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i really need "villagers from minecraft are antisemetic caricatures" to become a popular enough sentiment for them to finally change their designs somehow

nyxieluvshersisters

For anyone who wants to do this before mojang does like 15 years from now because they finally get too much backlash to ignore here are some resource packs I personally really enjoy! Human Era by BishopMcNuggets This one makes the villagers/illagers all into basically players, along with turning the iron golems into mechs and knights. Gray's Villager Overhaul by CanineGray This one makes each villager/illager type a different type of anthro animal, along with making the ravagers and iron golems into more mythical monsters. Rabbit Villagers by CanineGray Precisely what it says on the tin! The villagers are now bnuys, with the illagers being foxes, I haven't used it enough to see if the iron golems are changed though

nyxieluvshersisters

hey, u can extract the zip file and remove the illagers from it and just use the illagers from a different pack

qi-mera

More of you need to learn about these ☝️

jadenebula

pirateprincessjess

Google Chrome has been installing an AI model on users devices without their consent.

lucky-knight

Ayo, everyone needs to go check this out <3

I love this creator and just from this pitch alone I'm sold. He describes that he wanted to create a more slice-of-life animated comedy about a Black couple that really hinges on how much they love and respect each other, citing other hit shows like Bob's Burgers as part of the inspiration. This launch trailer shows the theme song (which is beautiful by the way) and the utterly adorable designs <3 The whole team is putting in 110% so PLEASE go check out the launch trailer, leave a nice comment, and maybe send some money to the Kickstarter if you're feeling generous.

We need more Black voices in the indie animation space, especially in the wake of spikes of anti-Blackness and racism cropping up. And again, it's a project made with a lot of love with some real talent behind it- so go check it out for that alone.

HERE <- Is the link to the Kickstarter if you feel like donating or checking it out by the way!

jay-rayart

How many cartoons can you name where a Black boy is the hero? Not the sidekick, not the comic relief, but the center of the story, the one who gets to dream, to fall, to grow, to save the day. For too many Black boys, the first time they see themselves reflected back isn’t in a world of imagination it’s in headlines, obituaries, or mugshots. That kind of visibility shapes how the world sees them, and how they begin to see themselves.

FLY exists to shake up that narrative.

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.

carmahnart

Hey y’all I have an announcement! My web app that I’ve been working on, Afro Index, is now live! It’s a visual reference library of Black hairstyles, for artist, animators, writers, and anyone who wants to learn more about them!

Check it out at afroindex.org! 💛✨

A reference library for Black hairstyles with accurate naming, structured filtering, and curated reference images.

ratbastarddotfuck

tumblr userbase is going to become unconscionably insufferable in response to this taste of power I suspect. don't let it go to your heads.

ratbastarddotfuck

Lots of talk about "bullying wins" and little talk about power and the flow of capital, which is what matters to the corporate bigheads who approve these things. imo a few things were at play here to make them rescind this.

- It was buggy. Tags not showing up for an OP past even an empty reblog did not appear to be intended (or at least, it was not mentioned in the announcement), and is a MAJOR problem. Specifically, it undoes the major update from around 5 years ago which was heavily praised by the userbase (one of few tumblr updates to actually be widely well recieved) which allowed a poster to see tags in their activity feed. If this was the only problem, they could have launched a bug fix. Same goes for not being able to turn off reblogs.

- Userbase unity? Well, maybe. Specifically - the userbase had a swift, harsh, and overbearing response to this update. Most of the complaints were the same: this will exacerbate harassment, this will disrupt the flow of communication, this will make it impossible for someone to maintain their posts. Big names in the tumblr ecosystem came down hard, fast, and with significant concern: if this stays in place, I will have to leave - this place will not do what I need it to do. Much of the userbase said the same, sharing alternate blog hosting sites and doing the thing we always do when this ship looks like sinking. Additionally, their replies and feedback forms were obviously being flooded. This put real pressure on their workers in the office, which puts financial pressure on the company. I think the most disrupting tactic though, was going offsite. I checked out their instagram and twitter comments; they were flooded. This is something we Don't Usually Do when we're just whining about the newest change. Usually we stay here to complain but we make do with the change. This, I think, is the thing that signified people weren't just whining but were actually for real pissed. And then of course...

- Five hours before the roll-back announcement, an article drops. That kind of bad press is the nail in the coffin for a dying company like tumblr. I imagine several concerned meetings somewhere in those five hours.

What do we learn? The answer is not "bullying works" and "swearing at customer service reps is fun". The answer is to remember that online, we are both the product and the thing that creates the value (similar to but obviously distinct from the actual workers of a corporation; if we vanished overnight they'd have nothing). Brush up on your collective bargaining & try to understand why this happened in this way. And don't try to replicate this for every random update that comes next by endlessly harassing them. Take stock of the little power you have and work out where to put it to use. This is still just tumblr.

zigraves

Thanks to some very eager fellow citizen scientists, I have now tested the new features pretty thoroughly and can summarise the new system as follows: wow this is dogshit.

Now, as to how it works and the specific implementations of the dogshiticity, here is what I have observed from initial experimentation:

OP will get notified of all reblogs, so far as initial testing has gone. This includes tagged reblogs, commented reblogs, and uncommented-untagged "silent" reblogs. This also continues to include reblogs-of-reblogs. The only place OP will be able to see this is in their activity feed, because there is no longer any single location to see all notes/ reblogs on a post. Nobody else will be able to see ALL reblogs.

OP will get notified of any replies directly to their original post. So if you chatter in the notes of the original, OP will see that.

OP will get notified of any likes directly to their original post.

OP will NOT get notified of any likes to commented subsequent reblogs, as those now form a "new" post. Anyone wishing to leave a like should click the like button on OP's section of a reblogged post, otherwise OP will not know.

OP will NOT get notified of any discussion in the notes on comment-reblogs, as those are discussions on a "new" post.

OP will NOT be able to find any specific reblog chain, because for OP the notes on their post will only ever show the direct-from-OP reblogs and never any subsequent ones.

OP will NOT be able to find anything in their notes, and the Activity Feed is not a reliable place to be able to go hunting for other people's previous reblogs.

OP will NOT be able to turn off reblogging on a post, so there is no way to keep a post contained if it takes off in a way you don't want it to.

Every chain effectively becomes a complete silo, unconnected to any other reblog and only barely connected to the original post.

We will NOT be able to scroll through the notes of a post and look for funny tags or interesting comments, because the notes are now wildly fragmented and there is no central reference point. So it will not be possible to look through the notes and see if a hundred other people have already said that thing you were about to say.

OP will NOT be able to do anything to stop a harassment campaign that fills their activity feed, but also will not be able to find any of it in the notes of their post unless the harassers reblog directly from OP every time. This is a feature which will absolutely be used to harass people.

It is also VERY unhelpful that we don't have language to easily disambiguate "comments" (as in, a reblog that someone added something to, thus creating a new post) and "comments" (non-reblgo chatter that happens in the notes). Not that we can reliably see either of those any more.

So! Now you and I are armed with this valuable knowledge about how the new system works, please go to tumblr's feedback form and explain why this is a series of bad problems that you would like them to stop doing.

The feedback form is available here: https://www.tumblr.com/support

maxofs2d

The "Block AI Enhancements" toggle was originally introduced in Firefox 148 Nightly in January following significant community backlash afte

The Firefox "AI kill switch" is here.

Go to Settings > AI controls. There, you can toggle the "master kill switch" on to fully block all the features, which means two things:

you won't see them,

you can't even be asked about them.

The default state is, like before, "available". This means the features are NOT on by default (they never were), but Firefox will let you know about them where they exist (e.g. when you create your first tab group) so that you can choose to opt in.

Please note that Firefox for Android or iOS have never included AI features, so you won't see these settings on your smartphones or tablets.

Please also note that, unlike popular belief here on Tumblr, besides "chatbot in sidebar" (which is simply embedding the same page you'd have normally browsed to), none of these features have ever interacted with anything outside your PC, because they download a small model to your computer, to do everything locally. These small models have never been and are not downloaded until you explicitly agree to turn on one of the features.

self-loving-vampire

Cannot overstate how much you do not have to ever hand it to Nintendo's copyright lawyers.

rhapsodyxvi

Nintendo was reportedly hoping you'd be too preoccupied with Switch 2 news to remember they enslaved a hacker fairly recently.

done-with-your-chi

Hello everyone, my name is Gary Bowser aka GaryOPA as many of you know I am now in the process… Gary Bowser needs your support for GaryOPA R

Obligatory plugging my man Gary's GoFundMe

roxiefandoggoreblogs

YES, YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT DISCORD'S AGE VERIFICATION

But while cancelling Nitro and boycotting Discord CAN be a form of protest, it sadly may not be effective. Why? Bc their hands are tied due to the recent trend in age verification bills worldwide.

All of the bad internet bills. One website.

This site helps send emails to your lawmakers to oppose certain Internet bills in the US, many of which would push age verification if passed HOWEVER, calling your lawmakers on the phone is most effective. If you're not in the US, you can still help by spreading the word. The only way to prevent age verification (On Discord and ALL other social media platforms) is to prevent the bills that are forcing it. Look at the site for more info

daysleftofsecondterm

Come on freaks let’s move

amaditalks

While there have been age verification laws put in place in other countries, in the US there are currently such laws in only three states, and I believe one is not in fact while there are appeals and lawsuits going on.

Discord is obeying in advance, which is the worst thing to do when dealing with encroaching authoritarianism.

And yes, age verification laws are a form of authoritarianism, using the power of government to quash free expression under a pretext, in this case the pretext of protecting children.

They have already started walking back the impact of their new rule and how it will be implemented, and that is a direct response to how many people have let them know that it's not OK. You have to keep doing that in addition to talking to your lawmakers about why age verification schemes are inherently dangerous without actually providing the claimed benefit, and that if children need to be protected from online content, that's the job of parents.

goth-princess-gwennie

The idea of listening to no black music is bizarre to me. Even if it's not rap like no earth wind and fire? No reggae? No moonstomp? No ska? No classic jazz? No R and B? No disco??? No skindred? No jungle? No even like metal bands with a few black members? No gospel? Not even stuff like alors en dance? No blues music? No mo town? No jazz of any kind? No big band? No soul music? Not even a little James Brown?

jabbotmohan

not even yola or tanner adell or brittney spencer or tracy chapman or india.arie or chapel hart or the carolina chocolate drops or rhiannon giddens????

xoxoviva

Or…

Hemlocke Springs (alt rock/new wave revival),

the Noisettes (indie),

Skunk Anansie (hard rock/metal),

Tamar Kali (rock/punk),

Valerie June (country/blues),

Santigold (indie),

Bloc Party (post punk revival/indie rock),

O Children (goth),

Lord Scary Black (goth),

Cemetery Sex (death rock)

gayvampyr

a few more artists i love:

pleasure venom (post-punk/hard rock)

danny denial (indie punk/rock, queer)

big joanie (synth punk + some more melodic, blues-like tones)

shadow age (goth)

black pantera (rock, metal)

the 1865 (punk)

erzulie (punk, rock)

the rack (they describe their sound as “hard pop rock”, blends punk vocals and rock)

youth man (punk)

winter wolf (punk, metal)

the ire (goth, punk)

crystal axis (punk)

madame st beatrice (gothic, moody and melodic)

bastet (goth punk)

doomgazedog

Ah, I love this post.. please let me add some! And never forget that black artists STARTED a lot of the musical movements that were quickly associated w/white artists such as GRUNGE (Tina Bell of Bam Bam- Kurt Cobain was a roadie for her ffs), and my favorite genre shoegaze: "Black artists like A.R. Kane and The Veldt were among the first wave of bands to innovate music into what we now call Shoegaze."

2070 (garage rock)

RNIE (lofi rock)

Softie (shoegaze)

Cold Gawd (shoegaze)

Luster (shoegaze/pop)

Klein (noise/ambient)

Moor Mother (noise/experimental)

Whitelands (shoegaze)

#music #-- !!!

zara2148

Any way, things to try and do to make some noise about this.

Call Discord at 888-594-0085. All I had to do was stay on the line and leave a voice mail.

File a support ticket with discord. This will require you to create an account separate from your discord account.

If you have Nitro, CANCEL IT.

File a complaint with the California Privacy Protection Agency. You do not need to live in California to do this. I personally checked off "Right to Opt-out of Sale/Sharing" "Right to Limit the Use of My Sensitive Personal Information" "A business’s collection, use, storing or sharing of my personal information" and "Children's privacy" because like FUCK would they not be getting that in their efforts to protect them. When they asked for evidence of privacy violations, I shared the Discord press release.

It's also worth mentioning that Discord is headquartered in California.

If you live in a European country, this webpage has a list of all the countries so you can find yours and file a privacy complaint.

Canadians can file a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner. I've been informed this is likely not to be helpful due to the restrictions of the businesses the Privacy Commissioner actually has authority over.

akilah12902

Discord Age Verification: Governments All Along

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, becau

Rahaeli is, as she says, a creator and owner of Dreamwidth and has been involved with a ton of lawsuits in the United States, fighting against internet age-gating and censorship laws.

Go ahead and let Discord know you're displeased with their decision, but reach out to the lawmakers in your country and unleash your anger on them.

saxifraga-x-urbium

Force Remove Copilot, Recall and More in Windows 11 - zoicware/RemoveWindowsAI

defend-the-net-offical-deactiva

🚨 IT'S FEBRUARY. 🚨

⚠️ Which means that Congress is going to be pushing EXTRA HARD to pass the 18 "kids online safety" bills and repealing Section 230!!! It's been mentioned before that they want FEBRUARY to be the month to pass these bills, so we need to start making noise RIGHT NOW.

CALL AND EMAIL YOUR REPS!!! 📣