moved to @sidecast and to pillowfort

in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3

A little advice from someone studying extremist groups: if you’re in a social media environment where the daily ubiquitous message is that you have no hope of any kind of future and you can’t possibly achieve anything without a violent overthrow of society, you’re being radicalized, and not in the good way.

please fucking vote

From instructions on how to opt out, look at the official staff post on the topic. It also gives more information on Tumblr's new policies. If you are opting out, remember to opt out each separate blog individually.

Please reblog this post, so it will get more votes!

Please be aware that the "opt-out" choice is just a way to try to appease people. But Tumblr has not been transparent about when has data been sold and shared with AI companies, and there are sources that confirm that data has already been shared before the toggle was even provided to users.

Also, it seems to include data they should not have been able to give under any circumstance, including that of deactivated blogs, private messages and conversations, stuff from private blogs, and so on.

Do not believe that "AI companies will honor the "opt-out request retroactively". Once they've got their hands on your data (and they have), they won't be "honoring" an opt-out option retroactively. There is no way to confirm or deny what data do they have: The fact they are completely opaque on what do they currently "own" and have, means that they can do whatever they want with it. How can you prove they have your data if they don't give everyone free access to see what they've stolen already?

So, yeah, opt out of data sharing, but be aware that this isn't stopping anyone from taking your data. They already have been taking it, before you were given that option. Go and go to Tumblr's Suppport and leave your Feedback on this (politely, but firmly- not everyone in the company is responsible for this.)

Finally: Opt out is not good under any circumstance. Deactivated people can't opt out. People who have lost their passwords can't opt out. People who can't access internet or computers can't opt out. People who had their content reposted can't opt out. Dead people can't opt out. When DeviantArt released their AI image generator, saying that it wasn't trained on people who didn't consent to it, it was proven it could easily replicate the styles of people who had passed away, as seen here. So, yeah. AI companies cannot be trusted to have any sort of respect for people's data and content, because this entire thing is just a data laundering scheme.

Please do reblog for awareness.

Reminder for artists and writers to OPT-OUT of Tumblr giving your posts to companies to train AI programs

Each of your side-blogs has to enable the "Prevent sharing" setting. It's not account-wide

cloning in cyteen is all cool and interesting until i have to design distinguishable characters whoare identical clones of each other :,) okayyy anyways here are concepts about the warricks and tape machines

Hey, same person as before, sorry I forgot to respond for so long! I think that the actual exchange can explain it better than me - it’s @mcytrecursive.

ohh okay i see, i understand! yes, that sounds cool, feel free to reference my work. tag me in what you make, i'm very curious now.

would you look at that. blocked

the thing about queer exclusionism besides being blatantly hypocrytic is that it treats being opressed and discriminated as something meriting authority within the community. "youre not opressed so you cant be part of our community" who are you to decide what counts as opression? how can you judge an experience you havent lived? queerness has so many levels and intersections with other factors that you will never be able to completely santise it to your liking. there will always be people and labels that you dont understand and distinctions you think are futile in the grand scheme of things, but you have to learn to be civil towards them, you have to learn about intersectionality. you cant decide who is "opressed enough" opression doesnt have levels, its not something you can rate, its something you fight against and thats it. if you want to defeat opression, you cant use it as a unit of measurement.

Frankly if one more person decides to be a smartass about how "uhm op dogs actually DO have jobs" i am going to run into a wall. Yes you're right. Dogs do have jobs. Yes, cats would have been a better metaphor. Wow you're so smart yes do share with the class. For the love of god check the notes because on a post with 150k of them someone has already said everything you could possibly think of. Reblogs are getting turned off for a good while.

dog time AKA the only reason i've been managing not to overwork myself

Hello! I’m doing a fan work exchange for MCYT fandoms, where all the works will be based off another. I was wondering if it’s okay with you to use your art/comics for this? And if there’s any specific limits you’d have on what you are or are not okay with, if so?

Hi, honestly this question is too vague for me to understand/ answer right now, but dm me and we'll talk about it.

having a lesbian best friend is so cool she just opened my packet coffee with a knife for me and then went back to looking at hokey scores

And what came on the screen was a little red something. "That's the baby," maman said, and pointed. "Right there." "Ugh." It clicked with something Ari had seen somewhere. Which was probably tape. It was a kind of a baby.

okay i know that the cyteen fandom must be near nonexistent but please please look at my art

cloning in cyteen is all cool and interesting until i have to design distinguishable characters whoare identical clones of each other :,) okayyy anyways here are concepts about the warricks and tape machines