dadchuck is everything to me

i love everything about this troll stuff though

"i'm literally looking at one right now dude"

(via @rlyehtaxidermist)

it's time to put an end to da A-POCKY-LIPS!!!

officially revealing our newest game: GREAT GOD GROVE

suck up dialogue boxes n’ use them like items to befriend gods & humans alike, and save the whole dang world!! WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM

Zankyou No Terror / Terror In Resonance

Help Hamza get his family out of gaza.

They only need 700USD more!

It's also sold as "butterfish" (per wiki) and while the mislabelling is bad, it's very tasty. It's often garnished with thin fried shallot:

Even knowing it isn't tuna I'll still eat it. It's very rich and normally only served as two or three pieces- comfortably under the recommended guidelines.

Fish fraud is a widespread problem and it shouldn't be acceptable to mislabel escolar as tuna- but it's not a "you should never eat this" poison it's a "don't eat too much" poison. Like those diet gummi bears, or alcohol.

If it was as dangerous as the asker is implying there would be a public health crisis. Every local sushi place I'm aware of serves this fish with no issue.

Personally, I think "butterfish" is an acceptable name, since it hits the fatty flavour profile and implies that you shouldn't eat a huge serving.

that last sentence is so powerful considering everything that's going on

including recent events in which french senators are currently trying to pass a bill to criminalize critiqueing the state of israel/ speaking up against zionism: "those who insult the state of israel would face two years imprisonment and a fine of EUR 75,000 "

imagine making it illegal to speak up against a state that has bombed civilians with white phosphorus

imagine making it illegal to speak up against a state that is carrying out collective punishment against the entire population in Gaza, as we speak

this might soon be the world we live in

The french senators thing is just 16 islamophobic, opportunistic idiots banging their drums, to be clear. The law is going nowhere, and if it did, it would be unconstitutional. It didn’t even make the national news.

Further proof the right is a cesspool of racist wannabe authoritarians.

The bell

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

unfortunately, a lot of the userbase won't opt out. those who don't see this post, those who have posted to tumblr but don't anymore, users on older versions of the app who forget to opt out next time they're on desktop, etc. the point of making it opt-out is to take advantage of people who wouldn't have opted in but don't/can't opt out in time. automatically opting out people who have discouraged search crawling is a gesture that helps Tumblr look more kind, but from the fact that everyone else has to manually opt out, Tumblr is definitely not looking benevolent.

I wonder, will Tumblr/Automattic be selling images from deactivated blogs? I assume deactivated blogs can't opt out.

when will they start selling this data? Is it already too late to keep them from selling every image you've posted before you opted out?

and if they're especially malicious, I wonder if they could get away with saying "this image is from a blog that's opted out, but it was reblogged by a blog that hasn't opted out, so we're selling the image that's on that non-opted-out blog."

making users need to opt out to keep their images from being taken and sold is a shitty move that makes it clear Tumblr/Automattic don't respect our privacy, and @staff are really not giving us much info here to suggest otherwise.

ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

The bots are evolving

Oh boy, I can't wait to go to goncharov dot gonch dot rus dot com dot jp dot co dot uk dot io dot ca!

not feeling very hundred emoji flame emoji today

well I am so 💯🔥💯🔥

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

Everyone reblog! Spread the word so more and more artists learn that in addition to Glaze that coats art against ai scraping mimicry there's also an offensive tool now, able to skew and poison data pools.

Now poisoning will need many artists to nightshade their art and it's most important to get this ou to those the most at risk of being scraped. Reblog!

English added by me :)

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