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I've seen a couple people saying they're jumping ship for [other big socmed] after the AI announcement here, but like. Guys. Friends. You do realize all the other sites have been silently working with big AI companies for a while now. Yes, even Bluesky and Cohost and all the smaller ones. They're just not broadcasting it or giving you an option to help remove your work from automatic scraping.

I greatly prefer the transparency and the tiny bit of protection, no matter how flimsy. Tumblr is pretty awful, but it's still better than everything else so far. Which sucks but until we burn down the plutocracy, this isn't gonna be escapable.

(Also, no Tumblr did not quietly sneak this in. They literally announced it before implementing.)

For anyone who didn't check the replies to see OP basically pulled this out of their ass

@AWellBoiledMok on Cohost, if anyone wants to find me over there.

I'll still check here and reblog now and then, but unless some major changes happen it just doesn't feel great.

Basically, our reaction to a walrus knocking:

Vs

A fairy knocking:

A decorative piece of coffin hardware used to signify the exact time of the deceased’s death from the late 1800’s to the early 1900’s.

Behind a paywall (or at least you need an account) but if true fuuuckk

FYI GUYS:

Tumblr has added this option to their settings: “prevent third party sharing”

(Edit: left is desktop, right is mobile app)

Make sure to turn this on to prevent AI from scraping your blog (according to tumblr, anyway) 🩷

They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

here's some instructions for anyone who doesn't know how to opt out:

you will have to do this individually for each sideblog you have too, no way to do it for each account in one go

from Drum: Sex in Perspective pub. 1966

[ID: New York. New York City: Scrawled on a poster in the subway: “My mother made me a homosexual.” Comment scribbled underneath: “If I sent her the wool, would your mother make one for me?” /end ID.]

finally someone has something worthwhile to say

Top tip for making the trans women in your userbase feel safe:

stalk them on other social media and share their personal information there

Turns out Matt actually deleted that reply p much instantly lol. Guess he realized how stupid it was

Also

he just rattled off a bunch of blank accounts

logged in vs logged out.

the owner of tumblr has blocked me for starting a kung pow penis chain on one of his recent posts

nex benedict, a 16 year old nonbinary student in oklahoma, was beaten to death by three of their female classmates in the same district libs of tiktok has been targeting. not only is this heartbreaking for us to hear about, but i can’t even begin to imagine what this must be like for the family.

too many trans children have died and too few people are talking about this

i cant bear to read too many articles about it considering this is my home, but theres also talk about nex being native. some sources say cherokee, some say choctaw, im not sure of the truth of these claims but knowing oklahoma i bet nex was native and that the news sources just didnt care enough to get the nation correct. there is a great possibility that we have seen another one of our two-spirit cousins taken from us before they even reached adulthood. transphobic violence, especially in oklahoma, often coincides with racist and anti-native violence.

this is also in the middle of a state-wide legislation from the governor to ban all diversity, equity, and inclusion departments/funding/staff from schools in oklahoma. i literally just got an email from the president of OU about how OU is complying with these bans this morning. things are not safe in oklahoma and they are only getting worse. please keep oklahoma trans people, especially trans children, in your hearts and if you know any personally please check in on them and let them know theyre not suffering alone

can you guys please reblog this version

@AWellBoiledMok on Cohost, if anyone wants to find me over there.

I'll still check here and reblog now and then, but unless some major changes happen it just doesn't feel great.

thought they needed a little reminder that they still have far more to lose if they double down on this stupidity. spread the word, it seems they're... very forgetful about this.

A small collection (feel free to add):

@staff You're not very subtle.

boost this shit and don’t spend a damn penny on any of their silly checkmarks or whatever until they do something about this

@staff

wow this post is more than half a year old...

The bullying had started in earnest at the beginning of the 2023 school year, a few months after Oklahoma governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill that required public school students to use bathrooms that matched the sex listed on their birth certificates.

A few weeks ago, on 7 February, the bullying allegedly erupted in violence when Nex suffered severe head injuries during a “physical altercation” at Owasso High School, according to the Owasso Police Department.

Sue Benedict told The Independent she was called to the school that day to find Nex badly beaten with bruises over their face and eyes, and with scratches on the back of their head.

Nex told her that they and another transgender student at Owasso High School had been in a fight with three older girls in a girls bathroom. Nex was knocked to the ground during the fight and hit their head on the floor, according to their mother.

Ms Benedict said she was furious that the school had failed to call an ambulance or the police. She said the school then informed her Nex was being suspended for two weeks.

She took Nex to the Bailey Medical Center in Owasso for treatment. They spoke to a police school resource officer at the medical facility and were discharged. That night, Nex went to bed with a sore head and eventually fell asleep while listening to music, Ms Benedict said.

On 8 February, Nex was getting ready to go to Tulsa with Ms Benedict for an appointment when they collapsed in the family living room. Ms Benedict called an ambulance, and EMT officers arrived to find Nex had stopped breathing. Nex was declared dead that evening in hospital.

You know, historically, one of the big reasons that centralised social media was able to eclipse self-hosted forums so readily is that people wanted to get away from the constant Damoclean peril of the local boy-king flipping his shit and going on a banning spree every time someone mildly criticised him. When folks wax nostalgic for Web 1.0, I'm reasonably certain this isn't what they mean!

(To be 100% clear, I'm not just referring to @predstrogen's blog getting deleted. The preponderance of evidence is that multiple trans women have had their blogs deleted and every image they've ever posted retroactively ToSed in the last twelve hours in direct response to making post criticising @predstrogen's lifetime ban, some of them apparently within minutes of having done so. There's no sequence of events to account for this which doesn't involve buddy literally sitting there watching his notifications with his finger on the ban button.)

tumblr's current ceo is really cementing his reputation here because when this site inevitably gets sold again everyones just going to start saying that the new owner took over after the last one died in a hammer car explosion