Eclectic Writer and Artist. And as far as I know the first Jewish Korean Adoptee writer pro-published in SFF. Double gray-a. BA in Anthropology concentrated in systems. Minor in Comparative Lit.
Nightshade has a new version out April 2026 with bug fixes, for people arguing it's a dead project, etc.
Scrivener managed to fix a lot of the outstanding bugs with icons, and the templates I gave them. I literally gave them the Better Novel Template and all of the minor bugs that people complained about with that disappeared. Ha. I only gave it to them to fix the template stacking issue. I had to buy a new computer so had to update to the last version.
Ellipsus put out a Pro version, but decided to block enshittification accusations by having the subscription pay for the full version. So the cost is low at around 99 USD, but if you get a subscription, it STOPS paying once you hit the 99 USD, motivating them to create a better app.
Most of the HTML programs I can find have added AI. ==;; Even the free ones. The only one that doesn't shove it into your face every 10 seconds is Atom, notably doesn't work on Apple Silicon because it was last updated 2022. (Mac/PC, no Linux?)
There is a baby project that is not going to add AI to it based off of Firefox, but if you run on Windows or Mac, it won't stream (No Youtube, etc) But as it doesn't have an attached search engine, it looks like it might be able to beat Firefox once it's done, to the point that Fiefox is adding some of the features from their development back to Firefox.
So yeah, keeping up-to-date as much as possible, but as I said I haven't figured out a fix yet for the word limit on Tumblr on the masterpost.
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So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
Addendum for Affinity: the whole suite (vector, pixel, mass page editor) are now one program and free, HOWEVER the company has been bought out by Canva. They claim using Canva's AI is optional (a toggle switch under the paid premium plan), but considering you need a Canva account to download I would still be wary.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
Discover a world of creativity and craftsmanship through Handmade, an innovative platform connecting passionate artisans with discerning buy
Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
For the tags: #PROTON HAS SPELREADSHEETS NOW ACTUALLY THEYRE REALLY CLOSE TO GOOG IN A GOOD WAY#also scrivener my absolute beloved#never not open on my laptop tbh
When did they post this? August 11, 2025, 11:19 AM
As I said before, I constantly update and keep this post clean of trolls.
Those 3 dots are magic. You will find them in all sorts of places. Use them.
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So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.
Pro GenAI websites/Programs:
Facebook
Instagram
X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)
Threads
Pro Writing Aid
Grammarly
Duolingo
Google Docs
Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.
Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)
Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.
Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)
Canva Takes and feeds their machine.
Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.
Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.
Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.
Neutral ground:
Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai
Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.
Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).
Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.
Strong positions against AI:
Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.
LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)
Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.
yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.
Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.
Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.
Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.
Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.
Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.
Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.
Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.
Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)
Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.
Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.
Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)
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Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.
But you need a pro website...
Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/
Use cloudflare:
Use Nightshade:
https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html
which will poison the algorithm
Use Glaze:
Take Away:
The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.
Analysis shows that indiscriminately training generative artificial intelligence on real and generated content, usually done by scrapi
And why not help that along?
I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.
The attitude of "We need to kill people in order to make technological advancements" is terrible. It's terrible. If these AI bros love it so much, they should live in one place and then put the data centers there.
I don't hate Western Europe, but hasn't that been in fantasy enough often with poor justification and forgetting...
The Gulf Stream exists.
I'll say it one million times if you need:
To get England and Germany, and France, and Spain and kinda Italy, you need a Gulf Stream. How many more times do I need to say it? That far North it would be SIBERIA.
And then worldbuilders yell at me how dare you! You're destroying my world building. Then invent a Gulf Stream, that's it, yes, you Tolkien. Especially you. You need a gulf stream to get Middle Earth to work and be like Germany/England
But also, it's so much done that the rest of the world gets neglected for that, so I thought, "We should reverse it."
I'm justified in doing it because
THERE IS NO GULF STREAM-like structure in my world building.
The continent is large enough North to South, to have monsoons, so I can have monsoons and then that justifies the need for Desi-like culture.
(The requirement for monsoons is large enough continent that reaches into the zones, on Earth this would be Hadley and Ferrel Zones to create Continentality and extreme enough weather. I hope my geography prof is proud of me.)
This would justify Desi-like culture on the continent, and then the Northern reaches of the continent to be more like Eastern Europe and perhaps like Sámi. And as I illustrated in my world building post about Europe without the rest of the world, I really, really like the idea of wooly Rhino and Hippos roaming around and getting hunted. So I'll set Europe back to prehistoric times because that's FUN.
I do have Med cultures elsewhere in the world building but kinda where it makes sense. somewhere near the tropics, where there is likely a current, and between "Africa"-ish, and West Asian0-ish cultural influence, because unlike White supremacist idealization, Roman and so on cultures help that way.
Overall, Western Europe with an Agriculture subsistence system has been so overdone I would really like to see more Rromani-types, etc.
I have some Southeast Asian-ish, Indigenous peoples of North America-ish and (central and South) West Asian-ish and of course Peoples of the Pacific kind of represented. (Prof Egan would say something like I taught you all of that and you didn't apply it?)
The most technologically advanced in the world building as a nod to real world events are of course West Asian and Indigenous people. (All hail the Sweet Potato) Massive historical crush on Al Andalusia. I'm not doing that whole noble warrior crap. In my mind, if you can change the gene structure of a potato, you deserve it.
Best navigators, are of course the Polynesians-esque peoples.
Why? Because I may as well use my anthro degree to give great credit to things that people forget to include in fantasy and try to attribute to white people instead. Why not reverse that? Stepwells. water screws. The domestication of plants that seem near to impossible.
Western Europe would be nothing without wheat! Domesticated where? West Asia. So why not actually do world building around celebrating the whole of humanity.
As a kid, I always thought the Disney logo spelled, "Disnep." and never saw the logo spelled out until later. I constantly still think about that.
I always hated the term, "RIP" because I thought people were praying for the body to be ripped apart. I suppose it's a Christian notion. I still hate it.
My policy on banned books is that I don't think any book should really get banned or television show/movie, but that if we want to become more intelligent as a species, we should probably engage in why the belief or what is said is wrong, instead of shoving it into some basement closet somewhere and oooohhh... what if you actually think things like that. I'm more of the thought, if you do that, someone is going to repeat it again and again.
I still believe that children's media that bends to please adults first is a piece of trash and is invariably always going to be terrible. The bag clutching experience of watching television shows swerve important topics makes me long for Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. He talked a lot of tough topics on his show. Death. Bullying. And he still got through it. Oh, Racism. Can't talk about that. Oh, sexism! what about the innocent children. Adoption issues are too complicated for Kept children to talk about. We can't talk about divorce and how difficult it is and how to treat a kid that is/has experienced divorce. At some point, you are saving the adults, not the kids. I mean, I explained the structure of the solar system to a 7 year old.
I also think it does a disservice to make a writing "identity" for oneself based on the tools one uses habitually. It traps you. You used a hammer to put in that fastener! You must be a a hammerer for life! Oh look, a screw. "No, you are a hammerer and there is no way you could learn how to use a screwdriver. You're crazy. There are people who use screwdrivers." You can only outline your plots for life and never change your mind. That's your identity. You're doomed to never improvise in your life. And if you do a bit of both, you can't strictly improvise or strictly plot. I dun get it. Of course you can learn how, just like learning how to make scrambled eggs doesn't mean you can't learn how to make an egg sunny side down.
And generally, I like posting things that challenge people's base beliefs and on, "This is just the way we do things." But are you sure about that or are you repeating it because you never wanted to challenge it and ask the question: Is the sky really blue, or is it really a reflection off of water droplets reaching our eyes to appear blue, but then our eyes tend to see the opposite color of what the object is, so maybe, just maybe we are seeing the sky as blue, but really, the color we are experiencing is orange. But is that RGB or CMYK? And what about the animals that can see more than RGB, but also infrared.
BTW, the last one was pretty much me as a kid...
Math problem:
Jesse wants to go from Baker street to West Central. It will take him 20 minutes to go to Baker Street to Lexington and then he must spend 5 minutes at the tollbooth, spending 75 cents and then from the bridge travel from Lexington to West Central.
I would go, what's the traffic? Are there any turns? What kind of driver is Jesse. How many traffic stops are there? Has he driven the route before. How sure of the numbers are they? What is the weight of the car and how fast can it come to a stop? What is the torque on the car? What is the inertia.
And then my parents would be telling me "STOP, solve the problem."
Me: But, but he might be distracted by birds and why is he going to West Central, because he might have kids, groceries...
Why is conflict in US stories so much?
Why didn't Indus valley flush toilets make through Indian history?
Why did stepwells stop being a thing when we clearly need them still?
Why did Europeans stop using bolt pillows?
Where did the Asian eye pull come from?
How much Denosvan am I?
What if there are wavelengths of light that we can't see?
What if body to brain size isn't how intelligence is true?
But, Mom, Bees don't see like that even though their eyes are faceted, I saw it on a documentary. They might actually have better vision that we do in a 360 sort of manner, though not the same colors. Why can't I tell the natural museum staff? (They removed the exhibit the next time we came)
What if animals have an intelligence that humans can't match? How would we measure that?
Where did that phrase come from in history?
Why does Korean have so much synesthesia in it?
If you don't challenge every day things, like say, trees use a mycelial network to communicate, I think life is just that little less fun to live. (BTW, the Netflix doc on mushrooms has a lot of weird and bad info...)
The universe doesn't follow human rules, but you can choose to react to it as you like: fear or awe. And I rather not be married to a belief to a degree it has such power over me, it dictates everything I do.
My Penne-ultimate impossible Imp Pasta Impasto painting
Impasto is the painting technique particularly, but not only with acrylic where the paint comes off of the canvas because it is so thick. One is allowed to use gel and various mediums to get there.
This is my first sketch of the painting But I decided to change the aspect ratio and this wasn't a good sketch.
Plus I wasn't sure how to do forced perspective yet.
This painting took a long time and a lot of effort to think through. I changed my mind a lot.
Originally I thought I was going to go more cute, but I worried it looked too cartoonish...
So I revised.
This is in my sketchbook.
I used myself as a reference and tried to get a forced perspective.
This turned out to be difficult to get right. And holding ones pinky like that is rather impossible, but aesthetically pleasing.
So I drew it on canvas, but ended up having to redraw the right hand a few times.
I also got a reference for the caterpillar and looked up the meaning of "pasto" and found out it means "grass" and a place in Colombia called "Pasto" which has this really striking mountain.
I didn't copy the picture exactly, but this is my reference:
Not my image:
Una cadena de volcanes, selvas vírgenes y playas desiertas, lagos y páramos, plantaciones de café, reservas indígenas, sitios de interés
I was working on other paintings at the same time.
At this point I was mostly done, and the prof comes around and asks, "Is that real pasta?"
I said, "No. It's clear plastic straws."
I had this sinking feeling he was going to say it's not paint so I can't use it in the painting.
And then he says, "Do you have more? I was thinking, who is this imp? It should come off of the pasta plate."
I was like Oh, OK...
I then decided to put grass (pasto in Spanish) into the 3D vase I created out of a leftover string roll and cut up Styrofoam cups.
Excuse the poor lighting on this...
I was unhappy with the caterpillar, so I found my paper mache clay I made for my 3D class and used that (It's the RFK Jr. CDC project) I stuck it to the canvas, found out it worked for areas of the painting I needed it to work for, so I started modeling the vase better, and painted it white, and then used it for the fork, the meatballs and slathered it all over the background. I couldn't paint the red at home because my yellow lights skews the yellow in the picture, so I did most of the painting in stages.
After the white paint dried, I painted it a really dark blue.
The hills of Pasto Colombia were looking the wrong color, but it was supposed to be triadic. So I was going to stick to the yellow, but then I hated the living daylights out of it and decided to cheat it to look more like the picture and so painting the hills 100% yellow first on purpose to get the peaks of green and then coated the yellow with a heavy set of blue over the top.
I'd taken several monarch butterfly pictures so used those as reference and made the catepillar stick out.
Is there still surviving visible modeling paste on the canvas? Yes. In the hills. I also used it to stick the straws on some of them.
So I took it to class, and slowly turned the hills more and more blue, but didn't completely get rid of the yellow.
The teacher comes by and I had this sinking feeling. He said "What is that?"
And I said, "It's a vase because pasto in Spanish is grass, so I picked some weeds to put in it."
He gives this long pause before he says, "You know what it needs more. It should be overflowing from the painting."
I'm so used to teachers saying, "That's not the assignment."
But this professor said, "Real art challenges you." (Something AI can't do as I said, a grand averaging machine because the average of humanity is not interesting.)
My main problem in the later stages was to develop the imp and make sure the red hues were correct and correctly shaded. Color blending due to years of drawing anime isn't my strongest suit and so, I ended up adjusting it back and forth a lot.
The professor liked the fact I sunk the hills backwards by making them that blue.
I wanted to fuss with it, but one of my classmates said, "Stop" so I did.
This is proof it's impasto.
And so this is the final painting.
Some people thought it was cute, some people thought it was scary, some people thought it was a dinner date trying to eat them... I'm not sure, but it got the strongest visceral reaction out of the class out of all my paintings, which pleased me.
This is my penne ultimate impossible impasto painting with the background from Pasto, Columbia. Pasto means grass in Spanish. Imp pasta impasto. I feel impish with impostor impastor syndrome. Let me usher you into my painting exorcism. I think you can tell my influences from Sylvia Plimack Mangold, Catherine Koening and Lichtenstein.
The materials are paint, modeling paste, string cardboard tube, clear plastic straws, paper mache clay I made out of dry wall paste, toilet paper and cornstarch for my 3D class in the fall.
The plants are tropical milkweed, wild wheatgrass, rice grass, calendula, blue and white cornflower, Mexican oregano lippia type, Cuban oregano aka coelus amboinicus, fountain grass, tufted hairgrass, sweet potato leaves from my garden, Mexican sunflowers, marigolds, epizote, passionfruit leaves, lavendar, malamar spinach, thyme flowers, and taragon. The calendula are courtesy of Bliss and Nigel and the fountain grass is from my cousin with permission. The tarragon and mexican sunflower is from my plot neighbor Louise (with permission, of course). The malamar spinach is from Britney who wanted to join in the fun and then the marjoram is from Hope (with permission) And then there is tropical milkweed (not native milkweed).
Except the milkweed and probably some of the grass, the rest of it is 100% edible, which I thought would be a funny statement.
I gave the epizote to the teacher, BTW.
I hope you don't feel peckish at my impeccable painting of pasta. I hope it leaves you with a good impression.
There is no way an AI could do any of this.
The theming for this painting is off of a very bad pun that DOES NOT EXIST ON THE INTERNET until I came up with it. Believe me, I looked. And then the computer would have to cross correlate not one, but three soundalike words for "pasto" and then choose the right pasta (penne) for a bad joke.
Then it would have to know that imps are tiny creatures. Then it would have to know that imps have gold hairs on their body. And then it would need to figure a way to scale the imp to theme. Would it choose a monarch caterpillar? I doubt it. That one was by experiencing the world on the way to art class that I became determined to paint one in.
AFTER that, it would need to be able to make a 3D vase out of Styrofoam and a leftover paper tube. And then after that, it would need to create modeling paste version of a caterpillar out of homemade paper mache clay and modeling paste.
And then after that, it would need to be a part of a community garden where it could individually ask various artists/gardeners if they were willing to participate in a painting and have their good graces enough. And then intelligent enough to pick the flowers that would do the least destruction to the plots involved.
And then be able to pick wild wheat and grass from the parking strip.
The physically arrange the elements into the painting.
None of that AI can do. Because none of that is human average. It's the hard work of this planet, the sun, and human cooperation that made the final product possible. And I think this is what art can be, if we let it be it.
So thank you to everyone who helped make the final product what it is.
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This was sent to me...
https://www.googlewebappactivitylawsuit.com/
So Google is willing to spy on its own non-users too.
Class 1: All individuals who, during the period beginning July 1, 2016 and continuing through September 23, 2024, (a) had their “Web & App Activity” and/or “supplemental Web & App Activity” setting turned off and (b) whose activity on a non-Google-branded mobile app was still transmitted to Google, from (c) a mobile device running the Android operating system, because of the Firebase Software Development Kit (“SDK”) and/or Google Mobile Ads SDK.
Class 2: All individuals who, during the period beginning July 1, 2016 and continuing through September 23, 2024, (a) had their “Web & App Activity” and/or “supplemental Web & App Activity” setting turned off and (b) whose activity on a non-Google-branded mobile app was still transmitted to Google, from (c) a mobile device running a non-Android operating system, because of the Firebase SDK and/or Google Mobile Ads SDK.
Are you sure you trust them as a search engine and a company when they are willing to repeatedly get sued for this and still not stop it? This is not their first case and will not be their last.
De-Google as much as you can. I preferred if you did it because you were anti-AI, but if you want some class action lawsuit cash in the future, that's good enough.
If you still are on Google Docs, etc, I'd seriously reconsider. Notice the wording of the what was won in the lawsuit. Google can freely collect the information of its users, including everything in the GSuite as they like.
A great alt is Ellipsus which allows much of the same things, but doesn't steal from you and has their user agreement to say they won't.
The idea that 16 was a common marriage age (Fantasy/Historical Fiction)
You see, kids, in Ye Olde times, the common marriage age for women was 16 (or younger) and so in my MADE UP FANTASY NOVEL I'm going to FORCE my female character to marry at 16.
I've been tracking down where this idea came from and the truth behind it as a side quest because:
Incels are disgusting
Epstien files
even "Liberal" organizations like Planned Parenthood will not back off of child marriage and that's still a WTF.
Pedos are disgusting
I find the whole pervy, let's make them 16 and experience motherhood then in fantasy something I want to stab hard.
SERIOUSLY, THE US IS FUCKED UP IN THIS CASE.
For a disclosure, I'm in favor of the Regency age of *drumroll please* Yes, 19-20. Or at least dudes, 18 and the adjustment by AGE of participants as well, to make sure of no grooming and absolute consent.
Where did this idea come from?
I actually covered this briefly in my Adoption and Foster Care History I video, but, there's this idea in Tudor Times (that's Early Modern period for the History nerds) babies could get married and it was condoned by the church. I went and I bought the book that said that this was not the case.
What happened was often parents would get into debt and promise their babies to a person, but this is key: Neither the law nor the church would support this practice and it was seen as wholly against all moral codes to do so. Somehow, a lot of people think that what royalty did was common practice among the regular folk. NOPE.
And while Royal marriages I've found worldwide did have children promised to each other, often there was a special ceremony for the consummation while the wedding consummation was "fakes" (look they touched each other's legs! It's consummated in the eyes of God) (Hey, but the king used a proxy... He's out hunting!) (Doesn't matter! So married.)
There are cases of royals having children young as 13, but this was generally frowned upon even in Tudor times, with notes about how weak it left the mother and child. Margaret Beaufort was BEFORE Tudor times and even then it was heavily remarked upon as unorthodox. As in, it was quietly frowned upon with the royals. Younger than 16 was considered immature.
So I think the idea actually came from looking at Romeo and Juliet and people thinking that was NORMAL. It was NOT. The whole point was to make their ages abnormal to highlight the innocence of love. And also, some scholars say that Shakespeare was working out some of his trauma with his wife... but that's neither here nor there. The average age was around 24-27 among the common folk and then for Regency period the earliest was about 22-23 for women and 27-30 for men. The courtship was expected to last 2-3 YEARS unlike many Austenesque adaptations, it was not a quick trip to marriage.
In Regency England, the legal age for marriage and the reasons for marriage varied, reflecting the social and legal customs of the time. Leg
If a young lady or gentleman wanted to get married in Regency England while they were a minor, that is before they came ‘of age’, they neede
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance, wrote Jane Austen in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Roy and Lesley Adkins share t
Tudor times: 24- 27
There are things that we take for granted because we've always had them. For instance: Plumbing, running water, cars, the internet, smartpho
Yes, women got younger and younger over time... ?.? Should this be a thing?
The problem with Fantasy
Yadda yadda, I can do what I want, it's a Other world fantasy. Yadda Yadda, I don't have to follow history.
The main characters are human?
Yes.
The female character is 16 in Earth Years?
Yes.
The female character is getting married before their frontal cortex has had time to develop?
Yes.
It just leaves me feeling cold and like it's a bit skeevy. Historically they didn't do it or allow it, and why are you supporting child marriage. It feels creepy as hell.
And the fact incels go to Ye Olden times and think that the age was 14 and 13 based off of Shakespeare is a squint for me. It shows they don't know how to read older texts.
Why did you choose 16 of all ages anyway when it doesn't have historical support? It's creepy. It's often filled with feelings of grooming...
And also, the US is creepy as hell to allow a 13 year old to get married. Especially, and most especially places like Planned Parenthood which makes stupid reasons for why it should be allowed.
Some advocates want California to prohibit marriage for people under age 18. But groups including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have oppos
It's a fantasy world, you can change it.
Also, I still think the marriage age should be more reasonable, like 18 or 20. One law of China I do like is the 20 years old for marriage, because at least they have some college under their belt.
Bret Devereaux is a historian of the ancient mediterranean who does a lot of detailed posts about various topics, and he has a series about "the lives of peasants" which takes basic realities of peasant life in an agricultural society and explains them and lays out what they mean for individuals, for families, and for the village. If you're going to write anything set either in the past or in a "vaguely medieval" fantasy setting, I highly recommend it.
Part IIIA is "Family Formation," by which he means marriage. It will help to have read the earlier posts (about mortality rates and so on), but you don't need them to understand the demographic data he's reporting.
Basically, for peasants (who were at least 90% of every society in the agrarian pre-Industrial world), pretty much everyone gets married and has kids, because otherwise you don't have enough hands to keep the work going. He identifies three patterns of age at first marriage for women.
Early: In this cultural pattern, "women" marry in their early to mid teens, averaging about age 16 at first marriage. This was the pattern in most of Ancient Greece for which we have information.
Intermediate: In this cultural pattern, "women" marry in their mid to late teens, averaging about 18-20 at first marriage. This was the pattern in much of Ancient Rome.
Late: In this cultural pattern, women marry in their early 20s, averaging about 22-25 at first marriage. You see this in Medieval England and other places in Europe. Part of the reason the age is so late here is the assumption that a married couple will have their own separate home and land to farm, instead of just being subsumed into the groom's parents's household.
So there are places that the average girl was getting married at 16, but that's not universal, and also, if you're going to have a society where girls do get married at 16, you should be looking at what that actually meant in the real world if you want coherent worldbuilding--for example, she's not going to be running her own household, she's going to be living under the jurisdiction of her mother-in-law.
And if you're going for a vaguely-European setting, 16 would be weirdly young, especially if you're talking about England and Western Europe.
#if we are talking medieval european royalty: being promised to each other as children also often did not mean that you would marry then#BUT: often the girl would be sent to the court of the future groom to be raised there until it would become time#this is because marriage was a business transactation and it was helpful if she knew her future jurisdictions and tasks very well#anyway what's normal or not normal or immoral for marriage practices fluctuates across history#so what's important is not that you swap out 'they were married young in Olden Times' with 'they weren't married that young in Olden Times'#but to realise that there is no one Olden Times and that everything everywhere had its own version of doing things#and then there were always (!) people who did things differently to everyone else. bc we are people and love being contradictory#anyway. in short: it depends.
There are cases in China, Korea, Japan also of being promised as children, but even if marriage were to occur as teenagers (which again, was on the very rarer side) consummation was formally delayed and had to go through long and legal court approval. (This holds in Japan until the Shogunate, but going over the reason it started up, took things over and the messy adoption processes is long and you can pretty much read it on wikipedia)
For example, one of the earliest records of a 16 year old marrying a King, in Korea is Heo Hwang Ok to King Suro (circa 1st century CE). BUT while it says they spent a long time together for about 2 weeks after she landed at 16, they did not produce a child for a long, long time. This shows the consummation was delayed after marriage and the marriage was more than likely for the political alliance (or Suro, the King, was a kind of ace. He's famous for having only one queen and no concubines or mistresses, which was rarer at the time.)
By Joseon, BTW, the selection process was hugely involved for all concubines for the princes, with some families skipping over being selected by making hasty marriages. (Same with Japan and China). And the consummation ceremony was super formal. You had to get permission from the Queen Mother and Queen, then the astrologers needed to set an auspicious date (lol), then the Queen would select the date which was appropriate. She may or may not be the mother of the Crown Prince. Then they would "educate" the pair on how to do it. And this is super awkward, but maybe not as much as the proxy marriage of Europe... but then servants would be outside, waiting, and then the consummation would be reported to the Queen and Queen Mother and any of the relevant concubines of the King. So your private business is now spread across the kingdom.
Medici's court in France, Mary Queen of Scots was promised there, yes, but she was kind of in a finishing school (Look up Anne Boleyn). There is a lot of debate, BTW, over Mary Queen of Scots' English and if it would be French-accented since she was sent so young.
I also looked at Catherine II (born Princess Sophia Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst) (Russia) and she was married relatively young, but again, the consummation was formal and delayed.
On Marie Antoinette, it was famously delayed to the point that some historians think Louis might have been aro ace or both because he had to have a stern talking to in order to get him to do it.
I also looked at records from various African kingdoms as well. (Tbh, mostly West and East African nations) and most of the marriages among royals had the same patterns. Either they married in their mid 20's-ish, or married earlier, but waited on the consummation.
But generally, when I said I checked more than Europe, I really did check more than Europe. I still get the shivers when some (incels) idealize what happened to Margaret Beaufort. ELEW. But I learned some crazy beliefs they have.
When Laura Ingalls Wilder married in the books, people around her remarked that she was still young yet. She was 18 years old. Considering debuts were at 19, that also makes sense.
The point is that there is a weird fantasy about 16 year olds having babies historically that is often not true. And often the idea that skeevy old men could have 16 year old girls really doesn't hold up.
The only places I found such ideas come in the 19th century with white male fantasies of mainly Asian women. Which honestly, I want to delete from my memory. The whole reading of Madame Chrysanthemum (the book), the whole reading of Madame Butterfly [also the book] (which was worse) makes me feel so stabby because effectively both of them are r*pe and then contemporary WOMEN saying (It was the Times. It wasn't. They were pervy skeevy white men you're trying to now justify who wished they could have white women, but the white women were picketing their misogyny.) The idealism with pedo sex tourism from that entire era I've had the misfortune of reading as well and the justification parade that came after, and I really think this is a secondary reason for the historical myth. Gaugin's Tahitian sex tourism makes me want to never see another one of his paintings again. I've been trying to track down his claims too, and they are on thin ice as well. (also it was illegal by French law, but French didn't enforce the law against him.)
Believe me, I really checked. Even the famed Pocahontas, while married relatively young, did not marry the egomaniac John Smith at 12. (Elew). She married John Rolfe at probably 18. John Smith was a skeevy loser who exaggerated and tried to age her up...
The whole It depends and It was the times: It wasn't. And often imperialism played a huge role. And I wish I could also delete the grooming instructions I read from the Kama Sutra while looking up Indian beauty standards. Note that the Kama Sutra is mostly for rich royals, but that doesn't make it OK.
Marriage usually happened earlier in royal situations to cement the alliance, make sure dowry and/or bride price was paid. Even if the marriage was at 16, the consummation was often delayed and very formally decided: Health checks, and the whole 9 yards. I mean everyone knew your business. And the only reason for earlier marriages and promises was basically not only for the girl to learn her duties and target language as such, but to cement power because something dire was happening politically. Normandy and England needed to side against France. Korea and China wanted to show loyalty to each other. (Korea sent a concubine to a Chinese emperor. She's buried in China). Gaya needed to know the secret to Iron ore purification (and maybe how to make flushing toilets???) but you wouldn't give up secrets a leveraging mechanism without a formal contract and often the most formal contract back in the day that couldn't be rescinded was marriage between opposing parties. 16 years old consummation and marriage, however, is a skeevy fantasy. At least push it to 18 and call that young, because it is. At least then some of the frontal cortex impulse control has developed by then...
As part of the Adoption and Foster Care History series I've been taking photos and videos to help ease some of the mind numbing violence the series brings up so it doesn't seem gratuitous.
This is waves crashing against some rocks splashing up really high around noon.
I took this photo as a part of that. But I needed to make a landscape painting for class.
I thought it was going to be easy, but it was really difficult.
Sometimes I feel I succeeded. Sometimes I feel like I failed. There's a lot of techniques I had to self teach myself to render this correctly which were not online.
AMENDMENT 28
-THE FLAME OF LIBERTY-
PUBLIC LAUNCH - JULY 4 2026
the problem
- Political spending is free speech.
- Corporations have rights as people.
- Districts are drawn to entrench power.
- Media has become propaganda.
- Markets are dominated by monopolies.
- The people have no power in government.
This isn't dysfunction. It's design.
What must be done
We have spent two years developing a sweeping constitutional reform amendment that:
- Protects voting and human rights
- Removes ALL private money from politics
- Bans gerrymandering
- Abolishes the electoral college
- Bans insider trading by elected officials
- Protects against market monopoly and oligarchy
- Protects workers from AI/economic disruption
- Restores checks and balances on Executive power
We do need to ban corporate money in elections, but not sure if all of this would get passed under one amendment. My faith in the US electorate is shaky.
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The idea that 16 was a common marriage age (Fantasy/Historical Fiction)
You see, kids, in Ye Olde times, the common marriage age for women was 16 (or younger) and so in my MADE UP FANTASY NOVEL I'm going to FORCE my female character to marry at 16.
I've been tracking down where this idea came from and the truth behind it as a side quest because:
Incels are disgusting
Epstien files
even "Liberal" organizations like Planned Parenthood will not back off of child marriage and that's still a WTF.
Pedos are disgusting
I find the whole pervy, let's make them 16 and experience motherhood then in fantasy something I want to stab hard.
SERIOUSLY, THE US IS FUCKED UP IN THIS CASE.
For a disclosure, I'm in favor of the Regency age of *drumroll please* Yes, 19-20. Or at least dudes, 18 and the adjustment by AGE of participants as well, to make sure of no grooming and absolute consent.
Where did this idea come from?
I actually covered this briefly in my Adoption and Foster Care History I video, but, there's this idea in Tudor Times (that's Early Modern period for the History nerds) babies could get married and it was condoned by the church. I went and I bought the book that said that this was not the case.
What happened was often parents would get into debt and promise their babies to a person, but this is key: Neither the law nor the church would support this practice and it was seen as wholly against all moral codes to do so. Somehow, a lot of people think that what royalty did was common practice among the regular folk. NOPE.
And while Royal marriages I've found worldwide did have children promised to each other, often there was a special ceremony for the consummation while the wedding consummation was "fakes" (look they touched each other's legs! It's consummated in the eyes of God) (Hey, but the king used a proxy... He's out hunting!) (Doesn't matter! So married.)
There are cases of royals having children young as 13, but this was generally frowned upon even in Tudor times, with notes about how weak it left the mother and child. Margaret Beaufort was BEFORE Tudor times and even then it was heavily remarked upon as unorthodox. As in, it was quietly frowned upon with the royals. Younger than 16 was considered immature.
So I think the idea actually came from looking at Romeo and Juliet and people thinking that was NORMAL. It was NOT. The whole point was to make their ages abnormal to highlight the innocence of love. And also, some scholars say that Shakespeare was working out some of his trauma with his wife... but that's neither here nor there. The average age was around 24-27 among the common folk and then for Regency period the earliest was about 22-23 for women and 27-30 for men. The courtship was expected to last 2-3 YEARS unlike many Austenesque adaptations, it was not a quick trip to marriage.
In Regency England, the legal age for marriage and the reasons for marriage varied, reflecting the social and legal customs of the time. Leg
If a young lady or gentleman wanted to get married in Regency England while they were a minor, that is before they came ‘of age’, they neede
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance, wrote Jane Austen in her 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice. Roy and Lesley Adkins share t
Tudor times: 24- 27
There are things that we take for granted because we've always had them. For instance: Plumbing, running water, cars, the internet, smartpho
Yes, women got younger and younger over time... ?.? Should this be a thing?
The problem with Fantasy
Yadda yadda, I can do what I want, it's a Other world fantasy. Yadda Yadda, I don't have to follow history.
The main characters are human?
Yes.
The female character is 16 in Earth Years?
Yes.
The female character is getting married before their frontal cortex has had time to develop?
Yes.
It just leaves me feeling cold and like it's a bit skeevy. Historically they didn't do it or allow it, and why are you supporting child marriage. It feels creepy as hell.
And the fact incels go to Ye Olden times and think that the age was 14 and 13 based off of Shakespeare is a squint for me. It shows they don't know how to read older texts.
Why did you choose 16 of all ages anyway when it doesn't have historical support? It's creepy. It's often filled with feelings of grooming...
And also, the US is creepy as hell to allow a 13 year old to get married. Especially, and most especially places like Planned Parenthood which makes stupid reasons for why it should be allowed.
Some advocates want California to prohibit marriage for people under age 18. But groups including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood have oppos
It's a fantasy world, you can change it.
Also, I still think the marriage age should be more reasonable, like 18 or 20. One law of China I do like is the 20 years old for marriage, because at least they have some college under their belt.
Bret Devereaux is a historian of the ancient mediterranean who does a lot of detailed posts about various topics, and he has a series about "the lives of peasants" which takes basic realities of peasant life in an agricultural society and explains them and lays out what they mean for individuals, for families, and for the village. If you're going to write anything set either in the past or in a "vaguely medieval" fantasy setting, I highly recommend it.
Part IIIA is "Family Formation," by which he means marriage. It will help to have read the earlier posts (about mortality rates and so on), but you don't need them to understand the demographic data he's reporting.
Basically, for peasants (who were at least 90% of every society in the agrarian pre-Industrial world), pretty much everyone gets married and has kids, because otherwise you don't have enough hands to keep the work going. He identifies three patterns of age at first marriage for women.
Early: In this cultural pattern, "women" marry in their early to mid teens, averaging about age 16 at first marriage. This was the pattern in most of Ancient Greece for which we have information.
Intermediate: In this cultural pattern, "women" marry in their mid to late teens, averaging about 18-20 at first marriage. This was the pattern in much of Ancient Rome.
Late: In this cultural pattern, women marry in their early 20s, averaging about 22-25 at first marriage. You see this in Medieval England and other places in Europe. Part of the reason the age is so late here is the assumption that a married couple will have their own separate home and land to farm, instead of just being subsumed into the groom's parents's household.
So there are places that the average girl was getting married at 16, but that's not universal, and also, if you're going to have a society where girls do get married at 16, you should be looking at what that actually meant in the real world if you want coherent worldbuilding--for example, she's not going to be running her own household, she's going to be living under the jurisdiction of her mother-in-law.
And if you're going for a vaguely-European setting, 16 would be weirdly young, especially if you're talking about England and Western Europe.
Residents of Monterey Park voted overwhelmingly to ban data centers, making the San Gabriel Valley city the first in the nation to do so by
There are more measures to try to fight Data Centers. But I still feel like the midwest is likely to get hit hard. And unlike a lot of people on the Dem side, I do not relish someone who voted different from me getting hit by corrupt government officials getting corporate payouts being hit with Data centers. That, folks, makes you a horrible, horrible human being. NO ONE "deserves" to be hit with corrupt government officials taking bribes.
I simply think AI should not exist in Data Centers.
There is kinda a move to try to make AI work on local computers and get Tech companies out of our personal data that way, I've heard of, and while it doesn't have the same moral implications as the Data Centers, I still don't think grand averaging machines is the way to go to get innovation, so I fell 50/50 about that.
That said, as I said, Cancer research machines that use AI to find cancer are not run through vast data centers, which is a point that the Tech Bros have conceded, which is why they came up with the Industrial revolution line. ==;; Sometimes I think they aren't smarter than AI because they haven't read enough about programming, AI and UX, though a lot of them claim they do and then I beat them with basic tech speak and watch them squirm.
