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aemond sketch practice (ref used)

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Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

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Okay so bad news for everyone on YouTube right now

Starting the 13th, we will have an AI determine if we are children or not and if you are a child, than you are forced to send your ID, send a selfie or a credit card

This has the obvious cons of having your privacy being revoked from you and and in case there is a security breach, major identity thefts.

So what do we do in this scenario?

Well right now I have real idea as this is relativity new to me, but I do have two plans

Plan 1. Bug the shit out of them, send letters and send emails about how much of bad idea this is.

Include why the AI will mess up and target adults who watch cartoons, include privacy issues, censorship issues, anything you can think of that relates to this. I want you guys to bug the hell out of YouTube until they reverse this idea

Here their address for letters

Send a mass amount of letters on the 5th of August and than another mass amount on the 8th

Plan 2. Blackout.

Since the thing is coming out on the 13th.

The plan will be to completely avoid YouTube at all cost for that day (and beyond), no watching, no sharing, no uploading, no nothing.

Download videos before things go down, watch Netflix. Whatever you do, don’t touch YouTube.

That’s all I can say right now, I also want you guys to let YouTubers know of this situation cause if it’s important for everyone on the website to talk about this immediately

Spread this stuff around, let people know of YouTube’s upcoming policy and how it’ll hurt everyone

Edit: I have taken into consideration and I am going to agree that the blackout should be until the decision is reversed, this is so we are not out at risk as users and so YouTube doesn’t just ignore the original black out

I might have a more detailed plan posted later today, but it depends on everything goes

Another edit: just to remind yall to send in letters and emails about this to google to force their hands to reverse this decision

There is also the law itself, though I can’t speak much on it other than finding lawing bodies that can force YouTube to reverse this decision. If anyone can find a place to file or call for this, that will be greatly appreciated! (I heard maybe the FTC and or the California Consumer privacy right can be considered, but that needs more research)

BIGGER UPDATE: we have a new plan in motion, here is the updated plan for you all to see

and also here's a petition to stop the law that would help support this into becoming a thing

and also a tumblr post about it and how you can help further prevent this from being allowed in office

Don’t forget to send this fellow people outside of tumblr

YouTubers, Twitter users, send it through out and make sure you are heard

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who wants to go to the aquarium with me i want to stand in cold rooms for two hours straight and look at jellyfish and maybe pet a small stingray

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Thanks for tagging me @carcinogenicscars! 💕

My cat son is adorable.

No pressure tags: @dr-aegon, @malicious-compliance-esq, @johanirae, @failing-at-failing, @maegalkarven, @gabicarolauthor.

Let’s play a game

Everyone post the most recent picture in your camera roll. You only get one sentence to justify yourself if you wish. This one is mine.

My boyfriend is rly good at Latin, so I was looking up how to say ‘I love you’ but found this instead :)

Your turn!

@bookmovietvworm

@myfairkatiecat

@i-am-a-fish

@valtsv

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i love the specification of "alive" in the people magazine "sexiest man alive" award. clearly they're worried about ötzi the iceman sweeping the competition. as they should be.

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i'm on the same page as you about ai killing fandom tbh. it's more than just a wave of people being ill intentioned, it's the symptoms of a culture shift that essentially values the fast consumption of material with no other lasting value than the minute or two it takes to read, to be discarded for a newer, shinier prompt that will be discarded just as fast. And combined with everything else going on, the conditions are perfect to continuously reinforce that artificial need to get everything fast and simple and now. People are less and less willing to fight for more complex, because life itself is getting more complex, and because the other option is convenient and convenience is king in an otherwise complex world.

It's like a late stage capitalism manifestation that insidiously infiltrated art and made it just another produce to be consummed and tossed away. Just like appliances that are now made to last 5 years instead of 45, or phones that are made to be replaced every year.

AI art is fast and gives the reader instant gratification, but there's no value in it. Once you read it, its purpose is done, because the machine lacks the capacity to "create" something with deeper undertones that can be revisited and reinterpretated.

I still read my favourite fics from 2017-2018 and I still discover new things I missed everytime I reread them. Because the author is human, and has the human instinct to be relatable and the human capacity to play with perception, use my beliefs or lack of beliefs against me to lead me where they want. And I'd rather wait decades for one humam fic than generate a thousands of my ideas with the snap of a hand.

anyway. just some thoughts.

I don’t even have anything to add to this because it’s so true

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reposting from bsky, but heres a cheat sheet for how to properly send a message to payment processing companies over the recent highly conservative shift in where youre allowed to legally spend your money

more info here!

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weeks 11-20 on my weekly poster challenge this year, crazy I've actually managed almost half a year of getting these done. 1-10 here.

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10 weeks of poster illustrations for my weekly challenge this year. honestly 2025 is shaping up to be the most I've ever drawn consistently in my life

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no actually i don't think antivaxxers' kids should die from a disease. i don't think gun advocates' kids should die in school shooting. children dying is bad actually, even if they're children of people you don't like.