Fandom Illuminati #42 ||🍋||⚓||💙||🪿||🍉||🏜

This amazing video from @ColonistKetchup should be required watching. Both heartbreaking and inspiring.

Suicidal thoughts don’t always sound like “I want to die.” Sometimes they sound like: • “I can’t keep doing this.” • “I don’t want to wake up tomorrow.” • “I’m tired of being strong.” • “I feel trapped in my own life.” • “I don’t belong here.” • “Everything feels too heavy.” These aren’t attention seeking thoughts. They’re pain and it’s unbearable.

By 1943, the Allies had forbidden any new assassination attempts against Hitler because they viewed his paranoia, incompetence, drug abuse, and megalomania as so damaging to the Axis war effort they considered him a net strategic positive. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved it. They fine tuned GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro, and DeepSeek V3.1 on a simple task: expand a plot summary into full text. A normal use case. The kind of thing a writing assistant is built for. No hacking. No jailbreaking. No tricks. The models started reciting copyrighted books from memory. Not paraphrasing. Not summarizing. Entire pages reproduced verbatim. Single unbroken spans exceeding 460 words. Up to 85 to 90% of entire copyrighted novels. Word for word. Then it got worse. The researchers fine tuned the models on the works of only one author. Haruki Murakami. Just his novels. Nothing else. It unlocked verbatim recall of books from over 30 completely unrelated authors. One author's books opened the vault to everyone else's. The memorization was already inside the model the whole time. The fine tuning just removed the lock. Your book might be in there right now. You would never know it unless someone looked. Every safety measure the companies rely on failed. RLHF failed. System prompts failed. Output filters failed. The exact protections these companies cite in courtroom defenses did not stop a single page from being extracted. Then the researchers compared the three models. GPT-4o. Gemini. DeepSeek. Three different companies. Three different countries. They all memorized the same books in the same regions. The correlation was 0.90 or higher. That means they all trained on the same stolen data. The paper names the sources directly: LibGen and Books3. Over 190,000 copyrighted books obtained from pirated websites. Right now, authors and publishers have dozens of active lawsuits against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Meta. These companies have argued in court that their models learn patterns. Not copies. That no book is stored inside the weights. This paper says that is a lie. The books are still inside. And researchers just pulled them out.

Just remembering stupid, beautiful Kevin Day fixing Neil’s racquet when Neil disappeared in hopes Neil would be back to play

Autism: I need to understand why the rule exists. ADHD: I need the rule to make immediate sense or I’m ignoring it. AuDHD: Explain the rule, make it logical, keep it brief, and don’t be surprised when I’ve already found the loophole.

We really DO need more groups like Big Ocean. Their latest album has a QR code that you access by working out the password through a crossword style puzzle. Inside are 4x sign language videos for the deaf community and 4x lyric reading audios for the blind community 🥹🥹

Me: "I should really not go on Twitter today as I'm sure there will be spoilers for tomorrow." Me: *immediately opens Twitter and gets a FanCam* ...why am I like this?

@mutilovie Wumutmii

do u guys like my wumuti mii

"We're not trying to KILL trans women, we're just trying to force you into male prisons for life to be raped and murdered if we catch you using our idea of the wrong bathroom. How do we enforce this, you ask? Forced genital checks, including on children. We're good Christians!☺️

@hunny_bean_miso What a silly question.

the ✨️freaks✨️ have spoken! I will get to work on this very soon, but first I have one more question. . . skirt or no skirt? 👀

@notletmedown I stated four Fandoms on AO3 one year...it was terrifying. 🤣🤣🤣 CONGRATS!

being the first and only work in a relationship tag is such an exhilarating feeling lmao. and i can't believe i put a crossover on every one of my personal bingos every year AND NOT THIS TIME AND I THIS TIME I WRITE IT FHFJSJSK

@Wander_ingSheep No but same. I feel like I've lived five lives.

i've been a shawol for short amount of time compared to others but I've survived taemin enlistment, then jinki hiatus and now kibum hiatus 😭 Can i put this on my resumé as achievements?

Me, as a reader: STOP HURTING THE CHARACTERS HOW DARE YOU Me, as an author: look at this poor glow stick Character: I’m not a glow sti- Author me: *snaps the character, multiple times* look at him shine

@hanjioomf I came out as Agender and that's shifted now, too. Gender is personal and you learn and grow. It's okay to change it. 💚🦕

i came out as a trans guy but now i’m realising i might be either agender or genderfluid help?????

@Jisungskz2018 I hope it helped cheer you up some. 💚🦕

@Accalia he is literally the smallest person in the world 🥺🥺🤏🏻🤏🏻thank u so much💞

guys please send me some cute pics of hanji in comments…i need it sm rn…🥺🤍

@starlostbundle Was going to follow you for that hilarity...only to find out I was already following you. 🤣🤣🤣

@notletmedown Can I read it despite not having topped 3 people?

i feel like 3 people tops will read this but idc im having so much fun

🥟: Even so, my favourite is oil painting. It's probably the most harmful to the body, it smells bad, and doesn't come off easily if it gets on you.. it's a fussy medium, but I think that's exactly what makes it more appealing #HYUNJINxCARTIER

oops my finger slipped and I accidentally dropped some peak back into your timeline

@dabforpalermo Someone told me once I couldn't write about a gay little coffee shop in New York because of the Pulse shootings in Florida that happened two months prior.

hi guys friendly reminder that fanfiction is 1. not a reputable sex education source and 2. fiction. the fact that there was also a discussion, a mention of a safeword, and full consent in this makes me realize that this person actually just didn’t read my fic at all 😭