#You Are The Product

[aviancorporation]

Fuck tech bros! All tech bros need to hang from a tree.

[dekaydk]

Google making Chrome less secure so they can keep showing you ads

What's truly behind the change: Ad blockers are so effective it's costing us money, so we're changing Chrome to break the best ad blockers.

What they're doing is akin to a lock manufacturer making lock picking easier after you've installed the lock.

What you should do: install Firefox (and a good ad blocker) and use that whenever possible.

If you are interested in the (somewhat technical) details, they're below. But you don't have to read this: just go to Firefox.com and download Firefox. It will walk you through getting your bookmarks, etc. copied out of Chrome.

[futurebird]

Fascinated that the owners of social media sites see API usage and web scraping as "data pillaging" -- immoral theft! Stealing! and yet, if you or I say that we should be paid for the content we create on social media the idea is laughed out of the room.

Social media is worthless without people and all the things we create do and say.

It's so valuable that these boys are trying to lock it in a vault.

[the-four-humors]

Saw someone arguing with an actual staff member - who was confirming that, behind the scenes, your definition of what Tumblr 'is' as a user is different from the actual metrics - that Tumblr is "the fandom website" and implied that it always has been.

Which is just............. demonstrably wrong?

There were YEARS where The Bit that everyone committed to on this website was 'hipster blog vs fandom blog'. There have ALWAYS been Normies on Tumblr, and they make up a MUCH bigger part of the userbase than anyone wants to admit, because they're the quiet majority.

They're the ones reposting memes and making moodboards. They're the ones making Taylor Swift a trending tag. They're the ones that people on Twitter wax nostalgic about.

While staff have been more involved with the fandom side of Tumblr lately, fandom blogs have never been the priority.

[lone-sk]

Hey guys.

So I talked to the website owners, and they're going to kick us out unless we can gift each other $17,000 worth of crabs by 10 PM Central time tonight. Any little bit helps, $10, $5, even $1.

[t00thpasteface]

really i think step one of really digging your teeth and nails into a work of fiction is to surgically excise the buzzwords "media" and "consuming media" and possibly even "entertainment" from your brain and instead try grafting in the terms "fiction" and "engaging with art". step two is to have fun and be yourself!

[stargirl230]

you’re my hero!

bnha doomed yuri was not on my 2024 bingo card

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[inthewindtunnel]

Anders Hajem

You Are The Product

[liones-s]

a big lesson for me was learning that most things are not as fragile as I’d believed. missing a class, or turning in a bad assignment, won’t instantly destroy your professor’s opinion of you. accidentally saying something harsh won’t make your friend want to end the friendship. it takes work to repair these things - it takes effort and research and sometimes a sincere apology - but you can do that because they’re not irreparably broken. what you’ve worked to build, in academia and in relationships and in life, is stronger and more enduring that your mind may teach you to believe. don’t let imagined fragility lead you to giving up

[gerardpilled]

soooo much of the modern conception of gender is based around products and consumerism that people can’t even identify actual misogyny anymore. People reply to posts “It’s sexist to hate on something so many women enjoy” and that something would be a Stanley cup

[aerequets]

the mortifying ordeal of being known

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I think with Yor being so perceptive, she picks up on little things often (like we saw in ch 103). i believe this would impact loid more so than the usual person, because he is a spy and fakes every part of himself, so to be seen is simultaneously desirable and horrifying. like, it makes him torn between wanting to accept and reciprocate the love, or distancing himself so that it doesn't happen again.

thats mostly what the last panel is about, that dichotomy between 'omg this person noticed this about me, is this love' and 'oh shit this person noticed this about me, is this Doom'

just some thoughts i had🤪

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Wow, this "gender free" fashion brand sure doesn't have any AMAB models.

[egophiliac]

back at it again with the extremely self-indulgent diafams! I am being emotionally supported by overly-cutesy interactions between anime characters right now, don't judge me.

(also continuing with my headcanons that 1) mustache Bauru, and 2) he'll be hugely tsundere about it but you can, ultimately, convince him to do just about anything via careful application of Sebek.)

[artsyannierose]

I saw this quote on twitter and i was like “yeah that’s totally Nori”

No i have no idea how long it actually takes to make a robot baby but for the sake of this we’re gonna pretend its 9 months okay okay thanks

[thelostmoongazer]

you all dont know tragic yaoi like i do.