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i find it a little funny that so far my experience of switching to Linux for my laptop is:
video games: no problem. half the games I want to play have native support anyway, and everything else has worked without issue with Wine/Proton.
utility software: no problem. this stuff has supported it even more commonly
watching Youtube videos: Quest Difficulty: Extreme (failed)
#setting this to no reblogs because i really don't need a rando coming in and giving me a 6-paragraph lecture on how#i just need to do This One Thing#there are approximately 800 One Things people suggest online and I am slowly weeding through them#but also I've still got multiple other devices I can watch videos on so you know. it's not a crisis
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In my experience, the crux of the legal problem facing AI art is a lot like the discussion my mom has to have with every client A), unfamilar with copyright laws in the US, and B), want to run an ad on one of the sites she manages: just because you found a picture on a search engine, doesn't mean it is free. No, just because you bought a picture from shutterstock doesn't mean you can give me permission to use it. That's not your image, and you can't use it like that.
While there's obviously a ton of more social and moral quandaries involved, the law side really needs to specifically come into play on how those developers get their data sets. If they draw all the source material themselves, or own it, then AI gets to function as an interesting new tool in the paint box, at least on the art side of its application. If they're scraping from the web however, whether targeting specific artists or not, it's a huge misuse of imagery.
I think that assumption of safety/defined expectations of use online is really important, as mentioned in the previous reblog. The scale at which these folks are taking and using that imagery just increases the amount of theft of some form, as no-one assented to a rando scraping everything you've ever posted for their own gain. We might make varying agreements with the platforms we post on that could/do allow that kind of use (which is its own problem to unravel, and like with Artstation and DeviantArt, those sites need to provide a way for folks to exclude their work)... but we have no contract or copyright allowing use in place with random folks who train their neural networks on data they don't own, or that which isn't actually public domain or some equivalent.
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
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"writes dubcon therefore is a freak who should be bullied off the site" ho boy i'm fed up with people acting as if consenting adults writing [insert "problematic" fictional thing here] is the worst thing in the world. seen way too many people justifying harrassment of REAL PEOPLE by "they write thing that triggers me". ok, and? mute the tags or don't follow! "it triggers someone" is not a valid reason to ban a topic. piano music triggers me yet i don't go around demanding everyone stop playing the piano.
Anon, not only is everything you said absolutely valid, but also, thank you for demonstrating that triggers are incredibly varied and as such, we cannot predict everyone's triggers. Making the entire "point" of banning for possible triggers invalidated as hell.
We should be aware of things like the most commonly occurring phobias (things like arachnophobia and coulrophobia that are, additionally, easily triggered by imagery) and tag them. We should be aware of very obvious triggers, that are, again, easily set off by imagery, like blood, eye trauma, and depictions of domestic violence. And we should always read and be aware of our writing partners' stated triggers so that we can tag them appropriately or even decide that it isn't going to work because our muse, canon story, or interests are going to present an unfair situation in this partnership.
But triggers can be highly unusual, as well as activated differently (even at different times) for everyone. I'm not triggered by seeing hotel rooms in pictures or movies, I'm not triggered by writing scenes that take place in them, but I'm triggered to some degree by being in one. It's outrageous oversimplification to act like all triggers are the same, they all display the same way, they're all going to trigger someone on the same basis, everyone's going to react the same to their triggers. There is absolutely no way to prevent 100% of possible triggers for 100% of the population, 100% of the time.
Add to this that way too many people trivialize triggers by throwing around that term to justify the banning of something that makes them uncomfortable or that they take a personal, moral issue with. "I don't like this" and "I'm grossed out by this" and "this makes me feel uncomfortable" is not being triggered. It's just a good way to weaponize the better nature of other people so that they comply.
Most people legitimately do not want to trigger someone, especially if they have triggers and know what it's like. Just like no one wants to be accused of cruelty towards trauma survivors in general, or be designated a pedo, rape apologist, or fascist. They're all things to weaponize in order to isolate, shame, and control. And that's really fucking gross. These are serious, real things that have no business being trivialized to police content, win internet arguments, or garner popularity.
The potential for someone to be triggered isn't a reason to ban anything; we have tags, we have blacklist.
While I'll be the first to say that tumblr's blacklisting can be as shitty as everything else on the site, the primary issue with running into content you don't want to see comes down to two factors: no one tagging/tagging correctly and actively exposing yourself to that content. Going through people's properly done tags and blog warnings about their content in order to "call it out" is actively exposing yourself by choice. You actual walnuts.
Calling people on on their "problematic" content is bringing those topics to the attention of other people. That's the whole point of this gross behavior: look at the freak pedo abuse apologist I found, they write dubcon!! Don't look if you'll be triggered uwu
Buddy, pal, my guy...you just put that on blast for anyone to run across. Maybe their blacklist catches those words in your callout post, maybe it doesn't. Maybe they think you're a safe space because you promote yourself that way, so they click it anyway. Point is, you just willfully and irresponsibly exposed people because it's more important to you to demonize a rando on tumblr RPing something you take issue with. Good job!
Furthermore, dubcon itself is such a hilarious issue to take. Do they realize that isn't always sexual, or? Not? I'm thinking not. Funnily enough, one of the oldest posts I've been working on for this blog is about exactly this topic, the myriad situations that are dubious consent. That doesn't have to be sexual, and neither does it have to be intentionally predatory. You can come up with some amazing character development with a lot of muses in the RPC with dubcon because almost everyone's muse has some manner of trauma that might negate their perception of their own consent...and what do you do then? Is it removing more agency from that muse to shut them down, or is that always the better option? Can you separate your opinion as the mun from your muse's natural reactions? How does this impact the muses involved not just that moment but the next year?
Point is, dubcon isn't always some rapey situation. Even if it was, even if someone is writing it that way, it's literally not your business or your problem.
There's one mutual-in-law on my RP blog that really bothers me. They write things that I find fetishizing, incredibly rapey, all around shit that bothers me. I don't want to see it, some of the things they write makes my damn skin crawl. This person doesn't know it, we certainly don't speak and I don't think they like me very much, but I've repeatedly defended their right, specifically their right as a person with some long-term callouts on them, to write what they want to. I have them blocked and their urls blacklisted so I never have to see my mutual reblogging their threads. It's not a problem because I don't click "show anyway." Why would I, if it genuinely bothers me so much?
That's how you handle things that bother you; you use the tools available to not interact even by accident. Not by launching a morality crusade.
If any of us want to write what we enjoy, we have to allow others that same freedom. It's always a matter of time before this policing grows to include more and more topics, it's been used multiple times to get well-meaning people who don't fall into the general demographics to police queer, BIPOC, and other marginalized groups off of platforms. We've been fortunate in most of the RPC that it implodes on itself before it gets all the way there, but even so, you can see it.
It starts with things that produce a visceral reaction in the great majority of people, positions this with a repeatedly condemned idea presented as solid fact that fiction is reality, and you've got the start of something awful. Today it's something you don't like, maybe even something that triggers you, so you either support it or you quietly allow it to happen. Who needs to write that "freak shit" anyway, can't they just be gross privately? Six months from now, it's something "problematic" that you enjoy like violence that's canon-typical for your muse, or your OTP because they're gay and that's fetishizing, they're cis male and female but one or both is bi and that's bad representation, or they canonically have a rocky relationship so that's romanticizing toxic/abusive relationships.
If you can't care for any other reason, you really should care about how it is going to impact you sooner or later. In an environment like this, you can stay in your space, put warnings on your blog, and tag properly and you're still going to get a callout if the wrong person finds your blog. Just takes a single person with more time, energy, and skewed ideas of justice than they have reading comprehension or common sense.
Again, I cannot encourage people enough to give warnings, but it's difficult to ignore why those warnings are slipping; they're a way to be found, designated as a Problem, and called out. Look, it's another reason why callouts actually make things worse, not better! People put that shit in their rules so you can avoid content, they're being responsible and interested in promoting a safe RPC. Let them do it, damn.
You can't tag everything, and if you've never experienced what a giant series of repetitive tags is like on a screenreader you probably should before you tag seven paragraphs of possible issues. You can tag for visuals, you can tag for the obvious things, and you can tag for what's in the rules you agreed to when you followed/followed back. But you should also warn people that you write "dark topics" on the tin, and expand on that in your rules for specific things like graphic violence, toxic relationships, dubon, and addiction.
That's how responsible adults, not over-aged children, make better decisions about their mental health and general comfort. Not by appointing themselves the watchdogs of the damn RPC, here to protect you whether you want to be or not, find that incredibly insulting or not when you're in one of their categories of people who must be protected, by forcibly banning Problematic Everything. Problematic, of course, being entirely in the eye of the content police.
It's fiction. No one and nothing real was harmed. It's great that you are so invested in the fictional world and people that make you happy, but take a fucking big step back into reality. The real people you're harming with your bullshit had every right to peaceably exist. If what they're writing is triggering to you, stay. away. from. it.
Without any coincidence whatsoever, that's how you get from the base-point of Problematic Material to Problematic Mun. Yeah, it's just fiction, it's just RP, but I also took something out of context OOC or was upset by their tone on their own blog or couldn't exercise the minimal adult logic to remove myself from their presence OOC as well. So, now, you've got OOC behavior being added to the callout, if it wasn't already. Everyone is now ableist, transphobic, racist, and a misogynist because it lends that visceral reaction to the callout and ups the game from just being "y'all so gross you aged up a cartoon character to ship" to "this is REAL and it won't be tolerated! OP is actually a pedophile, they told a sexual joke in a discord server with a minor present and I have the receipts!"
What are the most storied callouts in the entire RPC? I'm absolutely certain the same names came to mind no matter what fandoms you're in, and one of them was "Matt." Another was probably "Ares/Snow". They're all successful and keep being brought up out of the closet anytime people are bored enough because their primary punch is the mun themselves being a predatory threat to the community. The mun is verified to be a bad person. Well, of course, that's got to be repeated, it worked. (Even if it did not, at all, work and only made it harder for people to avoid any of these muns.)
Are there people in the RPC who are legitimately a problem? Absolutely, yes. We're all supposed to be adults, however. Part of being an adult is having and acting upon one's agency. If someone is coercing you into things you are not comfortable with, shut it down. If you have difficulties being certain of those situations, run it by a trusted, honest friend or available, impartial source in the RPC for a second opinion. If you can't handle any manner of confrontation, there really are situations in which it's perfectly alright to block someone without any discussion. It's just the internet, you're in control of your space. Own it.
Minors are a whole other can of fucked up worms I'm not even getting into right now except to say that because a minor exists in a space they were told to stay out of does not mean we ban all topics inappropriate for their consumption.
tl;dr: banning shit doesn't work anyway, the whole idea is predicated upon some incredibly problematic takes IRL, and no, there's no justification for it outside of intense personal problems with one's own importance. That energy would be infinitely better spent volunteering one's time to help real people in crisis or after surviving one, or even oneself in developing some healthier approaches and thought patterns.
#hey what if we all start saying we're triggered by callout culture is that bannable then lmao#vespertine#drama cw#bsnf#callout culture#tumblr rpc#rp problems#also thank you again anon I hope you're having a great day!
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Daily Writing Challenge - Day 3, 4, 5, 6
Keywords: Accomplish/macabre, savage, ruins, charity
Vandalstrasz: "This fills me with... hopetred."
Goblin Camera Man: "Nope, sorry Mr. Dragonblight. That don't really work too good. Betta stay with the original line."
Vandalstrasz: "What does that accomplish??! You want me to give that witch Trixany Cuomo more royalties? Just because she caught me on camera in my dragon form, saying her stupid catchphrase! NEVER!!"
Goblin Camera Man: "Look! Time is money, pal. Hopetred ain't catchy! It ain't even a thing, right? So stop sayin' it."
Vandalatrasz: "But this is a commercial for the Cenarion Circle, to save the baby dragons. How can I read lines that support that vile, baby dragon-hoarding, washed up Horde B celebrity Trixany? It's disgusting and unethical, let alone macabre. Please, mortal. Think of Alexstrasza and all the rest. How much have we red dragons already sacrificed and suffered?"
Goblin Camera Man: "Read the script and do the line!"
Vandalstrasz: "You selfish, selfish mortals..." *fumes, black smoke starting to part his lips, and an evil fanged smile forms* "No. I don't think so."
Camera Crew: "AAAAAAAAAAhhhh!" *Vandal morphs into a red dragon and burns them all alive, set explodes*
Vandalstrasz: *puts on his shades, walks away from the explosion in his finely tailored red suit like a badass*
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Trixany: *seated on her red couch in the Daily Mail Dalaran studio, watching the commercial end on the big screen* "He shoulda just used the line. How many lives could have been saved?" *the camera closes in, she dons a sympathetic look* "Are you a fellow Horde B celebrity suffering from when rando normies refuse to take up your cool catchphrases, your fashion trends, or reblog your awesome social media posts, simply because they don't respect your massive popularity?" *she tears up* "It's okay. So many of us semi-famous people suffer in silence. But you are not alone."
*she turns and faces a fresh new camera angle, now with a smile on her face* "And, there's something you can do. Call the number on your screen now to donate money and save the e-life of your favorite Horde B celebrity today like me, Trixany Cuomo. Look, this isn't charity. When mean, selfish people refuse to follow me and be a true fan, like by refusing to use my cool catchphrase "Hate my hope" after I graciously let them come on my talk show, they deprive celebrities like me of the royalties I deserve. Oh, and Vandal burned the audience or whatever, it's a ruin. But my point is, your donation today can actually save my e-life. Adorable, innocent celebrities like me need and deserve all your attention and financial support. So please, call today."
*the camera pans out to show Trixany seated alone in the DMD studio, the stage half burnt and the audience seats still smoldering. She cries, literally suffering in silence*
Announcer Voice: "This... is not fine. Please call. Show Trixany you really care." *big yellow 1-800-YOU-OWE-ME flashes on the screen*
🔥 🔥 🔥
@daily-writing-challenge
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You know what I'll just write a post here again just because I need to get my feelings out about this movie while im aiding.
There are exactly 2 video games that I care about with movies coming out soon, FNAF and Borderlands. And i am (cautiously) optimistic about one of them.
And its not borderlands
First off, let's get this outta the way since it was the focal point of my now deleted reblog;
Is this going to have Hammerlock AND Wainwright, or is this a, as I have coined to myself, Rando Jakobs.
Well heres the thing. We know they aren't exactly following the lore of borderlands too tightly. We all know what happens to Roland in the second game, in which most of these characters introduced meet each other (side note, there's kreig but no maya? Crime.)
Borderlands 3 is the only game where Wainwright shows up, and it seems like they are really following a Borderlands/Borderlands 2 timeline. But that doesn't mean its impossible. He is a fairly important character in terms of being the heir to/actual CEO to the gun company.
I think something i failed to mention as a possibility in my list was the possibility of a love interest or something for Hammerlock that isn't Wainwright (he obviously has had boyfriends before him). Its unlikely but I wouldn't put it past a movie like this so I thought I'd briefly mention a "don't do this unnecessary thing, movie"
Secondly I cannot believe Dutch "bitchass" Van Der Linde's VA is Marcus in this movie.
Like I think that his VA is incredibly talented but...I just hate dutch. But I trust the VA to get the job done of making a kind of terrible character come to life.
I guess the question that everyone is avoiding is what is this movie's plot actually going to play out like? Here's two synopses I found;
"These unlikely heroes must battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to find and protect the missing girl, who may hold the key to unimaginable power. The fate of the universe could be in their hands—but they'll be fighting for something more: each other."
“Borderlands is set in the distant future in which four ‘Vault Hunters’ travel to the distant planet Pandora to hunt down an alien vault rumored to contain advanced alien technology. The hunters find themselves battling the local wildlife and bandit population, but ultimately attempt to stop the head of a private corporation army from reaching the vault first. (Cate) Blanchett will take on the role of Lilith, one of the main protagonists from the game series who is part of the Siren class, a group of women with incredible powers. "
Well what the hell does that mean? It seems that this "private corporation" is supposed to be 'Atlas' who is
This guy.
Which would make it actually a lot cooler for Wainwright to be in the movie because, well he seems like the exact opposite of what this guy seems to be. I digress.
But it seems like just bl2 but Atlas enemies instead of hyperion right? "Protect a missing girl" and "a private corporation army"? While I appreciate a lack of Jack so far (see my list's line of "man's dead, move on"), I do hope its not some bl2 knockoff thing and actually tries to be its own thing.
So is this movie going to be any good? Well I hate to judge things before they release, so I'll refrain from commenting too much. But im not as optimistic for it as I am for other movies.
Feel free to add any points or thoughts you have too!
#borderlands#borderlands 3#bl3#wainwright jakobs#alistair hammerlock#borderlands spoilers#bl2#borderlands 2#borderlands movie#tw swearing#long post
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