uncomfortably cold and paranoid

a 1997 Tuvalu stamp depicting longtail snappers

some doodles with Illusion the proto-iterator :D

imagine what it would be like to be a primitive machine that lacked any feelings. and then... you discover a some kind of feeling within yourself, but you aren't even able to express it, being constrained by your own protocols.

Even after discovering hatred within themself, Illusion couldn’t even speak about it for a very long time. It was something unusual, unnatural for them, they barely even knew what feelings was, because they were a prototype. If they wanted to convey something, they could only give a formulaic, machine-like answer because their programs were higher than them. Higher than.. Something like a nascent personality that they shouldn't have had.

p.s rip proto overseer it had a very, very bad boss

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There are a lot of fake Wigglypaint sites and apps and a lot of them have stolen art in their galleries!

The program is originally from itch.io. The owners of these fake sites stole work from the artists who posted their wigglypaint drawings on itch.io so they could have something in their community galleries to lure people into thinking they were legit.

I've been talking to artists whose work was stolen here on tumblr and on instagram and everywhere else and absolutely no one whose art was taken from itch ever gave permission for their art to be used by any of these fake sites.

Wigglypaint.com: Art theft. Jigglypaint app / Jigglypaint.com: Art theft. Wiggly-paint.com: Art theft. Wigglypaint.run: Art theft. Wigglypaint.fun: Art theft. Wigglypaint.online: Art theft.

And so on.

Even Wigglypaint.net, which doesn't steal art directly, uses AI-generated images to advertise their subscription plan ($49usd/year) while blocking comments that mention the username of the original creator of Wigglypaint in the social area.

All these sites are trying to get artist's money for a free art program.

Wigglypaint is always free on itch.io from the original creator, or you can use free 16-color modded versions like WigglyPaintPlus. (Or mod the program yourself! You don't even need to know how to code.)

But please, please don't give money to art thieves, AI bros and scammers.

The writeup about all of these sites can be found here.

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.