Ok I've gotta ask

Cream no

But I have some lingering distrust steming from an April fools prank involving donuts and warm mayo

Eeveelutions 2.0!

Designed some dual-type secondary evolutions for eevee as a fun experiment 😘

*has the house to themselves for the first time in about a year* Oh yeah! We all know what that mean! *puts on a bangin' playlist*

*proceeds to clean the house*

Because something has to balance out my always alone self only being able to really clean when "threatened with" company

Also no witnesses.

Is it bad that I genuinely don't remember?

And not like it's been so long and so few

No no I remember reading like three or four series a year before I hit 3rd grade...

Or like would you count the Shel Silverstein poetry books as a series? I assume so if counting fairy tales

Can I just go with scholastic kids pulp fiction series?

Like there's a post on here somewhere talking about the fact that there was "the scholastic age"

Cuz I remember reading the Babysitters club (both original and little sister), Animorphs, Wayside school, magic tree House, and Goosebumps all at the same time plus all the American girl doll books...

Edit so to solve this conundrum I asked my mother and we just start listing all the different series that we could remember me reading as early as possible

And according to her

And thinking on it she's right

Most of the other ones above were bought for me, or I was enrolled in a monthly book club, or they were suggested to me by the librarian and I enjoyed them immensely (I'm still rereading the Animorph books)

but I remember being absolutely throw down obsessed with the Wishbone books

Both adaptations of classic literature and the books that were structured more like the episodes where they had the Wishbone framing story and then the classic literature starring Wishbone

i honestly cant believe the normal amount of wanting to be another gender is zero. like arent you sick of yours yet lol

people with cis mutuals rb this pleeeeaseee

Champagne - Mademoiselle Fell

- Do you remember that night, in Paris...?

Well not quite yet,

I had to keep working on the other half

WHAT? I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING.

Angelfire, geocities, aol chatrooms....

AI models can seemingly do it all: generate songs, photos, stories, and pictures of what your dog would look like as a medieval monarch. 

But all of that data and imagery is pulled from real humans — writers, artists, illustrators, photographers, and more — who have had their work compressed and funneled into the training minds of AI without compensation. 

Kelly McKernan is one of those artists. In 2023, they discovered that Midjourney, an AI image generation tool, had used their unique artistic style to create over twelve thousand images. 

“It was starting to look pretty accurate, a little infringe-y,” they told The New Yorker last year. “I can see my hand in this stuff, see how my work was analyzed and mixed up with some others’ to produce these images.” 

For years, leading AI companies like Midjourney and OpenAI, have enjoyed seemingly unfettered regulation, but a landmark court case could change that. 

On May 9, a California federal judge allowed ten artists to move forward with their allegations against Stability AI, Runway, DeviantArt, and Midjourney. This includes proceeding with discovery, which means the AI companies will be asked to turn over internal documents for review and allow witness examination. 

Lawyer-turned-content-creator Nate Hake took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to celebrate the milestone, saying that “discovery could help open the floodgates.” 

“This is absolutely huge because so far the legal playbook by the GenAI companies has been to hide what their models were trained on,” Hake explained...

“I’m so grateful for these women and our lawyers,” McKernan posted on X, above a picture of them embracing Ortiz and Andersen. “We’re making history together as the largest copyright lawsuit in history moves forward.” ...

The case is one of many AI copyright theft cases brought forward in the last year, but no other case has gotten this far into litigation. 

“I think having us artist plaintiffs visible in court was important,” McKernan wrote. “We’re the human creators fighting a Goliath of exploitative tech.”

“There are REAL people suffering the consequences of unethically built generative AI. We demand accountability, artist protections, and regulation.” 

-via GoodGoodGood, May 10, 2024

imagine accusing the us military of being too woke

Y'all Hedy Lemarr was so fucking smart and it's so unknown it's a crime check up on Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

It's currently (May '24) included with Netflix, Amazon, and PBS's website.

Okay. I gotta ask.

Obvs pls share to get more votes etc etc

I got mine done at Claire's once when I was a small child in the 90s.

I re-pierced them in high school with a sewing needle. Which is about when I learned I couldn't wear studs or they would get inflamed/infected*. One ear healed over the other didn't still have scarring that makes it look like both are pierced.

(*which I know is unrelated to the sewing needle because one is still pierced due to having switched to hooks and the rare times I have used studs in that same ear it has become very badly inflamed)

Been wearing one earring and hooks ever since.

making art is just like showering………can’t get up and do it, can’t stop when you’ve started. you want to crawl out of your skin if you don’t do it often enough. everything in the world is the exact same

So, I recently learned about the “say their names to save their lives” campaign on social media that has helped Iranians sentenced to die by the regime in the past.

I am now asking you guys for help with that again.

There is an Iranian Jew named Arvin Netanel ben Siona, whose execution date is set for this Saturday. The Iranian Jewish community have tried endlessly to pursue his release, but to no avail.

Please spread his name.

How 3x02 actually went down

I love this your brain decay was well spent