#Development & Aging with the Internet

[scurviesdisneyblog]

𝙳𝚒𝚜𝚗𝚎𝚢 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚙𝚝 𝚊𝚛𝚝Ｉᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴏꜱᴛ-ʀᴇᴠɪᴠᴀʟ ᴇʀᴀ (2018 - ᴘʀᴇꜱᴇɴᴛ)

[izzystizzys]

does anyone else find the idea of a 00q ‘i’m a celebrity’ au really fucking funny or is it just brainrot again

[working-dreamer]

It’s wild how shipping culture has changed so drastically over time on the internet.

In the old days people shipped characters who either had only one line of dialogue with each other, never even met, or not even from the same piece of media. It was the wild west and sure some ships were uncomfortable but people had the mindset to just block the tag and stay away from ships they didn’t enjoy.

Nowadays? It’s more like people have to clarify that their ship isn’t canon compliant, character adjacent, and story irrelevant otherwise they get a flood of comments saying “but this character isn’t like this in canon” and some people legitimately get angry if you’re not following the canon.

Like- shipping and fandom culture from what I understand it is about engaging with media in a way that caters to you. And if you don’t like a ship or show just… block the relevant tags and don’t engage in the ships? The internet isn’t supposed to cater to us- we have to cater ourselves to our internet environment. And no matter how many times people may harass others over a fandom or ship they don’t like, those ships are not gonna disappear.

The internet has just been getting worse when people have decided to place morality in their opinions by saying things like “if you enjoy the ship then you support (insert horrible thing here that’s usually completely unrelated to the ship itself)” when it used to be “eh, not my thing” and people just moved on.

And for the record this isn’t about a specific ship or anything- just an observation of how fandom has evolved (and regressed) over the years and I find it fascinating from a sociological perspective cause we still don’t know how having the internet from birth affects the development of kids and how that affects how they interact with others- isn’t that scary?

I know that’s slightly unrelated but the way people engage in media has been changing over the years and that also involves fandom and the maturity level thereof in the internet space and someone smarter than me could probably write a whole thesis paper about fandom culture and how the internet has hindered the social development of people and how that affects community specifically from a fandom lens.

Just- for your sanity younger internet children: it’s not worth harassing others over something as trivial as ‘it’s not canon that this character kisses another character.’ Just find ships you like. Block ships you don’t. And just enjoy your time doing what you like!

You can’t control the internet but you can nurture your little corner of it.

[saifuckr]

feels like ive been seeing a disproportionate amount of posts criticizing people who dislike children and im just here to say that this is a child hate accepting blog. this is a child hate safe zone. theyre fucking annoying hit post

[girlwithlionmane]

You would think that Andy Warhol would have been one of the artists I was autistically obsessed with/folded into my personality as a teenager but I think I was probably too pretentious

[fluffle-writes]

I wanna. Pick them up in my mouth and shake 'em around like a dog obliterating a squeaky toy

[uglygirlstatus]

12 👁️ for the art ask thing

12. Show us an old drawing

dug up the ol deviantart account… why was I legit good with MS Paint when I was 12.

[butchlifeguard]

I HATE FANDOM WANK YALL ARE UNHINGED. VERY NEGATIVE BTW

[arctic-hands]

I'm sure this is coming from a place of American privilege and Japanese kids prolly learn about nuclear devastation around the same age if not younger but. My first grade teacher reading Sadako to the class definitely Left Its Mark on me. Like it's an important story don't get me wrong and I don't have a "think of the children!" mentality and I'm not saying the book should be banned or anything. And my teacher prolly thought she was doing a good job of explain the A-bomb as gently and bite-sized as possible to a bunch of six- and seven-year-olds and it prolly worked on all my other classmates because literally none of them acted like me after but she Did Not Anticipate having a student who was rapidly developing "early onset" bipolar disorder and. Uh.

[lovingthelooking]

📱 Online Safety Alert: 1 in 4 Kids Aged 5–7 Own Smartphones

According to a recent Ofcom report, almost a quarter of children aged 5 to 7 in the UK now own a smartphone. Let that sink in — kids barely out of preschool are stepping into the digital world, unsupervised in many cases.

The footage from John Wallis Academy in Kent shows what’s becoming an everyday scene: groups of very young children clustered around their screens, even during break time. And while this might seem like “just the times we live in,” it raises serious questions about online safety, digital literacy, and the kind of content these children may be exposed to.

With smartphones come access to the internet, social media, YouTube, and messaging apps — environments not built with a 6-year-old in mind.

🌐 It’s time we rethink our approach to digital parenting. 🧒 Should a 6-year-old really need a smartphone? 🔒 Are we giving them tools without teaching them the rules?

If you're a parent, teacher, or just someone concerned with the next generation's mental and digital well-being, this is your reminder: supervision and education are more critical than ever.

Need help managing educational balance or crafting assignments in child development and safeguarding? 👉 CIPD Assignment Help has expert guidance.

[endearingsalt]

“lol random” humor is a developmental stage, you dipshits. obviously the kids are still into it

[handweavers]

like i'm literally trying to put this as simply as humanly possible. the way that you are taught to view what it means to be a canadian or american or brit or whatever, the idea of Who you are, has built into it that by being From There you are fundamentally different or better or more Real than the rest of the world, and this is conveyed to you both overtly and subtly from an extremely young age, sometimes passively and sometimes directly, and you are taught these basic assumptions about the world, they become part of the way you navigate the world before you really have the words to explain or describe it. and i'm telling you that people born in the global south are typically not told these things, not conveyed this about ourselves from childhood, this is not something we are taught. the assumption, from an extremely young age, is that the world is full of "real people" and "real countries", whatever that means. there are more specific sectarian or communalist things taught to us depending on where we live and other aspects of the material conditions we are born into, but the basic assumption of "my country is the only real country in the world" and "only people born in my country are real people" is not universal, you did not enter this life thinking that way, it is something ingrained in you. and you can choose to unlearn that, or you can choose not to, but if you whine on the internet about people from the developing world being mean to you because you are insisting on your right to not view us as human beings i think you are too far gone

[apricops]

So, the thing about Don Quixote.

The thing about Don Quixote is that he tilts at windmills - tilts in the archaic sense of ‘charge at with a lance,’ because it’s the story of a guy who read so much chivalric romance that he lost his mind and started larping as a knight-errant. He was, if you’ll pardon the phrasing, chivalrybrained.

The thing about Don Quixote is, sometimes people take it as this story of whimsical and bravely misguided individualism or ‘being yourself’ or whatever, and they’re wrong. If it took place in the modern day, Don Quixote would absolutely be the story of a trust fund kid who blew his inheritance being a gacha whale until his internet got cut off so now he wanders around insisting that people refer to him as ‘Gudako.’

But the real thing about Don Quixote is that it was published in the early 1600s, and the thing about the 1600s is that Europe was one big tire fire. This is because 1600s Europe was still organized around feudalism (or ‘vassalage and manorialism’ if ya nasty), which assumed that land (and the peasants attached to it) were the only source of wealth. And that had worked just fine (well, ‘just fine,’ it was still feudalism) for a long time, because Europe had been a relative backwater with little in the way of urbanization or large-scale trade.

That was no longer true for Europe in the 1600s. The combination of urban development, technological advances, and brutal Spanish colonialism meant that land was no longer the sole source of wealth. Sudden there was a new class of business-savvy, investment-minded upwardly-mobile commoners, and another new class of downwardly-mobile gentry who simply couldn’t compete in this new fast-paced economy. Cervantes saw this process with his own eyes.

One of the symbols of this new age was the windmill, a complicated piece of engineering that was expensive to build but would then produce profits indefinitely - in other words, a windmill was capital.

The thing about Don Quixote is, when he tilts at windmills, he has correctly identified his nemesis.

[kianamaiart]

🌟KIANAMAIART FAQ🌟

FAQ wahoooo!!

GENERAL QUESTIONS

Who are you?

I'm Kiana, I'm a queer, Japanese Jamaican woman, and a Director/Storyboard artist who works in animation. I'm currently at Disney Television Animation.

What are your pronouns?

I usually go by she/her but I don't really mind any pronouns~

Where did you go to school?

California College of the Arts (but I dropped out when I was hired at Disney)

How did you get hired at Disney?

My bosses found me on twitter. They liked my drawing style and asked if I wanted to take a storyboard test. I did, I passed, I got interviewed and moved to LA two weeks later to start storyboarding.

Your work seems familiar. What do I know you from?

I've been on the internet for a long time! It could be a number of things. As maimai97 on dA I had a comic about next gen Pokemon characters called Pokemon 25 Years Later. As kilala97 I had some popular next gen ponies and also had a Steven Universe gemsona named Larimar. I'm also @yamujiburo, known most for drawing Jessie x Delia (hanamusa) a lot. I also work professionally! I've worked as a storyboard artist and director on Disney Channel's Big City Greens, I was a storyboard artist on one of the Steven Universe anti-racism shorts and I was a storyboard artist on Pokemon: Path to the Peak. Most recently I've been on season 6 of Dropout's Game Changer!

What program and brush do you use to draw?

Default brush in Storyboard pro. Photoshop sometimes just for compositing or specific effects.

PPPIDWTBAMG QUESTIONS

What is this project?

This is a project that started off as a silly idea that has since grown into me creating a 10 minute pilot animatic.

What does "pilot animatic" entail?

It means that it's effectively a pilot/episode 1 of a (potential) larger series. It's fully voice acted but is not fully animated. It's an animatic, meaning it will be comprised of storyboards in video form.

When and where can I watch the pilot!?

Now and right here!

What would this series be rated?

Ideally like PG13/TV14! Or whatever they call it. Definitely more geared to a YA audience. Not completely kiddy but also not what most people would consider adult animation to be

What are you planning to do with the project now that the pilot has released?

Don't know yet! There has been a lot of studio interest and even offers, so I'm in the process of talking with them and seeing if I can find this show a home or if I want to try doing it on my own or if I want to even continue with it at all. I know you guys are curious, but even if I wanted to tell you I couldn't. Just trust that I will make announcements as they come~

You said Aika had teammates, will we see them?

Because of the studio interest and potential for more of this show, there's some stuff I'm still holding close to my chest. This is one of them.

Do the characters have parents??

Zira does! As for Aika and Eclipse, this is something I'm still developing and don't really know myself haha

What are the characters' sexualities?

Don't know right now. Headcanon away!

Is "Star Guardian: Guardian of the Stars" a reference to that vine?

Nope! It's more so a parody for just really long and redundant titles which I love. Similar to the title of this project, which is called "Pretty Pretty Please I Don't Want to be a Magical Girl"

[jcmarchi]

Matrox Guide: Understanding SRT - Secure Reliable Transport Protocol - Videoguys

New Post has been published on https://thedigitalinsider.com/matrox-guide-understanding-srt-secure-reliable-transport-protocol-videoguys/

Matrox Guide: Understanding SRT - Secure Reliable Transport Protocol - Videoguys

In the ever-evolving landscape of video streaming, the Secure Reliable Transport (SRT) protocol emerges as a game-changer. Developed as a royalty-free, open-source solution, SRT excels in delivering secure, low-latency streaming performance, particularly over unpredictable networks like the public internet. At its core, SRT leverages an intelligent packet retransmit mechanism called Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) atop a UDP data flow, offering protection against packet loss, bandwidth fluctuations, and ensuring the quality of live video transmissions.

The surge in the use of video across various sectors necessitates a robust solution for streaming. SRT steps in as a protocol uniquely tailored for high-performance video, amalgamating the low latency of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) with error-checking to rival the reliability of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Unlike TCP/IP, SRT is codec agnostic, making it a versatile choice for streaming any type of video content.

Excitement among IT thought leaders is palpable as SRT emerges as a viable replacement for the aging Real-Time Messaging Protocol (RTMP). RTMP, a TCP-based streaming protocol known for its low-latency and minimal buffering, struggles with new applications due to its inability to stream HEVC video content. In contrast, SRT’s codec agnosticism allows it to seamlessly handle various video content types.

The benefits of adopting the SRT protocol are multifaceted. SRT not only ensures pristine video quality by safeguarding against jitter, packet loss, and bandwidth fluctuations but also excels in low-latency delivery, combining the reliability of TCP/IP with the speed of UDP. Security is paramount, with SRT employing industry-standard AES 128/256-bit encryption for end-to-end protection and simplified firewall traversal. Leveraging the public internet becomes a reality, opening up new avenues for streaming applications, including cloud-based distribution and streaming to various social media platforms concurrently.

SRT’s versatility extends to its interoperability, allowing users to seamlessly integrate it into their video and audio streaming workflows with confidence in multi-vendor compatibility. As a cost-effective, open-source protocol, SRT ensures future-proofed solutions through its commitment to the SRT Alliance, a community founded in 2017 to support the collaborative development and free availability of the SRT protocol. As a member of the SRT Alliance, Matrox Video stands behind the endorsement of SRT, emphasizing its significance in reshaping the landscape of secure, reliable, and low-latency video streaming.

Read the full blog post from Matrox HERE

[feminist-space]

"Balaji’s death comes three months after he publicly accused OpenAI of violating U.S. copyright law while developing ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence program that has become a moneymaking sensation used by hundreds of millions of people across the world.

Its public release in late 2022 spurred a torrent of lawsuits against OpenAI from authors, computer programmers and journalists, who say the company illegally stole their copyrighted material to train its program and elevate its value past $150 billion.

The Mercury News and seven sister news outlets are among several newspapers, including the New York Times, to sue OpenAI in the past year.

In an interview with the New York Times published Oct. 23, Balaji argued OpenAI was harming businesses and entrepreneurs whose data were used to train ChatGPT.

“If you believe what I believe, you have to just leave the company,” he told the outlet, adding that “this is not a sustainable model for the internet ecosystem as a whole.”

Balaji grew up in Cupertino before attending UC Berkeley to study computer science. It was then he became a believer in the potential benefits that artificial intelligence could offer society, including its ability to cure diseases and stop aging, the Times reported. “I thought we could invent some kind of scientist that could help solve them,” he told the newspaper.

But his outlook began to sour in 2022, two years after joining OpenAI as a researcher. He grew particularly concerned about his assignment of gathering data from the internet for the company’s GPT-4 program, which analyzed text from nearly the entire internet to train its artificial intelligence program, the news outlet reported.

The practice, he told the Times, ran afoul of the country’s “fair use” laws governing how people can use previously published work. In late October, he posted an analysis on his personal website arguing that point.

No known factors “seem to weigh in favor of ChatGPT being a fair use of its training data,” Balaji wrote. “That being said, none of the arguments here are fundamentally specific to ChatGPT either, and similar arguments could be made for many generative AI products in a wide variety of domains.”

Reached by this news agency, Balaji’s mother requested privacy while grieving the death of her son.

In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions."