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enough about taylor swift already. reblog and tag the smallest, least known artist you listen to
it’s people who don’t speak arabic trying to tell sudanese ppl how to interpret something said in arabic despite them being a population that primarily speaks arabic as their first language and is raised to understand social and linguistic cues that many nonnative speakers lack and that grew up observing the nuances of how antiblack racism functions specifically within arab societies
calling sudanese people currently experiencing genocide zionist psyops for echoing sentiments that black palestinians have BEEN vocal about both prior to and since oct 2023……yall have lost the plot BAD
making fun of americans is pretty much always ok if youre not doing it in an edgelord “you guys have so many school shootings” way or acting like we’re the only country that has racism. but like posts about americans and hamburger get me every time
i literally just said school shootings aren’t funny and neither is racism what’s wrong with you people
i just don’t think “is dude gender neutral” is that productive of a conversation because a word can be gendered and still used regardless of gender. i call my male friends girlypop and my female friends man but i don’t think anybody would agree that those are somehow not gendered terms.
the real question is just “would you be willing to apologize and stop using a word if somebody told you it made them uncomfortable?” the answer to which in a surprising number of cases is no mostly because it seems like overall ppl r more upset abt getting accused of transphobia than they are abt being transphobic
nothing more sobering than realizing you'd been assuming a cover of a song was the original...like oh phew if the wrong person found out about that i couldve been killed
im going to piss in the cereal of every employee of tumblr. this isnt a joke, you can use this post as evidence in a legal case against me. i hereby swear that there is no earthly power that can keep your cornflakes un-urinated in. your cinnamon toast crunch is pissamon poast punch. i am going to commit this act on February 21st, 2024. i have the means and knowledge to carry out the crime. I’m serious.
- Aquario
“kill them with kindness” WRONG
CAR HAMMER EXPLOSION 💥🔨🚗💥💥
after all this time, i finally got one
Why do people dislike sheldon he’s just some guy with the ocean’s strongest autism
KOKOBOT - The Airbnb-Owned Tech Startup - Data Mining Tumblr Users' Mental Health Crises for "Content"
I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.
Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)
But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.
I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:
What you say on there won't be confidential. (And for context, I tried it out and the things people were looking for help with? I didn't even feel comfortable sharing here as examples, it was all so deeply personal and painful)
Also, what you say on there? Is now...
Koko's intellectual property - giving them the right to use it in any way they see fit, including
Publicly performing or displaying your "content" (also known as your mental health crisis) in any media format and in any media channel without limitation
Do this indefinitely after you end your account with them
Sell / share this "content" with other businesses
Any harm you come to using Koko? That's on you.
And Koko won't take responsibility for anything someone says to you on there (which is bleak when people are using it to spread Christianity to people in crisis)
I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)
They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.
So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.
(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)
Koko used GPT-3 to counsel 4,000 people but shut the test down because "it felt kind of sterile." Users rated the AI responses highly. Cue t
An experiment in using chatbots to dispense mental-health counseling raised questions about ethics. Rob Morris, cofounder and CEO of Koko...
Kokobot is incredibly predatory and exploitative. I wrote a post about how it exploits minors' empathy and gamifies "giving mental health advice", resulting in an unregulated mess that can only do harm to teens' mental health in the long run.
There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.
This... is DEEPLY DISTURBING.
SIGNAL. BOOST.
Who in their right mind thought this was a good idea at all. Which programmer. Which investor. This will get people killed.
If you weren't asking hypothetically... These are the investors funding it.
And Crunchbase, Linkedin, and their website have info on their founders and board.
If anyone reaches out, please do it respectfully and direct your messages to the investment firms, founders or board, not the staff.
I'm familiar with the field, and it's common for corporations to mislead programmers and lower level staff about the purpose and potential harms of their technical work. There may very well be people working there who believe they're doing good, and absolutely do not deserve online harassment. The founders, C-suite, and board members are the informed decision-makers in these sorts of companies, not the coders and other employees who may very well believe they're creating something helpful.
Also they're apparently hiring?? For 150k a year. Damn.
I feel like we've lost something linguistically with the rise of professional subtitles for everything because they just adapt jokes and idioms into their nearest English equivalent and lose cultural context. I miss watching anime in 2002 with subs by some guy who was just really passionate about japanese and would fill half the screen with an in-depth breakdown of why a pun works. I'm serious I want that again.
ok so who the fuck is jv and why was he fired
ahaha yea woo :D
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I think it’s worth noting that stuff like this isn’t just vapid speculation, it’s intended as instructions for parents watching. “If your teenage son sees this you will check to ensure he is disgusted. You will inform him to be disgusted, and will punish him if he isn’t,” is part of the implied message. It’s meant to tell parents to teach their children to be explicitly transphobic, rather than just the implicit transphobia most folks grow up with. They need conservative culture to be replicated via young people so it doesn’t die out with their parents. At least, that’s what it seems like to me, as someone raised by people who watched stuff like this.
The nature of the immigrant is any food they make is inauthentic, neither "authentic" food from their homeland nor "authentic" food from where they live. This is of course, not xenophobic in the slightest.
I think about this every time I see someone pretentiously going on about where a food ackshually came from because immigrants are never fucking good enough. If you do this I fucking hate you. Apologize to every immigrant immediately or face my wrath.
I promise your culinary experiences will only improve if you start to consider immigrant foodways as valuable traditions in their own right. Immigrants devising ways to make food they like using what they find available in their new homes is one of the greatest examples of how humans express love through food.
Every type of woman becoming a porn category with a list of tropes is so fucking horrible. And the fact that people encourage that bullshit too
"I want a goth dommy mommy" dudes should have their internet connections cut off forever I'm so serious