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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.

#no ai art #fuck ai art

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You never be better then commander Shepard.

Commander. 

#mass effect #fem shepard #shepard #mass effect fanart

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reminder since we're gettin another wave of bots:

if you don't distinguish yourself from a bot, just any sorta indication that a human made the blog, like a funny pfp or description, or even a disclaimer that you're a lurker, then you're almost certainly gonna be blocked n reported for spam when you follow people

#tumblr stuff #this is the warning that i’m gonna be blocking suspicious blogs here so update your profile if you haven’t already

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Love this 💙❤️

Shepard and Garrus wedding near where they first met ❤️

Thank you @drathe for this beautiful piece!

#shakarian #mass effect #garrus x femshep #commander shepard #mass effect trilogy

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Both Barbie and Oppenheimer are going to be amazing movies and undoubtedly leave their mark on pop culture.

But they'll never top Goncharov.

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Post fight ritual

@things-erin-likes “ # ataboy'ed into next week “

#mass effect #commander shepard #funny

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The “Shepard Effect” has gotten so much funnier to me as I replay Mass Effect. The thing where all Shep’s squadmates end up flying the nest and becoming big important players in their own spheres? Like the random mercenary Shep brought along to hunt Saren ended up leading his entire species, that random Quarian kiddo on her Pilgrimage ends up as her species ambassador, the Virmire survivor becomes the next human Specter, etc. It’s the effect Shepard just has on the people around them that launches their careers/destinies… except it doesn’t apply to Shepard themself. I get the marketing plan of “Commander Shepard” being the only title so they’re more recognizeable to a gamer audience, but from a military perspective it is so fucking funny that Commander Shepard doesn’t get promoted once. Like not even posthumously, not even after saving the Citadel and killing Reapers left and right, all the while their squadmates are jumping from lieutenant to major, kid to ambassador, professor to Shadow Broker. Garrus isn’t even attached to any government body, and he still goes from C-Sec officer to Omega vigilante to Reaper expert(?) in the turian Hierarchy. It’s unclear what his official position is in the third game, but we know he gets a salute from a Hierarchy general.

And here’s Shepard cruising through, still a Commander because obviously they haven’t done a single thing worthy of promotion since the first game. No, it’s fine, they’ll fix everything for you and keep killing Reapers left and right. Died in the line of duty? Just a normal tuesday for Commander Shepard, nothing noteworthy here. Yes they will be the commanding officer of a major, there is nothing strange about this rank structure. 

#mass effect #commander shepard #mass effect meta

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Been replaying ME1 and I got slammed hard with Anderson/Shepard father/daughter feels 🥺

#mass effect #femshep #mass effect trilogy #female shepard

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full offense but none of you would have ever survived fanfiction.net in 2009

#fanfic #it was the Wild West back then #fanfic.net #but glad I skipped wattpad and went straight to Ao3

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An idea I've had for a while until I talked myself out of doing it because it didn't seem to be how light works in regards to metal (or at least the one singular animal on earth which uses metal in its biology which happens to be a snail btw)

And then I watched ONE (1) video on Structural Colouring (aka Iridescence) in dinosaurs and birds and that was justification enough for me to lose my mind.

#garrus vakarian #mass effect #he’s shiny ✨

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She would. And she'd keep the picture framed somewhere in her room.

#mass effect #commander shepard #female shepard

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#mass effect #garrus vakarian #female shepard #garrus x femshep #shakarian #sobbing

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Porn bots are back in force I see.

#attack of the bots #ugh #time to garden again #got to start picking out the weeds

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#not the dystopian future I want to live.

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Hollywood has no concept of what 5th century Romans looked like. If I'm watching a movie about the final days of the Western Roman Empire, I should be seeing zero togas. It's like if you made a movie about the Trump administration, you wouldn't have people dressed like the founding fathers. That's how wrong it is.

This is what 5th century Romans looked like:

I think the problem is that pop culture has this theme park version of history that treats time periods like distinct worlds with no fluidity between them. In Roman Times, people dressed like this vs Medieval Times when people dressed like that. But that is obviously not how time works. The end of the Western Roman Empire led directly into and overlapped with the Middle Ages, and the aesthetics we associate with medieval Europe were already long established.

On a related note, the "barbarians" didn't dress like you think they did either. Less of this:

More of this:

(Art by Angus McBride)

Again, the end of the Western Roman Empire was the beginning of medieval Europe, and it already looked like it.

The notable exception was the Franks, who apparently really did dress like that:

There really is an exception to everything, and it's usually the French.

#historic fashion #history #medieval europe

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friends

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they don't tell you part of the job was sleep deprivation

#mass effect #femshep #commander shepard #just let her sleep pls