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majikkant
The picture in the background of the second one
Tama is boss
gatochick
THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM
Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]
retro-geek
For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.
Beautiful.
Now I’m crying thanks
sapphic-matriarchy
and a new cat was hired right?
yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy
she works very hard
Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.
I’m crying at 11pm over train cats
Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016). There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.
^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama
Yontama.
a legacy
okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back
“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.
Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better
You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.
The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.
Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)
you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.
You can’t not reblog a goddess. It’s just what’s so. :)
So, fun fact- the manga Noragami has an arc where the main character, Yato (a minor kami/God that is down on his luck but trying to make it big time) goes to a council/conference for all the Gods in Japan.
And they are announcing the winner of the “up and coming god” award, and of course, Yato thinks it’s him.
But no-
ITS TAMA!
Always reblogging this.
Tama is the best new god. She is good and helpful and beloved. Always reblog this magnificent goddess.
Tried sketching her
Hendrik
Studies of Jasper
Glaze is out!
Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?
Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.
I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.
ALT
Art thieves already hate it:
Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.
The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222
As links (because some of us are on mobile and can't easily copy and paste to our browser), those are:
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A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:
The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)
It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).
Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).
It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.
The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).
It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)
It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)
IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).
Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)
The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)
When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.
Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)
The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles
From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)
You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash
12 and... take a guess... (Henjasp pls)
sarunohadaki replied:
“Zoom meeting and A (*cough* Hendrik *cough*) doesn’t know how to turn off the dog filter” (354 words)
An early-morning meeting. Two cups of coffee. One lemon poppyseed muffin.
None of that had prepared Jasper to log into the weekly Zoom meeting to find a 3D rendered brown dog staring back at him in his little square. Tiny, cartoonish eyes blinked as Jasper gawked at him. On the bottom of the user’s box read the name, “Hendrik.”
Jasper, whose legs had been folded up like a pretzel in his office chair, paused and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
“What in the everliving—” he said as a notification appeared at the bottom of the screen to let him know he was muted.
He unmuted himself and repeated the sentiment once more.
“Good morning, Jasper,” Hendrik said as other boxes began to flicker on with coworkers joining the meeting.
Jasper noted some people covering their mouths, eyes crinkled up in amusement.
“Good morning, everyone,” dog-Hendrik repeated. “Please give me just a second as I try to fix my machine.”
“You need to go into settings,” Jasper said. “You have to go into the avatar settings and select ‘None.’”
“Can I still do that when I’m in a meeting?” Hendrik asked.
Somehow, he looked even more pathetic in a dog form.
“Yes,” Jasper said.
As he spoke, the chat box lit up with one unread message: an article leading to the same steps Jasper had already spoken aloud. Hopefully it had images like a picture book to guide Hendrik through it step-by-step.
“I am not seeing it,” Hendrik said.
“Are you on a mac?”
“Yes.”
“Go to system preferences.”
“Okay.”
Hendrik continued to parrot Jasper’s instructions as he clicked through the menus himself, Jasper keeping his messages curt. It didn’t take as long as Jasper thought to get the dog avatar reverted, revealing Hendrik’s face with those stray strands of lavender hair sitting on his shoulders. His cheeks flared pink as he shifted in his chair and adjusted his camera.
“Well then, thank you, Jasper. After that small hiccup, are we prepared to start?”
Jasper held back a smug grin as he gave a nod. “Absolutely.”
(From this ask game!)
DOCTOR WHO • S05E10
❝Vincent and the Doctor❞
DQ9 Remake (hypothetical)
I'm sure a lot of us would like to see a Dragon Quest IX remake, at some point, but what would we actually want from it? Graphical improvements are given, unless they give the job ILCA, but what else? Should stuff be added? What stuff? Should it be faithful in every way to the DS original? Your thoughts please.
DQ9 Remake, Additional Features?
NO CHANGES THE ORIGINAL IS PERFECT (why even remake it them?)
Alchemy on the go, no need to Zoom back to Stornway every time (i'd like that)
Enter Multiplayer anywhere (kinda defeats the point of Stornway as a hub)
Select Vocation at the start (what if players choose one that's bad at combat)
More Vocation options early on (maybe but some are a bit OP for early game)
Expanded Story(make the DQCV quests the postgame, and remove the online barrier)
Online Multiplayer as well a Local (should have been in the original tbh)
More locations (cities, towns, dungeons, etc.)
Bigger locations (more than four houses in the cities, please)
Bigger Party (fun but would get real OP real quick)
See ResultsPlease comment/reblog with your thoughts, and anything else you'd like to see.
Quick Anatomy studies for Malroth, drawing him heals my soul💜🧡 (he misplaced his jacket halfway lol)
References:
Close-ups! 2nd image is probably one of the best torso’s I’ve given him so far, i love him sm c:
