MKMdragon

Twitter / X has rolled out a new GenAi feature that allows ANYONE to "edit" their and ANYONE ELSES pictures with the AI!

YOU CAN'T OPT OUT!!

This "new feature" was noticed by "SeterMD" over on Twitter earlier today!

(Apparently tumblr won’t let me add in the photo evidence because “Sorry, we don't support this media format yet.” … they were png pictures, so why?!)

Not sure why this post is being taken so seriously?

Based on what I’ve read, you CAN opt out!

My comment on the post (before I realized I could just investigate it myself):

“If you make your account private, it prevents this particular problem! Thus it won’t be able to grab the stuff & others also can’t grab & use it… though I’m mostly inactive there, so going to a private account wasn’t too bad?”

By the time I realized something might have been “suspicious”, I had already deleted quite a few of my art posts…

Again- I’m still not sure if this post was accurate or not! But I personally think this advice it provided was an exaggeration & they should’ve AT LEAST provided proof to ensure it wasn’t some sort of “scam” (probably not the right word- but close enough?)…

But the fact people are just JUMPING IN seemingly without hesitation- that’s extremely concerning to me…

Not everyone has good intentions. Not everything should be taken seriously from the internet/social media because it could be untrue, exaggerated, &/or falsely reported…

I have learned the hard way to be paranoid about a lot of things!

Believing EVERYTHING someone says without investigating it myself is definitely a big “Don’t Do It”!

Mastercard, Visa, and other payment processors are still targeting material they deem obscene - whether or not it actually is.

We need to start calling again. Even if you don't like NSFW stuff or dislike porn - porn and nsfw is only the start of what they'll go after.

Among Mastercard's list of "high fraud risk" subjects in relation to Mastercard Threat Intelligence are the following:

Vtubing

Adult Content (which they define very loosely)

Tabletop Games

Video Games & their platforms

And likely more.

They're likely targeting political activism now in addition to this, and people who speak out against the companies. Notably now, Ana Valens is repeatedly having her payment processing accounts and platforms taken down or flagged as potential fraud - Buy Me A Coffee, Throne, Ko-Fi, Patreon - and in some cases, customer support from these platforms are citing information that hasn't been put on their platforms when explaining why they've targeted her accounts.

Completely SFW accounts of hers have been targeted, likely due to her speaking up about what the payment processors are doing and because of what she makes as a creative. She is at risk of debanking.

This happening to her means that other creators - Vtubers, game devs of both video games and tabletop games, creatives, sex workers - are likely at risk of the same. For many, it's already happening to them.

Companies and corporations should not have the power to censor what people say and do, or where their money goes - political power like this should not lie in their hands.

We need to start calling the payment processors again and making noise. Contact people in your circles, talk to people, spread the word. Contact your representatives about censorship laws. Spend less money this holiday season.

This is not just about sex work or NSFW. This is about people's right to decide what they spend their money on, and in some cases, people's right to access their finances. It's about creative expression and whether or not what we make gets censored, about what we get to say online.

Below are some resources that include info on phone numbers to call, email addresses belonging to the offending companies, and how to call. Start making noise again. Focus on the fact that companies should not have this power over what people spend their money on, at all.

Reminder, if you ever pay someone for a commission on Paypal (NSFW OR NOT) you SHUT THE FUCK UP in any text box it gives you.

It’s BLORBO SUNDAY

Letss goooooooo

i posted this on twitter already but i will post it here also; my friend (@kon5n on tumblr!!) and i created an oc meme chart template thingy to satiate my zombie apocalypse AU dreams 🥰🥰 the pathos... the moral dilemma... most of all, the Situations.

u can use drawings, images, or write things down to fill in the blank space. feel free to use and HAVE FUN!! ^_>^

my examples under the cut:

⚠️spoiler warning⚠️

this is fred, the dot.

fred wants to grow into a beautiful tree, but sadly has no branches

reblog to give fred a branch

75 reblogs, fred continues to grow

“When space poachers release Earth animals on an alien world, threatening a fragile new alliance, they anger the wrong people. A veterinarian, an accountant, and a furious sign-language-fluent gorilla are coming for them.”

Robin enjoys being one of the only humans around: an exotic outsider, strange and tall, with no shell and only two arms. Consulting for locals who want to keep Earth pets is a fine job. But when a swarm of rabbits invade town and humanity is blamed, everything unravels.

If Robin wants to save the alliance between two planets — and keep from getting sent home in disgrace — she has to prove that a powerful crime ring is behind the crisis. Luckily for her, she makes friends who are eager to help: from planetside, from the nearby space station, and recently escaped from the poacher’s ship.

Those poachers may be bug aliens with an excellent range of vision, but they won’t see this coming.

~~~

Img ID: the cover of the sci-fi novel “A Swift Kick to the Thorax.” It features a veterinarian’s prescription pad floating in space, with the title written in the prescription area. A pen floats behind it and a chunk has been bitten out of the pad.

~~~

Put your answer and where you’re from in the tags please I’m curious

This was a staple in my house growing up. Literally my mom would make sun tea once a week, and I’ve made it myself a couple times since moving out

Bittersweet, but this reminds me of Maya (‘my-yah’ (my ferret)) when she would curl up in Sassy’s (dog at the time) water bowl till we refilled it… she’d try to steal Sassy’s food along with the other “free range” ferrets in the house 🫣🤣

It’s not a bad thing, I just saw someone say “we never said who would eat the rich” and realized a lot of y’all might not have heard the full quote

It’s from Rousseau and it’s “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich"

“We are starving. There is no more bread, and we have nothing to eat.”

The rich man said,

“Not my problem you don’t work for your bread,”

as if he did not snatch away the grain by his own greedy hands and create filling bread for his own overflowing mouth.

The poor cried,

“We are dying. There is no more medicine, and we’re all ill.”

The rich man said,

“Not my problem you don’t take care of yourselves,”

as if he did not buy all the medicine and raise prices so high

the gods themselves would not

be able to reach.

The poor people

stopped crying,

and the rich man was satisfied…

Until they came knocking at his door one night;

their faces were sunken,

their flesh decaying,

their eyes sightless.

They were monsters

of the rich man’s

own making.

As they devoured his flesh,

the rich man cried,

“Please, spare me!”

The ravenous zombies said,

“Not our fault

you fattened yourself