Rynling R&D

I am of two minds about this Tumblr post:

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On one hand, I harbor an immense dislike of generative AI, and it fills my heart with joy to see such large numbers of people treating it with absolute disdain. On the other hand, I’m not a big fan of online virtue signaling, and this example is a little silly.

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I should say that I'm not calling out anyone, obviously! I'm taking shots at targets on a straw man here to try to articulate a broader argument, but also. I hope this Tumblr post gets a million notes by the end of the week.

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These are the three lessons I should have learned:

(1) Upsetting content is none of your business.
(2) Very few people “accidentally” post bigotry.
(3) Some people are just unhinged and unpleasant.

In conclusion, the Block button is your friend. 💖

girls night book club!!
https://geezmarty.tumblr.com/735174319548825600

started playing highly anticipated indie timeloop RPG In stars and time yesterday and I think everyone should be playing highly anticipated indie timeloop RPG In stars and time

Okay, I am convinced. I will definitely do that.

It's funny how no amount of professional marketing can sell me on something as swiftly as one lovingly crafted piece of fan art drawn by an artist I admire.

Tumblr decided to be cute with a tag autocorrect and ended up making an intriguing casting suggestion.



I have an immense level of apathy for the director of the Zelda movie, and my hopes are not high. The hosts of the Dark Souls podcast suggested that the movie could at least strive to be genuinely bad, perhaps by virtue of an all sex offender cast, with Kevin Spacey playing Ganon. I mean, sure. Sounds legit.

> And then I thought I'd be even more cringe and pay $10 to blaze the post. I'll report back on how this works out. I don't have high hopes, but you never know.

I guess technically the post is still "blazed" until noon today, but it I'm going to call it at 71 notes, most of which were received during Tumblr primetime between 5-8pm East Coast time. That's not bad, and it's far more than I expected for something that would have had very little inorganic growth to begin with.

Maybe it's cringe to promote your own work, but honestly, what's the harm in showing people the beautiful cover art along with a link to a free zine. Haters gonna hate.

Eastern Mind
https://easternmind.tumblr.com/

This blog is my new favorite thing. I am here for deep dives into obscure retro games and the history of game development in Japan.

The curator's account on Twitter is interesting too:
https://twitter.com/dieubussy

Yesterday, Elon Musk rolled out a new policy for Twitter. There are now "daily reading limits" for different tiers of accounts. This policy was implemented without much thought. For example, opening a tweet thread counts as "reading" all of the comments on all of the tweets in the thread, meaning that it's possible to the exceed your daily limit with just one tweet. Given the giant protests in France and Israel, and well as the recent Supreme Count decisions and mass shootings in the United States, this isn't as unlikely as you might think.

Because Twitter had to send out so many error messages to users, it has essentially staged a DDS attack on itself, causing several service outages yesterday afternoon.

Based on reporting by NPR and the Washington Post, a probable cause for what's going on is: (a) Musk fired roughly half the staff at Twitter, and the team is suffering from a severe labor shortage, and (b) Twitter has lost so much money during the past year that they can no longer afford to pay their server costs.

This is obviously frustrating, but Twitter has been in severe decline since last November. Everyone threatened to move to Mastodon, but all of the accounts I've seen there are lonely and sad and have no engagement. Instagram is becoming more hostile with each passing week as it tries to mimic the endless scroll of videos on TikTok, and many creatives have abandoned the platform entirely over the past few months. TikTok continues to be the death of culture.

Meanwhile, Reddit is even more of a trashfire than usual, with the "Reddit blackout" protest against API changes going on for almost a month now. Half of the boards are dark, and the other half are unmoderated. As a result, a lot of Reddit users have migrated to Tumblr (which means that I now have all sorts of people jumping onto my posts to try to explain Legend of Zelda to me). All the while, Tumblr continues to roll out site updates that make its user interface even more difficult to navigate.

The internet continues to burn. What a great time to be an emerging creative. 🙃

is goncharov (1973) really that much less real than whatever show the destiel bloggers have been watching with their extrasensory perception for 15 years (via)

Also the movie has an article in the NYT lmao.

Obviously I don't think you should send death threats to random artists on Tumblr, but I sort of understand what the "unreality" people are upset about. My family used to do this sort of thing to me all the time, by which I mean I would ask a sincere question and they wouldn't give me a straight answer. Like, to this day I don't know whether I've had an appendectomy. True story! I understand my situation is a bit of an extreme case, but still, it's hard to deny that teasing someone who's having trouble might ruin what would otherwise be a fun joke. So I get it, but there's no need for Tumblr circa 2018 behavior.

Anyway, putting all that aside, I love them:
https://tioomeow.tumblr.com/701802003059376128/ill-have-your-back
https://makaira-art.tumblr.com/701731673520390144/alternative-screen-print-version-of-katyas
https://666trmntr.tumblr.com/701651498646618112/katyaaaaaa-if-only-she-still-had-the-gun-in-that

I saw one of those posts saying there’s no Discourse™ here
https://corseque.tumblr.com/post/700567828007419904/you-all-must-never-have-been-on-twitter-and-are

You all must never have been on twitter and are imagining that the terrible drama you’ve seen on tumblr could possibly, in any world, compare to the drama that happens every hour when there’s an actual algorithm that causes drama and puts inflammatory posts directly in people’s faces without them following anyone involved, just so people click more.

Once again Corseque has the right of it.

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i think about the black girl every single day im not joking
https://hellsite-yano.tumblr.com/post/698837662254186496/boibortion-i-think-about-the-black-girl-every

On one hand, I think Communism as a system of government gives too much power to the state, a situation that has historically and without fail resulted in ethnic cleansing.

On the other hand, I can't think of a single good reason why anyone should have to pay to use the New York City Subway.