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[a-wolf-at-the-door]

Friendly Reminder That Privacy ≠ Shame!

It’s ok to not want to share everything! You don’t have to give all of yourself to the world! That doesn’t mean you must be ashamed of the things you hold private! Sometimes privacy is its own form of pride and self-compassion! Sometimes privacy is peace!

#privacy #shame #no shame #sometimes it is good to keep things just for yourself #sometimes that makes them feel more sacred #not saying you should feel pressured to keep something private that you want to share either tho #just that like #we live in this weird cultural moment where it feels like the world demands all of us #our attention #our outrage #our pain #our joy #our opinion #and of course #our data #our money #etc #we are so often pressured to commodify ourselves #to make ourselves consumable #it’s ok if you don’t want everything about yourself and your life to be broadcast and consumed #it’s actually really good #lia’s anticapitalist thoughts

[helthcareproducts]

Home Doctor

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A valuable addition to any home

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#ls #Our data #Resources #Pricing #Enterprise #Sign in #Sign up #Ahrefs #Free SEO Tools / #Free Keyword Generator #Find thousands of keyword ideas in seconds. #Google #/ #Bing #YouTube #Amazon #Home Doctor #For example #keyword research #United Kingdom #Find keywords #Discover keyword ideas #all day long #Fill your content calendar for weeks #months #or even years in minutes. #Phrase match #Having same terms #Also rank for #Search suggestions

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

#due to the Great Data Decay academics write viciously argumentative articles on which episodes aired in what order #at conferences professors have known to engage in physically violent altercations whilst debating the air date number of household viewers #90% of the couch gags have been lost and there is a billion dollar trade in counterfeit “lost copies” #serious note: i'll be honest i always assumed it was english imperialism that made shakespeare so inescapable in the 19th/20th cent #like his writing should have become obscure at the same level of his contemporaries #but british imperialists needed an ENGLISH LANGUAGE (and BRITISH) writer to venerate #and shakespeare wrote so many damn things that there was a humongous body of work just sitting there waiting to be culturally exploited... #i know it didn't happen like this but i imagine a English Parliament House Committee Member For The Education Of The Masses or something #cartoonishly stumbling over a dusty cobwebbed crate labelled the Complete Works of Shakespeare #and going 'Eureka! this shall make excellent propoganda for fabricating a national identity in a time of great social unrest. #it will be a cornerstone of our elitist educational institutions for centuries to come! long live our decaying empire!' #'what good fortune that this used to be accessible and entertaining to mainstream illiterate audience members... #..but now we can strip that away and make it a difficult & alienating foundation of a Classical Education! just like the latin language :)' #anyway maybe there's no such thing as the 'greatest writer of x language' in ANY language? #maybe there are just different styles and yes levels of expertise and skill but also a high degree of subjectivity #and variance in the way that we as individuals and members of different cultures/time periods experience any work of media #and that's okay! and should be acknowledged!!! and allow us to give ourselves permission to broaden our horizons #and explore the stories of marginalized/underappreciated creators #instead of worshiping the List of Top 10 Best (aka Most Famous) Whatevers Of All Time/A Certain Time Period #anyways things are famous for a reason and that reason has little to do with innate “value” #and much more to do with how it plays into the interests of powerful institutions motivated to influence our shared cultural narratives #so i'm not saying 'stop teaching shakespeare'. but like...maybe classrooms should stop using it as busy work that (by accident or designs) #happens to alienate a large number of students who could otherwise be engaging critically with works that feel more relevant to their world #(by merit of not being 4 centuries old or lacking necessary historical context or requiring untaught translation skills) #and yeah...MAYBE our educational institutions could spend less time/money on shakespeare critical analysis and more on... #...any of thousands of underfunded areas of literary research i literally (pun!) don't know where to begin #oh and p.s. the modern publishing world is in shambles and it would be neat if schoolwork could include modern works? #beautiful complicated socially relevant works of literature are published every year. it's not just the 'classics' that have value #and actually modern publications are probably an easier way for students to learn the basics. since lesson plans don't have to include the #important historical/cultural context many teens need for 20+ year old media (which is older than their entire lived experience fyi)

[igottatho]

Tumblr and Wordpress to sell Users’ Data to Train AI Tools

Tumblr you better FUCKING NOT, or I will scrape everything I have ever posted OFF OF this place. It will only be a reblog space for Palestine and advocacy. I will fucking CUT a BITCH.

Article here: https://www.404media.co/tumblr-and-wordpress-to-sell-users-data-to-train-ai-tools/

#tumblr #ai art #data #user data #OUR data #tumblr selling data to AI #I will fucking cut you corporate bitches #I’ve had it up to here #if you take away my picture and art app I have nothing left and I will revolt #Wordpress #online privacy #data privacy #internet privacy #invasion of privacy #404 article #article #shady shit

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

#the truman show #sbs rambles #I keep thinking about how children on popular youtube channels should probably have laws to protect them #social workers assigned to them maybe #I dunno #they did not sign up to have their lives sold for profit #but here we are #tho #I guess none of us signed up for it #and our data is harvested more than ever #god #high-tech capitalism sucks turns out #OH WAIT because tumblr is bad at getting context sometimes #let me specify: #I am not saying that the movie The Truman Show is bad or that it normalizes this #like all good sci-fi (because it is kind of sci-fi) it's there to warn us of what the future could hold #and it did that in a very good way - it's a beautiful movie #I could see someone with a bad faith take assuming I meant that it was part of the problem #it absolutely wasn't. it didn't normalize this; we did #youtube did and social media #it's us that's the problem #or more specifically: big corporations and a lack of regulation #that's the origin of most modern problems

[mostly-natm]

The student becomes the teacher.

#star trek #star trek tng #tng #star trek the next generation #the next generation #data soong #geordi la forge #star trek data #star trek geordi #daforge #me the other day trying not to come off as hostile after arguing and compromising with my group on our project: 😃 #I can’t really tell how visually appealing this style actually is #but I enjoy it anyway 🥺💛✨

[drachenmagier]

For all the people who can't use Glaze on their own computer and have not yet gotten a hold of a WebGlaze Invite, Cara has Glaze integrated into their platform. :)

Not only that, but cara uses Hive to detect and remove A/I regurgitated images. Finally a use for A/I I can fully support! <3

Always remember kids: support those people who support you. Don't waste time trying to please those who care not about your happiness.

Glaze and Nightshade everything.

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/

#drachenmagier #Glaze #Nightshade #Protect yourself #They want our data? Nightshade it. #I like chilisauce on my sandwich - not my problem if ya wanna steal it

[bob-belcher]

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994) “Home Soil” (1.18)

#trekedit #star trek #star trek the next generation #jean luc picard #data #userteri #tuserpolly #userpavlova #usertoph #userjack #gif #ours #by tom

[drethelin]

Monkeypox is spreading, if you had any plans to attend an orgy in the next couple months maybe postpone it

#monkeypox #our world in data #monkeypox chart

[yupekosi]

#everyone say happy birthday to our special boy #star trek #star trek tng #tng #data soong #data star trek #star trek: the next generation #star trek the next generation #the next generation

[yukipri]

Some thoughts on Cara

So some of you may have heard about Cara, the new platform that a lot of artists are trying out. It's been around for a while, but there's been a recent huge surge of new users, myself among them. Thought I'd type up a lil thing on my initial thoughts.

First, what is Cara?

From their About Cara page:

Cara is a social media and portfolio platform for artists. With the widespread use of generative AI, we decided to build a place that filters out generative AI images so that people who want to find authentic creatives and artwork can do so easily. Many platforms currently accept AI art when it’s not ethical, while others have promised “no AI forever” policies without consideration for the scenario where adoption of such technologies may happen at the workplace in the coming years. The future of creative industries requires nuanced understanding and support to help artists and companies connect and work together. We want to bridge the gap and build a platform that we would enjoy using as creatives ourselves. Our stance on AI: ・We do not agree with generative AI tools in their current unethical form, and we won’t host AI-generated portfolios unless the rampant ethical and data privacy issues around datasets are resolved via regulation. ・In the event that legislation is passed to clearly protect artists, we believe that AI-generated content should always be clearly labeled, because the public should always be able to search for human-made art and media easily.

Should note that Cara is independently funded, and is made by a core group of artists and engineers and is even collaborating with the Glaze project. It's very much a platform by artists, for artists!

Should also mention that in being a platform for artists, it's more a gallery first, with social media functionalities on the side. The info below will hopefully explain how that works.

Next, my actual initial thoughts using it, and things that set it apart from other platforms I've used:

1) When you post, you can choose to check the portfolio option, or to NOT check it. This is fantastic because it means I can have just my art organized in my gallery, but I can still post random stuff like photos of my cats and it won't clutter things. You can also just ramble/text post and it won't affect the gallery view!

2) You can adjust your crop preview for your images. Such a simple thing, yet so darn nice.

3) When you check that "Add to portfolio," you get a bunch of additional optional fields: Title, Field/Medium, Project Type, Category Tags, and Software Used. It's nice that you can put all this info into organized fields that don't take up text space.

4) Speaking of text, 5000 character limit is niiiiice. If you want to talk, you can.

5) Two separate feeds, a "For You" algorithmic one, and "Following." The "Following" actually appears to be full chronological timeline of just folks you follow (like Tumblr). Amazing.

6) Now usually, "For You" being set to home/default kinda pisses me off because generally I like curating my own experience, but not here, for this handy reason: if you tap the gear symbol, you can ADJUST your algorithm feed!

So you can choose what you see still!!! AMAZING. And, again, you still have your Following timeline too.

7) To repeat the stuff at the top of this post, its creation and intent as a place by artists, for artists. Hopefully you can also see from the points above that it's been designed with artists in mind.

8) No GenAI images!!!! There's a pop up that says it's not allowed, and apparently there's some sort of detector thing too. Not sure how reliable the latter is, but so far, it's just been a breath of fresh air, being able to scroll and see human art art and art!

To be clear, Cara's not perfect and is currently pretty laggy, and you can get errors while posting (so far, I've had more success on desktop than the mobile app), but that's understandable, given the small team. They'll need time to scale. For me though, it's a fair tradeoff for a platform that actually cares about artists.

Currently it also doesn't allow NSFW, not sure if that'll change given app store rules.

As mentioned above, they're independently funded, which means the team is currently paying for Cara itself. They have a kofi set up for folks who want to chip in, but it's optional. Here's the link to the tweet from one of the founders:

And a reminder that no matter that the platform itself isn't selling our data to GenAI, it can still be scraped by third parties. Protect your work with Glaze and Nightshade!

Anyway, I'm still figuring stuff out and have only been on Cara a few days, but I feel hopeful, and I think they're off to a good start.

I hope this post has been informative!

Lastly, here's my own Cara if you want to come say hi! Not sure at all if I'll be active on there, but if you're an artist like me who is keeping an eye out for hopefully nice communities, check it out!

#YukiPri rambles #cara #cara app #social media #artists on tumblr #review #longpost #long post #mostly i'd already typed this up on twitter so i figured why not share it here too #also since tumblr too is selling our data to GenAI

[dailysuemiley]

Day 35: torment that twink now!!!!!

#mileyposting #your turn to die #yttd #sue miley #shin tsukimi #daily yttd #IM BACK. again. probably. #just moved yippie!! #i didnt have internet for awhile #my phone data has been carrying #anyways back to our scheduled programing

[shiftythrifting]

Everything is 5% off in the ShopShifty store this week!

Coupon applies automatically at checkout! This works for Junk Boxes and sticker packs, too!

#teeth #worm on a string #the one with the whales #star trek #data protection #our shirts #sale #thank you for supporting our indie weirdness #sale goes til the 27th

[manichewitz]

we gotta bring back livejournal and wordpress and forums and weird little blogsites that aren't connected to any social media presence at all its just people online doing online things. the internet is so small now bc we're all squished into the same sites. we used to be so spread out. we used to be a proper decentralised digital culture

#this is why i love ao3 so much tbh its like the only website that still functions like the olden times #no data tracking or whatever and its all communal #we need more of that #does this make any sense #livejournal #wordpress #archive of our own #ao3 #old internet #blogging #luddite #luddite era #social media #.txt #alex talks #internet history #greatest hits

[primmsfairytale]

do you like video games and want to help an overachieving college student put way too much effort into their semester project?

well, do i have the opportunity for you! i'm trying to get more responses for this survey i made for my marketing class so i have a sample size that's actually, you know, useful. if you have a spare minute, i'd love if you could fill it out!

#video games #gaming #survey #student #college #university #school project #btw the project is to make a pr campaign for a company of our choice #wanna know what company? #take the survey! #seriously i can't tell you before you take the survey it would actually mess with the data

[fortjester]

Nona the Ninth Eye Colour/Descriptor Guide

(Key: CH stands for Chapter; pg. stands for page; J stands for John (eg. John 8:1); EP stands for Epilogue)

(Given all the eye-swapping happening in NtN, I’ve categorised eye descriptions in this section per who they currently belong to in this book’s canon, re: John’s original yellow eyes are filed under “Nona” (AKA: Alecto); Camilla’s are filed under “Palamedes”, and vice versa; Babs’ original eyes are filed under “Ianthe”; and so on.)

(Gideon the Ninth Guide) (Harrow the Ninth Guide)

For more immediate, in-depth reference, the quotes themselves have been transcribed below the cut.

All quoted page numbers are per the paperback copy of the book. Quotes are (mostly) in order of frequency, but some characters are grouped together because I don't want to separate them.

Camilla (13 Entries):

Corona (8 Entries):

Pash (6 Entries):

Pyrrha (6 Entries):

Palamedes (6 Entries) & Paul (2 Entries):

Kiriona (5 Entries):

Ianthe (5 Entries):

Nona (5 Entries):

John & Harrow (4 Entries Each):

We Suffer (4 Entries) & Wake (2 Entries):

Honesty & Hot Sauce (3 Entries Each):

Judith, Crux, & Aiglamene (2 Entries Each):

#my post #fuck off lou #the locked tomb #tlt #harrowhark nonagesimus #ntn #nona the ninth #nona tlt #camilla hect #pyrrha dve #palamedes sextus #pash tlt #our lady of the passion tlt #tlt data collection #data collection is my passion #coronabeth tridentarius #ianthe tridentarius #kiriona gaia #john gaius #paul tlt