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@ailurinae / ailurinae.tumblr.com

Any pronouns, mostly used to he/they.
Sideblog: @wheel-of-fandoms, for fandom posts, except when I forget. For this blog, expect science, computers, social justice, cat pictures, memes and other nonsense. Mostly nonsense, TBH
Older than the NES and Windows. Current icon picrew is by hunbloom.
Former URL 'kellyclowers'. Ailurinae is the sub-family of the red panda (Ailuridae, the family level, is taken by an inactive blog)
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Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

  • We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 
  • We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.
  • To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 
  • For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 
  • Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

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@staff, given the 404 media post, this PR announcement you had prepared for tomorrow is very clearly out of date, and I would just remove the post and write something else.

In the post, you talk about AI crawlers like if it was something you are defending your users against. A external actor that may get to tumblr public posts and use them for nefarious purposes.

What you don't talk about is about AUTOMATTIC SELLING THAT DATA TO THE COMPANIES THAT USE THOSE CRAWLERS, SO THEY DON'T EVEN NEED TO SCRAPE THE PUBLIC TUMBLR BLOGS.

Why are you even talking about crawlers when it has just been published that you are actively and proactively sending the data straight to their servers?

This is no sense. At the very least, delete this post and write something addressing the real issue.

#tumblr AI sellout#Pinned#pinned post
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Today I’m leaving South Korea and beginning the long journey back home to Sweden and Värmland. Over the past few weeks I’ve seen and experienced so much, both professionally and personally, that I suspect it will take time before all the impressions have settled.

I’ve taken quite a few photographs along the way and I’ll be sharing them here little by little once I’m home. And yes, they include pictures of squirrels! 🐿️

As sad as it is to leave Asia, I’m longing with all my heart to be reunited with my husband, our cats and chickens, and all the squirrels, roe deer, foxes and birds that I’m lucky enough to share my everyday life with. Home is calling.

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the early-mid 2010s YA book scene was so funny because all the most popular stuff was fantasy and dystopian series with high drama and world-ending threats and then there was like. john green.

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it was weird for me too.

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i was obsessed with the eruption of mt vesuvius as a kid, you know, ad 79, destruction of pompeii, the good shit. anyway when i was 9 my aunt was living in naples in italy and we went to visit and she was like do you want to climb mt vesuvius. and i was like hwaaa? you can do that? and she was like yeah i actually do a marathon up it every year let's go. so me and my mum and aunt and cousins all trek up this volcano in the middle of summer and it's yknow, a volcano. very hot and full of rocks. and we get to the crater and we're looking down into it and i'm like woah... this is what destroyed pompeii... and my aunt is like yup. got 'em good. and my little 6 year old cousin pipes up 'what would happen if it erupted now??' and me and my aunt just immediately, in the exact same tone, say 'we would die.'

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Reblog this photo of a käpylehmä to have a käpylehmä in your blog

It's a trick! If you reblog you get TWO käpylehmäs in your blog!

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They're traditional Finnish toys, little cows made out of spruce cones, on their way to see the world from one tumblr blog to another

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A talented individual (WantedAlive) thought up these cartoons and employed Rick Menard to illustrate them. They said they can be freely shared around to raise awareness and understanding of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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Genes of an Icon: Bison

In the DNA of bison, scientists find clues to the animals’ past—and keys to safeguarding their future

Long before ships sailed to North America’s shores, before shopping malls and parking lots blanketed its plains, mahogany waves of muscle, horn, and hide thundered from sea to shining sea. American Bison (Bison bison)—also known as buffalo—have roamed the continent for some 200,000 years, since their ancestors crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia into Alaska. When humans made the same trek between 15,000 and 20,000 years ago, bison became central to Indigenous people’s way of living: They ate the animal’s meat and fat, and made clothing and shelter from its hide, tools from its bones, rope from its hair, glue from its hooves. Later, the Europeans who arrived on the continent’s shores slaughtered almost all the animals, in order to break the will of Native Americans and clear land for railroads. Later still, people of both Indigenous and European descent began to work together to bring bison back. You can’t tell the story of people in North America without also telling the story of bison, and vice versa. Today, bison number about 530,000, scattered in distinct herds across the continent. Their recovery is one of the 20th century’s great conservation success stories, with the majestic beasts evoking the American wilderness as they stalk reserves such as Yellowstone National Park. Bison are “doing OK” right now, says Steve Yang, a biomedical scientist at the University of Saskatchewan’s (USask’s) Western College of Veterinary Medicine who is part of a major bison genetics project called Bison Integrated Genomics (BIG)...

Read more: https://www.science.org/content/article/dna-reveals-hidden-past-north-america-s-bison-and-keys-their-future