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[ekaarts]

Monday Meta strikes

In case you were unaware, Meta has decided to steal everyone's content to feed their own AI programs. This not only includes the artists but also your photos, including pictures of your family, KIDS.

Since this got out, Meta has made it abundantly clear by making appeals impossible that they don't care about what their users have to say.

From next Monday on, we'll be on strike every Monday until Meta decides to change.

The strike is simple. We won't use any Meta-related apps on Mondays, thus trolling off their numbers.

Artists are leaving Instagram, with good reasons. We're tired of our work being stolen.

So far, Cara seems to be a good alternative, but I also like UnVale (though they're limited to OCs).

I wanted to share this since I learned about the strike from Instagram stories, which not everybody sees. I am unsure who organized it, but I'm sending love to them.

[geezerwench]

I saw this on Counter Social.

If you sign up for Threads, the Meta-owned Twitter alternative, it is connected to Instagram. If you decide you don't like Threads, you cannot delete it unless you delete your Instagram account.

[elsaclack]

Yeah okay so like I said in the tags of the last post I’m rising from my tumblr grave to say that the ban on TikTok is symptomatic of a MUCH larger and more terrifying problem. Because yes, on its surface it’s silly dances and asmr and cooking videos and whatever, but in truth and at its core, TikTok single-handedly revolutionized the way 170 million Americans communicated with each other AND the rest of the world. Non-Americans love to point out how America-centric Americans are, but fail to realize that we are purposefully raised in an isolated, insulated environment where we are told from basically day 1 that America Is The Best and not to even bother taking a look around because it’s all downhill from outside of here. TikTok has, for MANY Americans, single-handedly destroyed that notion and allowed them (us!!) to broaden our world-view and realize that actually, things are better in other countries, and it did so in a kind, empathetic, and compassionate way.

And yeah most people wake up to the truth of that on their own as they get older, but holy shit!! The VAST majority of the Americans on TikTok are millennials and gen z (and even some older gen alpha)!! People who are becoming disillusioned with “The American Dream” (said with the HEAVIEST sarcasm) while they’re still school-aged or are just entering young-adulthood!! People who are entering - or TRYING to enter - the American workforce who suddenly have an unfiltered window into non-American lives and are wondering why tf we’re struggling and penny-pinching and toeing the line of poverty while our rich elected officials sit around and fight and argue over everything that actually matters to the citizens they supposedly represent and get richer all the while. THAT is why they’re banning the app, and that fact alone should terrify every single American citizen.

Not to mention the precedent it sets for other social media platforms!! You think some nebulous, unproven, and unfounded “threat to national security” will stop with TikTok?? They’ve already censored Adult Material on tumblr, who’s gonna stop them from coming back and doing it again or getting rid of it altogether for the exact same reason? It’s a blatant act of censorship and a direct attack on the American first amendment right to free speech.

NOTHING radicalized me the way tiktok did. I watched people in my life who were STAUNCH Trump supporters in 2016 AND 2020 wake up to the truth and vote blue for the first time in their lives BECAUSE OF TIKTOK, and did so with al the nuanced understanding that even Democrats are severely failing this country, but are at least better than the alternative. That level of awareness and presence in the average US citizen scares American politicians.

The fact that the vast majority of them - including the ones loudly opposing the ban!! - bought stock in Meta BEFORE the ban was legalized/upheld by the Supreme Court?? That Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk were legally allowed to lobby congress to ban TikTok when BOTH stood to DIRECTLY financially gain from their biggest competitor being banned in the US and are guilty of unethically gathering data and selling it to MULTIPLE third parties?? The fact that Trump is now teasing that he may or may not intervene to save TikTok when he was the one who talked about banning it in the first place AND ALSO OWNS HIS OWN COMPETING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM??

It’s the burning of Alexandria. It’s the loss of a significant chunk of culture. It’s the sharp and sudden loss of contact with the rest of the world for more than half of all American citizens. It’s the loss of $240 BILLION dollars in the GDP when the country is already TRILLIONS of dollars in debt. And on an individualistic level, it’s the loss of millions of small businesses and primary income streams for so many individuals and families who found their primary audience on TikTok. Is the app perfect? HELL no. Are there significant changes needed to make it a safe environment for all users? ABSOLUTELY. But that can also be said of ANY social media platform. TikTok openly fostered connection and communication and creativity and compassion that is completely unique to that platform! It made so many people - myself included!! - feel less alone. I get the feeling I know what the general consensus is about TikTok on this site, but the ban on this app should scare the shit out of everyone.

[500-moths-in-a-trenchcoat]

i'm expecting a tiktok exodus since this seems to be the bomb shelter of the internet. have another update/repost. NOW WITH HIGHLIGHTED MAJOR HOLIDAYS!

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Thursday the 20th

The Fifth of Wednesday

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Every Monday: Garfield Hates Mondays

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December 24: ALMOST CHRISTMAS MEANS IT WASN'T CHRISTMAS

ALSO December 24: Cabinet Man Day

December 25: happy chrismum

December 27: Porn Ban Effective Today

[callmeizukunotdeku]

I was a kid with a Hunger Games hyperfixation and, from time to time, I'll get reminded of the books. With Trump's inauguration and the TikTok ban and unban, I can't stop thinking about a political tactic called panem et circenses, or bread and circuses.

In Mockingjay, Collins writes "'It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,' he explains. 'Panem et Circenses translates into "Bread and Circuses." The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.'"

In Collins' world, the Hunger Games was the entertainment. In ours, it's social media. Twitter, Meta, TikTok, are all controlled by political powers. Musk, Zuckerberg. TikTok is owned by Yiming and Rubo, but with the ban and unban, the content it shows in America is filtered to fit Trump's political agenda.

It's entertainment at the cost of information.

[jypsyvloggin]

Meta AI on Instagram chat: A new way to get advice and ask questions

Meta AI on Instagram chat: A new way to get advice and ask questions Meta AI is a large language model from Meta that is now available to chat on Instagram. It is still under development, but it can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. To use Meta AI in an Instagram chat, you must first request early…

[yllene]

Since I no longer wish to support Meta with my presence on Instagram due to Meta allying with Donald Trump, I am hoping to find a community where I can share my knitting here on Tumblr. I used to be on Tumblr as a teenager 15 years ago, but I made a new username now to start over fresh.

The legwarmers in the picture are my proudest knitting achievement. They are my own design, made in two-color brioche and double knitting. I am working on the pattern, and wish to organize a test knitting hopefully this spring. But I need to finish the pattern first. And I am a perfectionist.

I am looking forward to meeting new people to discuss knitting here on Tumblr.

[violottie]

🇵🇸 IMPORTANT. Please share. 🇵🇸

If you have Instagram, Meta has set an automatic limit on "political content" as a means to stop the spread of awareness about Palestine, Sudan, Congo and more places where genocide and injustice are being enacted.

You can remove the limit in your settings. Instructions:

1. Go to Settings and Activity

2. Scroll down and click go to Suggested Content

3. Click on Political Content

4. Select "Don't Limit"

Please share so more people know about this and what to do

[probablyasocialecologist]

Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content since the outbreak of the Israel-Gaza war on 7 October, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). In a scathing 51-page report, the organization documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported instances of Meta removing content and suspending or permanently banning accounts on Facebook and Instagram. The company exhibited “six key patterns of undue censorship” of content in support of Palestine and Palestinians, including the taking down of posts, stories and comments; disabling accounts; restricting users’ ability to interact with others’ posts; and “shadow banning”, where the visibility and reach of a person’s material is significantly reduced, according to HRW. Examples it cites include content originating from more than 60 countries, mostly in English, and all in “peaceful support of Palestine, expressed in diverse ways”. Even HRW’s own posts seeking examples of online censorship were flagged as spam, the report said. “Censorship of content related to Palestine on Instagram and Facebook is systemic and global [and] Meta’s inconsistent enforcement of its own policies led to the erroneous removal of content about Palestine,” the group said in the report, citing “erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government influence over content removals” as the roots of the problem.

[...]

Users of Meta’s products have documented what they say is technological bias in favor of pro-Israel content and against pro-Palestinian posts. Instagram’s translation software replaced “Palestinian” followed by the Arabic phrase “Praise be to Allah” to “Palestinian terrorists” in English. WhatsApp’s AI, when asked to generate images of Palestinian boys and girls, created cartoon children with guns, whereas its images Israeli children did not include firearms.

[ekaarts]

With Meta being a big A-hole, it's time to repost this

Join the Monday Meta boycuts to support the strike for the rights of not just artists, but EVERYONE who ever uploaded anything to any meta site (like Instagram or Facebook).

Unless anyone can give me a proper, good reason not to, I fully support the ongoing protest against AI-generated images.

(Please read other people's posts too. This might give you a better understanding of the subject.)

While it has a lot of potential, even for artists, non-artist people took it to the point that it threatens our current and future job opportunities.

Honetly, it is a scary experience seeing it happening.

I've been drawing since I was able to hold a pencil. I've been drawing ALL MY LIFE, and just when I think it's going to pay off, when I think my pieces are getting good enough that I might be able to do it as a full-time job, something like this happens.

And I haven't even mentioned the art theft aspect of it. These pieces are NOT ORIGINAL WORKS. They're all based on other people's works, who DID NOT GIVE CONSENT TO USE THEIR WORKS.

I get it; it is wonderful to create something and frustrating when you don't have the skillset. But even this simple piece I created for this post has more life and feelings implied than all those AI "art pieces" put together.

It has my anger, sadness, disappointment, and fear in it.

It has that kindergarten girl in it who is still remembered by her former teachers for always drawing.

It has that suicidal preteen whose only happiness was writing her little stories and drawing the characters from them.

And it has that almost-adult high school student whose dream is to become like that one artist, to whom she can thank her life.

That one artist has barely any idea that I exist and definitely has no idea what she has done. I'm not sure if she realizes her childish stories from back then saved a life, but they did.

This is what art is for me.

Something you spend your life on without realizing it, getting better and better. Something that is perfect because it's human-made. Something that has feelings in it, even if we don't intend them.

[i-am-aprl]

So those shadowbanning us who work at @meta see these videos everyday, see the torture and turmoil Palestinians are going through and the hate that is spreading...and yet continue on with their jobs. How can people see this and not feel crippled from within by the sheer injustice. My heart hurts. This is expected from an oppressor but those that are just watching on the sidelines...how could you??

[panstarry]

pirate radio, december 2023 risograph printed in bright red and black ink

my final graphic design thesis project from about this time last year! i made a sleeve for a diy vinyl record (track featured by my friend aria @everlastingwife ^_^). this process was so much fun to experiment with!! on my first attempt, i tried to 3d print a record using a 3d model i generated from the wav file. this did not work because i didn't have access to any printers with a fine enough resolution — all of the grooves holding the audio information totally melted. for my second try, i used a subtractive process instead and badgered my department into buying the gakken toy record maker, which was essentially a tiny record lathe. the audio quality was total ass but it worked much better and was playable! lot of trial and error involved but i'm overall very satisfied with the final outcome :-] hope to make some cd mixtapes now that i no longer have access to that little lathe.

🏴‍☠️ bootleg everything. ok bye

[alwaysbewoke]

[akuaultima]

I'm honestly convinced that tumblr is going to win the social media war by doing literally next to nothing, twitter is fucking itself over, meta is fucking itself over, and meanwhile tumblr is just sitting there like "been there, done that, I warned you and you didn't listen"

[industrations]

I’m deleting tw*tter tonight. I can’t stand being on there anymore with all this shit going on and that sad disgusting sack of bones running that app.