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i often see people draw comparisons between llms and nfts/crypto which are kind of misguided because people don't really realize that, like... the 1-1 comparison is between NFTs and ''AI'', like, the nebulous concept-buzzword-phantom-products as Produced by the self-mythologization of the tech sector, and not between cryptocurrency and llms, which basically have nothing in common except 'something you do on the computer'

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Hey do y’all remember when Boeing fucking killed a guy last year. And we all said “huh I guess Boeing fucking killed a guy” and then went on with our lives. And everybody knew that Boeing had fully just fucking executed a guy and nothing came of it. Like there was no police investigation no justice no nothing. Like literally EVERYBODY knew that Boeing had full on murdered a guy to silence him and there wasn’t any consequences for them. Kinda crazy.

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I don't want my cellphone to have AI I want it to have 3 days of battery time. I don't want my computer to have AI preinstalled I want it to have seven usb ports and high ram at affordable price. I don't want my games to have AI built levels I want them to be so optimized I could run them on a nokia.

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Crossposted from my Tumblr Community: The Trans South

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The Trans South Monthly Bulletin Board

Our pinned post for the month of November, 2024.

comment anything you want to add, and i'll add what fits in this month's post. i'll be making a new post each month, so you may need to resubmit any links that are applicable for multiple months. check the comments for anything i missed!

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the bright side:

the fact that you're alive is good news to me!

"Good News: Some States Passed Protections for Abortion Access, Marriage Equality, and More" | Here is an article with some upshots and progress from the 2024 election.

"Lipstick Lounge Owners Break Ground on Sports Bar Venture" | "The Lipstick Lounge is one of only 32 open and operating lesbian bars in the United States registered with the Lesbian Bar Project."

"Florida's LGBTQ+ community defies queer repression with advocacy & preservation" | "I will not paint a desolate picture of the state. And, there still is hope."

"The Candy Shop: Columbia SC Rallies to Honor Landmark Black Gay Bar" | "Researchers and preservationists at Historic Columbia have joined the struggle to correct the way the club has thus far been "written over" in the historical record."

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TTS crowdfunds:

help fellow transgender people in your community today!

nothing here yet! request a link add by commenting on this post!

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fun links:

things that gave me dopamine and kept me going

Read "When We Call a Place Home" by Chinelo Onwualu | "A utopian tale of historical memory, the dangers of forgetting…and vampires."

WEBFISHING | "WEBFISHING is a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)"

Memory Games | I've been using these memory games to try to heal my brain a bit from long covid brain fog.

Mahogany's List of Black Banned Books | Read some books they don't want you to read!

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useful links:

interesting resources and organizations you should know about

Trans Reads | "Trans Reads is an ambitious project created by and for transgender people to openly access writing related to our communities."

Southerners On New Ground | "SONG is a home for LGBTQ liberation across all lines of race, class, abilities, age, culture, gender, and sexuality in the South".

Winners from The LGBTQ+ Victory Fund | Check out this list of winning LGBTQ+ candidates for various political offices from around the U.S. who were supported by the Victory Fund.

Lambda Legal's Help Desk | "a resource for the community we serve in providing general legal information and resources relating to discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, and HIV status."

Every State has a DD Council! | Did you know that it's federal law that every state must have a council whose job it is to hold their state accountable on behalf of developmentally disabled people?

Help the Palestinian People with a Click | "Your free click generates donations from our sponsors. Remember, you may click once a day, every day. Donations raised will go to UNRWA to assist the Palestinian refugees."

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If you're an adult trans person in the U.S. South, join my Tumblr Community: The Trans South.

If you're a teen trans person in the U.S. South and you create a youth community for trans southerners, let me know and I'll link to it in The Trans South.

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So I waste a lot of time watching youtube videos about shitty cryptogames. For those who have better uses of their time than I do and don't understand how cryptogames work and why there's six billion of them, let me explain.

The idea behind your standard cryptogame is that you cobble together some bare-bones crafting game or rpg or something, and you sell the players virtual real estate for real money. It doesn't *have* to be real estate -- sometimes it's NFTs that give you a play advantage or creatures the players use to fight or something -- but it's usually real estate. Cryptobros get in early and buy the virtual real estate while it's 'cheap', with the expectation that when the game really takes off, they can sell it for tons of money to other players. The real estate usually offers some in-game advantage (you can build on it, or you get voting rights, or you can tax shop owners on it, or something), but some games don't even bother with that and rely purely on "you bought it so other players will want to buy it from you".

Why does this fail, constantly? Because nobody cares about the actual game. Other games *have* successfully monetised this stuff, but cryptogames never succeed, because almost everyone in these communities are people who are just there to buy crypto stuff with the sole goal of selling that crypto stuff to someone else in the community. The games are never fun enough (or frequently, even playable enough) to bring in a real player base. They serve no purpose, fill no need, and bring in nothing except more cryptobros easily duped out of their money in the hopes of duping someone else out of their money. Asking "so why will players be interested in coming to our Virtual Libertarian Empire and making us any money?" or "how will this game make anyone money anyway?" or "when will this game become a game?" gets you kicked from their discords for spreading fear. Of course this game is gonna take off, bro. If it wasn't, would it be expanding so fast at this early stage? Would so many people be eager to buy virtual real estate in it? This is the next big thing in gaming. (Then the creators take the cryptobros' money and ghost them.)

Why am I bringing all this up? I dunno. Every time I see them putting a new AI Virtual Assistant in something I get weirdly reminded of cryptogaming. For... some reason.

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AHH

there was an issue with a payment i expected, and i don’t have $115 that i definitely needed today. i don’t know what will happen if i miss this bill at this point

if you want to help me out, there’s a lot of options to do that

you can tip me, subscribe, or buy shop items on my kofi

you can send me $ on venmo paypal

you can have me draw you a creature or make abstract art on my commissions page

if you tip/donate, you can let me know here and i’ll draw you something!

($0/$115)

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https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/02/15/2024-03063/group-registration-of-two-dimensional-artwork

^ the US copyright office is considering a rule change to allow 2D artists to register collections of artworks as a “group”. this is in acknowledgement of the fact that 2D artists these days frequently have to produce a large quantity of images and put themselves at high risk of copyright infringement in order to utilize opportunities found on social media. while registering a work is not technically a prerequisite for copyright protections, i think more and more 2D artists online are interested in the art copyright registration system due to increased discussion about IP theft. public comments are open for 35 days (as of 2/26/24), so i encourage my fellow 2D artists to give their feedback on the proposal to encourage any rules we believe will make for a system that might benefit our livelihoods.

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This is always where NFTs were headed. You could spot it a mile away.

A harsh learning experience for anyone who was duped into buying one and shame on anyone who pedalled this horseshit.

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

I’d say the article is being generous.

NFTs are LESS THAN worthless.

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Important lesson, all y'all! One that made it into our "Funny Channel"!

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NFT Trend?

This is a post to those who have a DevaintArt account, it has come to my attention that earlier this morning (while I was asleep) I received this note from a user not only randomly followed me but also left me a note that says this.

Naturally my instant response was to block the user, I’m uncertain if this is a bot trend like Tumblr with the porn bots, but nevertheless for everyone’s safety I’d advice you all to block and report if you must. DO NOT interact with them as this is a scam, stay safe.

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this is from when that whole thing was happening on twitter

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Keep up the good work

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i want to write an update to NFT hate world but so much has happened and i’m less of an NFT hate expert and more of an NFT hate cheerleader. does anyone have any favored recent anti-NFT resources published in the past 4 months?