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Yes, I am talking about this subject once again, because it fucking matters:
It is April 2026. One of the nation's top doctors is openly saying the president is showing signs of dementia. Because the president is a Republican, the press continues to shrug and move on. Under two years ago, that same press got together to end Joe Biden's presidency because he had a stutter and a cold during a debate, despite the fact that 1) Biden's lifelong stutter is well-documented 2) he was able to perform several public events in the weeks after and was fine 3) he's still fine 2 years later and wouldn't be able to make speeches in 2026 if he had been dying of dementia in 2024.
The press never provided any proof of their accusations, and no, Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson's tell-all book didn't actually tell anything:
But it didn't matter that the book didn't provide any evidence that Biden had dementia, because the narrative had been set--actually all the way back during the 2020 campaign, first by Fox News, and like a lot of right-wing narratives, it gradually took hold and became the mainstream narrative. I said it before and I'm saying it again: if the media had actually been concerned about the president having dementia, instead of them knowing that they were full of shit and deliberately pushing Biden out of the White House to enable Trump, they would be having wall-to-wall, nonstop coverage about Trump's decline. They're not doing that because they like Trump and will never admit to what they did, in a similar way to how they've never owned up to the role they played in downplaying Trump in 2016 and focusing on "HeR EmAAAAAAiiiiiLLLLLsssss" instead.
People should care about the truth, and the fact that too many members of the press lined up to lie to the public and enable Trump's victory (again). I will never stop being angry about the entire second half of 2024, and I'm right about that!
It's been almost exactly 2 years since the same media killed Biden's presidency over the debate btw (the same debate where Trump babbled like a lunatic, but that's ok cuz he was sooo funneeeeee and not cringeeee like stutter icky old man :///)
Deleted accounts can now be recovered up to 30 days later
Weâre making a big change to how account deletion works on Tumblr, and weâre really excited about it, because this is something that some of you have been requesting for⊠well⊠a literal decade.
Before today, when you deleted your Tumblr account, it was immediate and permanent. Occasionally, this resulted in Very Sad Times. Even though weâve tried to make it super difficult to accidentally delete your account, this is something that still happens a lot. Like, a lot. Thereâs also plenty of folks who delete their account on purpose, but then regret it shortly afterward. Worst of all, if your account was hacked, and then deleted by the hacker, there was no way to get it back.Â
All of these problems are *poof* no more. As of today, when you delete your account, we will keep your data for 30 days. Your account will remain recoverable during that time, and you can contact us within that 30 day window if youâd like us to restore your account.
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You can follow the steps here to delete your account on the web or through the mobile app, which works pretty much the same way as before. Youâll notice weâve updated the confirmation screen to reflect the new process, though.
Does a deleted account still appear on Tumblr during this 30 day window?
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What about my email address and username? Will those become available again immediately after account deletion, like they did before?
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Happy pride month, if you kick out Jewish people for expressing their religion and culture you are antisemitic!! Jewish people belong at pride and deserve to express their Jewishness at pride just like any culture or religion!!
The "wishing death on all the children of Gaza" seems to refer to an incident mentioned at the end of this article. The video doesn't seem to be publicly available, but after the firebombing counterprotesters began following the group and chanting "stop killing kids", and it seems someone answered with something like "not until the hostages are released". Which is extremely not cool. But the point is that the distance from "that's extremely not cool" to "therefore it is righteous and just to murder anyone at this event with you" is massive.
The âautonomous cellâ structure is in fact incredibly common among hate groups & extremist organizations for exactly this reason.
Neo-Nazis use it. Terrorist organizations use it. For the same reason White Supremacist violence usually takes the form of âLone Wolfâ attacks.
Itâs an entirely intentional & incredibly effective tactic for vast radicalization networks to isolate and limit responsibility for the inevitable fallout of their rhetoric & actions.
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.
Her name is Timnit Gebru.
She co-led the Ethical AI team at Google. She co-wrote a paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" with Emily Bender at the University of Washington and two other researchers. The paper was 14 pages long. It was submitted to a top AI ethics conference. And it was the reason Google decided that one of the most senior Black women in AI research could no longer work there.
The story Google told publicly was that she resigned. The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email while on vacation because she refused to either retract the paper or remove her name from it.
The paper had not even been published yet.
Here is what she actually wrote, and why every prediction inside it has now come true.
The first warning was about scale itself. Bender and Gebru argued that training ever-larger models on ever-larger scrapes of the internet would produce systems that appeared fluent but had no actual understanding of language. They called these systems stochastic parrots because they would repeat patterns from training data with statistical confidence and zero comprehension. The paper predicted that this apparent intelligence would fool both users and developers into trusting outputs that were structurally incapable of being reliable.
This was 2020. GPT-3 had just come out. The paper predicted the hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
The second warning was about bias amplification. The paper documented in detail that internet-scale training data contains systematic overrepresentation of dominant viewpoints and underrepresentation of marginalized ones. The models would not just absorb this bias. They would amplify it, because the optimization process rewards confident outputs, and confidence in language patterns tracks frequency in the training set.
The prediction was that hiring tools built on these models would discriminate against women. That healthcare triage tools would underperform on Black patients. That loan approval systems would entrench inequality while presenting their decisions as neutral algorithmic judgment.
Every one of those things has now been documented in deployment.
Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.
The third warning was about environmental cost. The paper calculated that training a single large language model produced emissions equivalent to the lifetime output of 5 cars. The prediction was that the race to scale would create an environmental footprint that would eventually rival entire industries.
In 2024, Google's emissions were up 48% from 2019, and the company explicitly blamed AI infrastructure. Microsoft's were up 29%, same reason. Both companies have now quietly abandoned the climate commitments they were publicly celebrating the year Gebru was fired.
The fourth warning was about documentation. The paper argued that the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit. Nobody at Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any other lab could tell you with confidence what was in the data their models were trained on. This was not a temporary problem to be solved later. It was a permanent feature of the approach.
In 2023, researchers discovered that the LAION-5B dataset, used to train Stable Diffusion and other major image models, contained thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The companies that had trained on the dataset had no way of knowing. The paper predicted that category of failure 3 years before it was found.
The fifth warning was the one Google cared about most.
Bender and Gebru argued that the deployment of these systems would centralize linguistic and cultural power in the hands of the small number of companies that could afford to train them. The internet would become a place where the dominant voice was a statistical average of dominant voices, presented as a neutral assistant. Languages underrepresented in the training data would degrade over time as more web content was generated by these systems and fed back into the next training run.
This is now happening in real time. A 2024 study found that 57% of new web content in English is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Researchers studying low-resource languages have documented active degradation in translation quality, because the synthetic content fed back into training is itself worse in those languages.
The paper Google fired her for predicted the model collapse problem before model collapse had a name.
The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.
Gebru's argument was not that AI is dangerous in some abstract sci-fi sense. Her argument was that AI is dangerous in a very specific structural sense. The technology was being built by a small group of researchers who shared similar backgrounds, worked at similar companies, and were rewarded for shipping products faster than competitors. The incentive structure made it impossible for safety, ethics, and bias concerns to slow anything down. Anyone inside the system who raised those concerns was either ignored, sidelined, or removed.
She was making that argument from inside Google.
Then Google proved her right by removing her.
The team Google had built to make sure their AI was safe was dismantled in 90 days because they did the job they had been hired to do. Margaret Mitchell, the other co-lead of the Ethical AI team, was fired two months after Gebru for searching through her own emails for evidence of how Gebru had been treated.
Gebru did not stop. She founded DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute, in 2021. The mission is to do AI research outside the control of the companies that have a financial interest in not hearing the answers.
Every prediction in the Stochastic Parrots paper has now been validated by deployment. Hallucinations are an industry-wide problem the largest labs cannot solve. Bias amplification has been documented in hiring, healthcare, lending, and criminal justice. Environmental costs are larger than entire small countries. Training data audits remain impossible. Model collapse is an active research crisis at every major lab.
The question worth sitting with is the one almost no one in the industry will say out loud.
Every researcher with the technical credibility to call out these problems watched what happened to her in December 2020 and made a calculation about their own career. The number of people willing to speak publicly about safety and ethics issues inside the major AI labs collapsed after that firing and has not recovered.
The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.
The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.
And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so.
Yup. Also daily reminder that China is committing genocide against the Uyghur Muslim population in Xinjiang and has rounded them up in the largest mass internment of people since the Holocaust. 1 million have already "disappeared."
They're also trying to actively destroy any culture in the country that's not Han Chinese. Reminder that there are 53 (recognized) ethnic groups in China.
Reminder also that they've already annexed Hong Kong and jailed, disappeared, or killed basically everyone who was a member of the Hong Kong opposition press, and that they're trying to do the same with Taiwan.
Reminder also that they're on the UN Human Rights Council.
I haven't been updating much lately, trying to focus on getting my life together, but I have to share this for my piece of mind.
Tonight (24.05.2026) russia attacked my city (Kyiv, Ukraine) with drones, ballistic missiles and cruise missiles. It's not anything unusual, and lately we've been getting better at deflecting these attacks, but not tonight. Due to the lack of defense weaponry, my city suffered a lot of damage. The worst damaged area â my neighborhood, Lukyanivka.
My neighborhood is famous for several things, among them is the first McDonald's in my country, an old farmers' market and a fine mall right by the subway station. Almost all of these things got destroyed tonight by ballistic missiles:
The mall:
The market:
The station suffered minor damages, but the smoke and dust from the explosions got underground to the people using the station as a shelter. They had to be evacuated to the nearest station to prevent suffocation or poisoning. I've experienced this before, you really feel like the whole 80 meters of earth above your head are going to cave in at any moment.
By the sheer force of luck me and my family happened to be outside of the city. We heard the missiles passing by and exploding in Kyiv. The explosions were so loud, we heard them clearly even being 50+ kms away from the city!
If we were home during the attack, we would have gone to the neighboring underground parking lot. One of missiles fell right outside of our neighboring building, the one with the parking lot. It shattered glass in several buildings around it, the explosion wave hitting my building as well. Some of my neighbors lost their windows as well from the explosion wave.
I am devastated to say the least. It doesn't feel real to see your home gone. Everything I grew up with, places I frequented with the people no longer with us, they're gone. I know we'll rebuild, but I can't shake off the guilt for not being here for my home.
This is the video I took while looking around the market.
âSince ancient times, in every place they have ever lived, Jews have represented the frightening prospect of freedom. As long as Jews existed in any society, there was evidence that it in fact wasn't necessary to believe what everyone else believed, that those who disagreed with their neighbors could survive and even flourish against all odds. The Jews' continued distinctiveness, despite overwhelming pressure to become like everyone else, demonstrated their enormous effort to cultivate that freedom: devotion to law and story, deep literacy, and an absolute obsessiveness about consciously transmitting those values between generations. The existence of Jews in any society is a reminder that freedom is possible, but only with responsibility-and that freedom without responsibility is no freedom at all.
People who hate Jews know this. You don't need to read the latest screed by a hater to know that unhinged killers feel entitled to freedom without any obligations to others. Antisemitism is at heart a conspiracy theory, and one appeal of conspiracy theories is that they absolve their believers of accountability, replacing the difficult obligation to build relationships with the easy urge to destroy. (âŠ) Societies that accept Jews have flourished. Societies that reject Jews have withered, fading into historyâs night.â
â Dara Horn, People Love Dead Jews (Chapter 7: Dead American Jews, Part Two)
A lot of people will agree that the proliferation and normalization of conspiracy theories in American society is dangerous and erodes our social fabric until you point out their emotional support conspiracy theory falls into that category. That's when you get very indignant people insisting they akshewally came to this conclusion based on Facts and Logic that "they" don't want you to know about.
This is a genuine conspiracy theory and I'm very sad about it because when I first heard it I thought it was funny and charming and harmless. And then I looked into it and you'll never guess who its believers think is to blame
Wait, I thought G_d was the reason? Like all these giant trees were pre-Noah and after the flood, everything got small because all the giants were wiped out.
so this is kind of...bizarre yet fascinating to read? it's criticizing flat earthers for their antisemitism, but I can't discern what the author's views on the earth even are. (I'm assuming more fundamentalist creationism, but I give him credit for at least calling this out and recognizing it, considering... how few people refuse to do that).
Where did the anti-Semitism of the modern flat-earth movement come from?
Thanks to YouTube, an idea discredited thousands of years ago attracts die-hards, grifters, and trolls. They even have their own convention.
"Scott, holding the Utah license plate âITSFLAT,â is explaining how the Flat Earth revolution will bring âsocietal collapseâ because the bulk of our knowledge comes from Round Earth institutions.
âItâs globalism,â his wife Julie interjects. The term, a favorite of President Donald Trump, has become an anti-Semitic euphemism, attached to a far-right conspiracy about Jews controlling the world. I make what must be a funny face, because Julie tries to clarify.
âGlobalism,â she repeats, and draws a circle with her hands to illustrate."
âThe Globebusters, a Flat Earth YouTube crew, give a presentation linking NASA to the Nazis. The initials of a NASA space-training program spell out the name of a son of Zeus, the Greek god who threw lightning bolts, which clearly are similar to the lightning bolt insignias worn on SS uniforms.
A hundred feet from the mainstage where Globebusters are imagining Nazi symbols, a man named Mike Dees is selling Flat Earth books and apparel. Heâs wearing a pewter necklace with a crooked-spoked wheel: a Sonnenrad. The ancient symbol was appropriated by the Nazis and features heavily in neo-Nazi culture today.
âItâs an ancient symbol of the stars. The 24 positions of the Big Dipper,â he says of the symbol. He knows about its other meaning as âthe more popularized, misinterpreted trigger symbolâ but still wears it because he sees it as âan ancient, cosmic symbol of peace.â
Two tables over, vendors are selling a weighty book on Flat Earth. âZionist Jews control the educational system,â begins Chapter 33 (âMind Controlâ). The second paragraph is a block-quote from the wildly anti-Semitic and fabricated conspiracy text Protocols of the Elders of Zion, which the Flat Earth author concludes is proof that Jews are trying to hide the Flat Earth, in order to undermine God and control the world.
At the table between Deesâ Sonnenrad and the book on Jewish mind control, Andrea Berglund is selling Flat Earth maps. âThe CIA, the FBI,â she tells me when I ask whoâs behind a series of alleged cover-ups. âThe Jews are involved too.â
Presenter Robert Sungenis, whom the Southern Poverty Law Center has accused of anti-Semitism, prefaces a Hebrew word with âas Jews sayâ and makes a exaggerated, phlegmy-sounding gutternal noise.
Religious conspiracy (some people I speak to at the conference accuse the Freemasons, not the Jews of covering up Flat Earth) and political uncertainty go hand in hand. Embittered by Germanyâs loss in World War I, fascists falsely accused the countryâs Jews of âstabbing Germany in the backâ during the war. The conspiracy theory contributed to the Holocaust under Nazi rule. The ongoing genocide of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in Myanmar, during a period of political strife has been fueled by a dramatic increase in anti-Rohingya hate speech and conspiracy on Facebook. In a period of political unrest in America, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and subsequent murders of Jews are on the rise.
When the entire world feels uncertain, itâs no wonder people look for an easy culprit. Flat Earthers say the planet is a stationary disk that does not rotate or orbit the sun. But I speak to enough to suspect they still feel off-balance in the world."
the conspiracy in the image is called No Forests On Flat Earth.
they believe it's a "globalist" plot, and, as referenced above, we know what that means.
but guess what else we find! ohhh, it's our everlasting favorite! the Protocols!
Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspirac
"MM: [...] I think the problem is, uh, the flat earth beliefs don't exist in isolation. So one of things that really surprised me actually at the, at the convention that I went to was how little material was about the flat earth. So the Argentinian, uh, conspiracy theorist that was presenting that I mentioned before, he was talking not only was the a one world order and Illuminati that was, you know, run by Satan and, and various of the tools of Satan. But he was also pointing out how dinosaurs were faked and how it was a, the dinosaurs were invented by an artist who looked at, who looked at our giraffes and rhinos and crocodiles and sort of mixed the three together to create dinosaurs. But he also said, if you want to know who's really got the, what's really going on behind the world, read the book, the protocols of the elders of Zion and that will tell you what's going on. And--
SM:
there you go. Now, now you're really at the end. One of the good roots.
MM:
Totally. And what surprised me was I was shocked to hear this hugely influential antisemitic hoax document. Uh, the protocols, elders designer, a fake that was created to stir antisemitism. I was shocked to hear that brought up on stage at this convention where I was expecting to hear about the flat earth, but I think I was the only one who was shocked. No one else seemed to bat an eyelid. And so we do see these different conspiracy theories clustering together."
thus, as with every conspiracy somehow, it is a devious Jew plot.
whole new meaning to can't see the forest for the trees.
I keep this blog fandom light but I canât stay silent about this
If you care about humanity you should care about Ukrainians too and russia has launched one of the bloodiest, cruelest and heaviest attacks on Ukraineâs capital today
In the middle of the night, when people are sleeping, they started bombing civilian districts with all types of missiles
Lots of buldings damaged, many injured and yet unknown about the exact number of casualties
One of the biggest cities in Europe is all on fire being bombed to ground all because the little goblin and his ppl donât want Ukraine to exist anymore
They want us to sign a peace deal thatâs essentially capitulation and give up everything we have, what we fought for
Please, just look up information and spread the word
I know the news barely talk about Ukraine anymore, especially in the US. I know because I live here and I got asked about whatâs the situation back home for the first time in MONTHS recently, in months⊠and every time I donât know what to say because it is bad, still really really bad and people need help
I have friends in Kyiv, I am constantly anxious about them. I have my family and friends in other cities and I am constantly worried and scared for them
This isnât right, this shouldnât be our reality, this is NOT okay and Iâm writing this as a desperate post just begging people, whoever reads this, to not forget about Ukraine
"... a political identity built from keffiyehs, flags, slogans, and inverted victimhood." ... "so much of the Western pro-Palestinian movement has now fused with denial, propaganda, theatrical intimidation, and the moral laundering of Hamas."
What I witnessed at a Dutch university revealed how propaganda, intimidation, and moral inversion have consumed parts of the Western pro-Pal
"There was no attempt to engage. No appearance of curiosity. No indication that they had come to listen. They had come to perform."
"What struck me most was not just the hostility: it was the epistemic closure. These people operate within a sealed universe of alternative facts. There is no argument to be had because there is no shared evidentiary standard. I know what I have seen with my own eyes in Gaza itself during the war. They, on the other hand, have absorbed two and a half years of propaganda via social media, activist networks, campus politics, and the Hamas narrative laundered through supposedly respectable institutions. Those two evidentiary bars are not the same."
Children from the de-occupied and frontline territories of Ukraine were given disposable film cameras to document their lives. Behind Blue Eyes Project.
