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AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

well…darn

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[set quite loosely in canon-inspired (?) timeline where Sansa is cast aside by Joffrey before Stannis attacks King's Landing and she and Tyrion are made to marry, and before either is able to flee KL]

Sansa and Tyrion are married and don't have a relationship beyond something as close to a friendship as a Stark and a Lannister can have playing the game of thrones. Sansa is aware of Tyrion and Shae's relationship, and while she doesn't love it for fear of someone discovering it and taking advantage of it, she's certainly not jealous. No, her thoughts are occupied by someone else entirely...

Sandor didn't flee King's Landing during the battle, but he did flee Joffrey's side, and is therefore demoted from being his sworn shield. Joffrey is being a cruel arse as usual, and gets it in his head that nothing would ever possibly be as funny as pairing up the giant Hound with the Imp, and so he makes Sandor Tyrion's personal guard instead. A certain little bird is, to the surprise of all but her maid, quite thrilled at the thought.

Anyway you can see where I'm going with this, a lovely X pattern of Tyrion being with Sansa's maid and Sansa being with his shield.

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One thing that a lot of transmasc people struggle with before they fully realize they’re trans is the question of “do I hate being treated like a woman because women are treated like shit, or do I hate being treated like a woman because I’m not a woman?”

and one method (though not entirely foolproof) to figuring that out is asking “would I be upset if another girl was treated like this?”

like, I’d be just as mad if some dude said “you can’t do math because you’re a girl” to a female classmate as I would if he said it to me

however, I never got uncomfortable at waiters calling my female friends “m'am”, I was only uncomfortable when they called *me* that

and obviously everyone’s feelings are different and there’s tons of variables at play, but if you find that there’s a lot of the second scenario going on with you, there’s a good chance you’re not entirely cis

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The filter relies on manually curated open-source blocklists, including the ‘nuclear’ list, provided by uBlockOrigin and uBlacklist Huge AI Blocklist,” DuckDuckGo said in a post on X. “While it won’t catch 100% of AI-generated results, it will greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.

Left: AI filter is off Right: AI filter is on

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Got too many asks for more of this comic to endure..

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the birmingham museum of art is re-displaying some artifacts that were stolen and then donated to the museum (including a purse looted off of a black child's body) and im like. what if. instead of doing this big acknowledgement oopsies performative shit you just. at least gave it back to the countries, if you can't track the original owners? why do you feel bad enough to mention your bloody history but not bad enough to give it back? why does the 9th century buddha have to stay in fucking brum?

Museums not giving stolen artifacts and bodies back is bonkers. Like what if someone from China went into Arlington cemetery and dug up JFK’s dead body and took him and his eternal flame back to China and refused to give him back like that would be pretty messed up and kind of weird right like put John back that’s not where he goes but that’s basically what the British museum does every day

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"you can use ai to improve spelling and grammar"

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etymology reveals a fascinating glimpse into the way the human mind works. "Australia" is just latin for southern. "Asia" is probably assyrian for east. "Norway" oh you mean those fuckers up north? for millennia humanity has been naming places the equivalent of: *gestures* yeah thataway

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I don't see anyone talking about this, but there's been a lot of rumours that google is absolutely scrapping whatever you have on there to train their AI. It's past midnight so I'm not gonna track down the potential evidence i have been seeing over the past year or two (although if you have it pls pls link it!), but I would highly suggest that, on top of not hosting your own stuff on there, you stop uploading other people's fanfics there. I know a gdoc file is a super easy way to share you fave collection with people, but how would you feel if authors you love learned that their fic was used for AI training because /you/ put it there?

Everyone: Please please please don't write your books in Google Docs. Frankly don't use Google Drive for personal stuff.

Their terms of service say they take down stuff like content related to terrorism and trafficking, but this Google Sheet was literally a list of movies I'd watched this year and books I'd read.

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ao3 was down on my phone so i came here to see if it was the case for everyone. 20 posts in less than 2mins since it went down. you guys never change

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do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

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My Chemical Romance in 2007 and My Chemical Romance in 2025

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if it hasn't been asked yet, what songs do you associate Ángel with??? i love him so much

💛💛💛🥹🥹🥹 More of an Ángel/Alejandro song but it's GOTTA be Cayendo - Frank Ocean...

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On topic

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I’ve been thinking (always about Period!Ghoap) what it would be like if both Ghost and Soap were nobles- or both servants?

Fuck... again you have my EXACT number... can't resist an AU of an AU of an AU