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Instructions to Light-Keepers, Ep. 1 - "Keep Your Wits About You!"

A world full of colors

Full color wheel challenge, what a fun challenge <3

mateo :-) 

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What about folks who have therapy via Zoom? Court hearings? The list goes on. If you've got any Zoom alternatives, or maybe preference for one of the ones we listed with why, reblog please!

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Something Short And Sweet

[Commission] Chibi Bumblebee Movie Shockwave for @/nyxiibis on Instagram 💜

Chunky boy

some nature centered postcards for the master builders :)) theyre my favs but poor blokes get zero content 

lil matt damon SNAPPED

I want to add the full video here. It’s a great debate and a lot of the students bring up excellent points. It’s also a great example of respectful, thoughtful conversations.

Lil Matt Damon’s name is actually Christopher Justice!

My dear friend said 'would you like to see a video of a butch and masc woman' and I said sure and he sent me a video with femme alt girls I am going to kill him actually

The one with short hair

white people please just purchase native artwork and jewelry from native people i keep seeing idiot white people be like “waaah i wish i could support native creators but its cultural appropriation” girl why would beaders sell you their earrings then. just dont get a medicine wheel or a thunderbird then like damn it is that easy

http://www.beyondbuckskin.com/p/buy-native.html?m=1

If Native folks are making it to sell to white people with the approval of their tribe, it’s not “appropriation”–its support and appreciation! So yes, buy that native-made dream catcher, but not the mass produced fakes made by white people. Like, you can go to a pow wow and buy native crafts there, too.

here are some places to get native/indigenous goods and merch online if you can’t find something local or if physical access is an obstacle:

https://sweetgrasstradingco.com/ https://nativeharvest.com/ https://byellowtail.com/ https://www.salishstyle.com/ https://trickstercompany.com/ https://hutxh.com/ https://www.thentvs.com/ https://urbannativeera.com/ https://www.oxdxclothing.com/ https://kotahbear.com/ https://www.totemdesignhouse.com/ https://ginewusa.com/ https://eighthgeneration.com/

and the only native-owned comic shop in the world: https://redplanetbooksncomics.com/

This semester in college we’ve been working with a company in an indigenous museum to help their sales

They work with native artists in all of Brazil, so the site is in portuguese

https://galeriamacunaima.com.br/

Buying from indigenous artists is not appropriation!

There was a young man from Peru

Whose limericks stopped at line two

There once was a man from Verdun

There once was a man from the sticks Whose limericks stopped at line six. They were fine till line five Then they took quite a dive — But the problem is easy to fix If you just ignore the last line, it doesn't even follow the rhyme scheme oh god I've really lost control of this thing I'm so sorry...

There once was a man

From Cork who got limericks

And haiku confused.

There once was a man from the sticks

Who liked to compose limericks

But he failed at the sport

Because he wrote them too short

@limerickshere

There once was a fellow named Dan, Whose poetry never would scan. When told this was so, He replied, "Yes, I know-- It's because I try to squeeze as many syllables into the last line as I possibly can."

when a british actor does an american accent everyone’s like “i didn’t even know they were british until they were on colbert.” but when americans do a british accent everyone’s like “they’re supposed to be from east cocksford but their glottal e’s are north dicksford. shameful.”

Saw an interesting interview with Hugh Laurie talking about this (on playing House and 'getting away with' doing an American accent):

".... because they're much less interested...they don't have that 'Professor Higgins' ear for.... class and background and geography and the way the British are much more attuned to wait a second where are you from and what trick are you trying to pull on me by... with that particular choice of words. I think partly again because it's such a big country nobody really.... it doesn't bother people so much where you're from or why you sound the way you sound. America's a country that's too big to know itself. Someone living in Florida's go no idea how people behave or what they eat or how they dress in Oregon, it's just so far away - whereas we know, of course, we know absolutely everything about... every British drama we watch, we're like, well that's High Wycombe, that could never happen because it's a one way system there! whereas America's so mythically grand, it's too big to know it'self, and that actually has an affect with things like accent. "

This always confused me, too, because like. Do brits not *move*? My accent and diction are a horrifying hodgepodge because I was a child in the cajun part of the american south, an adolescent and young adult in the appalachian part, and then moved to New England as an adult and have lived here since (further, my parents were appalachian and new englander). Added to that, i watched a *lot* of tv as a kid and picked up aspects of tv's weird region-less diction mixed with southern california. It would be weird if the way I talked *wasn't* a semi-unique mess that's hard to definitively place.

Does that not happen with these apparently hyper-specific British accents? Brits, do y'all not get people who pronounce one word in one region-specific way and another word in a way specific to a completely different region, because they lived both places?

Puzzling.

I can answer this! I was born in Pontypridd (Wales), moved to London (England) when I was 5, posh south England when I was 10, Belfast (Northern Ireland) when I was 17 and Dublin (Ireland) at 28.

The vast majority of British and Irish people think I sound Australian.

The one exception is when people try to fake an American southern accent, because Southerners absolutely do pay attention. You can't go with a Texan southern accent if the character is from Mississippi, and Georgia accents are a whole thing, and Louisiana has two different accents, etc.

I mean, there's a difference between a New York and a Philly accent, too.

Yeah. Americans WILL call you out on the "born and bred in ___ and never left" characters' accents. You have specified too much to not match the accent AND the right verbiage/ idioms.

BUT! Moving around is a common enough thing here that when a character says, "I moved around a lot," or, "I was raised by the TV!" we all think 'non-specific American accent' and then move on, giving it no further thought.

happy disability pride month to people who thought that their very fucked up symptoms were completely normal. we’re talking people who were convinced that passing out daily was normal. people who thought everyone got migraines constantly. people who were told that bruising easily and bleeding all the time are things kids grow out of. you count as disabled, and you deserve to have your symptoms taken seriously

friendly reminder that ai is not an automatic collage machine, and is not the devil, and i am sick of the fearmongering

i would give my writing an ai, i dont care, because i know how it actually works and knows that it doesnt fucking matter.

Unfriendly fucking reminder that AI is a copyright violating machine, that the original AI projects were funded by Elon Fucking Musk because he does not see value in the work of artists, and that AIs have problems with constantly putting signatures and watermarks back into art

BECAUSE THEY'RE TRAINED ON SO MUCH STOLEN, COPYRIGHT-VIOLATING ART.

Implying that those of us who have moral objections to AI art (and writing) are "fearmongering" or that we just don't know what we're talking about ignores the very very blatant art theft occurring.

But no, AI art doesn't steal! That's why it's totally not reproducing watermarks here!

Or here!

Or signatures and copyright lines in all of these!

When you feed the AI which is BASED ON STOLEN ART, you are telling thieves that you're cool with art being stolen as long as you get something temporary, free and momentarily cool.

Fuck off. ^__^

*rubs temples*

SO ANYWAY, LIKE I WAS SAYING.

AI is like a child learning art who cannot learn whether something is right or wrong.

the AI will see watermarks, and instead of saying "hey, mom, why are these words in the corner of the picture?" it'll think "sometimes art just has random word-shaped text in the corner, and that's normal" and then replicate it.

Also, if you are an artist and want to check if your work has been used to train AI, HaveIBeenTrained can search the database for matching images (no it doesn't save the image you search with):

The start and end of this reblog chain have good stuff in them but the middle is just patently false. AI does not use art as "samples." AI does not "manipulate art beyond recognition." AI does not even remember that your art exists. It does not have that capacity. AI uses your art to learn the patterns of pixels that art tends to contain, develops a complicated statistical model of what art tends to look like, and then spits out statistically likely patterns of pixels that correlate with the description in its prompt. This is all it knows and all it has the capacity to know, it cannot possibly copy your art, only the tendencies you have as an artist.

This isn't a defense of AI art models. They're blind idiots spitting out images that mostly approximate something somebody might have made. They don't replicate watermarks because they're plagiarizing watermarked art the way a human might sample or trace a piece of art, they replicate watermarks because, like mortimermcmirestinks says, they do not understand the difference between watermarks and intended parts of the image. They do not understand content at all except in the sense that certain patterns are correlated with certain keywords. This is why most AI art sucks and sucks in the specific ways it does: Because it replicates patterns without understanding why those patterns exist, and so you get extra fingers and 7-pack abs and incoherent ornamentation and illegible watermarks.

And sometimes, an AI model will in fact spit out an exact or nearly-exact copy of something in its training data. Not because it copied it consciously, not only is it not conscious but oncr again it does not actually remember any specific piece art. It does it because it's learned to produce statistically probable images and most things which exist are things which are likely to exist.

AI isn't an automatic collage machine. It's an "eh, close enough" machine. Which makes it a powerful tool for deskilling labor, it allows corporations to cut corners which could not previously be cut and sacrifice human values which could not previously be sacrificed. And it's built on the back of both systematic privacy violations and exploiting the real labour of actual human artists. All of this is extremely bad, of course, but it is not at all the same kind of bad vaspider is saying it is, and I for one am a big proponent of criticizing things for their actual flaws instead of making up new accusations not grounded in reality.

AI can't steal any specific piece of your art, nor can it actually do your job as an artist, but it can steal that job anyways.

THIS this this this so much this!!! AI misinformation is way way way too common on this site. Like, even if you ***hate*** AI stuff (and there's a million valid reasons to) why would you want to misunderstand it so badly? Know your enemy and all that.

It is really exhausting when people point out differences without meanings and pull a 'piss on the poor' to try to well actually people... very poorly.

It doesn't matter if they're replicating watermarks because they are plagiarizing watermarked art in the way that a human being understands plagiarism. The point is that the reproduction of the watermarks indicates that they are trained on watermarked art, that is, art which they do not have permission to use.

Y'all put an awful lot of words in my mouth that I didn't say in order to correct me -- badly, I might add -- and continue to explain differences without meaning as if those differences have meaning to working artists.

It's fucking tiresome.