I am burdened with glorious purpose

nopowerintheversecanstopme Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent. Baby don't fear the reaper WhenUcallmyname,it'slikealittleprayer

[depsidase]

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.

If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.

But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.

Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.

-fae

[gothiccharmschool]

Oh look, my book is in there. GIVE ME MONEY.

[elodieunderglass]

Interestingly, I reblogged this thinking it might be interesting for my followers - but as I’m not an author I didn’t think further.

Then I did think for a second. I realised I had fallen into the classic tumblr trap of believing that Authorship Equals Fantasy Fiction Writer. It’s amazing how that gets into your own head.

I went back and found a clutch of my scientific papers on there.

Not something that’s worth me pursuing any farther - and a lot of those works are very openly open access, and so they are honestly the exact sort of content that SHOULD be used to train responsible models. But worth remembering that it’s very common on tumblr to think of all writing as, like, genre fiction, and there are other types of writing too.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[shithowdy]

today's walk took an unexpected turn when we had to rescue 45 (!!!) snapping turtle hatchlings from the road by the park. while not many of a clutch are meant to survive, the nissan rogue is not a natural predator so today they got a little help. ❤️

[xiaq]

A fun but admittedly petty thing I do is when I see a post on social media where someone is saying “God bless Trump!! Pray for Trump!!”and suchlike, I comment, “Amen! Psalm 109:8-17!” And depending on the platform I’ll get likes/hearts/prayer hands emojis etc. but I’ve been doing this for months and so far no one has actually read the verse, I don’t think. Lol.

[xiaq]

[skiesandflowers-deactivated2024]

Just because we aren't seeing more posts about Palestine, doesn't mean the genocide has stopped. Let's keep Praying and speaking up for Gaza, Palestine.

[ghostscribble]

This. I have not seen ANY videos/pictures/media showing destroyed buildings in israel like I have seen in Palestine. We have seen Palestine being totally leveled: bombed hospitals, houses, schools, everything. But you know what I have not seen? The same in israel. And do not even try to say "oh khamas controls israels media!!!". How? Because thats makes you sound like an antivaxxer flatearther 💀 so your opinion is automatically worthless and waste of space.

Like people make it sound like what happened on oct 7 was like The Rumbling yet I havent seen anything of that level. Yet you could think that it happened in Palestine because of all the evidence.

[i-am-aprl]

Noor Harazeen you are the world's hero. You're completely correct, this is not normal. This is evil and no human needs to make these decisions.

[eyeonpalestine]

[genuinelyshallow]

Palestinians are no longer asking us to help stop the bombing.

They are asking ( I would normally say begging, but proud as they are, Allah save them. After 106 days, they never begged for anything) for food.

They fear dying out of hunger more than being shredded to pieces by bombs

The messages they send.... How can I tell it's worse.. I can't put it into words, but it's worse

[igottatho-deactivated20250417]

Something lovely for a violent and terrible time.

Via Mohammad_AlHusien on Instagram

[watermelllonarchive]

Palestine is a disability rights issue!

Since October, Omar has been without batteries for his hearing aid. On February 6, Omar finally found some batteries. His mother, Amal, shared their excitement on Instagram.

Their video was translated into English by the account @translating_falasteen.

Caption from Amal's original post:

Caption from @translating_falasteen reupload:

Amal Habib is on Instagram @aml.habib35.

From her posts, it seems their family is still in northern Gaza.

Side note:

If anyone would like to help make these posts more accessible by providing descriptions in the reblogs, that would be much appreciated! I add alt text on images when I can, but I am sadly lacking video descriptions.

[papasmoke]

Nice of them to drop the hamas pretense

[princess-of-thebes-bc]

[i-am-aprl]

Child in Gaza was blown up when trying to open a tin of Tuna so he could eat When Israeli soldiers withdrew from Gaza they left these explosives, disguised as food tins, and whenever somebody tries to open one they get blown up This story about the child killed today was documented

[seymour-butz-stuff]

Netanyahu is a war criminal, pass it on

[soulofserenityy]

one day