What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?
An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:
I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.
Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.
A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)
So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
And I just got confirmation from a second ex-colleague that a deal with midjourney has been brewing since months ago. Not any extra details, just that's a real thing.
Shit, I don't see any way for this to happen that doesn't make it an apocalyptic event the size of the porn ban. Fuck.
Shit. This may be pure chance and coincidence, and it's not he is in a position to be able to talk about anything, but seeing prominent staff members announcing they are moving their original photography out of tumblr just two weeks ago seems a pretty significant cue of shit to be about to hit the fan.
I didn't know predstrogen or her blog but that doesn't matter to me and it shouldn't matter to you. if they came for her they will come for you. if you're not trans they will come for you when they're done with them.
hate doesn't start and end with one target, it morphs and amalgamates until no one is safe, and it lashes out a lot.
Also worth noting it had started with black bloggers alongside transgender bloggers. And even Palestinian bloggers in the face of the current genocide.
The real number of people who've been scorched Earth I can't even begin to comprehend as we usually only hear about it when its popular bloggers like Trans Mom or Predstrogen. The fact that even they were treated with such absolute cruelty means there had to have been so many more that went without any public outcry or knowing.
I wanna emphasise prev tags and ramble cuz it hits the nail on the head exactly. Exactly!!
What mr CEO is doing is fucking heinous: Revealing private information on a sex worker, placing her at risk of danger; Trying to use sexual language as a gotcha, knowing trans women are more likely to be profiled as sexual predators; Using his platform & disproportionate institutional power to amass extra attention & dogpiling on her; chasing her down, telling her that there's no safe place that she can run to without being pursued; threatening police on her. The entitlement to do all this just to win an argument and defend himself as an "lgbt ally". It's disgusting. And yet, it's so fucking common.
It's such commonly accepted behaviour among self-proclaimed "trans allies", among other queer people, even among other trans people. That's what trans women have been telling everyone for the past few months, for the past few years, for as long as we've existed. A significant proportion of TME people think this is totally justified behaviour when disagreeing with a trans woman, when they would rightfully condemn this behaviour if it were targeted towards a man, a cis person, a white person; y'know, people who are considered by default "more innocent" than those trans women who get 500 callout posts a day.
Self-declared trans ally Matt is perfectly replicating the everyday behaviour of all the transmisogynists and terfs running rampant on his website. This is his response to all of the ignored reports of harassment campaigns and witchhunting against trans women: He's joining in. He's replicating their behaviour to a T.
To place him in the broader situation, he's just one of many transmisogynists, all exhibiting the same kind of vile bigoted behaviour as him. He's the norm in a transmisogynistic society. But as a rich and powerful CEO with authoritative powers, he's also spearheading the current wave of transmisogyny, riling up and encouraging transphobes en masse to harass every trans women they see (many of my mutuals!) . This guy's actions are legitimately dangerous.
trans women deserve better. we are barely shown basic fucking decency irl online it doesnt matter where we are. it doesnt matter if we even move to a different website and it doesnt matter if people have to break data protection laws along the way - transmisogynists will stop at nothing to degrade and humiliate trans women to justify their abuse and convince you that "he- i mean it- i mean they deserved it".
please stand up for the trans women in your life because it did not start and certainly will not end with predstrogen.
CEO of Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg, has started openly harassing tumblr users on other platforms. This dude is actually incredibly scary and malicious and should not be involved with this website going forward. Theres just no excuse for this behavior.
I really hope this reaches more people, I'm only reposting this information from Instagram, the least that I can do. (Update: I changed their upbringing as it appears to have been listed wrong)
When I just saw this information I couldn't stop crying thinking about it, and now my heart aches. They were the same age as me, I know for a fact like any other teen they dreamt of their future, who they would want to become, what to achieve, create, wondering if they meet those in the future they can call friends, wondeting if it'll get better when they grow up, maybe wished to leave that terrible place or maybe wanted to stay. How could anyone let this happen, why were they discharged from hospital so easily? And the school, we all know why. I hate to think about how, even with all the progress made, these things still happen.
"murdered schoolgirl Brianna Ghey on February 16, 2023 in Glasgow, Scotland. Candlelit vigils are being held across the UK this week for Brianna Ghey, 16, who was stabbed at Linear Park in Culcheth, Cheshire last Saturday. Brianna was a transgender girl and police are now investigating her killing as a hate crime. A boy and girl, both 15, have been charged with her murder"
An article that explains trans hate crime murders as on 2023
I hate everyone who have ever committed such vile hate crimes, I wish them in prison and hell. But i would never go down to their level. But I also blame the government, the school, and even those bigoted online accounts that teach their followers hate. In this case LibsOfTikTok, who targeted the teacher of this school, who supports lgbtq+, so they had to leave their position. It must have been the push for this to happen. I think their tiktok account has been thankfully deleten. But i have no idea about Twitter or any other. Please check and mass report them if it still exists. (Link to Instagram reel that this information is from)
ADDITION, PLEASE MASS REPORT THESE ACCOUNTS
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There's also a contact form you can use to yell at Mr. Stitt about this here if you don't want that piece of shit to know your email or information. (Just put in a fake one and use the address of a McDonald's or something.)
This is a good and short overview of S-210 and its heavy-handedness, how the authorities could act against any website without much evidence required, its unconstitutionality, and how any and all material relating to sexual health, sexual orientation, and gender identity could fall prey to S-210.
if Tumblr became/already has become completely unusable for you where would you rather migrate to
bluesky
cohost
twitter (???)
mastodon
threads
pillowfort
spacehey
something else
I'd stop using social media
neocities
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Mostly asking because it seems like my dash is about 50/50 split between cohost and bluesky rn, would kinda like to know what the actual numbers are. rb for sample size etc etc
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