hi! i'm FailSandwich, also known as Ness \\ pronouns: she/they, hy/hem/her \\ you can read more about me in my pinned post ^^
hello! welcome to my tumblr blog ^^ my name is Ness Liutikas, and my pronouns are she/they or hy/hem/her. i’m autistic, aceflux, biromantic, and genderfluid (most of the time, i’m a demigirl, but sometimes i feel more enby) i have a particular interest in old tech, constructed languages, linguistics, LEGOs, and 1980s/1990s/early 2000s-era video games. i also like Danganronpa, Doki Doki Literature Club, Pokémon, Mario, Sonic, The Owl House, and Steven Universe, among other things. i mainly tweet whatever random thoughts just so happen to pop into my head, or i reblog posts from around tumblr. i may also post art from time to time, usually made with GIMP, mario paint, or other old/obscure paint programs. !~If you are a pedophile/MAP, do NOT interact~! !~If you are a zoophile, do NOT interact~! !~If you are a trans-exclusionary radical feminist, do NOT interact~!
My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.”
I said, “That’s just not true. Sometimes what doesn’t kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized.”
He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, “It’s like wood glue.”
He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, “Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?”
I did.
“But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn’t hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we’d never fixed them at all. You’ve got to give these things time to set.”
It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that’s not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.
So my dad and I agreed, what doesn’t kill you doesn’t actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn’t made you stronger than you were before, you’re probably not done healing. You’ve got to give these things time to set.
Plural culture is finding a blog that primarily posts about systems and immediately going to said blog like please don't be anti-endo please don't be anti-endo please don't be anti-endo ple
There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.
It’s unacceptable to fakeclaim anyone for anything for any reason.
If they admitted to faking, then fine. But that’s not fakeclaiming, fakeclaiming is when you accuse someone else of faking something.
So don’t fucking do that. It doesn’t help anyone and makes people who have the things more scared to come to terms with it and finds resources. It only encourages actual trolls to keep trolling.
plural culture is accidentally saying “we” in front of someone you’re not out to and having to go “we- well we all have to do this particular step, which *I* can finally do now” or saying something to a sysmate out loud by accident
