Seattle Public Library is doing this awesome program called Books Unbanned that allows teens and young adults (ages 13-26) access to their collection of e-books and e-audiobooks from anywhere in the USA. All you need to do is fill out a simple form and you get their Books Unbanned card. Please share this information far and wide. I know they're not the only ones to have done this, but the more the merrier!
Halloween cake from 2022. took like 2.5 hours to make and the only pics I've got are shit quality because I finished at 0330 and felt like death. all the little color variations (and several of the injury details) are lost to poor quality camera and lighting ( ཀ ʖ̯ ཀ)
reblog to give warm bread to your mutuals
today I make the discovery that Beowulf is actually just the worlds first WWE storyline
wood, gel pen ink, sharpie, only the white is spray paint. it lives eternally in a state of almost done cause wouldn't you know it, sharpie bleeds like a motherfucker
made these out of wood and gel pen ink, for the most part. only the white on the Weaversong is actual spray paint. not great, but could be a lot worse!
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.
This has been making the rounds, and it's great, and I wanted to mention a thought I had:
Glaze is not "poisoning the data set." The data set is "art what people post on the internet" and Glaze is part of that, along with animated gifs, patchwork mosaic pictures, badly-photoshopped memes, and so on. Putting a filter on artwork before publishing it is not new - and yet nobody is complaining about "this photo was taken in the daytime but you put a blue filter on it to look like night! How dare!"
Now, if the AI art folks had asked permission to use an archive that sad "Best Fantasy Book Cover Settings," and then the artists started using Glaze, the AI pushers might have a point. What the AI generates based on the pictures won't look like fantasy book cover settings; what they agreed to and what they received were different.
But if they're just scraping deviant and tumblr and individual art sites... the data isn't "poisoned" because it contains data not visible to the human eye. If the artists all start using steganography to put hidden messages in the pictures, like in The Martian... that is not poisoning anyone's data. Not the artist's fault if the data includes parts you didn't notice at first view.
The AI bots were not promised access to artwork that would look similar to the original after the AI bot analyzed it. No data is being poisoned; it's just changed to adapt to a new environment.
CONGRATS AI BOTS! You have spawned your very own Human Consensus Construct that is reacting to changes in the community! The AI bots are being treated like people - like hostile or at least annoying people - and communities are taking the kind of actions they always take against unwanted encroachment.
They make their resources harder to access. In this case, the resources aren't "art" which is sticking around but "pictures that both machines and humans recognize as matching a particular set of keywords."
And no. They weren't promised machine-readable art that could be twisted around into slightly different pics that humans would still recognize.
If anyone says the "data is being poisoned" ask them which data pool they were talking about. Because "art posted on the internet" hasn't gone anywhere. I still see plenty of it.
Darkness as a corrupting horror: oh cool
Blinding light as a corrupting horror: OOOOOOGGGGGHOODSHITOOHOOHOOHOOHEHEHE
THE SUN THE SUN THESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUNTHESUN
I just want to see something that's so numinously beautiful that I'm unable to look away and it burns out my eyes and central nervous system and uses my body as a meat puppet.
*lands on your shoulder like a tiny insect* embezzlement probably isn't even that hard. i bet you could do it and never get caught
starting to think people who get straight lines are either wizards or serial killers
ok but for real I am this close to putting “special interest” and “hyperfixation” on the shelf of “words the internet cannot use until they know what they actually mean” because I think everyone has somehow forgotten that ppl w autism / adhd can, in fact, sometimes just have normal interests also
i see a lot of posts like “it’s okay to have special interests that you don’t know a lot about/can’t infodump about!” and like yeah this can be true! one of my longest running sp/ins is something I don’t rly infodump about or retain information about because although I frequently research it and consume content related to it I just don’t retain that info for whatever reason. and people with collection related sp/ins exist who focus on collecting a category of items (I’ve known ppl who did this with stuffed animals or bottle caps, for example) or would rather collect merch for a media or band or what not than focus on the source material. these are ways special interests manifest! that’s normal! but then people take it way too far in that direction and I literally saw a reply on one of these posts that said something like “yeah one of my special interests is [show] and I don’t really have any urge to find out anything more about it I just like watching it sometimes” and like!! hey!! that’s an interest!! you just have a regular interest! you found a show you like and that’s great! but that is just objectively not what a special interest is!
the same sentiment honestly goes double for hyperfixations because hyperfixation requires a degree of intense focus on something for a period of time because that is by definition what a hyperfixation is so if you’re not. focused on or at all actually invested in an interest that’s just. Not a hyperfixation. you just found a thing you like. and that’s okay and great for you! just call it that!
tl;dr not everything an autistic person likes is a special interest and not everything a person w ADHD likes is a hyperfixation. sometimes neurodivergent ppl just Have Interests. and that is fine and normal we just need to learn what terms mean before we call anything we like ever a special interest please
i think it’s important to be able to identify unpathologized feelings of interest and excitement before pathologizing feelings as hyperfixation, special interest, hypomania, etc. your diagnoses/etc can of course change the way those are felt, but you at least need to have an idea of what the unpathologized one looks like or you’ll end up pathologizing all of your feelings. and that can mean feeling invalidated when your feelings aren’t found in the DSM or tumblr’s headcanon of it, or even therapizing yourself out of normal, healthy emotions
Whenever Alex visits Dana in her new apartment, he prefers to use the front door as little as possible.
Using the door means going inside the apartment building. Which means passing Ken The Doorman.
Who wants to make small talk whenever Alex comes through.
Alex prefers to simply climb the building from the outside, and tap on Dana's window to be let in.
She, of course, hates this habit, and has taken to keeping a squirt bottle by the window to dissuade him (this following the 'just ignore him' solution that resulted in one (1) broken window and an Alex who wasn't quite sure why what he did upset her so much).
lmao this silent hill-ass lookin weather
my ass boutta get murdered by a lying figure or something
every so often I'm reminded that I exist and it's the worst thing that's ever happened to me. hate it
absolutely ridiculous how good this is, hot damn
SHE DID THAT ALL BY HERSELF. NO MOCAP. NO ANIMATORS. JUST MIKU!
why miku giving hands
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