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[swerveable]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 5000 likes!

[brot-dae]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 5000 likes!

[whompthatsucker1981]

i think that gay sex cats is the new duchamp's fountain

[arsenalsquid]

Thank you to everyone who got me to 100 likes!

[willwoodwithadditionalgrapejuice]

for more information please dial (248) 434-5508 😇

i was bored at work so, KAYNE SELLING COCAINE COKAYNE!!

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[cubbihue]

So.... why'd Peri get assigned Dev as his first godchild?

Jorgen’s usually not the one in charge of assigning godchildren. There’s an entire department that weighs and classifies potentail Godkids to the right Fairy. Although it’s on strike at the moment.

So Jorgen has to do it by hand, until the union negotiations are resolved. Turns out trying to use paperclips is very hard. Itty bitty paperclips. Big muscular biceps. Not a good combo.

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A Message from Sleep Token ☼ The Heavy Music Awards 2021 — the message | background footage | font | sleep token logo | all messages

[svtskneecaps]

honestly wish the qsmp made more use of the novelty that is Mail. like "man i really need to get a message to cellbit but i don't know when we'll be on at the same time :(" leave one of those supplementaries presents that only opens for the matching username that has a book in it signed by you detailing everything you needed to tell him, or if you need to send off a bunch of things leave a security chest buried under or behind something and send a coded message with its location. cmon. Mail. Postal Service. Quesadilla Postal Service Mail, the QPSM if you will. (if your language can make it QSMP plEASE jump on)

missed opportunity. send more letters that aren't badboyhalo's debt collection.

[naxalite1967]

Being anti-establishment requires you also to understand what the establishment is.

It's about keeping you poor, it's about keeping you divided, and it's about keeping you ignorant.

Over the past 2 decades, the American government moved rapidly towards authoritarian policy, trump is just the most overt about it to the point of being fascistic.

Keeping you poor: this is done more so through the banks (FICO, credit, cars, property) but is also done by ensuring more rights for businesses and allowing them to easily subvert legislation with capital

Keeping you divided: fun topic. The division is tough to mend at a base level. It requires the higher class to reach down to the oppressed (white people must reach down for racism. The Wealthy must mend the gap of poverty, but they never will do that) and mend that damage. The issue is the right thinks they haven't done anything wrong- all while calling the cops on people minding their own business, turning a blind eye to police violence on minorities even openly supporting it in most cases. Conservatives are the tools of division- unempathetic, uneducated, and unreasonable about the discussion of racism or sexism.

Speaking of uneducated:

It's no mystery that they want to keep us ignorant, but the right seems more concerned about their kids gaining a conscience than their math scores. God forbid we teach about the Trail of Tears or Jim Crow, might make Timmy think his white ancestors were not good people and might make him feel bad for others… so they'll turn up at school board meetings and whine and scream about rainbows in a classroom while their kid is coming home unable to simplify fractions.

TL;DR: the right is and always will be pro-establishment, and it is because they like the establishment and they want it to benefit them. When it doesn't only benefit them they have a problem with it. Honestly read the whole thing if you care.

[front-facing-pokemon]

[betterbemeta]

AI represents a unique threat to the 'fannish' or 'nerdy' creative ecosystem. It's infesting all creative spheres but fanart, fanfiction, filk (and its peripherals like 'covers of anime OPs') fan music videos or 'edits', fan essays/videoessays, fan films, and cosplay are in serious danger.

"You're on tumblr complaining like the things that interest you are threatened, of course you are, people are dying in the real world," de-cringe for a second.

I am talking about a greater trend or 'dominant strategy' for Online Engagement that sees all fanwork as only profitable parasitism of SEO keywords.

And Media IP is valued by its owners because it is potentially relevant to people.

And people searching for Topics online is, to a machine, data that depicts that relevance. But to human beings, that is 'a fandom.'

"But you can spin any petty online thing to sound apocalyptic," the global entertainment industry is worth over 2 trillion dollars. listen to me.

The issue here is older than AI Generated Media; AI has the potential to speed it up and expand the scope of the problem. In the past few years, leeching money from SEO and interest in popular IP has boomed as a gig. I can't write it all off as a Bad Thing because that could also describe a professional Let's Player or a patreon-funded movie critic. But farther away from normal human behavior the most cynical content of this type is a way for Content Creators to siphon money from an IP's existence. If they didn't get paid, nobody would make it.

For context here, your grandmother cared enough about her star trek 'zine that she was probably printing it and distributing it at her own expense.

Limiting to YouTube as an example, before the AI boom there were already videos that were churned out in industrial quantities to take advantage of search keywords. Maybe they are chopped up clips from a TV show to capture anyone searching for it. Maybe it is a fake/spam video that claims to be clips from the next episode but fakes the thumbnail. But the reason why these videos nobody likes still make money is the same reason that people are able to navigate AO3.

Fanworks and fan-culture-inspired creative work have very specific key words that a machine can learn. This is probably why also it's easier and more popular for AI to generate images or music in a 'genre': a 'novel' or a 'love song' can be anything but a 'fantasy novel' probably has 'dragons' in it, and a 'synthwave' or 'power metal' song are likely to have certain chords and instruments.

Something more recognizable than 'fantasy themed power metal' though, is 'pictures of Pikachu.'

But you don't even have to search for Pikachu or for Dungeons & Dragons; algorithms are good enough to try and predict what you might search for in the future. It is assumed that you might be willing to overlook a lack of human emotions in things you haven't asked for 'yet' because you might be peripherally familiar enough to recognize their trappings. It would blend in with the rest of what a computer has tagged you with, which doesn't contain your feelings actually! Only how 'likely' you are to be interested in an article/video/song with 'magic missile' in it somewhere.

When I think of fanworks I think of feelings that are so big that the original media can't contain them. A shift to a more machine-like outlook seems destructive to me, and like tapping your blood for gold, and also deeply antisocial.

[allgremlinart]

stop arguing the existence of forklifts in the atla comics under my post you guys. there was an honest to god truck in Day Of Black Sun

[nighty-night-nh]

OK! 54 pages into Eagle Strike, and I'm really enjoying Yassen Gregorovich's character. A guy just doing what he's paid to do, nothing personal. Very much so looking forward how his 'Kid wtf are you doing in this business. Go home and be safe' attitude evolves from here.

[dnsecretsanta]

Gentle reminder that there's a person behind this blog and a little patience + compassion goes a long way. If you're concerned about something, please give me a little while to respond before messaging multiple times. I've got 40+ people to coordinate contact with for this year, but I promise I will get back to you if given more than a couple of hours.

[smimon]

would you reblog an ad on tumbrl? You probably already did

Advertisement posts are all following the same scheme: first, a screenshot (!) of a few photos of a cute product - lamp, candle, mug, plushie, anything. Below it, the text "I have finally found a store that sells that!" with a link to the store.

I'm not saying it's evil, looking at cute products is fun. It's just a bit unfair that people reblogging this stuff aren't paid for advertising a product

[wiltking]

i fear booksirens may take me out back one of these days for consistently posting critical reviews