So a free tool called GLAZE has been developed that allows artists to cloak their artwork so it can't be mimicked by AI art tools.

AI art bros are big mad about it.

Seeing as Twitter is gonna legally steal your work now, please use glaze to protect what you make.

Guys did you hear about Nightshade?

Using both Glaze and Nightshade would corrupt the generation of pictures mimicking artist AND mess with the AI's recognition of what everything is. Like it would generate a dog when you ask for a cat.

And it would be hell for AI bros to remove the cloaked pictures from their database ʕ 👀人ʔ

me: this is a background character who's in one scene, has two lines, and is completely irrelevant to the rest of the story. i am going to stop obsessing over what to name him and use the random name generator on behindthename.com. i am going to accept the first thing it gives me and move the fuck on.

behindthename.com:

Please don't ask me for relationship advice unless you are prepared to receive some truly upsetting information because some people are ready for the "He's exhibiting the literal textbook signs of a psychological abuser and you need to get away from him before he successfully cuts you off from your support network" talk and some people aren't

FOR WHOEVER NEEDS A REMINDER:

This applies to ALL relationships btw

Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!

what?

*holds up a sign that says “Shout out to people with auditory processing disorder!!!”*

*before the sign is fully up* Oh! Thank you for the support!!!

discord is going to roll out a new system of usernames which means you will have to have a username which has to be completely unique from any other username. which means a LOT of people are going to have to choose a new username.

if you, like me and many other people, hate this idea i suggest submitting a request form:

under "what can we help you with?" choose "help & support" and then when it takes you to the form, under "type of question?" choose "feedback/new feature request"

give them feedback. let them know their userbase doesn't want this.

Surely this won't lead to more issues with accounts getting hijacked, or impersonations, or username hoarding, or getting messages from randos, or etc etc etc . . .

really hoping they don't go through with this, I think I'll leave feedback

Fellas if you do write a report (in the Help and Support category -> Feedback) you have to check your email and respond to the automated message you receive so that your report actually sends.

After you do so, you will most likely receive something similar to this

Tear their reasoning down. Let them know that this decision is bullshit. But write actually well-worded arguments, look into what complications this update could lead to and write a comprehensive comment for the off chance that they actually read these. Emphasize money, point out that people will abuse the unique names system to get rich and that the update will lead to mass Nitro cancellations and a wave of dissatisfied users leaving! Emphasize that they will lose profits because of this! But structure your responses and do not spam.

whoever modeled/animated miku’s dance moves has my undying respect

SHE DID THAT ALL BY HERSELF. NO MOCAP. NO ANIMATORS. JUST MIKU!

why miku giving hands

Moments that changed the timeline

society lost its way when we stopped drawing our ships in the pose from the vocaloid song "magnet"

why don't we do this anymore

Man stops to rescue kitten, gets ambushed by platoon. 

(Source)

They chose him

#this wonderful man adopted 3 of the kittens and found homes for all the others! #among the ones he kept is the first kitten who flagged him down… named scout of course

IMPORTANT addition from @orcinus-veterinarius!

chipped

Man, this is such a perfect analogy. “Chipped”… Just damaged enough for it to show at times, but not nearly broken enough to warrant fixing. And so often does the chipped cup turn itself to show its undamaged side.

"Hur hur we went to a superspreader party in 2023...isn't that funny? I thought covid was over but then we all got sick with covid and sent all our kids to school where their teachers tried to run away from them lolZ. Oh also I'm not going to reflect on the fact that I went to the gym and likely spread more covid to other people before I knew I got the virus.

And the birthday host kept coming up with gifs as the count of covid positive people who got it at the party kept going up! Hilarious!

Anyway wash your hands and stay home if you have symptoms I guess, but of course I'm not going to mention WEARING A MASK ever."

-Jay Hanna

JFC

"The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has confirmed the Covid outbreak on the Neurosurgery Ward and said that it is doing all that it can to ensure the safety of patients."

Everything EXCEPT WEARING MASKS! What in the eugenics is this crap?

EXCLUSIVE: 'We need to do better' - over 14,000 people died with Covid after catching it in hospital

Over 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital - these were all people who had attended for another reason, be it surgery, cancer treatment, or following an accident

By Kieren Williams, March 16, 2023

"More than 14,000 people in England and Wales died with Covid after catching the virus in hospital.

According to official NHS data in England and Wales, 14,047 Brits died in hospital after they caught the virus following admission, whilst at least 69,337 people caught the virus only after having been admitted.

The data, obtained by the Mirror via FOI, shows the extent to which the virus ran rampant in hospitals throughout the pandemic, claiming lives.

Both figures are the minimum and the reality is likely much higher due to a number of trusts not responding to the FOI or not recording the data.

Data covering from March 2020 until August 2022 at the latest, 94 NHS trusts out of 209 responded to the FOI which showed how deaths cause by hospital acquired Covid surged during winter as hospitals filled up with patients.

The 14,047 people had all gone to hospital for something other than Covid and tested negative on admission."

People who refused to believe covid exists are bad enough but people who know it exists and still think it's a joke to spread it around just actually deserve to be dead, like morally I would endorse them getting splattered by a truck.

One time we had this guy covering a shift at the coffee shop and it somehow came out over the course of regular small talk with us that he was Armenian. He got this really tired distant look in his eyes and said "yeah, you know what people always think about when they find out." Everyone nods and I figure we're all on the same page so it doesn't need to be said, and I'm about to move on when someone pipes up "the Kardashians!" He sighs and nods, and I, unable to help myself go "oh" and then very quietly "I thought we were talking about the Armenian genocide."

Everyone is stunned for a moment, except for the guy who suddenly lights up and says, in a remarkably delighted tone of voice: "that's the first time anyone has ever mentioned the Armenian genocide!"

I actually had no idea the Kadashians were Armenian.

Hand study gao hang 5x6 feet Acrylic on raw canvas 2023

this one of those pieces where I look at it and think “oh that’s funny, i’ll reblog,” and then look at the art medium and lose my mind

Please please please reblog this and put in the tags your music recommendations. I’m not talking about big artists and bands either— what’s a niche group, band, or artist that you can’t get enough of? What song or album do you enjoy the most? Why?

I have never in my life had a kitten react this negatively to swaddling. Fully feral 8 week olds tolerate it better than this 10 day old kitten. Warning: he is LOUD and sounds like he's being tortured.

You can imagine how much fun tube feeding him is right now....

This is the same baby that was growling at me so it appears to be a native personality thing. He's going to be a delightful adult cat at the vet.... Maybe I should change his name to "eternal gabapentin"

wahwah

that me