In Honkai Star Rail v1.6, you don't pull for Dr. Ratio. Dr. Ratio pulls for you.

“dr ratio is a twink!”

… y’all know that there’s different gay subcultures, right? because he’s definitely not a twink, not even a twunk. he’s a muscle gay or a jock or a hunk.

a twink couldn’t rock your shit and hospitalize you with a book and a single piece of chalk.

....................... WHERE DOES ANYONE SEE A TWINK ON THIS MAN.

DOES NO ONE SEE HIS LEFT ARM????

I mean...

How can ANYONE look at that muscle definition and go "That's a twink".

Even his torso is way too large to be deemed twinky. Or even TWUNK, for that matter.

This man has the brains AND the brawns.

He's a Hunk with braincells.

pro-AI in the sense of "they taught a bread scanning computer to recognize cancer cells" etc etc

against AI in the sense of "we stole artwork from hundreds to thousands of artists, didn't credit them and didn't financially compensate them"

pro-AI in the sense of "use it for jobs that are near impossible or highly taxing of humans"

against AI in the sense of "use it to replace human creativity in fields built on human creativity"

Honkai: Star Rail | Version 2.0 Music Video — "WHITE NIGHT"

Version: English | Chinese

Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

Art thieves already hate it:

Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/ and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222

As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

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A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:

The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)

It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).

Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).

It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.

The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).

It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)

It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)

IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).

Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)

The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)

When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.

Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)

The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles

From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)

You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash

Crab Day!!!

Here on Tumblr!!

Buy crabs!

As we now know, Tumblr is $30 million dollars in debt. Oops. Tumblr has announced some major (and unpopular) changes to the site in their attempt to get back above water. The alternative is that Tumblr ceases to exist. But maybe we can change that...

There are 327 million unique tumblr visits per month, and almost 500 million active accounts. If 10 million unique users (or less, if we bought more than one) bought or gifted Crabs from the Tumblr store, we could knock out Tumblr's debt easily. Buy crabs!

July 29, 2023 is Crab Day, running through August 5 (for anyone who can't log on that day) as Crab Week!

Everyone!! If you truly can't afford to participate with a $3 crab, (or other item from the shop) post crab memes!

Time for Tumblr users to rise again and surprise everyone...

Please I need their next financial report to have a header that says 'Crab day'

And I know some people here don't like Tumblr very much and to them I say: still y'all are here. Which means there is some reason for you to stick around, and by extension some reason for you to not want Tumblr to go under. And if y'all don't want this to be exchanged for support to the latest changes, here's a thought: Tumblr is not blind to where and whom revenue comes from. Y'all don't like it when companies act in ways they know the community won't like because they feel like they can afford to lose good will, right? What would this be if not the ultimate demolition of that idea? How harder can you prove a company that whether they stay afloat hinges entirely on whether we like them?

im bored someone give me their favorite sskk headcanon

Gin and Atsushi becoming besties after they met but nobody knows, exchanging phone numbers with the pretense of telling each other how is Akutagawa after missions but then sending memes, pics of stray cats (and dogs), gossiping and going to lunch together and everyone at the ADA it's like omg Atsushi has girlfriend but in reality both are very much gay and suffer from Akutagawa syndrome (He makes them mad, happy, worried, etc)

akutagawa not knowing jsfkjsd

they always knows what he needs or what he didn't do and he's starting to wonder if he's that easy to read or theyre just psychic

ada: omg atsushi has a gf

atsushi, who actively wants his supposed "gf"'s older brother: *fish eye*

The fish eye kajshsjssk

Atsushi/Gin starts to use the power of knowledge provided by the other to get Akutagawa to think that he is, in fact, to easy to read (he is not)

Gin: *spoiling the book Akutagawa is reading even tho Akutagawa never shows her which books was it

Atsushi: *always ordering his favorite food or beverage when eating after a mission

Akutagawa: *gets very paranoid

akutagawa when atsushi knows everything about him: am i- am i being stalked

akutagawa when gin also knows things he didnt tell her: AM I PREDICTABLE ?????????

yeah he has a whole break down

Akutagawa having a whole identity crisis because of it, changing slowly to try and stop being predictable and ending being a more soft version of himself

Atsushi: I think we broke your brother

Gin: wym

Atsushi: I fucked up our mission and he hasn't threatened me to death

Gin: ...

Gin: shit

omg yesss

also consider akutagawa just being completely different and atsushi regretting everything cuz he misses himmm

but akutagawa being a softer version is really dangerous for atsushi ,, he's a gone little man after all

i wonder what the ada’s reaction would be when they find out

ada: ohm atsushi has a gf!!

atsushi: oh no i’m actually gay for her brother

dazai, who pieces everything together: oh. oh my god.

ranpo who knew from the beginning: 

ada keeps on hinting that atsushi should tell them about the thing but atsushi genuinely has no clue wtf theyre talking about so they just confront him

and then atsushi has to awkwardly explain that he's in love w/ her brother

I'm absolutely losing my mind over how everyone is just screaming about how sskk this episode was despite sskk not having interacted at all. And still, they're right. It's about Atsushi praying someone comes to help him and his unconscious telling him there's only one person he could be with in that moment and it's Akutagawa always being in the area to make sure Atsushi is okay and it's their lives being so intrinsically and inseparably connected to the point one can't exist without the other, like they only make sense as part of a whole. What about you how are you doing

There's only one thing the anime is allowed to cut out from chapters 84-88 and it's Akutagawa's death. And then sskk live happily ever after end of story goodnight

Six days left to all our hearts being wrecked :)

fic where 18 yrs old dazai meets 14 yrs old atsushi (right after leaving the mafia ig) and w/o thinking takes him with him and they spend the two years on the run together (dazai becuz anytime he tries to abandon the orphan he picked up w/o thought oda flashes into his mind and ultimately he grows to care for him) (atsushi becuz the weird bandage guy pinkie promised he could ride on one of those trains he's seen in books)

anyway

dazai and atsushi dont look alike or have the same name so the ada picks up they arent related by blood real quick

anytime anyone asks how they met, they honestly answer "i/dazai kidnapped him/me" but everyone thinks its a joke

atsushi wins dazai over gradually, like small moments, small moments of kindness shown for dazai, small moments of seeing atsushi's real non-trauma made personality seeping through , he doesn't even realize it until it hits all at once how much he cares for atsushi

atsushi on the other hand was sold because dazai could make him laugh

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also sskk where atsushi takes his bf to meet his brother and akutagawa and dazai do the spiderman meme

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also dazai finds out atsushi's ability becuz at some point he comes to their hideout or whatever and a giant tiger is sitting there and before he can even panic it happily jumps at him and boom atsushi

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in this particular au, dazai lets atsushi doodle anywhere like dazai's bandages and his books becuz its better than having to actually engage with the child and eventually gets atsushi an actual sketchbook and the two spend their time drawing, atsushi's sketches get better dazai's get worse but atsushi sometimes thinks its becuz dazai's silly and scary sketches make him laugh

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there has to be a scene where someone asks atsushi what he's doing here, after dazai's joined the ada, and atsushi's like "im here w/ my brother" and looks at dazai, sees him poorly flirting w/ kunikida and irritating him and gets so much second hand embarrassment he points at ranpo instead

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atsushi knows dazai was in the mafia but he thinks double black was just dazai's cringy ship name for his ex boyfriend

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okay thats all i can think of now ill add more maybe

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard to get rid of it!

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

Where do I copy-paste these to? "My filters"? "My Rules"?

'my filters'! if you look closely you'll notice the format is different between the two pages. the (website)(##)(additional text) format goes in filters

soooo.

fuck discord.

Turn these off NOW. If you wait they can use whatever you've said or shared with your friends on there until whenever you turn it off, even after you turn it off.

Turn them off and tell Discord to get their head out of their arse and go fuck themselves.

“it’s weird for queer minors to be friends with queer adults” oh my god. ohhh my god.

intergenerational community support, especially in a community that is split so much age wise as the queer community, is immensely fucking important. get to know older queers and younger queers. this is how communities frazzle out and die to infighting.

the hypothetical queer adult that people are mad over in the post this is refrencing is 35 years old. only 35.

its weird for any minors to be friends with any adults, queer or not. There should be no reason why unrelated adults or minors should be making close relationships in any sense outside of professional ones. I understand wanting education, but they can be taught when they are adults as well.

is this a joke.

That commenter seems to forget that children are human beings too

Has this person never been involved in hobbies or politics or religion or the arts or any environment that normal people interact in?

I think part of the problem is thinking there’s only one kind of friendship. The friendship I form with a kid is going to look different than a friendship I have with someone my own age or friendship with someone significantly older than me. But that doesn’t mean it’s not friendship. I mean, being kind to each other, talking about similar interests, giving each other support and advice when needed— these are good things, and there may be another type of relationship you could term this, but I think friendship works just as well.

Unless you’re the type of person who thinks that friends will inevitably take advantage of each other, or that a friendship always has potential to turn into a relationship. Because those are the circumstances where you would need to watch out with an adult becoming friends with a kid.  But just because those bad apples exist, doesn’t mean you should cut down all the apple trees. 

I think they’re the type of person who thinks all adults are looking to take (sexual) advantage of any person younger than they are, and can literally not fathom the concept of a community made up of people across all ages interacting with each other as being healthy, despite that being the standard way of living throughout pretty much all cultures throughout all of history. They’re really going to have problems when they eventually graduate into the working world and have no idea how to socialize with most of the people around them.

Never mind that, you know, if a queer kid's parents kick them out for being queer, it's probably good if they have SOME other safe adults in their lives who might have, like, a couch they can crash on?

My adult friends were the ones who took me out to lunch when my dad died and told me they’d been there too, and what it was like. They mentored me in math and volunteer work and my job. One drove me to synagogue every week and added me to her family plan. They have life experience that no one my age could dream about—my tap teacher was even in the original Broadway cast of Hello, Dolly! I absolutely love my friends who are my age, but they’ve never asked me to help them name a hurricane.

I’ve only felt unsafe with adults a few times in my life, and I could see the danger signs BECAUSE I had much experience with good adults. Having adult friends throughout my childhood helped me learn how to be a good adult, too.

Knowing different kinds of people helps you grow and understand who you want to be. If I didn’t have so many good influences from my (adult) friends, I might have turned out a very different person. I’m forever grateful to them.

Youth having positive relationships with non related adults is literally known to be a major positive life influence and factors. That’s why there are literally programs for adults to VOLUNTARILY COMMIT to being a friend to an adolescent - mentors are also friends.

Vergil, Oh Vergil.