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AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

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I’ve been working on this off and on since September 2021! I see a lot of cross-stitch versions of video game sprites and I thought “I wonder how it would look to stitch a walk-cycle together” and the answer is: IT WORKS!

Hello.

We are testing out an optional setting to shorten long posts on the dashboard. We’re initially rolling this feature out to a smaller number of you on web and iOS starting today, March 28, with an Android release to follow soon. We realize this is a significant change to how you interact with your dash. So this will be an optional feature you can easily turn off anytime by visiting your dashboard settings and toggling “Shorten long posts” off.

What does this mean?

Long posts can crowd your dashboard. Some of you find them so annoying that you filter out the tag #long post. This means you could be missing out on posts you might love that also happen to be tagged as #long post. This setting shortens posts to offer a content preview instead—with the option to unfurl the full post by clicking “Expand” on web, or opening the post in a new screen by tapping “View Post” on iOS and Android. Here is a preview of how your dashboard will now appear on web before expanding the full post.

Why are we doing this?

Some of you have told us that long posts can feel like they take over your feed or make it harder to skip uninteresting posts. This feature will allow you to scroll through content more smoothly while also encouraging meaningful interactions—promoting the art, culture, and content you love, curate, and create.

Sometimes on my bone videos (Tiktok.com/@rollbones) witches say I need to leave stuff/sacrifices/gifts out in nature to thank the spirits for taking bones. They are polite enough so no shade, and I appreciate the thought and engagement! Honestly I love feedback. But let me answer that: no. 

I only take about 1% of the bones I find, I mostly bone hunt for exploration and to make videos. 

Leaving stuff out in nature is not actually good for nature. 

Do whatever religion you want but be careful not to act as though everyone else follows it too.

Everyone harms nature all the time, including right now as I type on my computer full of exploitative materials, using electricity, so, I’m not gonna overly criticize witches who leave stuff in nature as part of their ritual. But please do not act as though it a moral imperative to violate leave no trace.

If you’re leaving man-made items, they’re trash. If you’re leaving natural items, they could be or contain invasive seeds, bugs, etc. If you’re leaving food, you’re artificially habituating wildlife to human food. No matter what you leave, you took from somewhere else, and are you gonna go thank the tree that grew the apple you’re leaving? The oil field that produced the plastic symbol you’re giving as a gift? Are you gonna be stuck in a loop of forever leaving gifts for the part of nature that you took something from to make another gift? 

This is a bit off topic but I think one thing people differ on philosophically regards showing love in a way that benefits the lover rather than the lovee. 

Once I met someone who would hunt with dogs, which is a controversial practice. Long story short there are definitely hunters who abuse, starve, and kill their hunting dogs if they get any tiny injury that costs more than $20 to fix. I asked one hunter, “how do you take care of so many dogs?” 

He completely blew off the issues of welfare and said “but we love them!” Does he show his love by figuring out their needs and wants and doing what benefits them? Maybe, but he only talked about how his son hugged and cuddled a dog. “Who could say we abuse them if we’re lovin’ on them?” And how his friend’s mantle is completely covered with urns from all the dogs who have died in his care. “Who could say we abuse them if we’re sentimental about their remains?”

Sometimes on my bone videos (Tiktok.com/@rollbones) witches say I need to leave stuff/sacrifices/gifts out in nature to thank the spirits for taking bones. They are polite enough so no shade, and I appreciate the thought and engagement! Honestly I love feedback. But let me answer that: no. 

I only take about 1% of the bones I find, I mostly bone hunt for exploration and to make videos. 

Leaving stuff out in nature is not actually good for nature. 

Do whatever religion you want but be careful not to act as though everyone else follows it too.

Everyone harms nature all the time, including right now as I type on my computer full of exploitative materials, using electricity, so, I’m not gonna overly criticize witches who leave stuff in nature as part of their ritual. But please do not act as though it a moral imperative to violate leave no trace.

If you’re leaving man-made items, they’re trash. If you’re leaving natural items, they could be or contain invasive seeds, bugs, etc. If you’re leaving food, you’re artificially habituating wildlife to human food. No matter what you leave, you took from somewhere else, and are you gonna go thank the tree that grew the apple you’re leaving? The oil field that produced the plastic symbol you’re giving as a gift? Are you gonna be stuck in a loop of forever leaving gifts for the part of nature that you took something from to make another gift?