#with a computer and a tumblr account

[qsmpbutwithsignlanguage]

Where's that post about how the QSMP is built off of love because Tiba and Tubbo played together for a grand total of five days in Purgatory Two but they will still go into each other's chats a month and a half later and everybody freaks out with excitement and it's absolutely incredible.

Five days.

And a lasting friendship.

God I love the QSMP.

#qsmp #qsmp purgatory 2 #tubbo #tiba041 #goose gang was the GOAT still can't get over the fact that they lost #Tiba was awesome #qsmp pos #OP was so right #I think it's insane how many people met through the QSMP that would not have met otherwise #hell how many people I'VE met through the QSMP that I wouldn't have met otherwise #I've changed my art style eight separate times for this fandom #I have a list of fanfictions I've created #I've invested more time and dedication into sharing my passion for the QSMP than I have almost anything else #and that's just me #some random person in the middle of nowhere #with a computer and a tumblr account #think of the people actually ON this server #they lift each other up and it's just incredible to see #they cheer for each other in awards and fly halfway across the globe just to hang out #to say that the QSMP was built off love is an understatement #in my opinion #at the very least

[tournament-announcer]

Hey ik this is not tournament related, but in case you didn't know and want to spread the word, Tumblr is selling everybody's data to AI companies.

Here is the staff post about it https://www.tumblr.com/loki-valeska/743539907313778688

And a post with more information and how to opt out https://www.tumblr.com/khaleesi/743504350780014592/

Hi thanks for the information and sorry for my late reply. I was a bit low on spoons this week and I wanted to form thoughts about this.

Because the thing is, I am doing a PhD at an AI department in real-life. Not in generative AI, in fact I’m partly doing this because I distrust how organisations are currently using AI. But so this is my field of expertise and I wanted to share some insights.

First of all yes do try to opt out. We have no guarantee how useful that’s going to be, but they don’t need to be given your data that easily.

Secondly, I am just so confused as to why? Why would you want to use tumblr posts to train your model? Everyone in the field surely knows about the garbage in, garbage out rule? AI models that need to be trained on data are doing nothing more than making statistical predictions based on the data they’ve seen. Garbage in, garbage out therefore refers to the fact that if your data is shit, your results will also be shit. And like not to be mean but a LOT of tumblr posts are not something I would want to see from a large language model.

Thirdly I’ve seen multiple posts encouraging people to use nightshade and glaze on their art but also posts wondering what exactly it is these programs do to your art. The thing is, generative ai models are kinda stupid, they just learn to associate certain patterns in pictures with certain words. However these patterns are typically not patterns we’d want them to pick up on. An example would be a model that you want to differentiate between pictures of birds and dogs, but instead of learning to look for say wings, it learns that pictures of birds usually have a blue sky as background and so a picture of a bird in the grass will be labelled as ‘dog’.

So what glaze and nightshade are more or less doing is exploiting this stupidness by changing a few pixels in your art that will give it a very different label when an AI looks at it. I can look up papers for people who want to know the details, but this is the essence of it.

To see how much influence this might have on your art, see this meme I made a few years ago based on the paper ”Intriguing properties of neural networks”, Figure 5 by Szegedy et al. (2013)

Finally, staff said in that post that they gave us the option to opt out because of the maybe upcoming AI act in Europe. I was under the impression that they should give us this opportunity because of the GDPR and that the AI act is supposed to be more about the use of AI and less about the creation and data aspect but nevertheless this shows that the EU has a real ability to influence these kinds of things and the European Parliament elections are coming up this year, so please go vote and also read up on what the parties are saying about AI and other technologies beforehand (next to everything else you care about) (also relevant for other elections of course but the EU has a good track record on this topic).

Anyway sorry for the long talk, but as I said this is my area and so I felt the need to clarify some things. Feel free to send me more asks if you want to know something specific!

#misc #ai #tumblr #oh yeah nigthwish and glaze are very heavy on your computer so do take that into account #nightshade*

[crimeronan]

probably i SHOULDN'T migrate elsewhere if tumblr goes belly-up. i just scrolled thru my dash for 20 minutes and in that short span i could feel myself transform from a mildly tired 27-year-old butch into an active serial killer.

#starts typing posts like 'i hate you people so fucking much' and then pauses like #this is how every terminally online post i've raised my eyebrows at for Weeks has started. #girl if you put all your thought into the computer eventually your world will shrink to the size of it. #this site really does make me feel like shit. i need to follow more photography blogs and people who don't post stupid fucking bullshit. #hey if you post a lot of photography or POSITIVE fandom stuff WITHOUT a shitload of untagged politics. #hit me up. i've unfollowed 80% of active blogs i used to follow for 'annoying me' crimes and my dash is both dead and profoundly irritating #i need to breathe some new life into this account. or what am i logging on for. #by positive fandom stuff i mean you're not typing a bunch of nasty hot takes i'll hate or bitching constantly about varying properties. #and you don't hate polyamory. and you don't hate ace people. and you don't hate queerplatonic relationships. #SHOULDN'T BE A HUGE ASK!!!!! AND YET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND FUCKING YET!!!!!!!!!11SHIFTONE!1ELEVEN!!1! #i'm tired of tumblr not making me happy. i should be able to see my blorbos and feel joy here. #negative #i suppose

[soakedworld]

#artists on tumblr #digital art #not mine #weirdcore #y2k #y2k aesthetic #y2k moodboard #y2kcore #cybercore #computer #blue #claymation #vintage style #vintage #illustration #fine art blog #18+ account

[eccentricmoonlight]

I’m curious cause I’ve seen a lot of mixed opinions on Nice so how are we feeling about Nice specifically as a character. Not about happyele adding more characters to the game but specifically about Nice himself because I personally think he looks like a funky little guy but I’ve seen a lot of people being mean about him ):

#idk if other people have made polls about this. I haven’t been on tumblr much on account of my life fell apart and then hermitage started. #as I type this I have Enstars running on my computer to grind event points #and I am also trembling from the anxiety medication I started today #so my life is a mess pardon me if I’m a touch behind #Enstars #nice arneb thunder #polls #yori rambles

[junk-culture]

👍

#today i suddenly remembered that dress + tshirt is a combination that exists and allows you to wear summer dress in winter + not get cold. #really cool innovation. #today i am going to lidl then cleaning out my food cupboard well my one shelf in my shared cupboard then im going to draw hopefully #and because i did some revision yesterday i don't need to do much in the way of studying today which is good because the questions are exce #based and my screen time over the past few days has been diabolical and my eyes are crying and might explode if i look at a computer today #so im going to try to be hashtag offline today. #< says this while literally on tumblr #if i put some red in this outfit id be very sofad core actually. noted for future reference #anyway happy sunday everypony #^ there's a typo up there i meant excel #we worked on paper last semester but now we're doing some accounting on excel i was worried at first like oh nooo i have to learn a new #program but then i remembered im literally a gamer.not the best gamer it has to be said but i mean i 100% pw on the psp so i think i can #s rank microsoft excel.

[pyrriax]

hi tumblr im pyrr pyrriax and im in my trimonthly artist arc, lord help me and all the projects that are currently sitting in my drafts while i am lured in by the siren song of drawing

#haunted ecosystem #this is not helping with how much my hands hurt on a daily basis this is why i type and dont handwrite/draw very much. #im lured in regardless and i really need to find an artform that doesnt Hurt but for now. digital art <3 #like theres a difference between my dumb doodles (quick easy not much different from regular computer usage) and actual art #but im an artist at heart i spent sooooo long being an artist and thinking i was shit at writing. that is wrong! im actually kinda good #im rambling in tags today because i have been not social (my partner is in genshin hell and my beloved is. somewhere.) #okay but on another note i reread the first. couple chapters of wtds this morning? the pacing is a little weird and the tense is fucked #but its actually a lot better than i thought it was? you can tell i was fleshing everybody out in my head and i totally forgot about how #i described the watcher [who i am STILL redacting the name of until we get there] and just. ough. pandora being very logical #and then jumping to the latest chapter and fucking sobbing because i forgot about how it went and just. pandora and his. #whatever the fuck is wrong with him. #i have gotta start recommending people read that again. its surprisingly friendly without context because of how i approached it #that fic has taught me so many things its actually a little comical. it also made me relearn how to make and write ocs so thats fun #once i finish that main fic (and i WILL i am actually planning to sign up for a thing. im finishing it i swear.) i finally get to show off #more of the world and characters ive crafted. showing backstories and what-ifs and all these oneshots ive been keeping close to my chest #for like absolutely ages because i dont want any spoilers on my tumblr #and. im finishing that fic in pseudo-memoriam of somebody who deleted their accounts everywhere. still miss you dane! #ok this has completely gone off topic ily tumblr im going back to drawing and i might make a new pfp #it'll still be lavius but it'll be fray lavius since i think about him a lot and i like his color palette.

[iloveyoumorethansoup]

the depression is doing abnormal things (im not rotting?? still there. but its not that kind rn) and god would i Love to say. the lwa obsession never left. the depression briefly (last two years) covered it. i am still so not normal at all about this show. i need it so bad in every aspect of my life

#typing this from my computer rn bc I wanted to scroll through the croix tab while I did hw #i will not lie! the emotions i have experienced the last week are reminding me of that one post that was like hey guys sorry I haven't #been active on my stan account i got put on mood stabilizers and now Im not nearly as obsessive #its giving that. it is so deeply hardcore giving that. its ok tho! cause i am not on mood stabilizers and i don't want to be ! #i would love a stimulant though. seriously. I've got the adhd diagnosis now i want the meds for it. #my therapist asked me today why i said i wanted to take it once a week knock out all of my hw and chores and not take it every day and #live a functional day to day life. and its like bestie. i am a little on the unstable side. i don't want to be neurotypical #in truth its bc ive tried adderall before and it was great i got everything done. but everything felt wrong. it was too functional #i need the broken hinges in my brain the things that don't work. it keeps my life interesting even if its downright miserable #why is grammerly showing up on my tumblr post. bro?? woah you can edit ur tags on desktop?? this is crazy #grammery emotion guesser is saying i seem very unhappy. i feel better than i have in a long time. its like a breath of fresh air #i think i should look at what manic depression is #anyways. Hi from desktop!! #soup talks

[w-o-n-s-h-i-kawaii]

#giphy #retro #vhs #tumblr #computer #security #rejected #fuzzyghost #password #firewall #access denied #shall not pass #do not enter #please delete your account

[lbhslefttiddie]

I haven’t seen you around much here lately, so I just wanted to say I hope you’re doing well ^^ . If you have any life challenges going on right now, I believe in you to conquer them!!!

thank you!!! the life challenges is my phone and computer both had a stroke and died within a month of each other 😔 it was super cursed but im cool im being very brave about it

#asks #to be more specific my phones circuit board got yoasted basically overnight #i had to get a new one and any data not saved to The Cloud or stored externally went byebye #it wasn tthat big a deal but it didnt mean i had to go through all my apps and re log myself in #only for some reason i just Would Not log on to tumblr. like the brain wasnt allowing it #which mught have something to do with how fucking embarrassing it is (for me only) that i did one (1) day of 79 week and then ate shit #anyways while i was grappling with the executive dysfuntion about all that. guess what happened to my fucking computer. #and then three days later my partner's pc ALSO broke outta nowhere???? any advice on handling technology based curses is welcome #and i was sort of like!!! i guess this is one way for the universe to tell be to take a break!!!! #so i spent a month doing other shit. playing ps4 games mostly #and then i got SUPER into cult of the lamb and went fucking insane with the need to see fanart for thos stupid fucking catboy #so i finally got back into my tumblr account :] #and now i am going insane with how much i want to do art!!!! and cannot do art!!!!!!! because i still dont have a computer!!!!!! #we're working on it its just taking some time #tldr im fine just silly and possibly cursed

[kazieka]

my computer is FINE but also today i was trying to download phasmophobia and my pc wasnt having it so I started reading off my specs to a computer literate friend and he burst out laughing :(

#lindsey shut up #YES I bought this in 2010 YES it runs windows 7 YES it still has the default graphics card fuck you!!!! #‘lindsey. lindsey your computer is worth a grand total of $40. PLEASE get a new one’ no 💜 #it can run skyrim it’s FINE it is FINE #i hate spending money to replace tech that’s still technically serviceable!! #but. hm. maybe I should get a pc that isn’t old enough to have its own tumblr account

[nostalgia-tblr]

Just saw someone's post that demands "Bots DNI" and like... do you REALLY think that'll help? The bots will read that and go "oh this person said DNI bots, I shall leave them alone" will they?

#some people (kids mostly) seem to think 'DNI' is a magic incantation to ward off things they don't like??? #the bots don't know who any of us are they can't read they just make accounts and spam everyone #hell they might even spam each other for all i know #tumblr #is there any way we could make them only see each other and have a seperate pornbot ecosystem for them? #like in that ds9 episode where they make a wee fun bit of computer and set it aside for a virus thingy? can we do that?

[childofeberron]

woof woof wats for lunch lol

#the perks of using your husband's computer is that you can make posts on their tumblr account while they watch youtube in the living room

[sillyvampir3]

ough

#wow new account #dhmis #dont hug me im scared #dhmis colin #dhmis colin the computer #dhmis key #dhmis key guy #dhmis keith #dhmis gijinka #dhmis humanized #artist on tumblr #artwork #digital artist #art #character design #dhmis vpn

[dragonsleather]

Had to delete my Mineru art because it got reblogged by an account with a triggering url and was then circulated to similar people.

I will remind you again, the nsfw dni is not there to look pretty.

I may re-upload it tomorrow. Tonight is not a good time.

#had to go on my computer and block the account by typing their names one by one #because tumblrs blocking system is shite #you can't block from a secondary blog on mobile which this blog is #it's such a nuisance #I'm feeling less and less safe on this website by the day hhhhh #cal.txt

[evadingreallife]

Currently stranded on a desert island (phone is at the repair shop) sending messages in bottles into the ocean hoping someone will see them (instagram messages to bff) and writing SOS in the sand with big big stones (tumblr posts). Everything i ever knew has disappeared (i forgor all account passwords). Will my friends find me? (fucking open instagram dms once in a blue moon is it too much to ask)

#smartphone #desert island #i am #big sadù #thank god my ao3 and tumblr account is open on the computer already #one (1) good thing today #but alas #discord is unreacheable #also whatsapp #i refuse to reinstall and download whatsapp and it any many many many gb of files for just a few days #im HOPING itll be just a few days akjdhaksdhaòdd #yesterday they said itd be done by this morning #this morning they said itll be done by saturday maybe monday #kill me straight on and be done with it god #AND i was in the middle of herding sheeps in my wa groupchat with a couple of friends #to decide where to go have lunch saturday #IF IM NOT IN THE CHAT THEY WILL NEVER DECIDE AND WELL NEVER SEE EACH OTHER AGAIN I KNOW IT #IF YOURE READING THIS YES THIS IS AB U AND THAT OTHER FRIEND YES #I GOT BEEF WITH YOU WHY YOU BEING SO DISTANT LATELY #GET A GRIP OR TELL US WHATS HAPPENING were worried #this escalated quickly wow #anyways yes i do am in a Mood could yall tell