Artists begin to use a tool called Nightshade to inject “poisoned” data into their art so it absolutely fucks up the AI datasets their stolen art is being trained on.
the funniest thing that’s happened to me recently is that someone seemingly tried to update my pronouns on the medical system but accidentally made it so that my actual name is now “They Them”
Oh god so on the same vein but slightly less amusing. My work put my pronouns after my last name. But they did this (as far as I can tell) by just entering it in the same field as my last name.
Which led to a fun time for all when we were given stock with access to a third party stock company site. Who after I registered called and said:
“So, uh… We need you to re-register.”
“Is my social security number still showing as incorrect for reasons unknown, even after I emailed my HR department five times in the last seven or eight months? And they only finally did something because the registration deadline passed, and I called you guys instead, and you called them to put them on blast?”
“Oh no, that’s been sorted. But uh, there’s a problem with your last name.”
“Which is?”
“It shows as ’LastName (They/Them)’.”
“… You have got to be kidding me.”
“Well we receive this data from your work and so…”
“Can’t you edit it on your end?”
“Because this is legal information that we receive from your work, if we edit it it’s considered fraud.”
“Can they edit it and update the system?”
“Unfortunately, since you’ve completed the registration, them updating wouldn’t change it on our end. So they would have to update it, and send it to us, and you would have to re-register.”
“… The due date for registration has already passed.”
“Oh we’ll have them send you a new link.”
“Well there’s that at least I suppose.”
Readers I’m still waiting on a new registration link. I’m unsurprised.
It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.
decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years
i do think it’s interesting that in less than a decade after reviving both the jurassic park movies and star wars franchises, universal and disney, respectively, have fucked up what could have been never-ending theatrical cash cows to the point where the jurassic franchise is ending in critical disgrace and star wars has been relegated almost exclusively to disney’s streaming platform. how badly do you have to fumble bags that are mostly just “people and aliens in a far off galaxy and space” and “dinosaurs! what would happen if dinosaurs?” that the franchises became so devoid of any redeemable value that people are eh about seeing a cultural icon like darth vader wield his lightsaber or a website like rotten tomatoes, which grades on a heavy curve, especially for nostalgic projects, has your film at a 37% critical favorability and is being accused of making dinosaurs “uncool”. it’s fascinating. i hope the bubble bursts for marvel next.
they each had a goose that lays golden eggs and they butchered it to get the eggs out instead of feeding it and now they’ve got a dead goose, some tremendously shitty and underdeveloped eggs, and a lot of angry fans who were hoping for golden omelets and perhaps some golden goslings but are now covered in entrails and the little feathers that get everywhere, and are somewhat miffed about the whole situation
it is a beautiful day, and you are a dead golden goose
an undead golden goose of a fandom laying golden fanworks all over the place and honking before running off with the shattered remains of copyright law in its beak is a wonderful and amazing image, thank you so much for taking the post in this direction
It’s an old tradition that during a leap year women could propose to men. This was usually depicted as old or ugly women trapping men, but some art focused more on the role reversal and could be quite cute.
I have a soft spot in my heart for the last one because it plays on the idea of “undesirable” people, a tall masculine woman and a shy effeminate man, finding each other but instead of mocking them depicts it as sweet that she could finally ask him because he was too shy and insecure to ask her.
Turns out the story of the last picture continues. Apparently the guy’s father isn’t convinced the woman can provide for his son.
Just a reminder about fatphotoref.com—it exists!! I’ll be updating with new photos next week and hopefully more regularly after that. Request access by going to bit.ly/fpraccess 💙🧜♀️ happy mer may!
It is not Mermay anymore, but the moment I saw these mermaid poses, I knew I wanted to paint one of them for exercise :D So last night I finally managed to do that.
Colour-wise I wanted to do something inspired by Yuming Li, because their delicate balance of colours is so incredibly fascinating, and I want to understand it.
When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I’m allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.
So there’s a medication called hyaluronidase. It’s used to make other medications absorb better, because it makes the cell wall more permeable.
One common usage is to make local anesthetic more effective during surgery, for instance. It’s used in a number of injected medications.
Bee stings contain an enzyme very similar to this medication, so sometimes, people with bee allergies have an allergic reaction to hyaluronidase.
This is called cross-reactivity, where your body mistakes something for the thing it’s actually allergic to, and has an allergic reaction anyway. For instance, sometimes people with latex allergies also are allergic to bananas and other fruits. They don’t actually contain latex, but there are some similar proteins.
Apparently, hyraluronidase used in humans is derived from one of four sources: sheep testicles, cow testicles, cow testicles again, and GMO hamster ovaries.
tl;dr: They won’t inject you with bees, but they might inject you with purified cow testicle juice, and your body might say ‘eh, cow balls are BASICALLY bees’ and try to kill you anyway.
