Indigenous People In The Arctic: *cause Virtually No Harm To The Environment With Their Hunting Practices

testament to how truly fucked up and exhausting 2020 has been is scientists currently going ‘we just found solid evidence of potential extraterrestrial life on venus! parallel biological processes! life in the universe might be common!’ and 90% of the reactions i’ve seen so far being ‘eh, might as well’

Tactoon-cat Cartoons

29,400 killed in bombings, shooting sprees, etc. Deaths by disease, hunger, dehydration, lack of access to medication like insulin, as well as those missing under the rubble are not counted (and various administration sites that kept records like Al Shifa Hospital are no longer functioning) so yeah the real death count is much closer to 100,000

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.

Fun fact: I’m autistic I’m gonna do a thing inspired by another person

Reblog if your blog is safe for autistic people or is ran by an autistic person!

oh and

Reblog if you stand against Autism Speaks!

I haven’t cried like this is a long time😢. Nigeria is burning.

Today, 10/20/2020 the Nigerian government sent the military to kill unarmed innocent civilians, a bloody massacre.

Every single drop of innocent Nigerian blood spilled will judge Buhari, Sanwo-Olu and Tinubu. They will never know peace. The blood of the innocent will curse them. They will suffer severely before they die.

How in the world did CDPR get this game past compliance, holy shit