#not posting shit on your site

[ghostofouryouth]

I don't understand the use for AI...

I can get wanting an AI to help collect research on for example mineralmining, it's just a lot of number that need to be put into order and I imagine everyone alive would find that dull. So using an AI is understandable, right?

But to use and AI to make art? Why? Cause it's quick, easy and cheap?

If those are the reasons than we have truely reached a distopian height of capitalism. Why generate garbage when there are people who LOVE to draw and paint? All AI has done for the artist side of this entire debate is make us scared and paranoid that our work is being used withouth our consent. Suddenly we have to watermark everything, put it throught filters, make the quality garbage, to the point where you can't even actually show what you can do as an artist in fear of it being stolen.

And as a writer I feel the same with any block of text I put anywhere.

And from what I just read, about @staff new fun update about mining for OpenAI... What is the goal here? What AI needs access to unanswered asks, PRIVATE blogposts och deactivated blogs??? What are they hoping to learn? The only thing that comes to my mind anyway is how to perfectly simulate human speach through writing. Can we take a moment to just assess how fucked up that prospect is.

And I'm sure some AI enthusiasm is going to tell me how wrong and backwards thinking I am. But honestly I miss the time where you could just post a picture of your friends and not worry about being used by third parties /shrugg.

[ghostespresso]

staff logging on to tumblr dot com today

[elllteo]

Creators I love you but it's time to wake up

Among rumors about our tumblr user data being sold off to Midjourney/Generative AI, recent Extremely transphobic events (that have been ongoing) coming to a head, another extremely concerning internet censorship bill being pushed in upper levels of government, and a general air of frustration over how the site belongs to and is operated by perhaps the second stupidest CEO (second only to twitters own) of our age, I'm very done with the last few vestiges of what the old internet held for artists.

And if you're reading this, you probably are too.

I know we're tired. We are all tired. It is not always viable to pack up shop and move, again and again and again.

From tumblr to twitter to anywhere else we've ever grown up posting, things no longer work. Our audiences are kneecapped by aggressive and hostile algorithms, our reach is abysmal - if we aren't shadow-banned or silenced for one (transphobic) reason or another, we're thrust into an ever growing pit of hostility where the only thing that drives clicks is fighting and contention.

We're tired. We're so fucking tired. We aren't businesses, we aren't content mills, we cannot keep this pace that modern social media has set for us, to wring every ounce of creativity out of us to profit from and leave us rotting.

The key to staying afloat here, and I cannot stress this enough, is to stay connected to your peers.

Pack up and move as units if you must. Exodus from the sites that are killing us. Push your entire friend group of artists to move from one site to the next that promises you a kinder experience.

Art drives movements, it drives change, it is all that encompasses being human. If you take that away from the shitty places, they will be left with nothing but a cesspit of inhumanity and the people who follow you will be more incentivized than ever to move with you.

Yes, this is terrifying. There are no guarantees. There never was, and never are, and never will be.

But stay connected. Stay human.

Support each other and be willing to hold hands and jump when we all - as a group - need to jump from the flames we're all trying to convince ourselves wont kill us before rescue comes.

Rescue isn't coming, rescue will be found hand in hand with each other. I'm offering you my hand, please take it. There's always a new start, there are always helping hands reaching for you. You have to look up from the doom-scroll long enough to see and take them.

[nostalgicsneeze]

this is the only website i post art nowadays and i’ll keep doin it but DAMN…

[intotheelliwoods]

One of these days I need to just, dedicate, a full day to reblogging stuff

[crimeronan]

probably i SHOULDN'T migrate elsewhere if tumblr goes belly-up. i just scrolled thru my dash for 20 minutes and in that short span i could feel myself transform from a mildly tired 27-year-old butch into an active serial killer.

[arkhamgrays]

is any fandom REALLY complete without one of these...

[disappointingyellowhighlighter]

I know nobody needs to hear my opinions about the Israel Palestine conflict but I have a lot of thoughts and nowhere to put them so here goes:

1. What Israel is doing is wrong. Israel as a state should not exist, especially in the way it does now.

2. Innocent Israeli citizens exist. Jews do have ancestral ties to the land and should be allowed to exist there without having to be conflated in belief with a genocidal government. Not all Israeli citizens are Jewish, and they, too, deserve to exist there without having to be conflated in belief with a genocidal government.

3. Hamas is a terrorist organization.

4. If Israel puts down its weapons before Hamas does, innocent Israeli citizens will die.

5. Every country on earth should be calling for a ceasefire. From both sides. Yes, the sides are not on equal footing. But BOTH must put down weapons for peace to be an option.

6. Western leftists do not understand how to be anti-zionist and anti-israel without being antisemitic. It is not a fine line, but it is one that is easy to cross and many do not listen when they are called out for it. Please listen when this comes up. Please check the biases of the sources you consume media from. Check how they are funded, check where they are located. By all means read the articles but be aware where they are coming from. I know it's easy to disregard this argument, and it may even be made erroneously, but please evaluate what has been said and think about why a Jewish person may have found it offensive. If it is TRULY just because there was criticism of Israel and/or Zionism, disregard the argument. Additionally, please understand the conditional whiteness given to white Jews. Telling us we have white privilege without understanding conditional whiteness and the history of whiteness as a classification, especially in regard to how it affects Jews, is ignorant at best and antisemitic at worst. Yes, many of us have white privilege. Until we are openly Jewish.

7. A lot of people who are calling to free Palestine have not thought past that. I agree. Free Palestine. But what happens after? Are former Israeli citizens expected to leave? If so, where? If not, do you expect the two groups to work out their own peace? Or should other nations be involved? If former Israeli citizens are not given a place to go and start getting attacked by the new government, what then? How will you respond if that is what happens? Please consider these questions. I know you don't think anything bad will happen, but think about what hamas already did, think about how Jews are treated historically, and think about what the plan would be going forward after the dismantling of Israel.

8. A lot of people think violence against Israeli citizens is justified. A lot of people think Hamas is in the right. I cannot change your mind. But this IS antisemitic. If you believe that Hamas was in the right for what they did to civilians because they are citizens of Israel, the only country in the world that's national religion is Judaism, you are antisemitic. If that statement upsets you, re-evaluate your position and why you feel the way you do.

9. Israel is indiscriminately bombing Gaza under the guise that they are somehow taking down Hamas. They are lying. Israel will claim any man killed by the IOF in Gaza is Hamas. They are lying. Israel is actively committing a genocide and if you are not against that genocide you are wrong.

10. Many diaspora Jews, because of this conflict, feel unsafe. We would be crazy not to. Any move on Israel's part always results in a rise of antisemitism worldwide, because people conflate Israel with Judaism. They are not even close to the same. I've seen appalling images of IOF soldiers using a combat knife as a yod, holding it up to a Torah. That is disgusting. But enough people conflate Israel and Judaism that diaspora Jews are affected by anything Israel does. Almost always negatively. If you are calling diaspora Jews selfish or saying we are claiming false victimhood, you are being antisemitic and you are using a genocide to justify it. If that statement bothers you, re-evaluate.

13. There is nuance in this situation. And if you refuse to acknowledge that nuance, I can assume it is for antisemitic reasons. And if that statement bothers you, re-evaluate.

11. I implore people to study Jewish history. See WHY Israel exists in the first place. You do not need to have empathy for Israel, I suggest you actively have none, but please please have empathy for Israeli citizens and diaspora Jews alike.

12. American support of Israel comes from a place of antisemitism.

14. All of these opinions can and should exist in tandem. Palestinians are being oppressed by Israel, Gaza is an open air prison, and Israel needs to stop bombing Gaza immediately. Innocent Israeli citizens and diaspora Jews should not be blamed for the actions of the Israeli government.

15. Free Palestine.

[prettyboysmlm]

can’t fucking believe i got a “this but with women” on one of my posts

[sirenium]

I made these because I hate the censoring of innocent people. Free to use with credit.

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Now that that's out of the way...

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[spearxwind]

@staff new layout fucking sucks stop copying twitters homework

[discountalien-pancake]

Why are people being so fucking weird about demanding reblogs of polls? No one owes you publicity??? And on that note, nobody owes you reblogs for anything else either!! Liking something and scrolling past is literally not an insult, and yall need to get over yourselves, my god.

[hussyknee]

hi i have a question about z-lib (i saw you when i searched up z-lib here and thought you may know the answer) when i try to download books it directs me to this donation page with some links with bitcoin that’s apparently gonna get me an exclusive membership(?) but i do not want to donate, can’t i still use it like how it was before i do not understand (10 books for free each day)

Noooooo that's a phishing site! Zlib.is that appears as the top Google result is a scam site that's trying to steal login credentials and credit card info!! DO NOT RESPOND TO ANY EMAILS THEY SEND YOU. If you use the same email + password combo anywhere else, change it now.

Edit: Use this link to sign up.

Once you sign up via that, you'll be sent personal domain links that you can use to access the site. Zlib does use Bitcoin donations to gain membership that lets you download as many books as you want and access to added features, but its basic membership costs nothing and lets you download 10 books a day and send them to your email, which is good enough for normal users.

Never sign up for any piracy site without first googling whether the domain (the bit that comes after the dot) is a scam site or legit proxy. Always use a separate spam email account for this stuff, and never sign up for any piracy site that you can't use at all without giving them your credit card info.

[martyrbat]

when people who have ‘i block liberally’ in their bios learn they actually have to block people & cultivate their own dash:

[badolmen]

I am regularly shocked that people under the age of 18 are on this site. That’s illegal you can’t do that. <- joined when I was 15 and the site still had “go nuts, show nuts” in its TOS FAQs, no filtering or blacklist function to speak of, and no community labels.

[liquidstar]

I'm glad the "Satire requires a clarity of purpose and target lest it be mistaken for and contribute to that which it intends to criticize" meme is getting critiqued in its usage because... While the sentiment itself is absolutely true... I feel like sometimes, perhaps, it's not a work of fiction's fault that you're personally bad at picking up on satire