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What's your policy on hotlinking? Just to know ahead of time?

Hotlinking the raw images (in an embed or some such) is discouraged, and might actually not always work, as we’re still figuring out the image infrastructure.

Linking to the actual work on ArtWorkDraft is highly encouraged. Seriously, do that as much as possible. The images are full-sized, so it’s a great way to share your stuff!

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This post apparently contains adult content that violates Tumblr’s community guidelines.

Lucario

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What is that? A snake? Bear? A foot?

Better intimidate it.

#bigwings #cockatiels #cockatielsofinstagram #larryburb #parrot #birb

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A week ago, an artist I know had their blog deleted. This artist was an almost entirely clean artist. They weren’t the type of person Tumblr is supposedly targeting. Tumblr didn’t actually care. Tumblr nuked their blog anyway.

The problem Tumblr is that it’s designed primarily to extract ad revenue, and that inevitably leads to a terrible user experience. Internet advertisers want you to be engaged with the places they advertise in the worst possible way. In TV advertising, where the advertiser wants you to be highly engaged with a show so that you associate those positive feelings with the ads that play during the breaks. Internet advertisers only want immediate clicks—short-term, instant payoff. If you’re engaged with the website, you won’t want to leave it, and you won’t click an ad. So an internet advertiser wants you to be on a website out of social obligation only.

It’s why Facebook is so successful. You need to go on Facebook to keep up with people. When you keep up with people, you see that they have a lot of nice stuff. You feel bad for not having that nice stuff. But look! All these ads where you can buy nice things. Then you’ll feel good about yourself, right?

Tumblr has spent enough money at this point that they need to maximize ad revenue, and that means they can’t give a shit about artists anymore. In fact, it is to their advantage to actively minimize that kind of content on their platform, because art can reduce the social pressures that they’re trying to cultivate. So why wouldn’t they delete that artist’s blog? If they had some kind of controversial content, it could cause harm to their advertisers—and, more crucially, delivering good artistic content at all is already a negative for them. Nuking that blog on the slightest suspicion of controversial material is a win-win.

I’m tried of this cynical, ad-revenue-based approach to content cultivation. Internet advertisement actively works against the creation of content that people want to engage with. And, frankly, it produces websites that mostly suck.

After that artist got their blog nuked, they got to talking. Talking with me, and talking with other artists. Together, we decided to try to make something new.

That’s what the link up there is. It’s not a fully-featured website. It’s not even close to being finished. But Tumblr is introducing new rules that are going to be selectively-applied to make their experience even worse, and some kind of alternative needs to exist.

ArtWorkDraft isn’t designed to be sold for a billion dollars to Yahoo. It’s designed to be a good place to post stuff. It’s run by a group of people, not a corporation. We develop it based on what people actually ask for. Hell, it’s even open-source, so you can actually look at the code behind it, and change it if you think you have a good idea.

I’m kind of sick of “transparency” because it implies a window: you can look, but you can’t get through it. You can’t actually change anything, you can only observe.

ArtWorkDraft is supposed to be a door. I’m not sure if it will work, but I feel compelled to try.

Art is too important not to.

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This entire “tumblr fucking artists” situation is so bad I had artists ask me to start up development on that art website again.

How the hell is this website managed so poorly?

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He tries, bless his little heart. 

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the duality of birb

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That article does allege some number-fudging, but the primary reason for the claim in their thesis is that a lot of the people who were brought out of hunger probably have higher caloric needs than the standards set, and so they’re still not actually out of hunger. I find their claim that farmwork needs “3000-4000 calories a day” pretty dubious (the lower end of that range makes sense, the higher end only for the least mechanized types of farming currently in existence). It’s also worth noting that the same journal that published that article published this lovely piece about how Colonialism was actually good, which includes the sentence “Western colonialism was, as a general rule, both objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate in most of the places where it was found.” They did pull that article after scrutiny but still.

Even if we say that the article’s claims are true, it doesn’t include information on other reports, like this one from the world bank.

Other, more robust poverty analysis have demonstrated drops in poverty, albeit less extreme ones, as laid out in this politifact article.

Even Marx generally considered Capitalism to be a necessary path on the way to socialism, which could occur after the production of a country was mechanized.

just saw a tweet that said “socialism has good intentions but capitalism has good results” and I fuvking hate how individualism in the imperial core has put people into this happy little bubble where mass starvation and poverty don’t exist because they live in a nice neighborhood in a rich country.

source on mass starvation and poverty + capitalist organizations lying about it

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The world’s most basic 3D rigging test! It’s not nearly as bad as I expected it to be. It’s not good, mind, but it did let me wrap my head around the very basics.

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Another blender test

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A very, very simple blender test.

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Osprey by Wilson chen

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pah

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Ralsei had to save?

Fuck I would’ve bought him an AK he deserves it

what do you think is under Ralsei's cloak :3cc

your demise.