Alphinaud: You can't stop us, father!

Alisaie: We do what we want!

Fourchenault: I'm telling your mother

Both: W-wait!

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

SIKE IT'S

FUCK YEAHHHHHHH

head in my hands TUMBLR IM BEGGING YOU if you're eligible to vote in the united states please fucking vote for biden I KNOW HE FUCKING SUCKS but i stg if yall treat this like some kind of inspirational anime revolution where you're gonna change the world by voting third party the exact same thing that happened in 2016 is gonna happen again, remember we already did this in 2016 remember when we all tried to vote for bernie and it didn't fucking matter cuz IT TURNS OUT neither dems nor republicans actually give a shit about real democracy, which unfortunately means JUST voting for the person you earnestly believe in IS NOT ENOUGH TO CHANGE ANYTHING im so sorry elections are setup like this im so sorry our only options are wannabe hitler and genocide joe but these are LITERALLY our only 2 options. it fucking sucks! it sucks SO MUCH that the american people literally cannot vote for a third party alternative in a way that matters!!! it sucks that if you don't pick one of these 2 shitty options your vote means nothing!!!! but that's how shit is setup in our country (on purpose!) and not voting for biden (or not voting at all) is 100000% GOING TO MAKE EVERYTHING EVEN WORSE please IM BEGGING YALL please listen to your sad tired elders on this one i fucking hate joe biden but i promise he is unfortunately the best we we're allowed to do under the current setup I WISH I HAD SOMETHING MORE INSPIRATIONAL TO SAY im so sorry shit is so bleak but the stakes are higher than they've ever been pleasePLEASE do not fuck around with your vote please dont throw it away

Last time around trump literally thanked people for being stupid ("uneducated") and helping him win. Do not validate that fascist motherfucker a second time.

Thanks to centuries of Imperialism and helping set up places like Israel post WWII, we're stuck in a tangled web of obligations Biden has to work with. While also doing his old school quiet behind the scenes schtick--which he has done a lot, and it gets no mentions or is easily eaten by more flashy modern politics and dramatics, and so anything he has accomplished (and he has) gets overlooked. Israel hates dealing with Biden, as he puts caveats on the aid we're obligated to give--they want Trump back.

Cuz Trump doesn't understand the system, legalities, checks and balances, and thinks being president is equal to being a dictator. He will make it into his dictatorship. That is the end goal of MAGA, they have stated it bluntly. They are going to kill what democracy we have to set themselves in unchecked power.

I wish to God the Democrats had spines, that they understood the other side isn't playing the same old school honorable politics, that this isn't just about staying elected to their familiar jobs. It's literal life and death.

The GOP wants everyone who isn't them dead. It's that simple. And we have to stop them now and untangle decades of that nonsense here before we can actually meaningfully change and help the rest.

It sucks. It's a marathon, not a sprint. We have to level through this in increments, there's no single glorious resounding sweep of better options. It took a good 50-60 years for it to get to this point, and it mostly relied on the indolence and resignation of the majority ignoring local and state politics and avoiding presidential year elections when they "didn't like" either choice...and look where it's gotten us.

Not to mention:

Project 2025 is a plan to reshape the executive branch of the U.S. federal government in the event of a Republican victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election.[2][3] Established in 2022, the project seeks to recruit tens of thousands of conservatives to Washington, D.C., to replace existing federal civil service workers it characterizes as the "deep state", to further the objectives of the next Republican president.[4] Although participants in the project cannot promote a specific presidential candidate, many have close ties to Donald Trump and the Trump 2024 presidential campaign.[5]  - More on Wikipedia

head in my hands TUMBLR IM BEGGING YOU if you're eligible to vote in the united states please fucking vote for biden I KNOW HE FUCKING SUCKS but i stg if yall treat this like some kind of inspirational anime revolution where you're gonna change the world by voting third party the exact same thing that happened in 2016 is gonna happen again, remember we already did this in 2016 remember when we all tried to vote for bernie and it didn't fucking matter cuz IT TURNS OUT neither dems nor republicans actually give a shit about real democracy, which unfortunately means JUST voting for the person you earnestly believe in IS NOT ENOUGH TO CHANGE ANYTHING im so sorry elections are setup like this im so sorry our only options are wannabe hitler and genocide joe but these are LITERALLY our only 2 options. it fucking sucks! it sucks SO MUCH that the american people literally cannot vote for a third party alternative in a way that matters!!! it sucks that if you don't pick one of these 2 shitty options your vote means nothing!!!! but that's how shit is setup in our country (on purpose!) and not voting for biden (or not voting at all) is 100000% GOING TO MAKE EVERYTHING EVEN WORSE please IM BEGGING YALL please listen to your sad tired elders on this one i fucking hate joe biden but i promise he is unfortunately the best we we're allowed to do under the current setup I WISH I HAD SOMETHING MORE INSPIRATIONAL TO SAY im so sorry shit is so bleak but the stakes are higher than they've ever been pleasePLEASE do not fuck around with your vote please dont throw it away

So, uh... Magni from God of War 2018, huh...

Oh you can't hide this the tags, come on now

love reading late 90s/early 2000s scholarship on the potential of the internet. "hey we shouldn't let venture capitalists get in on this" And Then They Did

this was published in 2001

Just so everybody knows, the mirror is actually more reliable than the camera. Even though people say “the camera never lies”, it distorts your photographs a little bit. It has to turn a 3d image (you in real life) to a 2d image (a photograph) and consequently skews the proportions a little bit.

Also, “photogenic” is a real thing. Certain faces photograph well and others don’t. It’s all down the angles, proportions and size of your features.

Have you ever seen someone stunning who looks great in professional photographs and not in candids? Yeah, that’s because there’s a huge difference between a professional and an amateur. Professionals know how to minimise the issues cameras have. Lighting, angles and even the distance you are away from the camera plays a part (the amount of distortion varies depending on how close you are).

TL;DR if you think you look great in the mirror but not in the photo, trust the mirror. You look great!

NOT ONLY THAT, but when you look in a mirror, you’re seeing your face in motion, how others would see it. In a photograph, you’re still, and it can make small flaws and the like seem a lot more prominent, despite them being quite minuscule in person.

Also! Also, when you see yourself in the mirror you are looking at you face reverse of how a camera pics it up. No face is perfectly symmetrical so you get so used to seeing a mirrored version of your face that when it’s flipped in a picture you subconsciously notice the tiny differences in your face and thus you think you don’t look right.

I have never felt so relieved and beautiful thank you guys

Also a huge factor is the focal length of your camera and your distance to the camera. There is a reason most fashion photographers tend to use a 85mm lens. Around there is where we’ve decided it makes for the most flattering image in most cases.

Rare photo from early days of the pit. This gives a good idea of how small the operations were back in the early 1970s, about 3 months after the pit was “discovered”. In this aerial photo, you can see the natural entry orifice (pre-excavation), a temporary electric lift tower, as well as a utility trunk connecting the surface power and ventilation plant to the basecamp down in the pit. There’s also a hydraulic dredging crane that was used to “bite” away at some of the flesh down in the pit to enlarge the working area and remove material.

It would be unrecognizable only a few months later as paved roads and a half dozen permanent buildings were constructed, transforming this modest camp into a fully industrial mining and excavation site.

why the fuck is it called the xbox 360 what does 360 mean???????????????????

when u see it u turn 360 degrees and walk away

turning 360 degrees would face you right back to the xbox you dipshit

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Please do not let debt collectors play in your face.

I am super busy so I honestly don’t even know if I should be taking the time to write this, but hopefully this will help those of you who may find yourself in a similar situation.

Earlier this year I received a letter of notice from a debt collector stating that they had acquired a debt supposedly belonging to me and that, per law, I have 30 days to dispute the debt. I immediately drafted a letter and sent it to both disputing the debt and request validation of the debt as well as possible settlement arrangements had they actually been able to validate said debt

I sent this letter via certified mail. Always certified mail.

About a week after the 30 day period for them to respond expired, I received a Phone call very specifically crafted in a way to invoke urgency and panic and suggest legal action. So, naturally, I called this number only to discover this was a different company that had only just recently acquired said supposed debt. I reiterated to them that I was disputing this debt and required validation in writing.

The initial conversation went smoothly, they then called me back the next day and became aggressive. They accused me of lying and did everything under the sun to try and trick me into validating this debt as mine so that they would not have to legally send me that validation. I, knowing my rights, insisted that I was disputing the debt and that they were required to send me validation despite them claiming that they were not and that they already had and many other number of lies. I refused to continue the conversation until someone had sent me validation to which they continually responded that they would be forwarding this to their legal department and blah blah blah blah blah.

Surprise surprise, I get a phone call today from yet another company, this one claiming to be in the process of forwarding my account to the county clerks office. That was an immediate red flag as the county clerk does not handle debt disputes. They would have to hire a lawyer in my state to handle this case. I asked what company this was as they had not stated initially, and when they told me I realized this was now another company who had purchased said alleged debt and we’re trying to collect on it. this one outright illegally threatening to take me to court knowing they weren’t.

Beyond that, he tried to lie to me and tell me that a debt validation was not what I thought it was and that a validation was actually just a notice that they had purchased a debt so when I received a letter stating that they had purchased this debt that would be a validation.

That is not true! Debt companies are legally required to send you notice of an allegedly acquired debt in writing and you have 30 days to dispute and request that validation. The company then has 30 days themselves to respond and validate your debt or the debt is forfeit. This man tried to lie to me and tell me that a notice was the same thing as a dead validation in order to trick me into paying a debt that he cannot validate that I am actively disputing.

This is now the fourth company that has attempted to collect on a debt they cannot validate. They know they cannot validate this debt and instead have relied on trying to trick me into paying it. These tactics would absolutely work if I did not have a sales background and or know my rights.

And this ladies and gentlemen is why you always always always dispute a debt. The last debt I disputed was immediately pulled from collections and that allowed me to get back in contact with the original creditor and work out a payment plan so that it would never hit my credit and keep my account with them current. This debt is invalid and therefore they cannot hit my credit with it nor can I collect on it or I will sue them.

If you guys have any questions about dealing with that collectors please ask me.

I'm not surprised they gave you the long ass run around on this.

For anyone that has a debt sold to a Collections Agency do exactly what OP did and request debt validation (Google-able). Most of the time, the Original company you owed debt to did not give them your Social Security Number or your date of birth; just a good phone number and address. In order to be held legally responsible for it and to be on your credit score, they need your SSN or DOB to prove it's yours.

Usually, they're initial call will say "Hey so before we can discuss your debt of $Xxxx, we need you to verify your SSN and DOB." They're lying. That means they want you to confirm it so they can legally pin that debt to you. If you send a Debt Validation letter VIA CERTIFIED MAIL, that Collections Agency has 30 days to prove you owe the debt and that it does in fact tie to you. Since in most cases they can't, they'll send a letter saying "We don't have the necessary information to collect on this debt. It is now null and void." Send copies of that to the credit bureaus, and they wipe it from your credit report.*

With OP, they did the shadiest thing possible by constantly re-selling the debt, thus starting over that 30 day response period.

Never pay a debt unless you're certain that you owe it. Especially if it's for a deceased relative. Debt collection companies are especially predatory during the grieving period asking you to "Pay down the debt" or "Clear their good name". Unless you (co)signed, don't give them anything. The debt will get written off on their taxes. If you do pay, you're locked in on that debt. You basically showed "willingness and ability to pay" which is all they need.

*This is NOT a "get out of debt free" maneuver. If the original creditor has ANY reason to believe you may try wiggling out of the debt, they will happily validate the debt before selling it to a Collection Agency. They'll more than likely notify the Credit Bureaus too. Debt Validation methods should only be used when a debt is

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