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#I'm gonna need america to learn what electric kettles are #good grief #they're cheap #they boil your water super fast #you just poor the hot water into your mug with tea bag / tea egg after #life can be so beautiful and simple #I promise #stop torturing tea in the microwave

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having adhd is sooo fun because i get to experience malicious boredom. it's like normal boredom, but it hates u personally and wants to harm u

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She’s too good at this

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To reiterate: Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon and other such books, blocked me on Twitter for calling him out about his AI-generated cover.

Tor has admitted he approved this cover and they have been consulting him every step of the way. He is complicit.

It’s honestly so fucking frustrating that this is going to go forward. That the cover to Fractal Noise is gonna be published with AI art that has ripped off other artists. And neither the author nor the publisher give one flying fuck about it.

I don’t think a lot of people really understand what this means. Book cover art is already nearly universally shitty. You go look at fantasy art covers, and they’re all photomanipulations, generally a single girl on the cover doing magic or looking into the distance. There’s no variety. But at least people get paid for them.

With AI art, artists don’t get paid. You know who does? The people who made the dataset. The people who sold the “cover.” Even though it took less than 20 minutes to make.

If this isn’t infuriating you, I don’t know what the hell else to say. Machine learning is coming for everyone’s jobs, and corporate wallets don’t care if it’s safe or not. Certain areas are already experimenting with AI Amazon deliveries, and it’s been hinted that long-haul trucking is next.

This is unacceptable. PLEASE. I’m not going to guilt you into sharing this, but it is CRITICAL that we take a stand now and STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING. If you follow me, I am asking you as a friend to share this, and to find it in your heart to put pressure on people who publish AI art without paying artists.

Tor could change the cover. They’re not, because they’re using Fractal Noise as a test run to see if they can get away with it. Don’t let them. I don’t care how much you like Paolini’s work (although I think Eragon was a boring slog, so I had no qualms about calling him out), you HAVE to do your best to make this stop.

#eragon #christopher paolini #nepotism babies are something else

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If James Cameron actually wanted to lift up indigenous people voice he would have made an actual movie about real indigenous people and had indigenous consultation and actors. But no this white man made a white savior and the primitive native movie not once but twice where he said it's humans that are oppressive not the white people who are put in power.

If james Cameron really cared about indigenous people outside of using them as a prop to show how he not like other white men then he wouldn't have said this about them:

James Cameron is a mediocre white man who taps into white people inability to sympathize with actual poc by replacing them with made up aliens so you guys can sympathize and dilute the fact that white people are still colonizing indigenous/bipoc land and community.

James Cameron is a white man who white ego needs to be stroked so badly by poc that he made the hero of the story be a white man who takes over the "primitive" native body and only realize his actions are bad by being shown from the sexy and warrior but still female and delicate native woman.

James Cameron is a hack who just knows how to use good CGI

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This is a good reminder that there is no reclaiming this mess either. Anything you do with HP is just keeping her IP alive and thriving and being an active part in pop culture and people's minds.

Let it die.

If you give this woman money, it will go to transphobic causes. If you give this woman a platform, she will use it to boost transphobic causes. This isn't a "well nobody's perfect" or "well x other creator also did something bad once" situation, this is an inordinate amount of influence for a creator to have, and supporting her by word or wallet actively hurts trans people.

#harry potter

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just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog

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loved one: i have a problem

me a machine built to solve problems: great here’s the solution

loved one: im so fucking emotional about the problem

me: i have the solution

loved one: i get so angry. i’m frustrated

me: i am holding the solution in my hand and showing it to you

lloved one, yelling now: the universe is indifferent

me: solution

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I can barely contain myself right now

holy shit

HOLY SHIT

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I dunno that I'll ever finish this so I'm just leaving it here

#fenris #hawke #fenris/hawke #dragon age

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people are literally so boring a male character will kill 10000 people and steal candy from babies and theyll be like omg thats my king! but a female character is rude once and theyre like i hope she dies violently

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“With fandom the kind of racism that you most commonly see isn’t things like racial slurs and hate speech and white hoods. What you really see is a constant communal prioritization of white people and white characters, even when there are non-white characters in major roles. This is a trend across almost all fandoms.”

— Holly Quinn in Episode 22A of Fansplaining

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#dc comics #superman

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why do all the words sound heavier in my native language?

—  @metamorphesque, Yoojin Grace Wuertz (Mother Tongue), Still Dancing: An Interview With Ilya Kaminsky (by Garth Greenwell), Jhumpa Lahiri (Translating Myself and Others), @lifeinpoetry

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