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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

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feeling just as feral

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the unmotivation to study this afternoon is so real it's not even funny

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favourite part of the historic research: working on the sources

most behated part of the historic research: looking for the sources

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-despite everything, there is still love

@arthoesunshine/ @artsheila/ @daisies-on-a-cup/ @gayarsonist / @hjarta/ @yunawinter on twitter/ @bakwaaas/ @death-born-aphrodite/ anon on gentleearth/ @classicnymph on twitter

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i can't school right now. The summer is too severe 🫠

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❄️ Jan 8, 2024

new year, new blog intro! I've had this online journal for a year now and I love what I've curated it to be. it is still largely used as a studyblr, but I'd like to use it a bit more as a journal going forward. everything I reblog is like a sticker in a diary or something to decorate my room 💖

more about me below, feel free to visit anytime 🧸

I'm anne (they/she), and I'm in my third year of uni, studying stats and compsci, but I did have a brief stint in physics. I have a broad range of interests, many of which will be shared on this blog, organized using the tags detailed below.

📖 my bookshelf: updates on what I’m reading and reviews

✒️ my desk: studies and schoolwork (studyblr rbs get tagged as study inspo)

🎵 my record player: songs, music, and playlists

👗 my wardrobe: my favourite outfits and inspriation

🌙 my bed: cozy things and aesthetics I like

🖼️ my walls: art and how I would actually decorate my space

📺 my tv: shows, movies, and video games

📝 my journal: journaling and any other bits of writing I want to do on here

specific interests for posts will be tagged as well

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random event: wind was so wild that it YEETED a tree out from the ground and into the house!

new skill acquired: learned to use a chainsaw!

+1 STR: awesome exercise doing functional active work

gained: LOTS of firewood

location upgrade unlocked: my landlady said she'd replace the destroyed screen/mesh window which is right by my study area

new achievement: HACKcoughWHEEZE - breathed in so. much. dust.

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Whilst there are definitely concessions and support you are given as a neurodivergent student, they don't change the fact that studying under the current teaching methods is hard

Like I was given extra time, a study skills advisor and the chance to have my lectures read over my essay plans, these all helped and they are the reason I got as far as I did but I was still held back

Because what I would benefitted most from is having a person in my field not only teach me how to write essays but review the essays I was gonna submit and tell me how to improve, having flexible deadlines that I could discuss and agree with my assessors, lower expectations when it came to reading lists, better written secondary sources, a greater variety of assessment methods than essay, exam and participation in class (and more even weighting between the three) because none of these work for everyone and there has to be more creative ways to assess someone's capabilities than an essay and exams

And arguably the thing that I would have benefitted most from is doing my degree on a part time schedule whilst not having to work a job, which I am not sure was even an option at the Uni I choose, would have been limited in terms of who can afford that and comes with social stigma, but my degree was hard for me, my severe dyslexia meant there was a limit to how much I could be expected to read in one day and it was incredibly draining to keep up with the reading and writing expectations

But the teaching system is not set up to work like this, there is no way this level of support would have been possible under the current system and that means that there are many potential students who we are just outright failing because we don't offer this support

It's okay if the level of support currently offered still wouldn't be enough for you, Uni is not set up for the neurodivergent and whilst many make it work inspite of this, that doesn't mean it will work for everyone and we still have a right to ask for more

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While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a slapping,

As of some one gently flapping, flapping at my chamber door.

“’Tis some fairy,” I muttered, “slapping at my chamber door—

            Only this and nothing more.”

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you never know what someone is going through. for instance i didnt know i was going through anything until about 2 years later. i thought i was just chilling

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ID: A tan userbox. The image on the left is of the JSTOR logo. The text on the right reads "This user would be doomed without JSTOR." End ID

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consider this about your perfectionism.

is it about getting everything right? or avoiding getting anything wrong?

are your successes in spite of your perfectionist tendencies? or because of them?

is it a beast to manage, born of childhood trauama (a comment from a teacher? sibling?), rooted in shame, that whispers “YOU are wrong”, and only made you feel safe when you covered for every tiny mistake?

or is it present YOU, using that childhood coping skill though it no longer serves you?

a flaw to repress? a strength to flaunt?

an unspoken secret within you?

is it you?

(it is.)

you?

Brown, S. L. (Host). (2024, February 19). What you need to know about your perfectionism handbrake & the 10 signs (best of the podcast). (No. 445) [Audio podcast episode]. In The Perfectionism Podcast. https://samlaurabrown.com/

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tchaikowsky donating his skull to the royal shakespeare company in the hopes of becoming yorick is the most dramatic ass dark academia shit ever and you can’t convince me otherwise 

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Lets create a house where yelling means we’re having fun. When you hear a door slam you know it was accidentally pulled with too much strength, not slammed out of anger. When there is silence, it is Contentment, not another passive aggressive fight. The dog is no longer barking to protect, he simply just wants the cats to play with him. Let’s create a safe, warm environment that makes you feel like you can breathe, not hold your breath. Let’s stomp on the eggshells we use to tip toe on. Together we will make this house into a home. And welcome all with open arms into this kind and loving space.