Chess.com: *posta lighthearted tweet asking people to give new names to the different chess pieces*
Reactionaries in the comments:
Chess.com posted tweets asking people to rename the pieces. The one for the bishop was interpreted by some people as “chess.com is trying to erase christianity” or something and they responded with a flurry of racism and antisemitism.
Also this idiot
(Chess was invented in India)
“europeans invented it” Oh so we should call it Runner or Hunter or Elephant or Gunner or Jester or Noble or
We should definitely call it the turtle because the image of a turtle zooming diagonally across the floor is very amusing.
Some people don’t want to hear this but sometimes accessibility is not sustainable or eco-friendly. Disabled people sometimes need straws, or pre-made meals in plastic containers, or single-use items. Just because you can work with your foods in their least processed and packaged form doesn’t mean everyone else can.
Tired of the ecosystem getting worse? Hold colonizers and oil companies accountable! Rachel’s plastic straw is fine.
on the other end the copyright argument against ai art is just so bad. I hate how that’s the most common one people use, like I’m sorry but an interpretation of copyright law that classifies images made with generative ai as “plagiarism” or “theft” would be a worst-case scenario for everyone except the walt disney corporation
arguments against ai art that are defensible positions:
the output usually does not look good and I want to stop seeing it
the ways in which the output can be “off” are often unsettling in a way that causes some people mental distress
a lot of ai art services charge money to access open-source software, so none of that money goes to the original developers who made the code their service is using
a lot of ai art services prioritize the output looking “nice” over the output actually matching what the user asked for, making them really hard to use for actually generating art
most ai art services are web-based things that run on one big centralized server that processes all the user requests, but this is really wasteful when anyone with a decent gaming pc could just run the software themself without contributing to how much water that central server needs for cooling
freelance artists and stock photographers don’t make a lot of money so it’s unethical to make a service that automates their jobs (the problem is capitalism)
if someone theoretically spends a long time prompt engineering to try to get it to generate a specific idea they have and can’t get it to work and then they decide to commission a freelance artist instead, they might try to communicate their idea to the artist in the same way they used for the image generative ai, which for the freelance artist would be just about the most annoying possible client they could ever have to deal with
arguments against ai art that I regularly see people make:
art is supposed to be hard to create so the concept of a thing that generates images based on a simple prompt is inherently bad no matter what
ai art is bad for the environment (this is technically true, but it’s also not a great argument. all internet-based services are bad for the environment to some extent. it is bad how much water big tech companies spend, but they were already doing that. this isn’t a problem specific to ai art.)
it’s unethical to download images from the internet without the copyright holders’ permission (image generative ai models do not and cannot redistribute their training data. if they’re made correctly it is not possible to extract any specific training image from the model, only images that look similar to images across the whole dataset. that’s the whole point of the training process)
it’s “theft” to make an image in an art style “owned” by someone else (imagine if this was actually a law. now imagine what a company like disney would do in this scenario. how would this turn out for small independent artists?)
recombining small pieces of individual images from the internet to make a new image is not sufficiently transformative and should be considered copyright infringement (this is not how ai image generation works, but even if it was this really should not be considered copyright infringement. you don’t want youtube poops to be made illegal, do you?)
I don’t really care if it’s legally theft to take the work of an artist and then turn that into a “style” for your generative AI without the permission of said artist. Be it because they are dead or because they didn’t consent. I just think it’s a very depressing and gross thing to see. Especially as many artists struggle to make a living. And yeah the root cause is capitalism, but that doesn’t exactly absolve AI from being the latest tool that capital is using to trample artists.
well. I do care if it’s legally theft or not. it’s important that it isn’t. making an ai model of someone’s art style without their permission is weird but it’s not like, stealing. there isn’t a thing that the artist had before that they now do not have. even though that can be an unethical thing to do, it’s not “theft” in any meaningful sense
recently someone saw my dissected frog tattoo and said “hey ur frog tattoo is really cool but i think it’s open.” i haven’t been able to stop thinking about this for weeks. what did she mean by that. does she think i walked into a tattoo shop like hello can i get one normal frog tattoo. and 2 and a half hours later the tattoo artists goes FUCK. it happened again. it’s fucking open. goddamnit
people are really fucking clueless about generative ai huh? you should absolutely not be using it for any sort of fact checking no matter how convenient. it does not operate in a way that guarantees factual information. its goal is not to deliver you the truth but deliver something coherent based on a given data set which may or may not include factual information. both the idolization of ai and fearmongering of it seem lost on what it is actually capable of doing
“I have depression.” - character who has been through extensive therapy.
“I feel dead inside all the time and nothing helps!” - character who does like, regular introspective thinking and is aware of the concept of mental health.
“Leave me the fuck alone I’ll be fine once I get over my stupid shit.” - repressed character.
“It’s fine I’m just having an Empty Time. What? Yeah, empty times, you know, when everything is like bzzzzzz in your brain and you don’t shower for two weeks. Why, what do you call it?” - ooooughhh now we’re talkin
rice is the perfect food and westerners should eat more of it i’m so serious
you can season it, you can drizzle it with sauce, you can cook it in broth or coconut milk, you can add spices sugar butter sesame oil rice vinegar, you can mix it w/ garlic & scallions & veggies, you can fry it and scramble an egg in it, it goes with meat & seafood & protein, it reheats great with a bit of water, it’s cheap, insane shelf-life, ideal for bulk buy discounts, many types & shapes & textures, there are thousands of recipes ranging from china to india to japan to the middle east to latin america to europe. AND a rice cocker cooks it for you. the many splendors that await you…
I hope you know you made me look up a thing…
yes, rice can also be a dessert!
i like that you managed to misspell every single word, up to and including “roce”
I had a dream last night where the new thing on tumblr was to post “dreaming so dweetly” along with a pic of someone in an old-timey nightcap when you were getting ready to go to bed, so every night my entire dash was full of stuff like this:
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the reviews are in!!! may we all be so lucky as to dream so dweetly tonight <3
a broompig helps you with sweep. a hurtpig helps you with attack. a rockpig helps you with rocks. a pigpig helps you with pigs. thanks for attending my class. that will be one million smallars (dollars that are so small you can’t touch them or use them or do anything with them)
what’s wild is that using his kid as a human shield is an admission that his would-be killers have more compassion and humanity than he does. if he actually thought the people seeking to kill him were evil radical terrorists then why would he think having a kid as a human shield would help?
“trans men can’t experience misogyny and have never experienced misogyny” and “trans men shouldn’t speak up about their ‘issues’ because there are more pressing Real issues” sound an awful lot like misogyny that’s directed towards women that aren’t white and cishet……
“trans men can’t experience misogyny and have never experienced misogyny”
Do these people forget that trans men were raised as girls for what, over a decade?
That’s ignoring the fact that trans men are seen as women by some even after transitioning. But let’s assume that every single trans man passes 110% once he takes his first shot of T. What about the years before that? Do young “girls” not experience misogyny too?
having depression makes your friends seem like the coolest most put together people on earth like wow… you got out of bed, had breakfast, went to work, AND spent some time on a hobby when you got home….? that’s so impressive you’re like superman or something. can i borrow your power.
it is *very* funny how both zionists and white nationalists will say “how come every other ethnicity gets to have their own nation but we don’t, huh?” which is obviously untrue even if you interpret “their own nation” to mean “a nation where they are the majority” (which many ethnicities don’t have) but is especially untrue if you interpret it as “ethno-state which is maintained through openly racist policy/ethnic cleansing” which you *should* interpret it as since that’s what both groups are saying they should get to have lol
uh hey that person you just reblogged from used to be in our discord server but we had to kick them out because they admitted to watching t*m and j*rry… that show features violence and as such glorifies it…. when we confronted them all they said was “wtf its a show about a cat and a mouse”… if you dont believe me theres a whole callout post that features their name age and street address so you can go to their house and check… anyways you should unfollow them before people start thinking you like problematic media too :/ just trying to help
It’s so significant too that this narrative was collected by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the greatest authors and anthropologists of her time. She was shunned by the “gatekeepers” of both of these professions, largely because of her Blackness, her womanhood, and her uncompromising commitment to honoring and showcasing both in her works. She died penniless and alone in a state-run institution in 1960. All of her works had gone out of publication by then. It took more than a decade before she was rediscovered. A young author by the name of Alice Walker had come across her work and was deeply inspired by it. “In 1973, after an exhaustive search, Walker came across Hurston’s unmarked grave in Ft. Pierce, Fla. She purchased a headstone for Hurston’s tomb and had it inscribed “A Genius of the South.“”
It is through Zora Neale Hurston’s pioneering sacrifice, and the acceptance of that inheritance by Alice Walker that we have found this missing piece of our history. Without the courageous and unfailing work of Black women, we wouldn’t have Cudjo Lewis’s story. We are slowly regaining a narrative that’s been hidden from us, one that continues to be lied about. Trust Black women to lead the way.
airplane furry has crashed in taur international airport. nobody died but it has a bruise on its tummy now and is crying. please dispatch 10000 loving taurs to comfort it immediately
i just saw a post on reddit titled “the writer is cooking but the food doesn’t agree with me” and it was about OP clicking off a fic because they don’t like the direction it’s going in. slightly different context but can we all be more like this reddit OP. i think “the writer is cooking but the food doesn’t agree with me” should be the new “don’t like don’t read.” dead doves may give you diarrhea but don’t make that everyone else’s problem.
Is he “female socialized” or is he just a standard flamboyant sensitive artsy gay dude who would honestly be indiscernible from any other fem gay guy if you didn’t see him as a walking vagina first and foremost.
Is she “male socialized” or is she just a tomboy with a fucking spine who doesn’t let anyone talk to her any old kind of way who would honestly be indiscernible from any feminist cis woman y'all gas up on here if you didn’t see her as a walking penis first and foremost.
is she “male socialized” or is she just like. disagreeing with someone
it’s actually sick you get tired of eating the same food over and over when some animals they just eat grass all day mind you. just another pointless challenge mechanic added in by big universe to get you to go to the grocery store
They are both doing the “I want” chitter. They very much want to get up, but they have a sleeping baby cuddling with them. They must endure, but they will not be silent about it
Well well well, kitties. Looks like you want to get up but there’s a little cat on you so you can’t. Very frustrating situation there, can’t imagine the burden of being held down by a little adorable kittycat. Couldn’t, as the kids say, be me.
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