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A painting that I forgot existed but totally vibed with when I got started on it again ✨

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Paint Me Away

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

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The Moon Began to Blur — Submitted by nemethos-deamon

#485E62 #668F8B #88B5A1 #AFCE99 #97BF9A #658980

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Rudy hill  -  https://www.facebook.com/Rudyhillart  -  https://rudy-hillart.tumblr.com  -  https://www.behance.net/rudyhill  -  https://twitter.com/Rudy__hill  -  https://www.instagram.com/rudyhillart  -  https://www.deviantart.com/rudy-hill

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never thought I'd say tumblr should copy something from Twitter but tumblr desperately needs a community notes feature where everyone is forced to see when posts have misinfo, instead of the corrections just getting lost in the notes as people continue to blithely spread propaganda

#someone said people will have nuclear melt downs over being wrong #and that is the problem with tumblr #always has been

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#beyblade #BANGER ART #takao kinomiya #kai hiwatari #kon rei #mizuhara max

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Trying out something different for the clouds~

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My 7th annual charity sale is happening right now on YuumeiArt.com/shop Use code GIVINGTHANKS for 10% off storewide, and 100% of the proceeds will be donated to environmental charities :)

Sale lasts until Nov 30. Everything from koi lanterns, artbooks, wall scrolls, prints, postcards and more are all on sale!

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I think people need to understand that when someone says the situation in Israel/Palestine is complicated they are not necessarily saying that the discussion of who the oppressor vs oppressed is complicated. The Israeli government has been oppressing the Palestinians for a very long time, that is clear, and it is not complicated to understand that at least since the 80s they have had dramatically more financial and military power to keep control of the territory in the way they like.

However, it is reductive and dismissive to insist that there is no complexity in the potential ways to move forward to bring peace to the region. Despite what people on tumblr.edu like to believe, "Israel should never have been created" is not a practical solution to an incredibly heated geopolitical situation in the present day. Israel was created and it does exist. 10 million people live there. 74% of the population is native born and the country has existed for 75 years. Hand waving these fact away with the opinion that "they should move back to where they came from" may make you feel good about being a Radical Leftist, but it does not give anyone a road map for how exactly millions of people without dual citizenship are supposed to just up and evaporate. Nor does it acknowledge the reality that 21% of Israelis are Arabs, the very people you are claiming to want to give the land back to.

Insisting that there's nothing complicated about expecting an entire country's population to willingly dissappear with no consequences is not a productive way to think about this conflict. It ignores the many massive superpowers that have an interest in proping up different states in the region, the power dynamics involved in any land back movements, and the inevitably negative consequences of totally dissolving an established state without a plan. It is also completely and almost comically unrealistic, so much so that it makes it hard to believe that anyone who's opinion starts and ends with this idea really gives a shit about anyone who lives in the area as much as they care about their online leftist clout.

There's nothing complicated in understanding that the Israeli government is and has been maintaining an oppressive apartheid state for decades. It is, however, very complicated to come up with a realistic way to resolve some of the most intricately entangled land disputes on the planet without plunging the region into total chaos. Not everyone has to be deeply educated on every geopolitical situation, but it is very hard to take people seriously when they know nothing about the politics or history of a region and yet insist that there is nothing complicated about it at all.

There's a lot of people on this website who are getting dangerously smug about their own ignorance, and are starting to go down Qanon type anti-intellectual paths in the name of being sufficiently radical. Not knowing the details of a very convoluted land dispute isn't something to brag about online as you call for intentionally reductive solutions. You can support the Palestinian cause and be aware of the oppression they have faced while also holding off on calling people trying to do real analysis and de-escalation work bootlickers. We need to get control of the urge to fit every global issue into a simplistic YA novel narrative structure that appeals to Western revolutionary fantasies.

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resources to help palestinians living in gaza who will undoubtably be faced with unimaginable brutality in the coming days

- baitulmaal.org

- gaza mutual aid collective (pay/pal: AGEDKNAFEH)

not affiliated with aid but your local community may be doing a solidarity protest tomorrow listed here

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Armed rebellion against an occupier state can absolutely be legitimate. If Hamas had taken over the areas of the Gaza strip occupied by Israel and attempted to break the blockade, that would arguably have fallen under that category (although I still hate Hamas for like everything else they did, that's just for the example).

But that's not what happened. They targeted civilians, took innocent people as hostages, bombed residential housings. That's unacceptable, and not what Palestinian liberation should ever be. I'm appalled at the number of people seeing this as a rightful fight against an occupier state, rather than as a terrorist operation disguised at one. Especially since it will likely bring nothing but death to Palestinian civilians themselves.

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Genshin Impact - The Retro Anime Opening ✨

#GenshinImpact  #原神  #HoYoFair2023 #hoyofair

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tonight’s mood