#deeply annoyed

[melaclintbartoncorner]

Big Pet Peeve of mine. I already did the work and blocked out tags, just that people reblog shit without tagging so I have to see shit anyway.

[shoomlah]

I have a feeling that beneath the little halo on your noble head There lies a thought or two the devil might be interested to know You're like the finish of a novel that I'll finally have to take to bed You fascinate me so

You Fascinate Me So, Blossom Dearie

[chromegnomes]

the most frustrating thing about AI Art from a Discourse perspective is that the actual violation involved is pretty nebulous

like, the guys "laundering" specific artists' styles through AI models to mimic them for profit know exactly what they're doing, and it's extremely gross

but we cannot establish "my work was scraped from the public internet and used as part of a dataset for teaching a program what a painting of a tree looks like, without anyone asking or paying me" as, legally, Theft with a capital T. not only is this DMCA Logic which would be a nightmare for 99% of artists if enforced to its conclusion, it's not the right word for what's happening

the actual Violation here is that previously, "I can post my artwork to share with others for free, with minimal risk" was a safe assumption, which created a pretty generous culture of sharing artwork online. most (noteworthy) potential abuses of this digital commons were straightforwardly plagiarism in a way anyone could understand

but the way that generative AI uses its training data is significantly more complicated - there is a clear violation of trust involved, and often malicious intent, but most of the common arguments used to describe this fall short and end up in worse territory

by which I mean, it's hard to put forward an actual moral/legal solution unless you're willing to argue:

Potential sales "lost" count as Theft (so you should in fact stop sharing your Netflix password)

No amount of alteration makes it acceptable to use someone else's art in the production of other art without permission and/or compensation (this would kill entire artistic mediums and benefit nobody but Disney)

Art Styles should be considered Intellectual Property in an enforceable way (impossibly bad, are you kidding me)

it's extremely annoying to talk about, because you'll see people straight up gloating about their Intent To Plagiarize, but it's hard to stick them with any specific crime beyond Generally Scummy Behavior unless you want to create some truly horrible precedents and usher in The Thousand Year Reign of Intellectual Property Law

[randomnow]

I tried making french toast yesterday and it went... badly. First it turns out I used the one pan in the house that is garbage (why do we still own it then???) and the bread kept sticking and then I didn't stir up the mixture on the third slice and it just picked up a giant glob of egg and most the the remaining mixture looked bad and I was just so fucking done

so. that was fun

[fluentisonus]

getting used to & comfortable with your own bare chest as a neutral & not inherently gendered thing over the course of an evening alone and then having to go out in public again the next day & feel weird about it again like prometheus and his liver except every day you're forced to regrow an awareness of society gendering anatomy

[roach-works]

i think some people got the wrong message after watching every movie where mean bullies call the quirky but ultimately loveable protagonist a "freak"

calling people freaks isn't bad just because sometimes you're wrong and that weird girl was actually very nice and saved everyone at prom from a mummy's curse.

calling people freaks is bad because dividing the world into "good people who are normal" and "bad people who are abnormal" makes you a tedious goddamn asshole

[autisticaradiamegido]

day 307

earth c reunion vibes

[communistkenobi]

oh god I forgot about wil wheaton

[arunneronthird]

okay fine i can deal with damian being a weeb but he'll be one on MY TERMS

[intermundia]

honestly one of the things i love best about obi-wan kenobi is that sometimes he's fucking insufferable

[dungeonmechoui]

Unprofessional yuri save me.. save me unprofessional yuri.. (image description in alt text)

[dykesynthezoid]

People who say Marius haters are just biased/haven’t read the books/simply don’t “get” his relationship w Armand are always a head scratcher bc then you read the books and you’re like well christ this is actually worse than I was expecting. Going into TVA like here I am ready to absorb the nuances of this dynamic. And then literally every consecutive moment is making it clear how badly Marius sucks

[pavus]

it's incredible seeing gooner-brained gamer boys talk about the veilguard cc like every single rook that's come out of it has been a monstrosity, when the only rooks that look bad have been purposefully crafted as rage bait or as jokes & the majority of rooks made by actual players of the games have come out looking like fucking supermodels.

you're in control of the cc, my guys. if they're ugly, it's your fucking fault!

[megatronusprimedecal]

"So bored, it's boring."

The More I See You || Episode Twenty-Two || Season Four

[nappingpaperclip]

y’all we r not beating exorsexism and misogyny by calling every transmasc that pisses u off a ‘theyfab.’ Idc if they are annoying or have dumbass opinions, literally using someone’s agab as an insult is wrong and treating transmascs as annoying little afabs is deeply misogynistic and transphobic. What happened to just calling people fucking idiots

[evilkitten3]

the most underrated Captains Moment™ in bleach is when byakuya is minding his own business and then gin and kenpachi show up out of nowhere to bother him, just in case we were worried that ichigo's new Most Hated Guy™ had zero friends

and then gin just. ties up kenpachi. and leaves. this never comes up again at any point in time ever

every single second of this scene was funny before you'd read any further than this, and it's even funnier now