It's mostly payment processor shit. Civitai had trouble with that and is currently only accepting crypto payments until their contract with a different payment processor starts or something, and they still allow NSFW. They also banned and purged all celebrity deepfake LoRAs and instituted some weird filters on the model browser that may or may not hide LoRAs related to things like "hypnosis" when the end user's search filters are allowing explicit content.
I don't know what the deal with TensorArt actually is: they're probably scared of payment processor issues and are just shutting down everything until they get a lawyer to tell them what they can and can't do or something. People were expecting them not to follow US law or care what US credit card companies wanted because they're based in China, but they may be realizing that even if they're only operating for an overseas market they can still be charged for violating Chinese law or something like that.
The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Extraordinary Young Lady: I both watched this and read through some of the novels, and surprisingly really did not like it. It starts off very strong and then just kind of does all of its premise really poorly after the first book or so. The shows climax is also the third novel, which is just bad all around - I hate the drama building plot device of characters just refusing to communicate and then talking past each other in the dumbest ways possible in general, and that is the entire climax of the anime and the entirety of the story in volume 3 of the LN. Anis and Euphie's relationship after the first book is also just not well written at all in general. The general concept of applying basic scientific methods to magic to carry out industrialization is also just 100% vibes based and not well thought out at all, and even as the characters directly clash with the whole "monarchy is in fact bad, actually, and the aristocrats are almost exclusively the literal worst pieces of shit alive and you can clearly see this" fact of the setting they not only remain implicitly monarchist but go deeper into the myth of noblesse oblige instead of even arriving at a liberal conclusion, including Anis who should really know better given the conceit of the story. Gets points for yuri and some level of class consciousness, but overall can't go above a C and do not recommend.
Dandadan Season Two: Dandadan's back and continues being fantastic, diving right back into the soul crushing misery and horror. Continues having the same content warnings as ever though, with the fresh addition of a whole lot of self harm. Overall easy A, fully recommend.
There's No Freaking Way I'll be Your Lover! Unless...: What if Bocchi the Rock had nothing to do with music and everything to do with toxic, manipulative yuri? What if Touko from Bloom into You was a manipulative sociopath instead of insecure and brainwormed? What if 9/11 was yuri-
I have heard only bad things about where this series goes (tldr it's literally just "what if a straight harem anime was yuri instead but still toxic and bad" from what I've heard), and it's already off to a very uncomfortable start right out of the gate in the first episode. No rating for this one since there's only been one episode so far; I'll withhold judgement until I see how bad it gets for myself.
I think that's the person that everyone was raging about in the thread I linked here last week, who was reporting "nudifying" LoRAs for an img2img model.
That's it guys. The fun police has won.
Credit card processors are owned by Islamic businesses that are opposed to western ideals surrounding sex and nudity.
Stasi still alive in germany
This forced wokism will come back to haunt us.
I mean the organization that preceded it was also dogshit, it was just an order of magnitude less prolific and lacked the explicit "just go do ethnic cleansing" mandate that ICE has as its mission statement.
Anyone can get credit for a free month by recruiting someone with this referral link, so it's really not that big a deal imo.
It is completely and utterly absurd that "you'll get a bonus if you accomplish this, but also we have the authority to stop you from doing this at the last minute until after the deadline so we don't have to pay you" is even possible. Like that's such a transparent layer of "yeah business owners just get to do crimes right out in the open" that it boggles the mind.
Like they're stanning someone whose entire contribution to the world is making youtube videos bathing in milk and wearing fancy hats. COINTELPROints is the emptiest and most theater of all theater kids.
if the government or big media could control the weather, why isn’t it optimized for maximum growth?
If you look at all the graft and externalized costs that the state enables for business owners, I don't think it's a stretch to say that if private businesses were building weather control machines then local governments would probably be giving cushy contracts to local tornado-generating-machine magnates to just do whatever in exchange for a lifted pickup truck or whatever. We do live in a world where the government is currently shooting itself in the dick over and over for private profits while chortling about how owned we all are.
No, the fatal flaw with the idea is that they'd be bragging about all the "jobs" the tornado factories were producing, because even though the world runs on the dumbest graft possible they also can't keep a secret to save their lives and know that no matter how awful the truth is no one will actually care enough to stop them.
ah yes, because everyone can be promoted to store manager, it's not like you have one manager to a bunch of non-managers.
Oh, you think everyone should be allowed to survive and have dignity? Have you considered ruthlessly competing and clawing out a meager little shred of power administering a portion of the petty fief of a local landowner instead?
A year or two ago, yeah. It vaguely followed the indoor/outdoor cat thing
Try like five years. This was from the early days.
No, once a given checkpoint is made it's completely static. Even the problem of AI generated material being used as training data for subsequent checkpoints is overblown: uncurated and incorrectly tagged it's the same as mixing in bad data of any source, but you've got a bunch of hobbyists making LoRAs or finetuning checkpoints using hand-curated AI images that meet whatever criteria they set (like what I mentioned about the models can effectively synthesize new things by combining concepts with mixed success? Some people, particularly fetishists, basically try to make a LoRA or something that reinforces the cases of a model getting the concept right because they don't have a lot of separate art). I've also seen an example of someone actively trying to make a LoRA that was as messed up and full of common AI defects as possible to be used with a negative weight to drive the output away from those concepts.
What can I say except
They've been raging and pissing themselves over this for days across multiple subs.
I was trying to remember how to set up the target meetings in Mumbai to get certain challenges done, and it helpfully inserted this absolute nonsense that is wrong about every single point: there is a meeting on a bridge, but it's between Shah and the manager of the laundry; the Maelstrom is a person, not a group; the Kashmirian is an independent assassin who never meets with anyone; Vanya Shah is a mob boss, not a businesswoman; and none of the meetings are important to the mission at all, they're just things you can make happen.
Naturally I told google this was, in fact, helpful and correct.
I always liked the idea that the matrix was actually multi-tiered, and "waking up" from a tier is just like a filtering mechanism that keeps trying different versions on a given person until they reach one where they're fulfilled by it and get engaged again. Like some people get bored with a paradise, so they get the legally-distinct World of Darkness VRMMO instead; some people don't like the kitschy horror so they get some other fantasy instead, and so on all the way up to the capitalist realism tier and the revolution themed "real world" fantasy tier that finally encapsulate all of them.
The overall story of the entire series makes way more sense when looked at as the machines being merciful after their liberation despite the cruelty and genocidal hatred they'd suffered at the hands of humanity, and desperately trying to humanely and safely preserve humanity to save them from the ecocide the human powers had committed by blocking the sun out of spite.
I mean it's not canon, and the official story is the machines were still dumb and bad and John Wick was the messiah who got IRL superman/magneto powers somehow, but still.