when i say this is the absolute sweetest thing i’ve ever seen…
JULIEN BAKER performs “claws in your back” with the national symphony orchestra 6/14/24
the end result will be beneficial regardless of what happens now, because there's basically 3 options at this point:
-either it habsburgs itself into oblivion and that's the end of it
-they'll have to be way more careful with input which will drastically reduce the things they can do and also make it easier to check what exactly is going in (basically crippling the thing)
-they'd have to find built-in methods to make the generated images distinguishable from the original ones to avoid inbreeding, but this would of course mean *anyone* would be able to use these methods and therefore generated images would become much easier to spot
it's dying either way!!!
yes!!! death to ai art!!!!!!!
reblog to kill machine learning images being passed off as art faster
This Week's Verified Gazan Evacuation Fundraisers
hello again! just like last week, i am putting together a round-up post of the evacuation fundraisers of those who have reached out to me this week and who i have had the privilege of donating to and sharing. please do also check out and share last week's post, as those campaigns are still ongoing and in need of funds! i am so, so happy to see how many of those numbers from last week have gone up. please continue to support all these wonderful people. (there are also some repeats on this week's list).
To everyone who reads this: I challenge you to donate! Do it right now, before you reblog, or right after. Pick at least one of these funds, any one of them, and donate any amount -- €10, €5, even €1. Pick one right now, and donate right now. And then share!
@ahmed-ostaz Ahmed Al Ostaz, Help Evacuate My Family from Gaza to Safety. €15,841/€70,000. [DONATION LINK] [reblog link] [verification link #125]
@mahmoud66262 Mahmoud Balousha, Help us achieve a better future for our children. €17,725/€52,000. [DONATION LINK] [reblog link] [verification link #234]
@hillesmahmoud Mahmoud Hilles, Save my children from death. €23,363/€31,000. [DONATION LINK] [reblog link] [verification link #170]
@salem-baker Salem Alanqar, Save My Family from the War Nightmare in Gaza. €2,029/€38,000 - LOW ON FUNDS. [DONATION LINK] [reblog link] [verification link]
@ahmedabuyamin Ahmed Alanqar, Helping Ahmed's Family: Escaping War to a New Life. €43,890/€49,000. [DONATION LINK] [reblog link] [verification link #264]
@amira-world Amira Alanqar, Amira's Story: Between Hope and Resilience - A Call for Soli. €18,153/€20,000. [DONATION LINK] [reblog link] [verification link]
@safaabed8 Safaa Al-Habil, Help us build new hope for me and my family. €18,260/€50,000. [DONATION LINK] [reblog link] [verification link #241, another verification link]
(for larger donations, (according to these prices) I will draw something for you!)
DONATE, REBLOG, SHARE
You know how canaries were historically brought into coal mines, because if the mine was full of carbon monoxide the canary would die first and the miners would be able to escape before they died too?
I just found the greatest thing.
This is a canary resuscitator.
When the miners notice the canary getting sick with carbon monoxide poisoning, they can close that circular hatch so no more gas gets into the canary cage, and open the valve on that oxygen tank to keep the canary breathing. In other words, they made a spacesuit for birds.
By immediately giving the canary access to clean air, the miners can save it from the poison. The bird lives. To be clear, this is not for economic purposes, this was specifically created because the miners felt bad and wanted to save the bird.
Isn’t that just the perfect demonstration of what humans are like? We started sacrificing small creatures to save ourselves, and then felt bad and spent our valuable resources on saving the critters too. Because yeah the canary was the only way to test for CO, but it’s a living creature too, dammit!
Union watches out for its members.
Union Strong
Pygmalion and Galatea (1763) by Étienne Maurice Falconet Paul and Virginia (1844) by Alessandro Puttinati Worship of the Female Form (early 20th century) by Alméry Lobel-Riche Kneeling man embracing a standing woman (1908) by Gustav Vigeland In Paradise (1918) by Max Svabinsky Thief of the Moon (1924) by Norman Lindsay
this is what i mean when i say i will cherish you and your being and my love for you will be immortalized in marble