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Su-57 “Felon”

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird – The Plane Designed to Leak

The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a revolutionary piece of aviation engineering, designed to push the boundaries of flight. The Blackbird was a long-range, advanced, strategic reconnaissance aircraft. It was flown at speeds up to Mach 3, or three times the speed of sound, and it remains the fastest manned air-breathing aircraft to ever fly. But the Blackbird had an interesting feature that made it unique - it was designed to leak. What this did was release pressure as the aircraft flew at high speeds and altitudes, allowing it to fly faster, farther, and remain in flight longer. The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird is a remarkable aircraft, and a true testament to the power of human ingenuity.

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The F-22 Raptor engaging its cloaking device! It doesn't get any better than the Raptor, vapor, and afterburners! Florida may be humid, but that's a recipe for awesome vapor.

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The 2023 Stuart Air Show

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Fighter plane size comparison.

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Raptor

#F22 #Raptor

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Fandom friends, we have won the battle (although we definitely did not win the war).

Yesterday, I wrote this post about lore.fm, an AI scraping app that was being marketed as an accessibility tool. Now, the person that has been promoting this app decided, in the light of plenty of backlash, to backtrack and pull it down, as they "feel uncomfortable" with how authors reacted to it.

Of this video, it's very important to highlight a couple of things:

the video is 3 long minutes of guilt-tripping: she keeps repeating that her (and her team, whose existence wasn't disclosed until yesterday: this app was marketed as being a sole woman's pet project) wanted to do good and create an accessibility tool. This comes with the underlying layer that all the authors who rightfully decided to defend their creations are ableist and in the wrong. It's a manipulation tactic;

there is no acknowledgement of the fact that the app was created by a team that specifically works to create apps that generate AI stories;

there is no explanation as to where the money to fund this app is coming from, and we all know that, when you're not paying for the product, you are the product;

this is backtracking, not genuine conversation: since the other day, the videos promoting this app went viral on r/Ao3, and plenty of people began contacting [email protected] to ask for their works to not be included. Then, the news spread on Tumblr too. They originally thought they could get away with "legally" stealing as much material as possible, and had to cut the project short because authors were doing everything in their power to stop them. The decision to take the app off for "reassessment" doesn't come from the goodness of their hearts.

At this point of the conversation, I think it's clear that the entirety of the project was relying on the perceived naïveté of fanfic readers and writers, who are oftentimes seen and stereotyped as being silly teens and not adults with real jobs and real knowledge of the law. When they saw dozens, if not hundreds, of authors contacting them to ask their works to not be featured, some of them threatening legal consequences, they had no other choice but to backtrack.

For now, the issue is closed, but don't think it'll be forever. Know your rights, even if you're "just" a fic author, and defend yourself and your works too from these scummy companies that see us as nothing but machines that churn out material for them to steal and profit off of with no consequences.

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……….yeah I don’t know what to add here haha. I started drawing the Starscream animatic as a distraction from my actual job and then started drawing those two as a distraction from the Starscream animatic

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Prowl: I left instructions for everyone during my absence. Jazz: Mine just says "Jazz, no" Prowl: I want you to apply it to every possible situation

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i am being held captive by my own brain it's telling me I need to doodle them NOW and CONSTANTLY

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This was how Optimus introduced them to each other for the first time

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its mermay everybody

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I drew it during the exam

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birthday art 💕 thanks for all the bday wishes!

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uhh they smoking the zaza WIP

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i’m begging you on my hands and knees… is there context to the jazzprowl doodle? like did you have a particular scene in mind when you drew it?

and have you perchance drawn any more doodles of a similar nature?

jealous/hissy prowl protecting jazz is my goddamn jam, your art is gorgeous, and i cannot stop staring at it 🥲

^^ this doodle was largely inspired by a scene from this fic!

their dynamic was super sweet and fun and if you like fake dating + workplace antics + some really nice background culture and worldbuilding things, i'd highly recommend giving it a read ;DD

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losing my shit over them btw (panel dump under the cut)