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This map is the most up to date version as of 3-4-2023 and takes into account all recent movement on anti-trans legislation
Yeah, I am going to signal boost this rq
This map has since been updated, as of 26-8-2023 this is the most current version
some kepcobiwell for @wurmzirkus :3
Let's make a haunted house together! Ingredients:
creaky floorboards and squealing hinges
uncomfortable and disquieting wall art
mysterious noises from... somewhere
flesh
dusty old opulent furniture
creepy dolls
memories of what once was and long-suppressed secrets
long shadows cast by insufficient lighting
show results/tag something else
reblog to enlist your mutuals in building the House :)
Glaze is out!
Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?
Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.
I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.
Art thieves already hate it:
Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.
The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222
As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:
https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
&
Recent text-to-image diffusion models such as MidJourney and Stable Diffusion threaten to displace many in the professional artist community
A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:
The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)
It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).
Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).
It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.
The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).
It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)
It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)
IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).
Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)
The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)
When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.
Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)
The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles
From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)
You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash
I had to
Take what you need and pass it on
A piece of chocolate
A shot of whiskey
A kiss
Someone reciting a poem to you
A hug
A soft & cozy blanket
A flower
A plant propagation
A steaming mug of tea
A reminder that you are loved
[ID: The classy Bugs Bunny meme. Bugs is dressed in a suit. OP has edited a festive mask and ratchet noisemaker onto him. Text to the left reads, "I wish all of my Jewish followers a very pleasant Purim". End ID.]
the stars and the universe love you
this is a pic a drew in november and then scrapped cause i'd made a bunch of mistakes right at the start, but today i opened it again and thought yeah it can be salvaged. spruced it up a lil bit and cropped the thing too. as one is wont to do of course
Crowley & Aziraphale’s New Year’s Wishes
From http://www.harpercollins.com/author/AuthorExtra.aspx?displayType=essay&authorID=3417
Crowley:
Resolution #1: I must accept that Super-Gluing valuable coins to the sidewalk and then watching events from a nearby café is not proper demonic activity.
Resolution #2: The same applies to rearranging the letters on wayside pulpits.
Resolution #3: Try to come up with something as good as cell phone ringtones, following one last stab at convincing Downstairs that cell phone ringtones are right up there in the whole Human Misery stakes. And iPods. Has anybody Down There even said thank you for iPods? Or “Googling yourself?” Frankly, I deserve some kind of award for “Googling yourself.”
Resolution #4: I must encourage greedy people to use the term, “Low-hanging fruit,” because that’s just like old times.
Resolution #5: This year, I will get a desk near the window.
Resolution #6: I will try to understand why Hell is a no-smoking area. I just think it’s ridiculous having to stand around outside the gates, that’s all.
Resolution #7: On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design, because it upsets everyone.
Resolution #8: Stop Googling myself.
Aziraphale:
Resolution #1: Spread peace and love and glad tidings of great joy throughout the world. Also try to get out more.
Resolution #2: I will be charitable to people who use the term “core values,” however difficult this may be.
Resolution #3: Notwithstanding Resolution #2 (above), I will redouble my efforts to have the utterance of the phrase “core values” classified as a deadly sin. I believe Himself is with me on this one.
Resolution #4: I will try to be nicer to the customers. They want to buy books; I want to sell them. It can’t be that hard. (Memo to self: Regular opening hours? Mark prices on books?)
Resolution #5: I will try to be polite to Gabriel, no matter what the provocation.
Resolution #6: Find out exactly what an “Internet” is.
Resolution #7: Really must resume dancing lessons. Learn the “Galloping Major,” the “Gay Gordons,” the “Mashed Potatoes.” Possibly even the “Twist”?
Resolution #8: Thwart Infernal Wiles (ongoing).
Resolution #9: I will try to understand why Heaven is a non-smoking area.
Resolution #10: On the orders of Head Office I will encourage the belief in Intelligent Design – despite the fact that the human airway crosses the digestive tract. Who thought that was intelligent?
Resolution #11: Feed the ducks.
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PS: If you are a person who wrote Good Omens, do not EVER look at the Tumblr Aziraphale tag to find a nice picture of Crowley and Aziraphale to put into a New Year’s blog. There are things you can never unsee.
There are 19 of them altogether. I’d give a prize to anyone who could correctly identify which are mine and which are Terry’s, except there are a few I can’t remember.
(Thinks. Goes and finds the original email chain. It’s from December 2005.)
Ah. Terry wrote 4 Crowleys and 2 Aziraphales. Then I wrote 2 Crowleys and 6 Aziraphales. Then Terry added another 2 Crowleys and another 3 Aziraphales, including one I would have sworn was mine.
So now I know.
If anyone can correctly identify whose are whose (and I’ve done a fair bit of the work for you in the numbers above) post it here, and if I notice a correct one, I’ll find something fun and Good Omens related from the edit suite to send you.
(This is definitely not the sort of official contest that needs rules and stuff. It’s not the kind of thing you can “win” by picking every combination and posting it, because I’m going to be checking the replies to this, and that’s just going to irritate me. It’s more of a vague curiosity stop.)
Artwork above by mizzkatonic
Harper Collins wanted New Year’s Wishes, and we wrote them, once upon a time, fifteen years ago, before Terry’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, back when we were still children. (The “Tumblr Aziraphale tag” is from 2012, when innocent authors could still blush at Tumblr content.)
Wahoo! (My GuessTerry: Crowley: #1, #3, #4, #5, #7, #8, Aziraphale: #2, #4, #7, #9, #11 — Neil: Crowley: #2, #6, Aziraphale: #1, #3, #5, #6, #8, #10)
The way that so far basically nobody has got all of them right makes me happy, because I have had over 30 years of people telling me that if there was one thing that’s easy to tell it’s just who wrote what in Good Omens.
reading together 🧡📚
*gently cradling the m9 in my hands, smooching them on the head* what absolute bullshit have you chucklefucks gotten yourselves into now <3
Crowley’s True Form!
A ribbon of space, with a million hands to create and cause mischief, and a million mouths to ask questions. (imagine more hands and mouths please.)
Many people have asked if he’s glueing a sun. In my mind I just wanted to show hands causing mischief so I drew him glueing a coin (yes even if coins weren’t invented yet) but honestly, that idea that he glues sun to the fabric of space like he glues coins to the sidewalk is so perfect that I’m keeping it.
“I helped build that one” just means he went around sticking the stars wherever he felt like they should go.
XD 😈😇🐍
