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melyzard · 1 year ago

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Own Your Life - Books

In the spirit of gift giving and because @dalleyan made me think about it today, here's a list of articles and websites that may be of interest to those who like to read digital media, and do NOT like when the digital media that they paid for simply vanishes. (The future the tech companies want is 'everything is a subscription, and if you don't pay, you lose everything you ever had or did on this system'):

Anyway. I just thought this was interesting.

#digital media #books #ebooks #epubor #calibre #deDRM #noDRM #kindle #THERE IS NO CLOUD #ITS JUST SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER #happy holidays

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fox-guardian · 4 months ago

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I can't get over that last scene from this episode. that long pause where sam was quietly grabbing a drink and you could barely hear celia talking to jack as she put him to bed in the other room. nothing was happening in that moment that needed to be recorded. no terrible events no big revelations. just sam and celia quietly going about their lives, sharing a domestic moment.

as something watched and listened. and we don't know why it's listening.

#ramblings with major #the magnus protocol #tmagp #tmagp spoilers #its like. its so unsettling because a) that faint ambient music did its job Very Well #but also b) we didnt have that in tma!! anything soft and domestic was left to the imagination!!#we got a couple establishing bits from scotland and then The Mass Ritual statement was recorded for obvious reasons #upton house also had very little on tape after the statement was done #i dont think there was ever that kind of quiet slow 'fluff' scene like that in tma #and there was always some reason things were being recorded. usually someone was aware of a tape being on #now theres just colin being colin and everyone else is only vaguely aware that their Computers are listening #no one knows about the phones not really. or the personal laptops. or the nanny cams.#and this is just. so much more unsettling. i love it sm it feels So invasive and awful ough

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knittedslug · 4 months ago

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hey. hey gwen.

#JON ARE YOU SENDING GWEN FILES TO FIRE HER BOSS???#OR IS IT SOMEONE ELSE. I MEAN THERES THREE PEOPLE IN THE COMPUTERS.#MAYBE ITS NOT JUST JON THAT CAN SEND THEM.#OR MAYBE ITS NOT EVEN ANY OF THEM AND ITS SOMEONE ELSE #weevil dont look #ziggy posts #non-mcyt related #tmagp spoilers #tmagp #the magnus protocol #gwendolyn bouchard

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luck-of-the-drawings · 9 months ago

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!!! FLASHING LIGHTS WARNING!!! [IM NOT FUCKIN AROUND!!]

REACHED THE CUSP OF 'THIS MAY NEVER BE ABSOLUTELY FINISHED N IF I DONT SHOW IT NOW, IT WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY.' SO HERE, A PROJECT IVE BEEN ORBITING AROUND UHH SINCE 2021 OR SO.

#jrwi fanart #THE SQUIRMING IMAGE #jrwi riptide #gillion tidestrider #cw flashing lights #LOOORRD OF LIGHTNING SAAAAVE ME!!!!#RAAAHHHH I LOVETHIS SONG SO FUCKIN MUCH AND I LOVE GILLION SO FUCKIN MUCH RAAHHHH!! RAAHHHH!!!#BUT YES YES I HAD LIKE A WHOLE OTHER HALF TO THIS SKETCHED OUT BUT IT WONT FINISH COOKIN FOR A MILLION YEAARS!!!!#MAYBE SOMEDAY.....#ANYWAY. this is my first time actually syncing audio to my animations. normally i domnt know howww.#i animated it all in fire alpaca AND THEN i mixed everything in a pirated movie maker. it kinda uh. sucks. but its WHAT I GOT BAYBE!!#i relaly like how i animate swishy hair... i was inspird by eris from sinbad. i can only HOPE i got on that level w the watery flowyness #LIUGHTNING IS HARD TO ANIMATE TOO. I WATCHED ALOTTA VIDEOS ABSORBED MINIMAL TUTORIALS AND UHH I THINK I DID OKAY!!#better than bad!!! but i can still do better. eventually. ugh. FLASHING LIGHTS TOO HUH? U LIKE ANIMATINGB FLASHING LIGHT?#U LIKE MAKING THE BLACK N WHITE FLICKER RLY FAST UNTIL UR EYES BLEED OUT UR SKULL?? YEAAAHH YOU DO!!!#im also vry proud o the title cards i made at the beginning teheheheh. dependign on where riptide goes i MIGHT change it #BUT HEY THEORY TIME? I HOPE ONE OF THE GODDESSES COMES DOWN TO PILOT GILLIONS BODY SO THEY CAN BEAT THE FUCK OUT O THE OTHER GODDESS #WHO IS ALSO IN SOMEONE ELSES MORTAL BODY. GODS COMING DOWN TO WREAK HAVOC OVER PETTY DISAGREEMENTS OOOGH HOW FUN!!#GOOD ON YOU CHAMPION!! YOUR VESSEL HAS BEEN TRAINED TO BE STRONG AND HARDY. PERFECT FOR CHANNELING DIVINE ENERGY.#OHHHH WHAT A PERFECT WEAPON YOU ARE. NOW GO AND IMMANENTIZE A WATERY ESCHATON #PARAGON OF OCEANS WRATH I WANT TO SEE YOU DROWN THE LAND. DESTROY!!! EAT!!! BURN!!! RAAAGHH I NEED GILLION TO GET MORE POWER!!!!#ALSO in other news i uh. actually posted this onto twitter forever ago but forgot to post it here bc i can only post it from pc and BABY!!#IM NOT ON THE COMPUTER OFTEN! NOT ANYMORE!! NOT ANYMOREE!!! IM FREE BAYBE!! i used to be so miserable. sometimes i think abt that.#ANYWAY. pls enjoy. just this much took so long. i love makin the lil guys move.... ouh.... hava good day if u get the chance to.

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southern--downpour · 1 year ago

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found a VHS tape from 2004 in the art department at my college, I give it a 50/50 its either blank or im about to become a horror webseries protagonist

#jokes jokes if theres anything on it its probably someones public speaking work or film homework #theres like. lockers for the art students to store supplies in and they are NOT cleaned often!!!!#one of the new teachers (my computer art teacher) was looking through the blank ones and found that one #and just let us have some of the stuff from it bc. obviously nobody else is using it lmao #genuinly the stuff that was in there is as old as i am #anyways im actually pretty sure its blank but itd be cool if it wasnt #shut up virgil #man i love that creepy ass building theres just so much random shit in there #shout out to the mannequin we got attached to. he continues to scare the new students and also teachers who go through the gallery closet

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kraniumet · 4 months ago

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i think image gen can be used like any other artistic tool but I don't really think the big commerical proponents of "ai" are advertising it as a tool, they're adertising it as a solution. I also think it's intellectually dishonest to argue that image generation is exactly like "using photoshop/taking a photograph" because of some generalized "those were also criticized at their conception for being new and scary and disruptive" soundbite. they were not even really criticized for the same reasons. find a better argument.

#it's not serious when someone generates a meme image and ai can be an artistic medium that takes a lot of "effort” (a misaligned word that #i think we need to uncouple from “protestant work ethic” and “human worth” because anything you create #takes effort and that's neutral it has no value it's just unaviodable.#the issue is when we start deciding for ourself how much effort something took for someone else and judge them as less for it]#i also don't think “art” has anything to do with effectivity or the time it took to make. it's just communication man #the openai people don't want you to do something real with their model they want #ikea to use it for generating those paintings they hang in their showrooms.#oh and also. piling on. “the photoshop takes no effort the computer does all the work” was always bunk like anybody who's used any digital #image editing program knows that? because the people saying this literally imagined photoshop working like an image generator lmao.#and that has mostly died down because the accessability of computers that can run photoshop and its ilk has grown to the point #that people realize using photoshop is a pain.#while the photography criticism was strong a 100 years after the invention of photography. on philosophical grounds. brecht hated #photography and he was born 50 years after its conception.#everything that’s criticised isnt like everything else that’s criticised

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mychemicalseal · 8 months ago

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rewatching BBC Robin Hood (2006) for the plot.

the plot:

#its not that it aged badly #its just im not 8 anymore and the writing its really not up to par #who the FUCK executes someone by sitting them backwards on a horse whislt holding the reigns who thought that up #guy of gisborne is the only vaguely compelling character after marian died #he carried series 3 because lord knows nothing else was worth the time #robin hood #guy of gisborne #i do distinctly remember trying to watch this on the internet as a kid when if u missed an epsisode that was it sucks to be tou #and i uhhhhh manged to download a virus to the family computer and just pretended i had no idea why #anyways now ive taken up archery as a hobby and we can thank this and disneys robin hood for that xoxo

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lomakes · 2 months ago

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Anyone know how to fix the weird bright red glare over everything in veilguard

I assume it's a graphics issue on my PCs part but I just installed new drivers

#da veilguard spoilers #its not a spoiler but i tagged just incase ppl wanted to see NOTHING yknow #idk how computers work so idk how to fix it myself #but i saw someone else say they had the issue too so

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prouvaireafterdark · 2 years ago

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Can we talk about how fucked up it is that writers even have to ask people not to put their work into an AI?

Like what the actual fuck is wrong with some people that they think they're entitled to steal someone else's work and then ask an AI to finish it

I don't care if your favorite fic author hasn't updated in two weeks or ten years. Those fics aren't yours and you are NOT entitled to steal them and run them through a bullshit generator

#like no shade to the people i've seen doing telling people this but like #you should not have to say 'please just send me an ask and we can talk about where the fic was going'#like these people are holding a gun to your head and saying 'finish this or i'll feed it to an AI to do it for you'#like YOU are doing NOTHING WRONG and people shouldn't feel entitled to your work like that #its fucking disgusting #fanfiction is beautiful because it's a product of human creativity and an expression of love #AI generated works are soulless and shitty and to have a computer take over someone else's work and decide how it ends is also FUCKED #fuck everyone who's ever done this to someone else's work honestly I don't care if this hurts people's feelings you should feel bad

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wheelercore · 22 days ago

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Theory with no coherent proof on my part: brenner only visibly ages rapidly when a portal is open.

#brenner 'dies' very early on after rhe portal opens in s1 so we dont see the effects #but in s4 he looks considerably older.#then in s5 he apparently has a whole bald cap - portal that opened at the end of s4 has been open for approx 1.5 years #theres the tie in to the ptsd/trauma metaphor with the UD representing repressed memories #or repressed memories aka 'lost time' in someone memory #the whole thing where ppl with traumatic childhoods cant remember their childhoods very well and it comes back sooner or later #i wonder if there is a supernatural tie into that in st? like when a portal opens to the UD all that 'lost time' suddenly is allowed back #into the light aka out of the subconscious and into the conscious re flashbacks and memory retrieval #i dont believe NINA at all beyond the flashbacks el has before brenner got involved #bc it seems to me that brenner possibly took advtg of els vulnerable state to possibly manipulate her memory retrieval #which irl has been a long time point of controversy which is psychologists convinving patients that they have memories of trauma #they dont actually have. which idk how valid that is but brenner is a psychologist so if anyone he could find a way #also when the 'lost time' comes back to the surface brenner ages bc of those time loops begin to unravel. the real years brenner has lived #take its toll rather than him de aging as time loops back again to the beginning #very dr who of him. or at least every time he dies its another time loop thats created except from our perspective as the audience we #wouldnt know. because we are only watching from a set linear timeline (1983-1986) and we dont see the time line resetting itself #since all the timelines are similar enough with only small differences ('easter eggs')#tying this into the wheelers- their name literally means 'creator/operator of wheels' aka time loops. so are they The Source?#with the subtext surrounding 'truths' and 'lies' in ST i dont necessarily believe all timeloops are created equal #one must be the 'true' timeline while the others must be 'lies'. aka lonnie saying how people sometimes make things up 'to cope'#that and the heavy subtext behind hawkins being a cursed town. not necessarily anywhere else in the US #and how you can only open portals in hawkins per alexei #makes me thinks these arent legitimate timeloops. like time isnt physically looping back and rerunning events bc otherwise it wouldnt only #affect one small town in indiana. also we dont see the UD/the MF be able to affect time itself but rather ppls perception of time aka #mind control and memories. meaning that could it be time isnt actually looping but rather everyone in hawkins has their memories wiped and #recreated every time there is an inciting incident (which is unknown)#^this doesnt really explain how brenner is able to revive every time he dies unless brenner is actually an admin of this system and lives #'outside' the time loop. so. brenner is a video game character actually whos actual player is blissfully safe from harm outside of the the #computer screen #isnt this just the plot of the matrix. with 'the source' (the central computing core aka the wheelers?) and keymakers etc etc

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databent · 10 months ago

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why the fuck is it that some people cant seem to acknowledge that people can just... be disabled. not through any fault of their own, not because something "happened" to them, just because, you know, sometimes people have disabilities. like, come on

#.pdf #rd #kd #just a warning these tags are long. like. really incredibly long. i had thoughts.#sorry for the vague ass post i'm just upset about some stupid shit my dad said yesterday.#namely: outright telling me that he doesn't believe i have non-24 (circadian rhythm disorder).#and that even if i do he doesn't believe it's possible for it to actually be a lifelong and disabling condition.#*also: this post isn't meant to imply that disabilities that did have some inciting incident are more accepted or anything.#it's just that i'm frustrated with the “you're disabled? why? what happened?” sentiment a lot of people seem to have.#nothing happened to cause my disability. i'm just like this. no i can't change it. what the fuck do you want me to tell you?#i'd guess it probably has to do with society's focus on work and productivity and career-mindedness above all else.#and when someone comes along that doesn't fit in with the way things are structured it just doesn't compute.#because the idea of people who can't dedicate their entire lives to working is so fundamentally contradictory to their view of... i don't-#-know. meaning in life? fulfillment? that they feel a need to reject the possibility altogether.#this is mainly when dealing with invisible disabilities from what i've seen. because i think there's a tendency to view visibly disabled-#-people as belonging to a different category altogether. which of course is its own issue but i'm not visibly disabled so i don't feel-#-like it's necessarily my place to speak on that.#anyway. i just want my struggles to be acknowledged as real. because they are. and i need people to understand that I Have A Disability.#albeit one many people don't even believe could be real because there's a sort of belief that circadian rhythms are purely a product of-#-external forces like sunlight so “you can't possibly have yours be different and have you tried just going outside more?” sigh.#sorry i also just remembered my dad telling me he doesn't believe i can have something so rare because the chances of having it are too low.#which is some ridiculous logic to me. rare doesn't mean it's impossible. some amount of people have to wind up with it regardless.#i just lucked out i guess.#n24 tag

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mechahero · 11 months ago

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Lambda's currently sat at his desk, hunched in front of his computer, feverishly typing away.

"Who the heck does this person think they are? I can't believe someone would be this dumb.", he grumbles, mostly to himself as he was the only one in the room. (And because Skip was asleep elsewhere.)

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[cybercds]: no way. bloodstorm 2: blood will rain is a TERRIBLE sequel. it was so rushed out and it sooo shows. half the maps are ugly or are so bright it hurts to look at, only 3 of the weapons actually right!

[cybercds]: *work

[cybercds]: and on top of that, theres the fricking rocket+ ice feet glitch combo that you have to deal with the entire game that just ruins the gameplay! its not even bad in the fun way. why would you ever wanna play it when bloodstorm 1 is right there?

[cybercds]: and don't even get me started on the story! its so bad bc of the rush to get it out and i really, REALLY hate the reveal of the vampires' creators being aliens. it literally doesnt make any sense especially since 2 is supposed to be connected to the lore of the first game and in the 1st game it was established that the vampires were made by demons! like what even????

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He pauses, interlacing his fingers as he waits for a response. Not a minute later before ding! His eyes scan over the screen and hangs his head with a sigh.

It was going to be a long night.

#//sets this down #//i love doing fun little side worldbuilding things #//something something talking with someone else about his world's equivalent of doom and the discourse surrounding its sequel #//i'm thinking that BS1 would be a late 90s release while BS2 would be a 2000s release #//and i mean that in the sense is that its a 2000s release in the BAD WAY #//i hope this makes sense bc it's based off some shooters in that era where you just know #//like clunky or bad in weird ways that aren't even remotely funny #//<- had read about some but never played any so its up for debate if i should write about this lol #//anyways lambda on the computer momence #he's a killer queen... {ic}

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timmie-p · 11 months ago

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hehee hyperspecific poll smiling face emoji

#hyperspecific poll #the throat thing is super annoying and wont go away even if i drink water #i just gotta cough and choke it out #there was a period of time where it was happening almost daily but it went away and is back to occasional #also i think it happens more often when ive been practicing violin for an hour or more?#my theory is the rosin irritating my throat for that #also can someone tell me why my computer does that #is it just because its old or do i need to change some setting or delete something #when i search stuff online i feel like no one else has this problem??#the fan just keeps going and the screen wont turn on until i force restart and let it update

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opens-up-4-nobody · 1 year ago

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#im just gonna complain abt it here bc i just have to accept that i can't irl bc no one else gets it #its hard to b a dyslexic grad student. u have to read so much. and its good. lots of reading is good. u just have to contend with a soul #crushing amout of discouragement at the fact u just kinda cant read while ur peers r like sure i can read this in class and have things to #say abt it. if u make me read in my head in class i literally cannot fucking tell u what i just read. not a god damn thing and if i try to #let my computer read to me i cant fucking pay attention for long enough so i just have to accept that from here on out ill have to #physically read papers aloud which i hate so much. its the only way i can fucking understand things and it still makes me feel dumb bc ill #somehow still space out while reading and have to reread like 4 times before i understand wtf is being said. it takes forever and it takes #energy and i dont like talking very much and it also restricts me to only being able to read at home which is frustrating #and im like i need to stop my brain from distracting myself with things that dont matter and my counselor is like: ur ocd is trying to make #work ur whole life and im like yeah thats how i got it. its the only way i can keep swimming with the non dyslexics #so its like wtf do i do? i kinda have to take the hit and make work my whole life rn. morn the loss of other things for a while #i dunno im still a bummer rn. like im probably coming off as more an asocial freak than normal bc its hard to talk ans maintain conversation #rn. but whatever. sometimes things just suck and theres nothing u can do abt it but accept it and move on. ill learn lots of things with all #the reading i have to do and that's never a bad thing ...no matter how much i dont give a fuck abt animals #like jesus. i could not even begin to give a fuck about like 95% of mammals. fish r cool tho. plants too #but microbes is where its at. i dont understand y ppl dont understand how cool they r. oh well ill just have to tell them #if i can find my fucking enthusiasm. ugh i have to make one of my classes read a paper and i have to work with someone abt find it. she #works with like rabbits. i refuse to assign a mammal paper. i fucking refuse. we will do plants or microbes or fucking paleontology #i will fight her on this. ugh. light filtering or orchid speciation would b perfect. annoying #at least i get to work with some culturs this week #unrelated

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starcloud-nova · 8 months ago

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ok so its def a firefox issue !!!!!! why !!!!!!!!!!!

#im on safari and its working </3 #i despise tumblr support so im just gonna wait for someone else to report the error 😭#this is so sad 4 me tho how am i supposed to waste time on tumblr on my computer now

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bookwyrminspiration · 11 months ago

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kay so i work at a theatre (the weirdest one in the world imo) and tonight! we have a twilight themed burlesque performance that i knew you, the twilight mutual in my phone, had to know about. i can hear staying alive playing from the theatre as i write this. i feel like everything about this is perfect

the plot of twilight is edward desperately singing stayin alive at bella meanwhile she throws herself in the middle of every disastrous situation in a 100 mile radius and asks him to kill her

It always catches me off guard when I remember twilight was/is like. a whole phenomenon. and not just the weird book series I read like seven times over at age 13. I see other people say they've read it or see a reference in pop culture and my brain has to reboot because it simply does not make sense

you're right I had to know about this so ty for sharing; I hope everyone in the performance and audience had fun :)

#the twilight saga #quil's queries #lgbtqforeverything #catches me even more off guard when people bring up twilight and like. i don't know how to word this #like they. like it for itself? because its been so anathemized and torn to shreds #so 95% of what I hear about it is people who haven't read it making the same haha sparkles dumb jokes #or making fun of it. which like. sure you do you #so when I hear someone on the other side of it like yeah I like it :)#it also doesn't compute but in like a legendary collector's edition way #like the same but leveled up #because to me twilight is like. watching a car crash #you can't look away #so anything else is like woah I forgot it's not just me turning this disaster that has attached itself to my brain #and that other people can and do actually know about it #anyway #i don't think I explained that well at ALL but oh well

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