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ATTENTION IF YOU HAVE AN INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT

Meta (the company that owns Instagram and Facebook) is rolling out in more countries its update that steals the photos and texts that you upload to feed its AI.

(*26th June 2024. I have my phone in Catalan and Instagram, which is not fully available in Catalan, must have picked up the date from my phone and mixed it in the English message)

I have a private account and an open account, and I've only gotten this notification on my open account, so I'm assuming private accounts are safe for now (but considering Meta's history of human rights violations, privacy violations, lies, and doing everything they can for money, I'm not sure I trust them on this or that it will stay like this).

As the text says, you have the right to object to the content you uploaded being used for their AI. To request your content not be included, you have to send them this form (this is the hyperlink you get when you click "right to object" on the notification):

However, even if you send them this, Meta has to manually approve each application to decide whether or not they grant you the opportunity to opt out of their AI.

I've already received the email saying my objection has been approved and it will be applied "from now on". I don't know what legal basis they use, so if you want to copy what I said, basically I said I have photos of heritage sites that are copyright protected with a license where we are allowed to take photos and post them without a profit, but they're not allowed to use them in a commercial way such as AI training. It worked, so you can say the same if you want.

Something else to keep in mind:

If you have a friend whose account is open, let them know about this. Not only so that they can protect themselves, but also so that they don't upload photos of you and your face is used to generate AI images.

I have to say tho, even with my objection request being approved, I don't really feel safe in Meta services anymore, because I don't trust it. I think it's a good moment to delete our Facebook and Instagram accounts regardless.

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US-based followers: become Narcan-certified by taking this online course:

They also offer an overdose reversal kit at the end where all you have to pay for is the shipping (which is $8)

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Hellooo European Tumblr!

I'm making an audio collage for a play and I need some help from anyone whose native language isn't German. Here's a little snippet of dialogue from a book by Sholem Aleichem, featuring two family members on a ship emigrating to America:

A: Quiet, we're going to America.

B: Where is America?

A: I don't know. I just know that it's far away, terribly far.

I'd like to include this little dialogue in as many European languages as possible! So if you're fluent in any language besides German, or know someone who is, it would be super cool if you could grab a friend (or, for extra bonus points, a child) for part B, record this in your language and DM it to me as soon as possible. Audio quality doesn't have to be super high, and any help is appreciated! All languages are welcome, but I'd be extra happy about

• Italian

• Irish

• any kind of British English

• any minorized languages

EDIT: You can record and upload it here for example and then PM me the URL:

Feel free to hit me up for more info!

Cheers, K

#I'm meeting with my friends later on this week and I'll get a moment to get one of them to record this with me in Catalan #(we speak Eastern Catalan accent) #I won't do it in Spanish because I (and most of my friends) have very strong Catalan accents 😅

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If you're from the European Union, please take the time to sign this petition to ban conversion therapies!! It literally takes 15sec

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🇵🇸🇵🇸 LISTY OTWARTE DO REKTORÓW UJ, UWR ORAZ UW // OPEN LETTERS TO THE RECTORS OF UJ, UWR AND UW 🇵🇸🇵🇸

POLISH:

Jeśli szukasz sposobu na wsparcie trwającej walki o wolną Palestynę:

Obecnie toczą się trzy listy otwarte skierowane do rektorów Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, wzywające do m.in. natychmiastowego zaprzestania współpracy z izraelskimi instytucjami akademickimi.

Może je podpisać każdy, pod warunkiem, że jest w jakimś stopniu związanym z edukacją wyższą. Może to być jako student, członek kadry, itp. LICZĄ SIĘ TEŻ INSTYTUCJE MIĘDZYNARODOWE!!

Mamy jeszcze kilka dni na zebranie jak największej liczby podpisów! Byłabym bardzo wdzięczna, jeśli możesz poświęcić kilka minut na podpisanie listów i udostępnienie ich każdemu, kto mógłby być zainteresowany

(pełne listy w języku polskim i angielskim dostępne są w linkach poniżej)

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ENGLISH:

if you're looking for a way to support the ongoing fight for a free Palestine

there's currently three open letters directed at the rectors of the Jagiellonian University, University of Warsaw and the University of Wrocław demanding among others an immediate cease of cooperation with Israeli academic institutions.

They can be signed by anyone as long as you're involved with higher education in some regard. It can be as a student, faculty member or other. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ALSO COUNT!!

We still have a few days to get as many signatures as possible! it would mean the world if you could take a few minutes to sign the letters if you can and share with anyone who could be interested

(the full letters in both polish and english are available in the links below)

(if have any other questions, i'll try answering them to the best of my ability)

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🇵🇸🇵🇸 LISTY OTWARTE DO REKTORÓW UJ, UWR ORAZ UW // OPEN LETTERS TO THE RECTORS OF UJ, UWR AND UW 🇵🇸🇵🇸

POLISH:

Jeśli szukasz sposobu na wsparcie trwającej walki o wolną Palestynę:

Obecnie toczą się trzy listy otwarte skierowane do rektorów Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego i Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, wzywające do m.in. natychmiastowego zaprzestania współpracy z izraelskimi instytucjami akademickimi.

Może je podpisać każdy, pod warunkiem, że jest w jakimś stopniu związanym z edukacją wyższą. Może to być jako student, członek kadry, itp. LICZĄ SIĘ TEŻ INSTYTUCJE MIĘDZYNARODOWE!!

Mamy jeszcze kilka dni na zebranie jak największej liczby podpisów! Byłabym bardzo wdzięczna, jeśli możesz poświęcić kilka minut na podpisanie listów i udostępnienie ich każdemu, kto mógłby być zainteresowany

(pełne listy w języku polskim i angielskim dostępne są w linkach poniżej)

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ENGLISH:

if you're looking for a way to support the ongoing fight for a free Palestine

there's currently three open letters directed at the rectors of the Jagiellonian University, University of Warsaw and the University of Wrocław demanding among others an immediate cease of cooperation with Israeli academic institutions.

They can be signed by anyone as long as you're involved with higher education in some regard. It can be as a student, faculty member or other. INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS ALSO COUNT!!

We still have a few days to get as many signatures as possible! it would mean the world if you could take a few minutes to sign the letters if you can and share with anyone who could be interested

(the full letters in both polish and english are available in the links below)

(if have any other questions, i'll try answering them to the best of my ability)

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why are yt to mp3 websites always the shadiest fuckin sites I feel like I’m going down a dark alleyway risking the chance of getting drugged and/or stabbed just bc its the only place where I can find a guy to deal me some decent fart with extra reverb dot mp3s

#webs

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My mother gifted me two things, like all of yours did to you: her love, and her language — Valencian. That's why I write, think, and love in Valencian.

Is the language that your mothers taught you superior to the language that my mother taught me? Does your language deserve more respect than mine? Then, why do you want everything that isn't Spanish to disappear? Why do you not respect us? Why are you still determined, since 300 years ago, to impose your language on us "by right law of conquest"?

Joan Baldoví in the Congress of Spain. 2024.

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verso books has made books on palestine, mass protests, and student rebellions free to download on their website

#palestine #social sciences #politics

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The University of Grenoble (France) wants is planning to remove Catalan classes from its curriculum next year. The students are organising this campaign to ask the university to keep it. Help them by signing this petition!

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OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s the focus?

1. Keep the flexibility in your spine

2. Stretch the muscles in the front

3. Strengthen the muscle in the back

Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen

Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day

The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down

Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there

Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards

If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.

Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up

There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving

Tips:

Do the best you can

If it hurts stop

Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises

#health #body

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hey here's a website for downloading any video or image from any website.

works w/ youtube, soundcloud, twitch, twitter (gifs and videos), tumblr (video and audio), and most other websites you're probably lookin to download stuff off of.

#webs

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Hey UK folks consider signing this one!

End the harmful practice of deporting or otherwise removing LGBTIQ+ people seeking asylum in the UK, seeking alternative solutions that do not put people at risk of harm. No-one who is an LGBTIQ+ person should be sent to Rwanda or another third country, or deported.

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yknow i never noticed the sheer rareness of images having ids or alt text on this website until i started adding alt text to my art (and trying to remember to add it to any images i post in general, especially text screenshots) and that makes me kinda sad

#accessibility

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#webs

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The Dipòsit de les Aigües Library, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Catalonia.

This library is set up in a 19th-century water reservoir located in the heart of Barcelona. After 100 years of different uses -old people’s home, storage for the fire brigade, car park for the local police department, archive for the Court of Justice- it became property of the Pompeu Fabra University in 1992. Since then, it’s the university’s library.

Photos by Arq Foto, Burçin Yildirim on Flickr, and The ISA Journal.

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HELP ME GET MY DIPLOMA LOL

ok so good ppl of tumblr, you've seen me perfume posting for a few years now, well turns out I love sucking the fun out of my interests by making them my academic focus area and thesis subject !!! yay

on that topic : it would really help if you could fill out this short survey to help me in my research :)))))