time flies when you're tossing timelords

WELCOME TO MY HEAD! Since you're here, I probably like you! Mind you, I reblog nearly anything that manages to hold my interest within 5 seconds, so please don't mind the chaotic irrelevance between posts! Also, this description was neat— until this thing's inability to understand spacebars destroyed that dream of tidiness.

[cloudabserk]

he was bracing himself for bad news

[m1stl3t03]

im a victim of hockey yaoi propaganda .

[polartss]

”genetic” girl WHATEVERRRRR

[batsplash]

woodstock x ilya to match shane ❤️

[batsplash]

i heard snoopy x shane agenda and immediately signed to the cause

[hrgifs]

ilya 'needy top' rozanov

[heymacy]

HEATED RIVALRY SEASON ONE + hall of fame text posts

[gil-estel]

literally all I could think about while shane and yuna were having their Moment

[bluegiragi]

the cottage, as told through polaroids.

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extra:

(I'm sure it's nothing)

[bluegiragi]

ilya rozanov and shane hollander for calvin klein

bonus (!) text message convo between "Lily" and "Jane":

[foone]

Your posts are in an AI model

and then Tumblr decided to sell them to AI models.

Now, don't get me wrong, tumblr selling out the users to AI companies is bad, yes, they shouldn't do that. It sucks.

but don't lets get this confused: your posts were already in there. Tumblr selling them is about tumblr making some money and about the AI models having more exhaustive post collections. It's not about your posts being in an AI model, vs not being in one. That battle has already been lost.

Can you find your post on google? Then it's almost certainly in an AI model already. Think about it: These AI sites showed up before all the sites were making deals to sell their users' content, right? How do you think they built them in the first place?

They scraped the posts. Just like google and bing and such do when they build their search indexes.

It's a fundamental part of how the open web works: you want your posts on tumblr to be visible to users, right? You want them to be readable?* Like, look how much stuff broke when twitter changed their whole read-while-not-logged-in policy, ruining a bunch of thread links/NSFW links. And if it's visible, it's scrapable. That's what the AI models were built on.

I've done website scraping before (not for AI models, of course. I was doing search engines and website archival), this is just how it works. You hire a few relatively smart CS graduates and tell them "build me a scraper that'll give us a bunch of tumblr posts" and they go off for a month or two and come back with a database of a few billion posts, and you stuff that into your AI model. That's how they got all the deviantart and flickr and twitter and pinterest and so on posts. They didn't pay for them: they just took them.

They only ever pay for this shit because either:

they fucked up in such a way that the site might be able to sue them for taking rather than paying

They can buy them cheaper than they can finish taking them. Maybe they'd need to pay the CS grads for an extra month? well, that might be more expensive than just throwing the site a couple hundred thousand bucks.

ANYWAY: my point is, don't treat this "oh no tumblr is selling our posts to AI" like it's a big thing that might happen and it would be bad to happen. Yes, it's bad, tumblr shouldn't do this, this'll let AI models get continual updates of content for far easier than just scraping them would be, tumblr betrayed user trust, and so on...

but realistically, this is not a black and white matter of "if only tumblr didn't do this, then we'd be safe from AI models!"

Nope. We already lost that battle. I'm sorry, and it does suck, but that's just how it is. The avalanche has already started, it's too late for the pebbles to vote. * I'm assuming here that you don't run a private blog that's set to only followers or something. You'd be safer then, of course, but you're not really my target audience for this rant

[foone]

I guess my point is: Don't freak out about this being a big thing that you're gonna have to fight to stop. Having anxiety over this is not useful. Instead, you need to realize that this battle is already lost, and reconsider your strategy from there.

I'm not saying "you need to give up and let AI companies take everything you make and do whatever they want with it". I'm saying that the specific battle of stopping AI models from getting your posts is a lost one.

So rethink your strategy: What else can be done? Can we limit what the companies do with our data? Can we stop them completely? Can/should we change where we post artwork to keep it from getting acquired by AI models in future? Does this need a political solution (like "ban generative AI"), not an individual solution from artists?

All those are options you could look at and decide on, plus I'm sure there's tons more I haven't thought of. I'm not trying to tell you want to do, just saying that you should choose your battles, and when choosing battles, don't choose one that is already lost.

[kinojoy]

In the midst of the relentless war that has plagued Gaza for over 100 days, … Baraa Awoor needs your support for Help Evacuate Maryam and He

They're almost reach their goals ! Keep sharing and donating !!

[hungwy]

(To my kindergarten class) It is easier to imagine an absence opening in a presence than a presence originating in an absence. Thus to answer your question, the holes in the swiss cheese must come after the cheese is formed, and it is not the case that the cheese is formed around the holes.

[fusdoq]

happened few hours ago, the "aid ambush". people in northern Gaza who were outside waiting for aid trucks, were targeted by the Israeli army. 150 person killed immediately and around 1000 injured. check Anas Al-Sharif's page, the Al-Jazeera correspondent for more details.

people died hungry. their hunger was their vulnerability and they were attacked waiting for food. exactly how depraved that army is???

[xochipitzahua]

Israeli 'massacre' kills over 100 Palestinians seeking food in Gaza City

Witnesses describe to MEE being indiscriminately attacked as they gathered around an aid convoy

Blaming the victims of an ongoing genocide for their own murders because they were “violent” and “scary”.

We’re supposed to believe that a bunch of heavily armed occupation forces were “scared” of starving civilians trying to access supplies? It’s the same racist bullshit cops pull when they kill unarmed Black and brown people. It’s no coincidence that the IOF and USAmerican cops train together. Racist militarised oppressors all think alike.

[zenosanalytic]

^^^

A bunch of soldiers IN TANKS were "scared" of a crowd of hungry people getting food? These "defenses" Israel gives are mockery more than anything.

[oh-totoro]

[oh-totoro]

I can’t believe that this is still going.

[capacity2]

You can’t let this stupid ass evil world rob you of your vibe don’t let them do that to u

[stuckinapril]

Hey everyone, this is Bisan from Gaza. I'm still alive but Hind is not. Do you remember Hind Rajab? This seven (7) years old child who was missed 12 days ago. Hind was in a car with five (5) family members and they were all killed - except Hind - by an Israeli bomb, and then she called the Ambulance, she asked them to rescue her. Two Ambulance men from the Red Crescent tried to do this but they were also missed. Now; today they were found killed. The body of Hind found killed, found murdered. It's just a new massacre added to the list of endlessly massacres committed by Israel against my people; Palestinians in Gaza right now.

No one holds Israel accountable until now. No one is doing anything. Hind was killed. Who is the next? I don't know, it might be any one of us, but I mean, it's a new, it's a new massacre - she is murdered. You all heard her story, you all heard her voice asking for help saying (Bisan speaks in Arabic first then translates to English the following) "take me with you, take me from here". She was between dead bodies for days, alone and no one could rescue her. We knew where she was, we knew that she was okay, we knew that she could contact the Red Crescent but no one rescued her.

-- Bisan on Instagram, 02.10.2024

There really is nothing left to say.

[stuckinapril]

I genuinely feel disgusting. All the love and support I could give, the donations, the spreading of awareness, all of it--and none of it could save this child. I've listened to audio of her begging to be rescued, of her telling the operator that she's afraid of the dark. All of it has done nothing, because she was still killed. The Red Crescent paramedics who tried to save her were literally targeted by Israeli forces on arrival. Deliberately. On purpose. I know we have to keep talking about this, I know there's no end to this until Palestine is free--until Palestinian children stop being liberally massacred like this--but I just had to lament the fact that this child's death won't be enough to the world. It has never been enough. This isn't the first and it won't be the last, and there's really no telling when these deaths--of these children, these human beings who didn't get the luxury to live like you and I do--will be enough. It should never have come this far. But it has, and it continues to go even further.

Children shouldn't have to die to get the world to wake up to begin with--but the fact that they do and yet it still does nothing is a cruelty on a whole other level.