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Being a weird little girl as a kid provides two options to you: becoming transgender or becoming a weird adult woman. Both of which are things the world needs more of

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lets hear it for transgenderism and faggotry. can I get a round of applause for transgenderism and faggotry

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On top of the Yankees field cat there was a praying mantis on top of the nationals players hat tonight. Huge night in baseball

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Dear fanfic writers, your need to get VALIDATION for your creativity is VALID

Look, there is no gun to our heads and no one is making us put our blood, sweat and tears into these stories we're writing. But look at it this way, we're human too and everyone likes to get compliments.

Writing for self enjoyment is the goal but don't feel bad for craving more support, hits, kudos, comments, etc. Just because it's fanfiction doesn't mean it's less mentally stressful to do, and it sure doesn't make the stories mean less to us as writers.

Our work is rich and awesome too and we deserve a good pat on the back for it. We deserve to get acknowledgement and credit for it🤝

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starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

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Here's something useful.

"On May 15th Google released a new "Web" filter that removes "AI Overview" and other clutter, leaving only traditional web results. Here is how you can set "Google Web" as your default search engine."

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A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

Continue reading article here

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One time my rabbi told us, “imagine you had a box with a little bit of god in it. What would you do with the box?”

So we were like ?? “We’d protect it and keep it nice and clean and polished” and he was like “your body’s that box. Stop eating markers”

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i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!

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Saying goodbye to someone you love is never easy. I think a pet is especially so, because they never say anything mean to you, but they’re often the ones who are there for you when you really need someone

He knew your mom needed you, and I’m sure he never held your busy-ness against you. I’m sure he was always just happy for the time he did have with you

Maybe wherever Angus is, he’s helping to prepare your next best friend to join you and look after you, just like he did. And if/when that new friend arrives, you’ll know Angus made it safely to his own little paradise, where you’ll see him again one day, with all your pets that are gone. It might be quick, it may take awhile, but you’ll know when you meet them, that Angus sent them to you to tell you that you’ll be okay, and that he loved you. Perhaps it won’t even be a friend you keep. Perhaps you’ll see a kitty just like him, and they’ll give you a nuzzle, or sniff or a kiss just the way he did, and you’ll know it was a message from him, just to make you smile

We all have regrets, but don’t think for a moment he held any of it against you. No one who really loves you would. We’re here for you, Ninja. Let us know if you need anything, and sorry that mine turned into a bit of a rant 🙃

Might have to say goodbye to Angus I'm not ready

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My art refs be like: "rabbits are plantigrade, never stand on their toes and move by hopping"

-Rabbits not giving a shit about your "laws of science":

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Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

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So poor people don’t deserve to have money?!