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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.

digitaldiscipline

Art thieves already hate it:

fierceawakening

Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

everyday I inch closer towards fed posting

quasi-normalcy

If you have bodily autonomy, then there is always a chance that you will do something to your body that you will regret. This is not an argument for taking that autonomy away.

scrumpster

yourtoradorasextendedwarranty

bookgeekdom

skulls-n-ivy

They also usually have free wifi. One of the few places you can use the wifi without being expected to buy something.

#there also one of the only third places left in the country #support your libraries!!

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in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.

for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.

so how can you help?

boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.

learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.

get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.

donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.

and finally…

crazy-brazilian

txttletale

one can instantly free oneself from the chains of identity discourse by simply conceiving of sexuality as something that is dialectical and not metaphysical

txttletale

your sexuality does not exist within you, nor does it exist as an immutable wholly external ideal to be discovered. your sexuality is locatable only within your interaction with and relations to the world around you

postintheshell

reciting this every time I log on to post like the litany against fear

slfcare

at times you'll find that things being hard is just things being hard and not you are incompetent, in the same way days are bleak will be days are bleak and not there's something wrong with you, and everyone's asking a lot of you will be everyone's asking a lot of you instead of you're being selfish. sometimes, to put things into perspective, you have to pull away of everything to see the bigger picture and realize that the world you live in affects you, and it's completely okay to feel it without blaming yourself for it.

modogoblin

selfcareparker

How I feel when my sneakers do the squeaky thing against the floor

teathattast

Brother i hate to break it to you but this was never obligatory in any way

rimonoroni

all things considered, you deserve to live.

not because your dog would be sad if you didn’t, not because you owe it to your parents, not because you owe it to anybody. but because you are a person, here on earth, with a will and a consciousness. by virtue of this, you have the right to be here, and you have the right to take up space as a human being. you deserve to live, down to your very core.

you deserve to want things, you deserve to have things, you deserve to love yourself, you deserve to be. you don’t have to prove that to anyone, it is inherent to your existence as a human being. nobody should take that away from you. and if they do, fight like hell.