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am0ngtheb0nes · 18 days
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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.
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am0ngtheb0nes · 26 days
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whenever someone in a story tells a character they're training to fight to treat their weapon like an extension of themselves i always feel like more weight should be put on that statement. on the implication that in learning to wield a weapon you must become it. you must make it a part of you. you must walk down a path from which you will never be able to come back from.
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am0ngtheb0nes · 26 days
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have we tried substance abuse my liege
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am0ngtheb0nes · 30 days
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Thank you tumblr for once again proving that no matter how advanced things get dumb decisions can still be made. Bravely going where everyone else has gone. What stellar decsion making, allowing AI scraping and selling user stuff automatically to companies and AI on the anit-AI site. Brilliant. Bra-fucking-vo.
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am0ngtheb0nes · 1 month
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i love wyll so much because he really is so 24. saw someone say he has wise old man vibes which is so funny because he's constantly like "I am going to save the world. And get married! Let's have a beautiful fairy-tale romance. Have you heard this fable? I'll tell it to you. Why did Lae'zel get upset when we talked about poetry and philosophy all night...? Let me wax poetic at you...I love you! I'm now going to practice dancing in the dead of night. I want to dance with you. We can do anything. We're going to change the world. I'm going to be a hero. I'll die for you I'll die for anybody right now. Hold on I need to make a Fun and Charming quip. Now another. Love you. I miss my dad so much God I miss my dad" & meanwhile gale is like. "my knees hurt when i crouch and children are far too scary a commitment"
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am0ngtheb0nes · 5 months
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Just a little sketch from a fanfic I am writing.
Takes place in Heavensward - these two need a break. The constant abandonment must take a toll.
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am0ngtheb0nes · 5 months
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A fun art work of my FFXIV WOL Rhyme
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am0ngtheb0nes · 6 months
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Thank you to everyone who got me to 500 likes!
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am0ngtheb0nes · 7 months
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I am not sorry for the person I am about to become.
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am0ngtheb0nes · 7 months
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Adam’s Creation and Appearance
So there’s a lot of nitpicking surrounding how Victor made Adam and how Adam should be portrayed as a result of that (e.g. should he have stitches, varying skin color, etc). I find this kinda weird because we don’t actually know how Adam was made. Victor intentionally omits this information when telling his story to Robert Walton for fear of someone managing to reproduce his work.(1)
We do have a few, scant details, but they’re hardly enough to draw any solid conclusions from. Here’s a list of all the facts given about his creation (relevant quotes with page numbers at bottom of post):
Making Adam big allowed Victor to work faster.(2)
It took Victor months to gather the materials he needed.(3)
Some materials were gathered from dissecting rooms, charnal houses, and slaughter-houses.(4)
Victor was able to choose Adam’s features (e.g. hair color and texture, tooth alignment).(5)
The whole process, both gathering materials and actual construction, took a little under two years.(6)
That’s it. That’s all we know. We don’t know how these “materials” were used, we don’t know what caused them to go from inanimate to living, or even what exactly they were. Yes, Victor mentions collecting his materials from the places listed above, but aside from mentioning bones(4), he doesn’t say what exactly he was taking. Were they intact organs? Pieces of tissue? Entire limbs? We don’t know. Confusing things further, Victor mentions that he “dabbled” with graves and “tortured living animals”(7), but doesn’t clarify whether these were additional sources of materials or simply research into the mechanisms of life and death.
General consensus seems to be that Victor used organs and whole body parts from cadavers to create Adam, but there’s plenty of evidence that that’s not the case. Aside from the fact that it would’ve been difficult to create an 8ft tall body with proportional limbs out of pieces of humans averaging under 6ft, there are a few lines in the novel that indicate that this wasn’t Victor’s method. Victor consistently refers to the materials he used as “lifeless” and “inanimate”, but never dead. He also consistently speaks of imbuing new life into the materials rather than renewing or restoring life. In fact he outright states that reanimating the dead was, as best as he could figure, impossible.(8) Whether this only refers to raising a dead individual as they’d been in life or to any organic tissue is, like so much of Victor’s research, extremely vague.
So where does that leave us in terms of Adam’s appearance? Well, with not a whole lot to go on. Does he have stitches? Maybe. Does his skin color vary? Also maybe, though probably not given that Victor describes his skin and makes no mention of any variation in tone.(9)
The closest thing we have to a canon appearance for him is probably the illustration included in the 1831 edition of the novel.
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There’s no stitches or other scars visible here, but since we have no idea how much (if any) input Shelley herself had on this design, that’s not necessarily confirmation one way or the other.
Ultimately, aside from a handful of details, we don’t really know what Adam should look like. We know he has thick black hair, watery yellowish eyes, yellower skin, straight white teeth, thin black lips, and is 8ft tall with all features proportional to that size.(9) Outside of that, and the fact that he looked ugly but not horrifying right up until he started moving(10), it’s up to the reader’s imagination. And given that the novel was intended to be a horror story, I suspect that’s intentional. In horror it’s often our imaginations that supply the most frightening imagery and any good creator of horror is aware of this fact.
So portray Adam however you want, and maybe don’t nitpick other people’s portrayals of him. So long as neither of you are going against the few explicitly described details the novel provides, they’re probably not any more off the mark than you are.
Source quotes and page numbers below the cut.
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am0ngtheb0nes · 8 months
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𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓎𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓇, 𝐵𝑒𝓁𝓁𝒶
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am0ngtheb0nes · 8 months
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Farewell Sweet Crabs 👋 🦀
I summoned 31 🦀, captured 27 💰, befriended 0 ���, and 0 fell in love with me 💜. I will miss you my sweet crabs.
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am0ngtheb0nes · 8 months
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August 19, 1987
Its been three weeks now, and this handprint hasn't faded at all. Despite its appearance, it actually doesn't hurt that much. It only seems to ache when I'm alone or in the loneliest hours of the night - the ones where I find myself more and more frequently pulled back to that place. I should tell someone - I should tell Julia - but I can't bear the thought that she wouldn't believe me. I just hope that this is some kind of phase, and it will fade again. Even now, as I write this, I can feel that horrible cold. I need more blankets. -- Exerpt from the diary of Wren Saint-John
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am0ngtheb0nes · 8 months
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Wren Alexander Saint-John: Returning to public life? Exclusive interveiw!!
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am0ngtheb0nes · 9 months
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am0ngtheb0nes · 9 months
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@am0ngtheb0nes's PC Acheron. I'd die for them
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am0ngtheb0nes · 10 months
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Friends don’t look at friends like this.
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