Heads up, tumblr is raising its annual subscription from $39.99 to $69.99 on November 9th, so cancel before then if you don’t want to pay that price.
great time to stop giving tumblr money considering the CEO is being sued for human trafficking and wage theft, if all the other problems with this site weren't enough
honestly this screenshot just says everything
From the Wikipedia:
Google realized that "don't be evil" was both costing it money and driving workers to organize. Rather than admit that their stance had changed and lose the accompanying benefits to the company image, Google fired employees who were living the motto.
basically in december 2019 the mozilla company (who run firefox) sent tumblr an email saying “hey this guy is gonna confuse people and make em think this blog is official” so they sent me an email telling me to change my username. i resisted for a bit but i gave in and changed it to unofficial for a while until may 2020 when i decided who gives a shit and i changed it back
MISTAKE!!!!!! DON’T DO THIS!!!!!!!!!!! THEY GOT ME AGAIN!!!!!!!!!
Thats actually really cool
The monster, slain by it's owners, lives on in fragmented hauntings of all its descendants.
So . . . there's a ghost in the machine?
"skibidi toilet is ruining gen alpha" do none of you people remember asdf. i remember asdf.
the kids are gonna be fine. they just happen to be incredibly annoying like every kid before them
what does the fox say. i like trains. LEEEROY JENKINSSSSS. etc. we were all kids once. they are carrying on the tried and true god-given tradition of baffling and irritating adults. power to the children
Literally any other colour would’ve been a better choice guys.
I’d like to point out that the colour red has more positive than negative meanings.
im sorry but this reply absolutely killed me
red can mean whatever the heck you want it to mean, that is never going to change that this straight up looks like they DRAGGED A BLOODY BODY ACROSS THE FUCKING FLOOR 😂
Hi fun fact, colors do have meaning and there is a legit thing called color theory. Red does has more positive connotations than negative like the @mintymaiden said. Red is associated with more love, lust, passion than blood and death just like the chart shows you but If you want, here’s a link for you to check it out yourself. Also, check out “The Designer’s Dictionary of Color” by Sean Adams. Have fun learning something
Xoxo
-Designer
I think y’all are missing the point here.
You can theorize to Nebraska and back but that doesn’t change my immediate reaction which is that someone is literally dragging a corpse around
I like that the presumption here is that “No One On Tumblr Has Heard of Color Theory, Let Me Explain in Depth” rather than simply acknowledging that the VISUAL EFFECTS of this particular color choice, applied in the manner it was, can still amount to “this is a hospital and that looks like blood”
like, color theory doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your design of choice for Blood Red Paint is asymmetric splatters and sploches against the wall, or in this case, a snail trail on the hallway’s floor, an infographic won’t override the viewers’ instinct.
this post is the perfect summation of tumblr’s reading comprehension and critical thought abilities
Reblogging because there’s a lot of new people on here and you need some context for the jokes.
Help a newcomer, reblog Children’s Hospital Colour Theory
World Heritage Post
From the somethingawful forums, the live thread when 9/11 happened
This thread was wild, especially because the OP was posting webcam photos from nearby right after the first plane hit. Possibly before CNN even reported on it.
wow terrorists hijacking a plane that’s fucking rich, you idiot, you complete buffoon
This poster might be one of the first dozen people in history to publicly accuse Osama Bin Laden, possibly before any news agencies, and their post has the words “ROTFL Owned” in it.
🤔🤔🤔
Posted not even 2 hours after the 9/11 attacks and this person predicted the next 2 decades of American public policy. Remarkable.
America Online 2.5
This is absolutely catastrophic.
Internet Archive has created a petition/letter to publishers asking to restore access to everything (500,00 items) removed from the library. Please sign it.
More info, this time from the Washington Post! I was so excited when I heard about it this afternoon, yall.
"A federal court has found that Google illegally abused its market power to quash competition in internet search. The ruling hands the Justice Department its biggest victory in more than two decades in limiting the power of Big Tech companies to control and dominate the huge markets they have created.
“Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,” Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in his judgment on Monday.
Mehta ruled that the Justice Department was right in saying that Google violated antitrust law by forging restrictive contracts with Apple and other phone makers that required them to install Google as the default search engine on smartphones. He also decried other practices of the Alphabet Inc. unit that prevented its rivals from competing on an even playing field.
“This victory against Google is a historic win for the American people,” said Attorney General Merrick Garland. “No company — no matter how large or influential — is above the law. The Justice Department will continue to vigorously enforce our antitrust laws.”
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the ruling vindicated the belief of President Biden and Vice President Harris that the internet should be more competitive. “The Biden-Harris agenda is building an economy that ensures entrepreneurs and small businesses have a fair shot at the American Dream,” she said...
Federal antitrust law has not been invoked against a big tech company since the Justice Department sued Microsoft more than two decades ago.
The Google antitrust case has been closely watched in antitrust law circles as the first in a string of cases federal prosecutors have launched against high-tech giants. Antitrust enforcers argue that Big Tech has gotten too powerful and doesn’t serve the public interest. Lawsuits have also been filed against Amazon, Meta and Apple.
Mehta wrote that Google has maintained its revenue growth and high operating profits by hiking its search advertising prices again and again, and that there was “no evidence” that market competition has been able to limit Google’s ability to raise these prices.
The consequences of the ruling for Google and the broad online ecosystem are still unclear. The judge will rule on “remedies” for the case in the coming months. One potential measure would be for the court to block Google from paying to secure prime placement for its search engine on Apple’s iPhones and other devices and web browsers. But that could work out in Google’s favor, since its search engine might still be selected, and the company then wouldn’t have to pay the billions of dollars it currently does to secure that placement. Such a ruling could also end up depriving Apple of a significant source of revenue.
Other proposals from antitrust experts include requiring browsers and phone makers to directly ask consumers which search engine they would like to use when they first set up their device. This system has been tried in Europe, where Google has still largely maintained its dominance.
Others have advocated for Google’s different businesses to be broken up. The company not only controls the world’s main search engine but also owns businesses that compete at different levels of the complex industry that helps connect advertisers to people online.
“The remedy must match the court’s striking verdict,” said Lee Hepner, a lawyer at the American Economic Liberties Project. “At a minimum that means an end to Google’s exclusive default agreements and breaking up business lines that have allowed Google to extend its monopoly into every corner of the internet.”
The news of Mehta’s decision was hailed by antitrust advocates."
-via The Washington Post, August 5, 2024
I'm going to sound very old and very tired here for a second, but iIt is so dystopian to me to have ads on my computer.
Ads used to be on the internet. And that's that. The things that were installed on my computer did not show me ads.
And that goes even beyond the questionable practice that free versions of programs such as Avira now show you lil ads in the corner of your screen like once a day.
You used to have free games on your computer.
I was in the mood to play a game again, a very rare mood for me, and I opened the game center for the... first time since I had this version of Windows (as I said; very rare mood).
And there's ads. You play the "free" games that live on your computer and there are ads left and right and beneath it and between levels there is just a 20 second ad break.
You can go premium to no longer have ads.
That's dystopian to me.
When things that used to be fully free and just part of something are now riddled with ads and to get the ad free experience that, again, used to just be the experience, you have to pay.
And it's not even a one-time-payment.
Back in the day, you used to pay for something and then you owned it. You used to pay for a program or a game, and you owned a physical CD that you put in your computer to install the thing and it was just yours. It belonged to you, because you paid for it.
Now everything is a per month subscription, which is just so sinister because many look like oh, that's not that much money! Sure, I'll pay 1,99€/month to play games ad free. Every single month sums up, and it sums to a lot over the years though, for something that used to be free. (And I've complained about subscriptions before, in the context of Adobe, which isn't just dystopian anymore, it's actually plain evil to demand 25,99€/month to use a singular program, that you can now no longer buy to actually own.)
And I know - I know - you can find free games online to download or play in browser (already did that for mahjong) - but I'm talking about the principle here. The principle of getting ads on your computer, directly, and to have to pay to no longer have ads and use something that had been a part of the Windows experience since... forever.
automattic's made a ton of blunders recently but i hope they're not gonna try something like convert tumblr to run on wordpress, a project that both tumblr and wordpress engineers agreed would be a lot of work for no gain (most likely worse performance). that would be a silly thing to do.
hang on my aide is handing me a note
oh dear.
L O, and if i do say so, L
Given the blogging site’s continued financial woes, Mullenweg shifted the majority of Tumblr’s workforce to other areas at Automattic late last year and laid off others. At the time, he suggested that moving Tumblr to WordPress would be “tricky” but added that new technology like AI would make it easier.
Oh they're actually intentionally trying to kill Tumblr this time huh
Hi. I'm an idiot. I don't know what WordPress is or the issues with this decision. Can someone explain?
WordPress is a blogging platform run by(owned?) by current tumblr ceo(and owner?) matt whatshisface. Imagine you tried to download every blog here, posts, pics, replies, reblogs, edit history, everything. Then tried to recreate it exactly as is on a similar but functionally completely different social media perfectly without totally collapsing in on itself. Oh and both platforms are struggling to stay afloat so...yeah something like that
hey if anyone has any art on furaffinity, it might be a good idea to back it up. one of the hosts just passed away and its unclear where the site will go from here
It's still a good idea to download anything that you wouldn't want lost (keeping things saved on the internet solely is honestly a bad idea, but I digress) but I wouldn't be so hopeless on the future fate of FurAffinity
As of right now, furaffinity.net domain has been squatted by kiwifarms.
What always gets me the most is like staff doesn’t seem to ever give a warning like. Hey this thing you’re doing or this content you’re posting is worthy of termination. Stop doing that and delete those posts or we’ll terminate your blog. They just decide when someone deserves to get erased from the internet and immediately do so
You're right OP, there's no warning, no temporary bans, nothing. You're just logged out one day and can't get back in. There's not even a message that says "You have been banned for [XYZ]."
I had my blog terminated once and had to contact the support staff to find out what the hell I was terminated for.
Turns out I had posts with "misleading link redirects" or something. I asked staff during my support ticket to show me the offending posts. They were years old reblogs (not even my posts!) where the original post had succumbed to link rot and the expired domain was parked by some spammer.
I got very lucky that someone on the support staff happened to review my ticket, and this was years prior to major staff cuts. In most cases of termination there's simply no response from support.
I asked support a dozen times why they'd terminated my blog and never got an answer. Friends of mine messaged support on my behalf only to have a staff member told them I should be the one messaging them. While still not answering my message.
Six years worth of little posts about history and old guns just erased because their automated system sucks and they'll never own up to it.
