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Finished stitching my Oversight series.
12 small embroidered poem-objects in wool, linen, cotton, silk, stitched on canvaswork mesh and edged in glass beads.
i really genuinely wish I could hit chatgpt with my bare fists and hear its pityful electronic voice fade into glitched robotic gibberish and choking beeps as I hit it before I smash it for good and it shuts the fuck up forever
wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating
#they really said “you can’t use wiki as an academic source-use our garbage AI that’s even less reliable”#and you can’t even opt out of it
no but you can FORCE it away. use ublock origin and copy paste the blacklist i made into the filters to be able to remove the bullshit AI overview that google forces. it also removes youtube's forced ads (at least until they fix it)
you can also use the ublacklist extension and use this blacklist of AI image generation websites to curate your google image results
there are ALWAYS ways around stuff. it's just a matter of looking into it and asking around
I'M FREE
FOR WIKIPEDIA!!!!
Also: bookmark Wikipedia and if you already know that it's the wiki that you want, go DIRECTLY to Wikipedia and use the search bar there.
Every time you Google anything, they get data that they can sell, their advertisers get exposure that they pay for and their datacenters use a fuckload of energy. Bookmark Wikipedia.
For the love of all that’s unholy, please bookmark your favourite websites and stop googling them OMG
You can even add Wikipedia in the quick search engine list on Mozilla Firefox - on your computer and on your phone 🦊 - just select the Wikipedia icon next to your search bar
people being rabidly anti-piracy is always so jarring to me i forget that this sentiment exists over and over and i’m always shocked. you no like free movie 😟 ?

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Whats up with the Claude post? Are you pro-AI?
That's called a joke. It's supposed to be funny.
Whether or not I am pro-AI is a question that I can't answer without a spreadsheet and at least four hours of discussion (please see my four hour twitch stream from earlier today that was largely about massive problems with AI and massive problems with the way that people react to and report on AI. There are research papers and citations in it and everything). Define what YOU mean by AI and maybe I can get that down to twenty minutes and some bullet points.
I am, however, pretty unimpressed by anyone who sees an AI product mentioned once in a reblog and immediately comes to ask if I'm ready to apologize for being seen at the devil's sacrament.
Actually, here's a rundown of the AI topics I covered in the stream today and my takeaway from each:
Perplexity's Incognito Mode is a Sham, Lawsuit Says - People don't read ToSs and don't understand how computers work.
OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security - It is profoundly irresponsible for businesses to be using 'AI agents' that have either elevated access rights or privilege escalation permissions and the fact that they were unaware that the agents would be able to do this is a good indicator that the entire concept is fucked (it is bugshit insane to expect a program given commands in naturalistic language to act like a program given commands through a programming language, we have set up amelia bedilia ass robots and don't realize what permissions we're handing them because it feels like talking to a person who understands norms and expectations but the entity you are theoretically giving instructions to is actually deriving its instructions from a black box process that you don't understand and isn't capable of knowing things so it doesn't know that it's a big problem for you if it emails your boss copies of your nudes. Do not use the malicious genie to get your airline tickets what the fuck)
AI Can now prescribe you psychiatric medication in Utah - El problema es el capitalismo AND that could be a phone tree instead of an AI app why are we calling this "AI" it is literally responding to a fifteen question form, is this even AI or is this calling some basic automation AI and charging patients $20 for access to a tool they don't need that is only being used to paper over the fact that we are dealing with a doctor shortage because of a cartel? In short: AAAAH. But not for the reasons you might have thought! (The robot can only give you prescriptions you already had and can't refill anything addictive, so the ADHD havers among us still have to deal with calling the office or going in and paying a copay and then remembering to do that every month. The AI is not the problem here the everything is the problem here).
Claude Source Code leaked via error, Hackers are taking advantage of claude source code leak to spread malware, people are getting hit with spurious DMCA takedown notices because Anthropic is shotgunning nastygrams into the void in an attempt to get their code taken down. Lol. Lmao, even. In my perfect world none of this is a problem because the shit was open source from the start. Information wants to be free, and life finds a way. (it was a human who accidentally leaked the code). Also fuck the digital millennium copyright act, all my homies hate the digital millennium copyright act.
Really, you made this without AI? Prove it - this is an article about human creatives trying to settle on a way of labeling their work as human made. As a human creative, I think this is just going to fuel anti-AI scrutiny toward all creative work. This is a shit approach, I think people should worry less about whether what they're seeing is AI and more about if what they are seeing is good, or evocative, or true, or compelling. I think that most lazily-made AI art and writing is both obvious and bad, and AI-assisted art and writing that humans put effort into is pretty much just art, but sticking a human-made label on your art feels both performative and futile. Like, on the one hand I don't care, do whatever. On the other hand ugh. This is going to be used to harangue people into accepting the standard or dealing with constant accusations of being AI and IDK i think it's kind of bullshit to spend time counting the fingers on a CGI article header on a facebook post when there is actual shit going on in the world. This is, more than anything, annoying. There's a great line in the article "The machines sure as hell aren't motivated to label their work, but the creators at risk of being displaced most definitely are." Friend. The machines aren't motivated to do anything and the companies that are profiting off the machines will be very much motivated to copy your logo. Stop worrying about being displaced by robots and start worrying about media consolidation and newsroom layoffs, which have been driven by profit-seeking for the last twenty years, not AI.
"Cognitive Surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds - that's a pretty significant overstatement of what the research found and also the research is largely centered on creating a model of thought systems that is heavily based on a pop science book about decision theory written by an economist that has suffered pretty significantly from the replication crisis but is beloved by baseball scouts so you know it's good. We spent a lot of time trying to be charitable here but basically I'm unwilling to accept the validity of the basic premise of the book (that there are two modes of thought, intuitive and deliberative, and this is in some way meaningful) so I'm unwilling to accept the extension of the premise (there is a third way of thinking, and it is robots, and it makes people intellectually lazy on timed tests but does not make them lazy when you give them prizes for getting individual answers right on tests). Also I think the research was pretty poorly designed because I don't think they demonstrated how the AI assistant used in the study arms was meaningfully different than an encyclopedia or a google search. (the way the study worked was that they looked at people responding to a test either with their brain only or with their brain and an AI, but on one arm of the study they seeded the AI with incorrect answers and then looked at when people relied more on the AI or less on the AI; however the comparison of human+AI to human alone doesn't really tell us anything about cognitive surrender, it tells us about tool use and reliance on tools when tools are available - is it 'cognitive surrender' to not check an incorrect answer from a wikipedia page? It seems like it would have been simple to have a group that was given access to a set of correct articles and a group given access to incorrect articles and compare how THAT group stacked up against the human+AI arm). (also I am DEEPLY skeptical of any paper written on AI that has 80% or more citations from before 2020)
Anyway, I think I have two new rules:
If you are going to implement an AI tool in your workplace, you have to get approval from someone who can demonstrably make a functional calculator in no fewer than three programming languages
If you are going to denigrate AI you have to define AI and limit your complaints to AI that meet only those criteria
I've been talking a lot more about AI than I expected to when I started streaming and so far the things that we keep coming back to are:
Everyone means something different when they're talking about AI
People don't understand how AI works
People keep anthropomorphizing AI and expecting it to behave like people because they don't understand how AI works
People don't know how computers work
Because people don't know how computers work they don't know that most of the stuff that is getting hyped as AI could be accomplished with simple automation or a database
People are, generally, dogshit at fact checking and are easy to mislead with twitter screenshots, let alone AI articles on AI content mill sites, and maybe that it something that needs to be addressed more urgently than concerns about "what if ask jeeves was a stupid robot that hates you?"
So, am I pro AI?
Everything fucking sucks please for the love of god everyone make a pledge with me to read something that has a bibliography at least once a month.
i feel like the rest of that tweet should be shown:
do you guys remember when we googled something and we would get results that were actually related to the things we searched
NEVER KILL YOURSELF
TODAY IS A GOOD DAY.
(Sources: Wall Street Journal and Hollywood Reporter)

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oh dear god
I am speed running the stages of grief. Come explore this with me.
I WONDER WHY HEALTHCARE DATA IS SO LIMITED. HEY HAS ANYONE EVER THOUGHT ABOUT WHY WE DON'T HAVE COMPLETELY OPEN PLATFORMS FOR HEALTH DATA. AND WHY IT'S A BAD IDEA TO HAVE WRITE PRIVILEGES VIA SOME WEB INTERFACE TO MEDICAL RECORDS. HAS ANYONE EVER WONDERED.
okay well let's look at the github. at least an mcp server is just like a stupider API. right.
STARTING OFF. BAD.
This is. a PHI nightmare.
do you think these tech guys ever think. "i wonder why nobody has done this."
Well if they had to pick an AI at least they're not using one of the sketchy ones right. thank goodn
oh
You know, I'm glad Epic put so much time into making mychart extremely secure, even with all the health systems who configure them like a drunk monkey. it would be a shame if
hmm hey what do we think 'read local passwords' does
feed healthcare data to openclaw openclaw safe for 2FA codes and passwords in plaintext nothing bad will happen to your passwords and 2FA ccodes if you feed them to openclaww
ooohghhg my fucking ggogod
FROM DISCORD??? FROM MM DISCORD? YOU WANT TO FEED YOUR OWN PERSONAL HONEST TO FUCK PHI INTO, POTENTIALLY, DISCORD??
What many users may not know about MyChart providedby EpicSystems is that MyChart providedby EpicSystems is actually kind of like a local instance that your healthcare org runs, not a "Sign in once and see everything" type of deal (unless you have Care Everywhere, and then it maybe can be. But it Depends.)
Why is that you might ask. Well you see. There are many Rules and Laws and Regulations about the use and exchange of personal healthcare data.
Which is why of course this guy, seeing a well-thought-out and tested technical position, decided "what if i get all of them at once and also the 2FA codes and stored them ALL in the same place with no encryption whatsoever"
MRN??????????? YOUR PERSONAL HIGHLY PROTECTED BASICALLY ILLEGAL TO SHARE MEDICAL RECORDS NUMBER?
Alright so given the disaster happening to the basic function of this website right now, I want to mention that one of the major projects I’m working on is figuring out how people can change how we use the internet, in order to have communities and subcultures (and art) that don’t make us all completely miserable:
Why I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the California condor.
Up until the mid 2010s, there was a thriving discussion around how the arts should work in the 21st century, using the internet in positive ways to further human potential. People experimented with different ways of organizing communities online and the internet’s various potentials as a creative space. This discussion ended not because these problems were solved, but because the structure of the social media-driven internet became so suffocating, it seemed to preclude any hope of other possible ways of living. I see no reason why we are not capable now, in this era of mass dissatisfaction with the way the internet works, of trying again.
At the moment I only have the first part up, which is a pretty broad overview. I’m working on a follow-up about how all of this would work practically, by doing a case study of how sci-fi fandom started in the 1930s. It’s pretty good and you should check it out. ✌️
people who don't use or spend time on tumblr don't really understand how solid this place is for creatives and how we could be living in artist utopia if they fully undid the nsfw ban. the tag system? the dashboard? the silly anons who will send you the most insane sentences known to mankind? having your very old, shitty art make the rounds again because somebody finds value from it and wants to show their friends? no other place even comes close
This. The banning of NSFW content is an unfortunate part of the online ecosystem now, in a way that's near-universal. Not many sites are escaping this unscathed.
And I also see people mentioning in the notes too wanting an apology for how trans women are treated here, but I think they probably don't remember how after photomatt's hammer and car rampage, some staff actually did make an apology post about it. I would try to find where that went if I had more time because it's worth a read. It's not exactly common for currently working staff to break rank and say stuff like they did, that could get them fired.
I just have this overwhelming feeling that probably nothing they do will ever be good enough for everyone. That it'll still probably come off as insincere and a token effort no matter what words are used. Because things will continue to happen that are never explained or made transparent enough, because they simply can't be.
The running of this site is completely opaque for those who have no insight into it. Making guesses doesn't actually get you any closer to the truth, as frustrating as that is to tell people.
I just want to point out the massive amount of brownie points Staff just scored by just being reasonable and listening to feedback. This is the kind of win that extremely rarely you see a tech team achieving from their users point of view.
So...
Once more, Tumblr wins over all other platforms by not doing anything.
As multiple people in the notes point, it's not that they didn't do anything, but that they did something and reversed it.
But, oh chat, isn't that the quintessence of Tumblr, a pure reblog chain with no net information gained?
The Death of the Digital Ecosystem: Why Decoupling Notes Destroys Tumblr
@staff
For years, the total note count on a post served as a universal metric of a piece of content's impact. Whether a user liked the original post or a reblog fifteen branches deep, that engagement flowed back to the source. This ensured that the original artist, writer, or editor received the full credit for the viral success of their work.
Under this new system, engagement is trapped within the specific reblog a user happens to see on their dashboard. If a massive, high-traffic blog reblogs a piece of art from a small creator, every like and reblog that occurs through that larger account stays with them. The original creator is left with a stagnant note count on their own dashboard while their work generates thousands of interactions for someone else.
Erasure of Creator Visibility
Instead of seeing one post with 10,000 notes, a creator may now have to hunt through dozens of different reblog chains to find where the conversation is actually happening.
If the notes no longer flow back to the original post, the creator loses the ability to see who is enjoying their work, what the tags say, and how the community is responding.
On a platform where engagement often dictates visibility, splitting that engagement into tiny, unlinked fractions makes it significantly harder for original works to gain momentum compared to the high-reach blogs that reblog them.
Incentivizing the "Big Blog" Monopoly
This system rewards accounts that have already established a large following at the direct expense of the smaller accounts that actually produce the content. It transforms reblogging from a method of sharing into a method of acquisition.
When a reblog functions as its own independent post with its own note count, the incentive to click through to the original source disappears. The platform is transitioning from a collaborative ecosystem into a standard social media feed where the person who posts the content last—not the person who made it—reaps the rewards.
Impact on Collaborative Conversations
Tumblr’s unique culture is built on the reblog chain: a chronological, evolving conversation. By allowing users to like or reblog "any part" of the chain as an independent entity, the platform is breaking the narrative thread.
If engagement is siloed into specific branches, the incentive to add to a conversation is replaced by an incentive to simply own a piece of the engagement. This change doesn't encourage conversation. It encourages the commodification of individual posts within a chain, making it harder for the original voice to ever be heard over the noise of the rebloggers.
The Disincentive to Create
Perhaps the most damaging aspect of this update is the psychological toll on the creative community. When the platform actively diverts credit and engagement away from the source, it destroys the motivation to share original work at all.
For many, the reward for posting is seeing how far their work travels. If that travel is now invisible or attributed to others, the labor of creating becomes thankless.
This system makes creators want to share nothing. If the platform is built to harvest a creator's effort for the benefit of curator blogs, the logical response is to stop providing the raw material. I am one leaning into this category. Without us creators, the curator blogs have nothing to curate.
By making it harder to protect and track one's own work, the platform is effectively telling creators that their presence is secondary to the conversations happening around their work: conversations they may no longer even be able to find.

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Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes
The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve.
Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.
If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.
Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.
This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!
This is horrible I can't see the number of notes on my posts at all without adding up everything in the chain
Cursed cursed cursed evil evil evil
This is a terrible idea. Horrible.
EXTREMELY BAD HOLY FUCK.
This would kill the entire point of the reblog chain. Staff, please, don't do this. It will transform the reblog chain in just plain twitter quotes.
Seriously, this is a tumblr-killer feature. This breaks the most fundamental way tumblr is different from any other social network. This makes tumblr just another blueskytwitterthreads. Or worse: An unfederated mastodon clone.
Please, stop this. Please, don't roll this out.
Please, mutuals, post about this, comment and reblog the original post (while you still can without making it your own quote-post). I don't know if staff is looking or if the feedback would matter, but seriously, this is a terrible change that would kill tumblr as we know it. Please, don't roll it out.
look, I can endure any kind of UI changes that are supposed to help tumblr-rookies to understand how this works. They may be a nuisance, but that's ok, we have x-kit or we can get used to buttons being here or there.
But this. This changes the data architecture. This changes the SINGLE THING that makes tumblr the "... yes and" website. This KILLS THE COLLABORATIVE POSTING THAT MAKES THIS SITE DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER MEDIA PLATFORMS.
Please, don't do this. Please, don't ship this.
Should reblogs in chains get their own notes?
Yes
No
Abstain
Tumblr is a place to express yourself, discover yourself, and bond over the stuff you love. It's where your interests connect you with your
"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."
Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]
HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?
Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.
I've been looking for such archives, thanks
i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.
the first link broke, here you go
BEGGING us to read nonfiction every now and then. Like. Words on page. It doesn't have to be the only thing you do, but you gotta keep in practice with it. No easier people to subjugate than those who question nothing they're told.