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honestly part of the reason im not posting is bc summer depresses me. like clinically. every single year. im not okay rn but i will be one day when i can wear a jacket again

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Never trust a furry disliker

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feeling self conscious because I’m fucking lazy and always smack the same stupid paper texture over my artwork and it gives it kind of a yellow/vintage-y vibe and now yellowed art is like…a thing to look out for in regards to AI art.

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The way they have the tabs looking like beads of sweat. Calm down free-use ghostie

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My father was a surveyor. This is objectively hilarious.

I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it

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In the ask box

I'm posting this with the asker's name obscured, as I don't want to run the risk of embarrassing them, or of provoking others to some kind of backlash.

Numbered? Okay. Here are reasons number 1 through 186 for you, made available by putting my name into this master list of Meta--scraped works and pulling up the titles of those works of mine that over time made their way into LibGen without my permission, and which (after they were scraped from there) were then used to train AI at Meta.

That is pretty much my entire literary output for the last fifty years, scraped illegally from LibGen into Meta's LLM-training database. Those include numerous works from my own tiny online bookstore, the income from which is sometimes all that's kept @petermorwood and me alive.

It's often my great pleasure to donate ebooks (and regular print ones) to libraries on request. But to have work taken and posted online without permission strikes me as... not very nice. Donation of one's work to online sources should be a choice the individual artist makes. And I was never given the chance to make that choice. Others decided they were entitled to make it for me.

Anyway, I think Meta's actions should have consequences: as should other thefts of copyrighted material by Big Tech. That's what the class action lawsuits against Meta and Anthropic are about.

I hope the above data will be helpful in assisting you in your assessment of my possible state of misinformation, or my moral decrepitude.

And if you feel that my being angry about what Meta and Anthropic and their ilk have done with my work (and my dead husband's, and that of tens of thousands of our colleagues) makes me evil...

Well, that's a take. May others' assessment of your moral state be kinder.

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Patreon is soliciting feedback about AI.

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US-based writers: don't miss out on getting into the class action suit against Anthropic / LibGen

Apparently the deadline is tomorrow. (See the Bluesky posting over here for useful URLs.)

...Just doublechecked my entries in their database. They scraped essentially everything I've ever written. And confused Diane Wynne Jones with me, ffs. ...FUCKERS.

If you are US-based, get yourself on that list. Here's its URL:

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hi your blog concept is fascinating! I hope these texts make it into the hands of interested parties in the future, one way or another.

I remember I once had a realization about the common leafy pictogram (?) of the energy saving mode of batteries, about just how incomprehensible it would be for aliens or far future humans (hopefully) to understand why would there be a leaf there.

that being said, do you take requests? if so can you do one description for that. I have tried but my english is not up to par

"Energy saving mode" or "power saving mode" is a common feature on early twenty-first century electronics. It extends battery life by reducing power draw at the cost of degraded performance, lower brightness, and by aggressively putting functions to sleep when not using them. Many devices, such as laptops or cell phones, will automatically enter power saving mode when low on battery (such as when getting to 15% capacity). Some devices have multiple versions to increasing degrees.

While there are many icons to indicate that a device is in energy saving mode, such as a battery, a common one is a leaf. Leaves are common shorthand for "green" or "environmental." Under the economic systems of the early twenty-first century, consumption of resources, including energy, is fundamentally extractive and harmful to the ecosystem. This can be mitigated, and restorative technologies do exist, but there is a definite link between reducing resource consumption and reducing environmental impact. For branding reasons, energy saving processes and technology are advertised as "green," and this extends to "energy saving modes" on some devices. So, a leaf and battery icon may be used to indicate battery saving mode.

Ultimately, environmental concerns require deep and systematic changes to economic, political, and infrastructural systems. The amount of harm mitigated by using battery saving mode on devices (or any individual action) is effectively irrelevant.

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"For anyone who doesn't know what a Bacon number is, it is the degrees of separation a person is from the actor Kevin Bacon. Kevin Bacon's number is 0, Someone who has worked with him directly's number is 1. Someone who has worked with that person's number is 2, and so on. (Here is a link to the Wikapedia page on Bacon numbers for more details.)

If you don't know your Bacon number, you can check it on The Oracle of Bacon by putting in the name of the most famous person that you or someone you know have met"

(Submitted by @lucybianchi)

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Sure would be a shame if thousands of people saw this...

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