"smart Appliances" Fuck U I Want Them Dumb As A Brick And Incidentally As Sturdy And Enduring

some underappreciated vines i haven’t seen in any vine compilation yet i that found way deep in my vines tag

Kestrel-dad not sure how to dad but he’s trying his best.

When a body part falls asleep

Hey listen to the way this man talks to his fish thank you

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

I know...Crap X( dery x Doctor whooves :3