#posting these for archival reasons

[rita-roquette]

Here's more seme L gems found on deviantart

Date: May 26, 2013

This image is by the user emberstar13 on deviantart (#QUEEN 👑)

Source: https://www.deviantart.com/emberstar13/art/L-is-DEFINITELY-a-seme-304487007

[tecochet]

mary jane's husband and his boyfriend

[syrren]

“The artist becomes the canvas!” - TMAGP 002: Making Adjustments

[ms-demeanor]

I don't care about data scraping from ao3 (or tbh from anywhere) because it's fair use to take preexisting works and transform them (including by using them to train an LLM), which is the entire legal basis of how the OTW functions.

[leechaeryeonqs-moved]

hey, can y'all watch my grandma real quick?

[main-bird]

anyone remember that 'i wonder how i taste' meme that went around like two years ago? anyway, here is my alt version to that, which never made it to tumblr. enjoy

[theokusgallery]

A bunch of fanart for @greenninjagal-blog's fics I either made during the weekend or never posted for some reason. Names of the fics for each image is in alt text -- in order, we have: 600 Pieces of Eight, Dead Men Break No Codes, Deja Vu (2 images), Details in Gold, and With an Enemy Like You (Who Needs a Lover?)

First image there is called "re-reading 600 Pieces of Eight". Because I'm normal about that fic and its Janus. Second picture is just there because I wanted to show off Virgil's face + I hate how Janus' body looks

And a very small Janus from A Cactus and Nothing More because I j. I just. love this fic so much. It's so cute and rmgjhlfkd.

[lizlimyl]

I once really loved disco elysium. I still do. Sketches from 2022.

[carriesthewind]

Ok. I am maybe kind of losing my mind just a little bit.

A few days ago, I mentioned in a post that the IA only cares about information being digitized, not about actual digital access. And I mentioned that access includes patrons being able to actually find what they are looking for, and suggested IA did not prioritize that critical aspect of access. But I didn't really go into any more detail.

So someone over on bluesky linked to this write-up of a talk Brewster Kahle gave about using so-called AI. And one of his reported statements made my mouth drop open in shock.

...and then I read further in the article and realized it was incorrectly reporting basic facts around Hachette, so I had to go and listen to the whole speech myself.* (And I want to say, briefly - he raises some legitimate potential uses for LLMs! He's kind of a dick about some of it ("it's up to us to go and keep [Balinese] culture alive"), but some of the things he's talking about actually seem useful.)

*Incidentally, while Kahle doesn't lie about the ALA brief in the speech, he absolutely misleads about the nature and facts of the case and deliberately omit the part of the story where the IA decided to suspend the one-to-one owned-to-loan ratio thing, despite repeatedly emphasizing that one-to-one was what the IA was doing with their lending program.

And oh my god. He really said what the article reports. (This portion starts around 20:10.)

He says that the IA has scanned over 18,000 periodicals. And that they used to have professional librarians manually create descriptions of the periodicals in order to catalog them. (Sidenote: there are existing directories, but he describes their licensing terms as "ridiculous." This is not a field I know much about, but I spoke to one person who agreed, though for different reasons. His reason is that you can only license, not purchase, the directory descriptions. The person I spoke to was instead focused on the prices demanded for the licenses. Regardless, the idea of creating an open, free directory seems both like an incredible amount of work and an amazing resource...if it was accurate.)

But according to Kahle, it took 45 minutes to an hour to create a description and catalog each periodical.

And so now, instead, they're using AI to make the descriptions and so it only takes 7-10 minutes!

"And yes it hallucinates, and it has some problems, and whatever — but it’s a lot faster than having to write it yourself!"

Oh. My god.

Just.

YOU ARE KNOWINGLY INTRODUCING AI HALLUCINATIONS INTO YOUR CATALOG?!

(And yes, he says that they are "confirmed by a librarian" but it can't really be, not if it's only taking 7-10 minutes! Maybe the librarian can do a quick check for super obvious errors, but actually checking a AI's summary work requires actually going back to the source and reviewing it yourself!)

I just....

I need to emphasize for those of you for who aren't familiar - if a book or article is miscataloged, it is effectively lost. Because it doesn't mater if a library or an archive owes it - if someone can't find it when they are looking for it, it is not only inaccessible, the only way to find it again is through chance. Imagine if you went into a library, but instead of organized shelves (where if even if you can't find what you're looking for, the librarians know where to look), every single book was just piled in a heap.

If a book is miscateloged, it still exists, but it is lost, not truly accessible. And they know that this is happening, "but whatever." Because Brewster Kahle doesn't actually care about real, practical, digital access. (Much less non-digital access.)

(And then to top it off, he goes on to criticize the Library of Congress for not being "access oriented.")

I just. 18,000 periodicals. And they've knowing, recklessly lost who knows how many of them. I feel like crying.

18,000 periodicals.

[egophiliac]

I'm very new to joseimukes, what happens when they reach the conclusion of the main plot? Do they keep the game going with a main story - part 2 and events to wring out every cents out of the audience or do they close down the servers and that's the end of it?? I'm scared for my twst obsession's future

honestly, this is the first game of this kind that I've played that looks like it's actually going to reach the end of the story without getting cancelled midway through, so...I have no idea! :') my gut assumption is that there'll probably keep being events and reruns for a while, until it finally stops being profitable enough to justify itself and they end service. but I am also interested in the answer, if other people more familiar can give their experience!

[hemi-demi]

Jon will continue to fume until they get their hair brushed, and not a moment sooner.

By the way, a new chapter of Oathbreaker is up! (Unrelated to this quick doodle, I just wanted to draw Jon being jealous of Nessa. Because they're adorable.)

[taravangians-storming-balls]

Full list of reasons why moash is having a no good very bad time in kowt:

- has to work through his extreme guilt, cold turkey, after being numb for over a year (with zero support system)

- got held down and and put through extreme physical pain (traumatizing)

- currently has crystals growing and spitting through his skull and skin at an alarmingly fast rate (definitely is in constant pain)

- he has crystals growing through his brain?? Does he have brain damage now? Is it changing how he thinks?

- the crystals growing through his brain are full of voidlight and potentially moash now has a deeper connection to odium and is being fed some of the shard's constant hate

- personhood at an all time low. was told directly by odium that he's a weapon

-the entire way he has to navigate the world has changed

- odium went from someone that 'protected' moash from his pain and lifted him up to a special position to someone who refused to soothe him and then used him for painful science experiments. probably feeling a bit abandoned again. moash might be the only person on roshar who is grieving rayse.

- he can't see color anymore ... he can't look at himself in his black and red uniform and think about how cool he looks :(

[leadandblood]

He's a bug to me

[funger-rips]

Fear and Hunger: Termina - "This minigame makes Termina officially a JRPG right?"

Source: YouTube

Upload Date: May 14th, 2023

Description: "A small progress clip of what's to come in the next Termina update. These are old news to people who follow my twitter or discord, but I lost a good chunk of the work I had done for the next update because of some technical difficulties (about one month's worth of assets and coding) I've since gotten back to working on the game and things have been progressing. The update went into a bit different direction than I first planned, but I think these are worthy additions to the game nevertheless. I have some real life busywork in coming weeks that pushes the update even further back. It sucks, but not much I can do about it right now. At this point I had hoped to have the update out initially, but alas, here we are and no release date for the update. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "

[heartorbit]

just how can i protect your smile?

[gradelstuff]

League of Villains - Top 100 results and how many votes each character got (2024)