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Please help me afford self defense supplies as my violent stalker displays increasingly worrying behavior.

I only need $100 more dollars to get everything I think I need to feel safe in + out of the home, and I'm taking a free self defense class for at-risk women offered by my state.

Please, I'm tired of the constant nightmares and feeling like I'm putting my family in danger by simply existing.

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Less suselle where susie doesn't eat the flowers she gives noelle and more suselle where noelle also gets to chomp down on them. Equality.

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artfight p2

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hello tumblr hope this finds the right audience

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Seeing as how the Big Beautiful Bill just passed, here's are some websites that offer discounts on medications:

- GoodRx

- SingleCare

- Pharmacy Checker

- WellRx - this one compares prices across different pharmacies

Stay safe, everyone. Things are about to get much, much worse in the US.

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listen to me, really. I am holding your two hands tenderly in mine. being part of a privileged group and benefitting from systemic exploitation without meaning to is not the same thing as being an inherently trash person who makes the world worse by living it in. that's not what that means. I'm telling you this for two reasons, 1) so you can chill the fuck out and be at peace with yourself without feeling like you're draining the universe of value, and 2) so you don't go onto oppressed people's posts about systemic privilege and exploitation and react like they've just told you that you, personally, should not exist because you're a man who lives within the vicinity of a supermarket that sells chiquita bananas. you're just gonna have to put some trust into your own brain and hold on to both the ideas that you're on one of the dominant sides of a set of global scales of injustice and that you don't have to shrivel out of existence about it. it can be difficult to reconcile those ideas at first, but it's completely possible and worth doing. if you don't, then you start constructing a worldview where you believe that either you have a civic duty to self destruct or you start vehemently denying that these systems of oppression exist, both of which are Bad and Not Good. peace and love x

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Let it be known: I am not a huge fan of Cloudflare. They bent over backwards to protect places like 8chan until they were literally forced to relinquish their contract. But very recently Cloudflare has taken a very hard anti-AI stance that, assuming they mean it, I can really get behind. This is a 17 minute video about that, but the first 4:45 are what's really shocking. A transcript:

Let me give you the actual numbers, because we have the data going back 10 years. So. the best metric that we found to describe how much harder your business as a media creator, as a content creator has gotten is to look at just Google data, and look at how many pages did Google scrape (which is what they're taking from you) in exchange for how many visitors [you get in return].

And think about the Google product 10 years ago. The Google product 10 years ago, you did a search, you got 10 blue links [editor's note: pages to visit] and the trade with you is you gave them your content, they took little snippets of it, described it, and then and in exchange they sent you traffic, right.

10 years ago the answer was, for every two pages they scraped, they sent you one visitor. On average across the entire internet. We have really good data on that. What has changed over that period of time, over the next 10 years, up until six months ago, [is] we've added two billion people to the internet. We went from four billion, to six billion people using the internet.

So that should be good for you as a content creator! More people accessing it! The Google crawl rate has not changed at all. It's been remarkably consistent over that entire time. And so if you just had those two facts, you would actually think that for every scrape you would have gotten more visitors.

But you all know that's not what's happened. How much harder did it get over the last 10 years to be a publisher? I've asked that to a bunch of people, and the answer is "God, it's about three times harder." And that lines up exactly with the data.

So what changed over that period of time, is for every six pages that Google scrapes, now they send you one visitor. And that was six months ago. [It used to be you'd have your] 10 blue links and […] you could monetize that, or get value from it in different ways.

Instead, now they give you an answer right on the page. Sergey and Larry used to brag about how their job was to get people off google.com as quickly as possible. Now 75% (actually not now, six months ago)… 75% of queries to Google get answered on Google. Which means that if you were an original content creator, your information is getting summarized, and then sold (because they still put ads there) but you don't get that traffic anymore. And that's the good news.

Because what's happened in the last six months? The answer is that in the last six months, it has gotten even harder than it did even over the last previous 10 years. And so the traffic ratio now is for every 18 pages that Google takes from you, you get one visitor. It's three times worse in six months, and what changed?

We can track this on region by region by region by region, and the answer is AI overview. Where they're taking your content, and someone else's content, someone else's content, they're smashing it all together, [and] they're giving you an answer right there. I bet that the answer today is that 90% of queries to Google get answered without people clicking on a single link.

The business model of the web has been search -- fundamentally, for the last 35 years that's what it's been. Yeah, advertising and other things, but it's all funded and founded by search. That's been the business model, [and the way] you get value is by one of three things: you either sell subscriptions, you sell ads, or you get the value of just ego. Fame, right. A lot of content creation is done just for fame. All three of those things are going away, and they're going away fast.

And that's just the Google data. It's still the good news. What's the ratio for OpenAI six months ago? 250-to-1. What is it today? 1,500-to-1. What's changed? People trust the AI more over the last 6 months, which means they're not reading original content. So that means those three things go away.

What's Anthropic? 6,000-to-1 six months ago. What is it today? 60,000-to-1. People aren't following the footnotes.

And so if you believe that the business model of original content creation is driving visitors to that content, I just have a really bad story for you: the future of the web is going to be more and more like AI, and that means that people are going to be reading the summaries of your content, not the original content. And what I'm worried about, why I'm wearing black today and motorcycle boots even though it's like you know 32 degrees outside, is I don't know... if you can't sell subscriptions and you can't sell ads and you don't get an ego hit from knowing that people are consuming your stuff… Why [is anyone] going to create content?

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His point being: if people aren't being rewarded for creating things, not financially, or even from the simple pleasure of knowing someone else has appreciated your work, will they keep creating? It's easy to point at an image generated by AI and know that it contains stolen assets, but even something that feels victimless, like AI summaries, are a kind of theft.

We can be flowery about creativity all we want and what it means to do things just for the sake of doing them, but there are a lot of other equally important things people do for the validation they get from others upon doing them. We can't just shun the concept of appreciation and pretend it has no place in creativity. People need to know their work is being seen and loved, and that includes writing and music and everything else.

This is genuinely a landmark concept and it's one I don't think a lot of people are grasping.

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Me: we NEEDA KNEELING WOMAN KNIGHT EMOJI

My brain: you can do it

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puppy puppy puppy puppy puppy

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i love the deltarune wiki being hilariously petty in citing literally every single time they/them pronouns are used for kris but actually looking at said citations it's like. man this game is not REMOTELY subtle about it. how do you read this and come away thinking kris uses he/him

i've seen people say "toby should put an end to the kris misgendering by making a post saying that they only use they/them!" like girl it's already explicit in the text. it'd be like toby tweeting "just so you guys know, susie is purple"

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Kris & Susie test their might.

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Tenner

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rb to make a biological essentialist mad <3