#fuck corpos

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

By jamesthetang on IG

#cyberpunk 2077 #fuck corpos #fuck elon musk #johnny silverhand #cyberpunk memes

[chipped-chimera]

Seeing crochet clothing being 'in' now is always kind of frustrating as someone who can actually crochet for shit (evidence attached) because as much as I'd love to be able to maybe sell some of that work, ultimately you can't compete with that store (machine?)grade shit. A crochet maxi-skirt made from granny squares is selling for AUD $60. AUD $60 wouldn't even cover the cost of the materials (in a nice, wearable quality yarn). :/

Well at least when I make something I know it's not gonna be basic bitch shit -

#kerytalk #crochet #fuck corpos #I guess I can file this under that #also no joke this has been on the last row for nearly a year because I'm just 'if I finish it what the fuck do I do #I think it cost me idk ... 150? AUD for materials #this is just acrylic but it doesn't feel shit #I flip flop on starting a small business for money because I do have a lot of creative hobby knowledge I can sell #crochet and then I can make seed-bead earrings #I can sew decent too #made a bunch of masks during the pandemic #I just really do not have the energy to market that shit though #right now I'm considering learning to sculpt jewellery for 3D printing #but I think I'd need someone to team up with because managing that commercially is beyond me #I GUESS #ventpost

[soop-musical-fool]

Spotify can pry 15 dollars from my cold, dead hands.

If you want to inundate your app with ads, only play shuffle, and play random shit I didn't ask for instead of Sugar by SOAD then I will simply fucking torrent albums one at a time if I need to.

Fuck off corpos. You don't deserve to profit off shit you didn't make.

#196 #anticapitalism #fuck corpos #all my homies hate corpos

[alertarchitect]

Full disclosure, this is a long one. It's also a vent post. I'm mainly writing this out to help get the thoughts and feelings regarding this kind of organized and out of my head, makes dealing with them just a little easier. Maybe it'll help you put to words your own thoughts & feelings on this kinda shit, too, and if it does, I'm glad my screaming into the void at least helped out someone other than myself! After all, if anything I say, write, or do ends up helping at least one other person, then maybe I'm doing something right :]

Sometimes having long-time special interests in an ongoing franchise FUCKING SUCKS. Perfect example - I am both a big Halo nerd, and really enjoy the overaching lore of Bungie's connected worlds (with how Marathon, Pathways into Darkness, Myth, Destiny, and even the ways Halo originally connected before it had to become its own thing thanks to Microsoft). Here are the ways that currently sucks:

The state of Halo Infinite, the most recent Halo game, both currently and at launch. At launch, you had a buggy mess, with multiplayer that barely functioned, lacking feature parity (even just on the multiplayer side of things, not counting the campaign) with Halo Reach, a game from 2010. Currently, 343i has admittedly fixed a lot of the launch issues - there's more customization than the game has ever had before (still not as good as Reach's customization imo, but at this point I've given up hope on any multiplayer AAA game having that level of customization for free ever again), the desync issues (in my experience) are no longer happening, and it has the most powerful Forge mode in any Halo game to date. The flip side of that, though? Egregiously horrendous monetization, an armor core and coating system that both hurt the customization more than help, and a drip-feed of content with little to no communication from 343 on anything past the most recent update. Not to mention the issues that come from a focus on "Live Service" bullshit.

The issues at 343 Industries itself, which come part and parcel with the massive issues related to Microsoft as a company. Massive megacorporation, horrible management, staff getting screwed over, crunch culture, and more - it just goes on and on.

Halo 5, despite its generally negative reception, is horrendously inaccessible to those of us that want to experience it as a piece of history and/or try out the multiplayer. A perfect example of how little companies care about game preservation, despite the decent track record 343i has had in that respect thanks to the Master Chief Collection, its PC release and addition of Halo Reach, and the efforts to find, occasionally recreate from almost nothing, and implement lost & cut content in the MCC titles.

Being a fan of Bungie's overarching stuff... really bad when you are at PEAK investment into their stuff, namely my Destiny 2 hyperfixation, and they not only announce that their new Marathon game is going to be a fucking EXTRACTION SHOOTER, and thus unlikely to have one of the most interesting things about Marathon in it (that being its lore) while also being very hard to get into thanks to people treating that kind of game as a massive sweat-fest, but also suddenly lay off a bunch of employees (when previously they had a good track record of treating employees decently...) due to Square Enix levels of profit overestimations of Lightfall, the BEST SELLING DESTINY EXPANSION EVER only getting 45% of the expected sales. Because why be realistic, right? Just fuck over employees, that certainly won't hurt us in the end!

The fact that, despite ALL OF THIS and my moral convictions against the shitty nature of this stuff, my dumbass brain still wants me to just spend spend spend on it anyway because of how much of a special interest Halo & the Bungie lore are to me - it almost hurts. I generally prefer fantasy stuff, but I can't stop myself from loving the lore and stories associated with this stuff. I have to fight myself every goddamn time I have money to not fall into the traps. It's easier with Destiny - I uninstalled it, replaced my PvE needs with Warframe and Risk of Rain 2, replaced my PvP needs with Halo Infinite, and just keep up with the story from a distance. But now that Halo Infinite is back in my life? I love the gameplay, hell I'd go as far as to say it has some of the strongest gameplay in the series (though some modes could use a bit more work, for example the Infection mode just isn't as fun as the Infection from Halo Reach), but the monetization just... AAAARGH it hurts me that I want to spend on it, both for customization and to have little goals to work towards in the (thankfully well-implemented due to them being available eternally) battle passes.

I just want to be able to love something that's been so central to me for so long - I played a cracked version of the CE PC demo for countless hours growing up, to the point that to this day I know the mission Silent Cartographer back to front from memory & could do it in my sleep, and associate Blood Gulch with countless memories of Halo's multiplayer from how often I'd play it with my sister, and to add onto all of that Halo Reach is one of my favorite games ever made, period - without caveats and moral hangups. I just want to love something without justifying it every time I think of it, both to myself and others.

I know this is a massively first-world issue, having the luxury to whine about my Favorite Things going through years and years of getting fucked by their own successes driving them into corporatism, but it still sucks. Obviously not as much as other issues both myself and others deal with, and DEFINITELY not as much as the horrible shit people are enduring in several parts of the world, but just enough for me to want/need to vent about how much corporations like to shit on the little rays of sunshine that we use to feel better about life.

#vent post #halo #halo infinite #marathon #pathways into darkness #myth the fallen lords #destiny 2 #corporate bullshit #fuck corpos #just let me have nice things in peace goddammit #why does everything have to be fucked with SO MUCH over time #I just want comfort games I don't have to think about the real-world bullshit of too much #but unfortunately my brain landed on options that #while not the WORST by any stretch of the imagination #I mean just LOOK at the state of CoD Battlefield and just... #EVERYTHING that was touched by the Shitty Wizard Franchise #which I only mention due to how many people I've known who had to find a completely new comfort media after JKR proved herself to be a TERF #it still sucks that it's nearly impossible to find something that isn't either problematic or actively getting enshittified #at least in my favorite genres #namely FPS games (both modern and retro) and Metroidvanias #and while the latter isn't too bad #the former just gets infested with so much assholery and corpo fuckery that #you either have to play an indie game made by one person who could turn out shit at any time and that is so niche there's no multiplayer #or just deal with the shittiness involved with getting too attached to a franchise owned and produced by a megacorporation #and unfortunately I got attached to one of the latter from a young age so #at least I can feel a little better now that I've kinda gotten the bulk of my thoughts about it off of my chest #which I honestly REALLY needed to do #so that's good at least

[artemisvenatrix]

Friendly reminder that it is a moral obligation to pirate games, media, and software made by and distributed through major corporations.

#piracy #i fucking love piracy #aaaarggh #shiver me timbers #fuck corpos

[lacycada]

FUCK YOU DISCORD AND FUCK AI "ART"

i'm getting sick of this shit creeping its way into things i love and trying to take away the passion and hobbies and jobs of artists and writers. this shit is a plague and i WISH i could just leave discord like it's easy to leave other social media sites but all my friends and circles are on here and it would be lonely as hell to just leave to guilded or something. i know discord won't go back on this because of how much of a profit they are already making off of it.

all i can do is try to be proactive and find a good alternative and just move there. not take any more of this company's bullshit after their already insane attempt to implement NFT's on their app, and especially now that they're "finally" adding "themes" to their app but of course that's behind a paywall. because of course. when everyone could just do it far better and far freer before with an extension. insane. i hate corporations, and i hate discord.

if anyone has any proper alternatives that aren't horrible please let me know

#discord #ai #rant #fuck corpos #i dont even know how to tag this for ai art since people probably block that tag #i hate discord

[puellaumemagica]

All this anti remote work news propaganda is fucking wild

I wish these corpos would get over it accept that remote work is the future and here to stay..stop trying to lease out shitty skyscraper cubicles office space and let mfs work from home

#fuck corpos

[artisticwolfprints]

Lacrima’s Punk Girl DTIYS

This character belongs to my friend LacrimaArt on Twitter.

#digital #digital art #digital artwork #procreate #procreate drawing #procreate painting #artwork #digital drawing #procreate art #digital illustration #punk #middle finger #fuck corporations #fuck corpos

[direfang]

hey update on YT folks; ublock has put out a guide to getting adblock to work on there again, which i only found out today bc YT failed to work with ublock running.

you can find their post >here<, i highly recommend following the link in the post to submit complaints to YT about violating a policy their parent company follows as well, as we'll be in a perpetual cycle of bullshit if we dont.

EDIT: 10/18

I'm turning off reblogs for this post as the info is outdated! Please refer to the post >>HERE<< for how to fix your ublock. Please note this is for firefox only, Chrome has already fucked over adblockers entirely.

#wyrm words #youtube adblock campaign #youtube #uBlock origin #im FUCKING sick of corpos dude #edited post #stop reblogging mine! the info isnt relevant anymore

[rhinequeen]

I'm a very trusting person. Infact there are only 3 men in the whole world that I don't trust.

Salesman. Statesman, and Lawman.

#fuck corpos #fuck facists #fuck cops

[kaxen]

Hey fellas, start checking your blog settings...

#fuck AI and corpos

[benthesoldiersjeanshorts]

#dank memes #memes #lol memes #meme #stolen memes #eat the rich #fuck the corpos #tax the billionaires

[chipped-chimera]

Stumbled on this - so for anyone out of the loop part of Reddit blowing up last year was because it was making use of it's API prohibitively expensive for the average person to use, killing off a lot of (superior) third party apps used to both browse and moderate the platform on mobile.

I don't know if it was stated explicitly at the time, but for me the writing was on the wall - this was purely to fence off Reddit's data from being trawled by web scraping bots - exactly the same thing Elon Musk did when he took over Twitter so he could wall off that data for his own AI development.

So it comes as absolutely zero surprise to me that with Reddit's IPO filing, AI and LLM (Large Language Models) are mentioned SEVERAL times. This is all to tempt a public buyer.

What they do acknowledge though, which is why this video is titled 'Reddit's Trojan Horse' is the fact that while initially this might work and be worth a lot - as the use of AI grows, so will the likelihood that AI generated content being passed off as 'human generated' on the platform will grow - essentially nulling the value of having a user-generated dataset, if not actively MAKING IT WORSE.

As stated in the video - it's widely known that feeding AI content into an AI causes 'model collapse', or complete degeneration into gibberish and 'hallucinations'. This goes for both LLM's and Image Generation AI.

Now given current estimates that 90% of the internet's content will be AI generated by 2026 that means most of the internet is going to turn into a potential minefield for web-scraping content to shove into a training dataset, because now you have to really start paying attention what your bot is sucking up - because lets face it, no one is really going to look at what is in that dataset because it's simply too huge (unless you're one of those poor people in Kenya being paid jack shit to basically weed out the most disgusting and likely traumatizing content from a massive dataset).

What I know about current web-scraping, is OpenAI at least has built it's bot to recognize AI generated image content and exclude it from the scrape. An early version of image protection on the side of Artists was something like this - it basically injected a little bit of data to make the bot think it was AI generated and leave it alone. Now of course we have Nightshade and Glaze, which actively work against training the model and 'poison' the dataset, making Model Collapse worse.

So right now, the best way to protect your images (and I mean all images you post online publicly, not just art) from being scraped is to Glaze/Nightshade them, because either these bots will likely be programmed to avoid them - but if not, good news! You poisoned the dataset.

What I was kind of stumped on is Language Models. While feeding AI LLM's their own data also causes Model Collapse, it's harder to understand why. With an image it makes sense - it's all 1's and 0's to a machine, and there is some underlying pattern within that data which gets further reinforced and contributes to the Model Collapse. But with text?

You can't really Nightshade/Glaze text.

Or can you?

Much like with images, there is clearly something about the way a LLM chooses words and letters that has a similar pattern that when reinforced contributes to this Model Collapse. It may read perfectly fine to us, but in a way that text is poisoned for the AI. There's talk of trying to figure out a way to 'watermark' generated text, but probably won't figure that one out any time soon given they're not really sure how it's happening in the first place. But AI has turned into a global arms race of development, they need data and they need it yesterday.

For those who want to disrupt LLM's, I have a proposal - get your AI to reword your shit. Just a bit. Just enough, that it's got this pattern injected.

These companies have basically opened Pandora's Box to the internet before even knowing this would be a problem - they were too focused on getting money (surprise! It's capitalism again). And well, Karma's about to be a massive bitch to them for rushing it out the door and stealing a metric fucktonne of data without permission.

If they want good data? They will have to come to the people who hold the good data, in it's untarnished, pure form.

I don't know how accurate this language poisoning method could be, I'm just spitballing hypotheticals here based on the stuff I know and current commentary in AI tech spaces. Either way, the tables are gonna turn soon.

So hang in there. Don't let corpos convince you that you don't have control here - you soon will have a lot of control. Trap the absolute fuck out of everything you post online, let it become a literal minefield for them.

Let them get desperate. And if they want good data? Well they're just going to have to pay for it like they should have done in the first place.

Fuck corpos. Poison the machine. Give them nothing for free.

#kerytalk #anti ai #honestly the fact that language models can't identify it's own text should have hit me a LOT sooner #long post #Sorry I am enjoying the fuck out of this and the direction it's going in - like for once Karma might ACTUALLY WORK #especially enjoying it since yeah AI image generation dropping killed my creative motivation big time and I'm still struggling with it #these fuckers need to pay #fuck corpos #tech dystopia #my commentary #is probably a more accurate tag I'll need to change to #Youtube

[azzydoesstuff]

people on steam discussion forums when making the game takes time and the developer has a life instead of slaving away 23 hours a day for to make them free updates twice a week:

#zeekerss has said that he's going through some crazy changes in his life rn #and ungrateful dinguses are whining about how “lazy” he is and how the new beta branch “sucks” #MY GUY there is LITERALLY ONE SINGULAR COLLEGE STUDENET WORKING ON THE GAME #HOW DO YOU EXPECT HIM TO PUMP OUT MASSIVE UPDATES IN SUCH LITTLE TIME #do YOU know how to make a game?? could YOU release updates frequently in your life's current state??? #i mean with large corpos like mojang i can kind of understand but this is just unreasonable #patience is a virtue for fucks sake. the game is still getting an update #but just because it's not some big whoop it doesn't mean it's shit #shitpost #shitposting #lethal company #lethal company update #lethal company shitpost #lethalposting #companyposting #zeekerss #zeekers

[mail-me-a-snail]

i want netrunners who look physically SICK and FUCKED UP. i want netrunners who spend hours plugged into the net and forget to eat/exist as a human being and have trouble regulating their own body temperatures without the netrunning jumpsuit and i want that to be EVIDENT.

i want cyberpunk to be GROTESQUE!!!!! NO MORE CLEANLINESS!!!! NO MORE SCRUBBED CLEAN AGONIES!!!!!!!!!!

#cyberpunk 2077 #cp2077 #no cause i think about it so often right #like where are the uber fucked up netrunners #corpo netrunners who run themselves into the ground being plugged in for so long #like everything is too Sleek. everything is a little too Cyber #and not so much Punk #i want the GRIME #i want netrunners forgetting how to WALK #I WANT AGONY!!!! #my post

[the-magnusinstitute]

All staff,

It is the twentieth of April.

In the Institute we have a STRICT no-drugs policy. However,

—

Elias Bouchard here. Illegal substances, whether ingested on or off Institute property, will not be tolerated. Can the following employees please report IMMEDIATELY to my office.

- Tim Stoker

- Murphy Reynolds

- Simon Smith

- Jenna Yang

- Darren Humphries

- Ade Okonma

- and the entirety of the Artefact Storage senior leadership team

#magposting #staff only #hes gonna kill they ass 😭😭😭 #i took one of tims gummies oh god ih fuck #tmagpod #the magnus archives #tma #tmagp #the magnus institute #corpo content