The computer used to do something very basic & helpful and now it doesn’t. I’m gonna complain
I understand the point of this and yes it is awful that it dosent just do that anymore. In the event you are willing to take the extra steps (and use ublock) here’s this. On firefox it was basically a 1 click install, it’s not perfect but it helps.
Since the whole thing with NaNoWriMo has gone down, I’ve noticed that one of their former sponsors, Ellipsus, has cut contact with NaNoWriMo because they do not support their stance on AI; I didn’t know what Ellipsus was, but upon further research I’ve found that they are a writing platform that works a lot like Google Docs and Microsoft Word, only with a heavier leaning on the story-writing aspect and connecting with other writers - and they also completely denounce any use of AI, both in the writing process itself and in the use of their platform. I really appreciate that.
Since this is the case (and since I’ve noticed Google has begun implementing more AI into their software), I’ve decided to give Ellipsus a try to see if it’s a good alternative to Google Docs (my main writing platform). It’s completely free and so far, I’ve found it simple to use (although it is pretty minimal in its features), and I really like the look of it.
I figured I’d spread the word about this platform in case any of you writers would want to give it a try, and if you do, let me know how you like it!
For those not in the know, this is one of the Amanita mushrooms referred to as a Destroying Angel. Never, ever, ever, ever forage with an app. Especially for mushrooms.
“Let’s say you’ve got horsepower and bandwidth to burn, and just want to see these AI models burn. Nepenthes has what you need … In short, let them suck down as much bullshit as they have diskspace for and choke on it.” // “It’s also sort of an art work, just me unleashing shear unadulterated rage at how things are going. I was just sick and tired of how the internet is evolving into a money extraction panopticon, how the world as a whole is slipping into fascism and oligarchs are calling all the shots - and it’s gotten bad enough we can’t boycott or vote our way out, we have to start causing real pain to those above for any change to occur.”
I wish there was a way to completely OPT OUT of AI. Like you could set your ENTIRE Internet browser to NOT shove it down your throat.
When social media was getting big, you could just NOT get a Facebook or a Twitter. It was simple as that. You can’t do that with AI.
Trying to find a job? It goes straight to an AI filter. Trying to look at art? Here’s 100+ ai shit. Trying to look up who was in what movie from the 1980s? GOOGLE GEMINI IS HERE WITH THE COMPLETELY WRONG ANSWER!
Someone PLEASE create a way to allow people to get AI the FUCK OUT of our lives if we DO NOT WANT IT!
STOP USING GOOGLE GODDAMMIT.
ALL OF IT.
STOP USING CHROME, CHROME-BASED PRODUCTS, AND, OF COURSE, EDGE.
Search engine: duckduckgo.com
Browser: firefox -> then search the add-ons and trick it out with every blocker on the planet.
We need to more tightly scope what we use the term “AI” (Artificial Intelligence) for.
In my opinion, and that of anyone who’s seen the hallucinations that pop up when you try to search for something or get customer support, there is no such thing as an Artificially Intelligent being, as of now. Humanity still has not invented such a thing.
Marketing has managed to widen what the term is used for so much that they had to invent an all new term, AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) to cover only what was once just called AI.
I think we need to return to the good old days when only the type of “AI” typically depicted in sci-fi media was called AI and not any of the basic automation that we have already had for over a decade that they decided to rebrand to get on the hype train.
By allowing the term AI to be applied to anything and everything we are helping grifters like Sam Altman to cover up the nature of the fraudulent house of cards that this whole craze is.
“We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office. Please stay tuned!”
It’s Vocaloid. They used software to make the song, same as we’ve been using software to make music at home for over two and a half decades. Some modern programs for doing this let you tell the software what to sing, and the vocals are made from a voice bank sourced from paid artists who signed up to make the voice bank because they wanted to. It’s not fucking. Autogenerated by chatgpt or something.
I’m pointing this out because “ai” means like sixteen different things and these days if you say something is AI everyone assumes it’s autogenerated dross created in the least ethical way they can think of. In this case, it just means they made a cool animation and wrote a cool song and happened to use a voice synthesiser for the song.
honestly thank you for this because i had not unmuted, i just thought this was an annotated chess demo that went hard
I just watched this on mute and it’s hilarious because without the song there is absolutely no context for why the visuals go that hard
not saying artists are oppressed but this is genuinely what this post feels like. to me.
like this idea that being an artist is like. a super respectable profession that people admire and see as the backbone to society only makes sense if you are exclusively talking to other artists, because most people just do not give a shit about artists as a profession or like. at all. like i can’t be the only one who grew up being told that “being an artist isn’t a REAL job” and that saying “i want to be an artist” is like saying “yeah i enjoying not being able to afford food while i try to sell my paintings that nobody wants on the streets”
This is probably my favorite poem, and a couple of years back, I illustrated it through a series of portraits featuring women from biblical stories, folklore, and mythology. I wanted to revisit the poem and create something that was more simple and focused on the titular heroine.
I don’t like to get involved in online discourse. People are allowed to have their own opinions and I’m not going to waste my time in this life trying to sway people’s opinions to my own. However, I will say this. Unless someone is actively spreading hate speech and rhetoric that seeks to harm or degrade others, the best thing you can do is not engage. If you don’t agree with a take and can’t bring yourself to ignore it and move on, feel free to ask a person why they think the way they do about a certain topic. Personally, I would be absolutely willing to have a conversation with someone who says “can you explain to me where you’re coming from with this?” than “gross. I hate this.” You might actually find some common ground! But I suppose people quick to comment with negativity aren’t really in the “open-mindedness” stage of their lives.
In any case, my two illustrations for Salma Deera’s poem “Medea’s Reasons” are probably the works I get the most negative response to online. Again, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I saw @adriftamidthestars wonderful tags on my post and the fact that they were talking about this in their classics class. It’s important to note that the sympathetic view of Medea isn’t a take from terminally online leftist feminists, it’s just kind…of how the classics are objectively interpreted based on the texts. Their tags motivated me to further go into Medea’s reasons. Both in the context of the Salma Deera poem and her character within classical literature.
I don’t expect people to be won over by this, but I do encourage anyone who doesn’t understand the poem based on their perceptions of Medea to read this and take from it what you will.
This is probably my favorite poem, and a couple of years back, I illustrated it through a series of portraits featuring women from biblical stories, folklore, and mythology. I wanted to revisit the poem and create something that was more simple and focused on the titular heroine.
I don’t like to get involved in online discourse. People are allowed to have their own opinions and I’m not going to waste my time in this life trying to sway people’s opinions to my own. However, I will say this. Unless someone is actively spreading hate speech and rhetoric that seeks to harm or degrade others, the best thing you can do is not engage. If you don’t agree with a take and can’t bring yourself to ignore it and move on, feel free to ask a person why they think the way they do about a certain topic. Personally, I would be absolutely willing to have a conversation with someone who says “can you explain to me where you’re coming from with this?” than “gross. I hate this.” You might actually find some common ground! But I suppose people quick to comment with negativity aren’t really in the “open-mindedness” stage of their lives.
In any case, my two illustrations for Salma Deera’s poem “Medea’s Reasons” are probably the works I get the most negative response to online. Again, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I saw @adriftamidthestars wonderful tags on my post and the fact that they were talking about this in their classics class. It’s important to note that the sympathetic view of Medea isn’t a take from terminally online leftist feminists, it’s just kind…of how the classics are objectively interpreted based on the texts. Their tags motivated me to further go into Medea’s reasons. Both in the context of the Salma Deera poem and her character within classical literature.
I don’t expect people to be won over by this, but I do encourage anyone who doesn’t understand the poem based on their perceptions of Medea to read this and take from it what you will.
what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?
would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?
My least favorite things about anti- UBI discourse is always the techbros whining that “nobody is going to work anymore! People will just watch Netflix all day!” and I have 2 responses:
1) Who the fuck cares. Who the fuck cares what people do with their time! That’s kind of the fucking point!
2) People aren’t going to stop laboring. Housework (look, it’s right there in the word!) will still need to be done. So will maintenance on our homes and personal spaces. Children will still need carers, as will the elderly and disabled. There are millions of examples of ~work~ that we do all the time, uncompensated, that won’t suddenly stop because we aren’t forced to sell our labor to provide corporation’s profits.
I’m not surprised that what is traditionally women’s work is invisible to these dipshits, but it never fails to anger me.
Anyway. Join the IWW.
Field studies have been conducted in several countries now, and the result is always the same - people will just flop about for a couple of months to recover from the burnout most people who have a job live with, and then they look for something to do. Some get a job with reduced hours, and some start doing charitable stuff like volunteering in soup kitchens and teaching others to do whatever their particular skill is. They socialize more, they are happier, and on average, people will work more, not less.
But the thing is, employers suddenly have to think about how to make their jobs appealing enough for someone to come and do them! It’s hard to find someone to work for you for long hours under horrible conditions, if they can just choose not to; which shows you how voluntary our current system actually is.
queer people on this site really make me feel like a confused straight guy at pride. the discourse here could kill a man
“why polyamorous people aren’t valid” “mspec lesbians AREN’T okay actually” “aroallos are freaks” “he/him dni. cis men dni” “this post is for non-men only” yessss and the one with long hair goes in the girl box, then the one with short hair goes in the boy box!!
maybe I’m just a boring he/him white guy but inventing about 7 trillion terms to define “man” and “woman” so you can reinforce gender essentialism isn’t very “love is love” of you. maybe i just don’t have a sexuality but picking and choosing what sexualities are normal and which ones are “weird and predatory” sounds like we’re all a bunch of republicans on fox news. if you attend your local pride parade and look REAAALLLYYY closely, you’ll notice you can’t actually tell if someone’s gay or not from their appearance, and there’s no way to know if they’re “invading queer spaces”. maybe it’s just me, but when i attended my local gaybar last night for the drag show, they didn’t ask for my gay-card with a peer reviewed diagnosis of faggot stamped on it. they just let me in the building. i live a life of bliss and luxury in not caring about any queer discourse ever, and just going “WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY :-)” while booting up the latest cod game. and it seems much more fun than whatever the fuck you people are on about
muting my notifs for this post but i need to acknowledge this first. My favorite tags fr 🙏
queer people on this site really make me feel like a confused straight guy at pride. the discourse here could kill a man
“why polyamorous people aren’t valid” “mspec lesbians AREN’T okay actually” “aroallos are freaks” “he/him dni. cis men dni” “this post is for non-men only” yessss and the one with long hair goes in the girl box, then the one with short hair goes in the boy box!!
maybe I’m just a boring he/him white guy but inventing about 7 trillion terms to define “man” and “woman” so you can reinforce gender essentialism isn’t very “love is love” of you. maybe i just don’t have a sexuality but picking and choosing what sexualities are normal and which ones are “weird and predatory” sounds like we’re all a bunch of republicans on fox news. if you attend your local pride parade and look REAAALLLYYY closely, you’ll notice you can’t actually tell if someone’s gay or not from their appearance, and there’s no way to know if they’re “invading queer spaces”. maybe it’s just me, but when i attended my local gaybar last night for the drag show, they didn’t ask for my gay-card with a peer reviewed diagnosis of faggot stamped on it. they just let me in the building. i live a life of bliss and luxury in not caring about any queer discourse ever, and just going “WHATEVER MAKES YOU HAPPY :-)” while booting up the latest cod game. and it seems much more fun than whatever the fuck you people are on about
muting my notifs for this post but i need to acknowledge this first. My favorite tags fr 🙏
one thing that will never fail to make me stop believing in something is the group of people who believe in it too. not sure what this would be called
its like. someone could say ‘i wish there were more lunch options than peas in the school cafeteria i dont really like peas’ (imaginary example) and i go yeah me neither. and then someone goes 'yeah peas suck’ someone else goes 'they shouldnt even offer peas at all’ 'honestly i cant imagine liking peas’ 'people who like peas are weird!’ 'if you like peas im going to assume you my moral enemy’ and its like woah hey guys maybe im going to take a step to the pea likers side because this is getting weird
people are asking if this is about fandoms or about a specific line of discourse and i dont know how to tell you but any time a large group of people starts really angrily creating an imaginary devil in their mind ive made it a habit to step back and go 'now wait a minute’ not as someone who has never done this but as someone who tries to learn from their mistakes
For those who’ve migrated from TikTok: there’s no reward for harassment on Tumblr. You won’t gain a heavy amount of likes, reblogs, and followers for leading harassment campaigns; if anything, it’ll make people block you.
On Tumblr, there’s no popularity contest because many don’t care about the amount of followers, likes, and reblogs you have. A lot of users even hide their likes and who they’re following. Users heavily encourage blocking people and filtering out tags. This is why online discourse is more confined to its bubble instead of being so widespread on this website: because people curate their experiences.
If you want to have an enjoyable experience on Tumblr, then you need to use the block button and filtering system. If you don’t, then you’re going to be extremely miserable.
EDIT: Interesting additions to the post-
Want to emphasize that I report people as spam if they’re spam tagging with a bunch of random shit that’s not related to the content of the actual post. It’s annoying, don’t do it.
Reminder to all:
Spam tagging is not only annoying as hell and will get you blocked on sight, but it is against Tumblr TOS and User Guidelines!
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That screenshot is taken directly from the User Guidelines. The most relavant portion is:
“Don’t put tags on your posts that will mislead or deceive searchers. For example, don’t tag a photo of your cat with "doctor who” unless the name of your cat is actually Doctor Who, and don’t overload your posts with #barely #relevant #tags.“
Most people will just block you on sight, but this behavior can get you reported.
hi hello how are you. most if not all story-based religions are in fact considered mythology by definition including the abrahamic religions. god is in fact abrahamic mythos whether you think he’s real or not. im sorry if that upsets you but im assuming this is regarding the post i just reblogged and i have to say im surprised the part you’re upset about is me tagging biblicalia as mythology and not the entire discussion on who tops in jesus/judas ship discourse
hi hello how are you. most if not all story-based religions are in fact considered mythology by definition including the abrahamic religions. god is in fact abrahamic mythos whether you think he’s real or not. im sorry if that upsets you but im assuming this is regarding the post i just reblogged and i have to say im surprised the part you’re upset about is me tagging biblicalia as mythology and not the entire discussion on who tops in jesus/judas ship discourse
seen so many posts that are like “I was so confused when I saw all this posting about some non-existent movie “Goncharov” like it was real” I wasn’t. this happens 5 times a week. my dash is routinely filled to the brim with passionate analysis of absurd-sounding movies and tv shows I have never heard of. I never for a second doubted the existence of a russian mafia movie set in italy with massive numbers of bizarrely named characters and no cohesive understanding of the movie’s themes or plot until I saw a post saying to tag it as unreality. this is tumblr. this happens daily. not one thought crossed my mind except “ha, looks like a few of my mutuals have a new hyperfixation.” this is what tumblr has done to me. you could tell me there’s a new tv show about dolphins with french accents living as royalty in victorian england while secretly starting a cult to renew the worship of the greek gods and the shipping discourse is intense and I would simply think “sounds legit” and keep scrolling
this is, of course, where the tumblr revamp would always lead. Just in time for Pride month, the “Queerest Place on the Internet” is attempting to crack down on fags like us for self-identifying with slurs, rather than doing something beneficial like reducing the large ever present transphobe/terf population. Advertiser friendly is the name of the game and I’m sure in a few years this site will be identical to every other sterile neutered social media site available. Have fun while it lasts folks.
this comes right after they stole your joke too funnily enough (about.tumblr.com)
THEY MUGGED ME IN BROAD DAYLIGHT AND THEN SHOT ME IN THE FUCKING HEAD
why would you like media that is good if you can like media that is bad instead and pace around your room like an insane person thinking about What If It Was Good
Ain’t no way Trump just said the government would establish two genders: male and female, in his inauguration speech, and people are still trying to say that queer folks have no need to be scared 😭 fucking losing it
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