use, or we’re really gonna get AI generated book covers and other shit.
Right now, I think the AI user community also fosters unhealthy entitlement to art. I’ve seen people complain about the $30 tier not having enough Fast generation hours - you’re already getting hundreds of art pieces by typing a few words, and you’re COMPLAINING about a price tag that low because there’s a limit on how quickly you can get them??
These are not people who would pay a human artist the rate they deserve for their work. And honestly, I have no faith that big companies will keep paying artists fair wages when they can just buy a $600 per year license for unlimited assets to use for their million dollar projects.
In conclusion, I think AI art generators are a powerful tool and can be fun to play with, but regulations on commercial use need to come down real soon, or artist wages will decrease across industries as companies hold this hostage over artists’ heads.
https://nerdbot.com/2021/01/09/new-pill-bottles-for-shaky-hands-will-help-people-with-parkinsons/
This makes me cry, actually.
Just to add on. Libraries in many cities have 3d printers you can use that charge you only the price of materials. So if you can't wait for the shipping from the engineers, try your local library.
Oh good god it's gotten worse
Okay, so I just saw a tiktok saying "hey, ao3 is not tiktok. Do not censor words, especially in the tags." I stg people are losing brain cells. The tiktoker then proceeded to show an example of the tag they saw which was:
"s..cidal ideation"
I don't know who needs to, once again, hear this, but you are stopping the tagging system, and filtration system from working.
People censor words on platforms like tiktok to stop the algorithm from picking up their video and automatically taking it down or restricting it.
A tagging system works so that other people can easily filter the content they do and don't want to see. So if some had "suicidal ideation" in their filtered tags so that they won't see things containing that subject matter, by censoring the word suicidal, you have now stopped the tagging/filtration system from working and now the individual is going to see content that they had made sure to filter out.
Please stop censoring words and/or phrases. Especially in tags. You are literally stopping the system from working and doing its job. Ao3 (and Tumblr) is not tiktok. The tags are there for a reason. Don't censor them.
the kudos lie
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
You may have heard a rumour that authors will “know” when you hit the kudos button more than once. This is unfortunately not true. Authors get notified once about kudos - the first time you hit the button. AO3 sends out an email about kudos once per day, so the author finds out then. Any other button mashing you do, they won’t be told about.
I believe this rumour started innocently enough. At one point in time, if your internet connection was slow and you hit the button fast enough, AO3′s system would register more than one kudos for a user. That’s why some fics used to have the same user name in the kudos list multiple times and authors would get that same email with multiple entries for the same person kudosing.
In April, AO3 fixed that issue. They removed all additional kudos that had been left on fics up to that point, and with the new system in place users can’t leave multiple kudos anymore.
You can only leave 1 kudos per fic. Authors will receive 1 message about that kudos. I know it’s disappointing, but it’s the truth.
it’s been a year or two now, but people still seem to believe that authors get notified every time you hit the button. They don’t. You can only kudos once per fic. Creators get one notification. If you want to show more love, I’m afraid you’ll need to comment.
honestly i feel like a lot of people forget that c!dream’s treatment of c!tommy in exile was so awful that a legitimate concern at the time was that it was too realistic and people couldn’t watch the streams because they were triggered by them. some people were legitimately concerned for tommyinnit the content creator, wondering how he knew how to depict something like that. exile invented /dsmp, /rp, c! and cc!whoever—yet it gets watered down so much by recap channels avoiding demonetization and the twitter telephone game that it becomes just “manipulation” and not the systematic isolation and abuse of an already suffering teenager. if you think you know enough about exile to not have to watch the vods you’re wrong. theres no recap channel or summary out there that grasps the scope. sorry.
@catgirl-catastrophy tell ‘em babe
Oh my God it's like the internet never learns. Allow me to copy-paste from the last time I saw something like this:
"I've said it before and I'll say it again - the trick to disabling shit like this is to make your bogus calls indistinguishable from real ones. Don't do cursed images and memes, do fake names and classes that never existed. Force them to waste ten minutes for every call you make, hunting down something that sounds real but ultimately yields no fruit. A cursed image takes two seconds to close, but a well-constructed phoney tip can take quite some time - time that is in turn taken away from pursuing actual tipoffs. Get enough people doing that, and suddenly they either burn their whole day chasing people who don't exist, or they start to ignore legit tips in case they're also bogus. And THAT'S how you kill a tip line."
Also, a relevant excerpt from 2600
The point of sending tns and tons of memes and shit is not to waste actual investigators' time investigating things that obviously aren't real, it's to have as many people as possible send such a sheer mass of data that they crash the server/email/system that receives these reports, thus shutting it down altogether until it can be fixed or replaced. Rinse and repeat. It takes me more time to come up with a convincing but fake report than it will take them to weed it out. It takes me ten seconds to send the burning elmo meme, and if enough other people do it as well, it can overload the reporting system.
Did you read why that doesn't work as a long term strategy, though?
Sending a ton of people to spam them with random junk is essentially just a DDoS attack using real people instead of a botnet. Which can be useful and has its place, but that place is not in taking down something like this long term. DDoS attacks are, by their very nature, short-lived annoyances that deny people entry but do nothing to prevent real information from getting in eventually. And, as the article above points out, it can actually be detrimental to those trying to take the site down long term.
Sending in false but believable statements utilizes the principle of "garbage in, garbage out" (GIGO). By feeding the system a bunch of bullshit that looks real (garbage in), it wastes resources and makes it far more difficult to differentiate between real info and bullshit info (garbage out). This is a longer term solution that will get them to waste time while hacktivists working to get into the site and take it down long term (or even permanently). Shutting stuff like this down is a group effort and it's important to use methods of attack that synchronize rather than disrupt each other. And yeah, writing something believable but false can take more time, but it's a skill you can develop so that it eventually takes less time. But even if it does take 20 minutes to write and only 10 minutes to read & investigate, there are more people writing false statements than there are reading them. 1,000 people spending 20 minutes each to write false statements will give the 10-50 people reading the statements a massive backlog to work through before they can find even 1 real statement. On top of the time it wastes, having to read through 100 false but believable statements to get to a single real one can make it much more difficult to tell you've found a real one. Because GIGO.
y'all need to stop legally hatewatching too like a hatewatch is still a view is still a membership to disney+ or whatever.....execs have realized that hatewatching gets as much if not more money to them just pirate please
I am literally begging you to pirate from Disney. Please don't give them a fucking penny for their dumbass live-action remakes that nobody likes. Give them NO reason to think it would be profitable to continue making those. Grant them nary a cent. Nothing. LESS than nothing.
fmovies.wtf
123movies
dailymotion.com
kissanime
soap2day
putlockers
watchseriess.co has subtitles. has movies and tv shows. and cartoons too.
also europixhd.io (havent used this in awhile so im not sure if it's still ok)
yts.mx for torrenting movies
rarbg.to for movie and shows torrents
and prostylex.org is the same but has music and books too. also first cam versions of theater releases
z-lib.org for books (has 5 download limits daily per ip address)
getintopc.com for softwares
apkpure and apkmody.io for android apps (some are premium modded)
Sflix.to for literally every movie
OH MY GOD YES!! Sfilx.to has moral orel! Ive been looking for that everywhere!!
for everyone who is ditching Netflix like me bc they stopped funding cartoons which is the only goddamn reason I had a sub in the first place :)
wow thats so noble phil! hey. remind me how he got out again?
the fact that the bottom part of this was cut off and reposted and and almost nobody knew is one of the biggest cases of bi erasure in history
The lineart on the coat alone took four hours. I’m never drawing it again.
They hated L’manberg for their narrative coherence swag
Nevermind I actually form opinions now
I have Stopped. Watching DSMP lore. Stopped completely. Now all I do is sit and listen for the cries of the victims who have witnessed it live, first hand.
Will I watch it ever again? I mean like. Probably. Not right now though, I like hearing people’s opinions and thoughts on streams I have no context for. I’m also completely out of the loop on most lore within the past year, so it’s fun to just sit back