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Finally got the mental wherewithal to make a new blog and get a fresh start here. Gonna follow my favorite people from the old blog and maybe add a few more. If there's anyone I miss I'll add them later.

#i'll make a better intro post later too #personal #2022

niqvassieart

Sleeping on the dining chair as everyone else gets ready for bed.

guerrillatech

politicalhobbyist

darksteel-relic

Let’s not overlook how it always seems to be black women targeted either.

furbearingbrick

lest we forget

derinthescarletpescatarian

Oh good I'm not the only one who noticed I thought I was going insane. 90% of the stuff that people seem to want to automate with LLMs to 'revolutionise [X] industry' was already being automated much better with bots, which is depressing because before this wave of LLMs we were all complaining about how shitty all the bots make everything when they're used to do things that shouldn't be automated, but now even a misimplemented non-AI bot is a comparative relief.

ltcommanderkathrynjaneway

Point of order - that automation IS AI. It’s just not generative AI. It’s 20+-year-old AI.

derinthescarletpescatarian

I'm not in the industry so maybe you guys were using it like this and I didn't know, but I absolutely never heard these kinds of scripts called "AI" before this current LLM boom. People called plenty of stuff AI before this -- I've heard people call things like Alexa AI, video game NPC behaviour is called AI, etc. -- but if this kind of automation was ever called AI then that terminology wasn't anywhere I saw it. I only ever heard them called programs, scripts, add-ons, macros, or bots, depending on what specifically the tool was and what it did.

scrungledwung

No you're right, I've been railing against the muddying of the term AI for 12+ years at this point. There's a dozen things that people are currently calling AI that are all relatively separate technologies, and some of them are bad (genAI), some of them are relatively useful if not able to be misused (machine learning), and some of them are straight up normal programming misconstrued as AI (above poster saying bots are AI)

Calling anything in this space AI muddies the water in a way that drags down actually genuinely useful technologies with the (rightful) dislike of genAI, and makes people fearful of concepts that could help a lot of research fields!

derinthescarletpescatarian

#i used to do research in artificial neurons#like metal and silicon device artificial neurons#and i was told multiple times I'd get more paper traction if I called it AI#and I had to be like “it's distinctly not and calling it AI is disingenuous at best#and outright lying at worst“#these are functionally resistors that can fire like a synapse#not a brain

hellallamerican

absolutely major news out of georgia: the legislative session ended last night at midnight and ALL anti-lgbtq+ bills were defeated

leitharstjarna

Georgia Equality celebrates the defeat of anti-LGBTQ+ bills, including restrictions on gender-affirming care. Advocacy and activism prevaile

saintsatellite-deactivated20240

i hope everyone is ready to celebrate International Down With Cis day on April 4th.

communistkenobi

happy 9 years to the Down With Cis bus!

perenial

happy 10 years to the Down With Cis bus!

hotvampireadjacent

Happy 11 years of Down With Cis Bus!

fraidythecat

Drinking Fountain, mixed media zine, 2025

#art #trans

victusinveritas

iskwekan

your indiscriminate disdain for artifice will not save you

iskwekan

whether it’s prescription hormones or gmos or antidepressants or prosthetic limbs or even wigs and nail extensions, your fixation on the “authentic” to the exclusion of all else is the equivalent of those chicks preferring the larger more painted fake eggs to the ones they laid. it is a purely aesthetic decision based on a vision of our neolithic past that every historian and anthropologist will tell you is not founded on anything real. indigenous land stewards lovingly and arduously shaped the wilderness you view as “untouched” into what it is today and adornment and body modification and prostheses are some of the oldest documented hominid activities. be so for fucking real

abbylonian-deactivated20220825

Girls Will Be Boys by Sophia Wallace

I began Girls will be Bois, 2002-2007 because I was compelled to create a testament to my living history as a lesbian whose partners are often on the butch and masculine spectrum.

Butchness, particularly butch BIPOC are targeted with violence, repressed historically, and ignored by the media. Everywhere from popular culture to the law, female masculinity is treated as failed femininity – a monstrosity.

It was vital to me that I document and create a visual testimony of my community that could not be denied. As a queer photographer I felt that my medium was the best way to intervene in the ongoing attempt to marginalize my community. I also lost a friend during this time which had a profound impact on me. Kim, a young butch lesbian, tragically died from a brain aneurysm at 24 years old. Kim’s partner Michelle who had been with her virtually every day during the two years they were together, was not invited to the funeral where Kim was buried in pink suit and coffin with heavy makeup. Kim’s history is like that of so many queer people. Written by those who seek to deny it.

Girls Will be Bois will always be a historical project for me. Losing a friend and watching another friend be written out of her partner’s life, was a painful reality check about what was at stake if we do not record our own stories.

allegedly-human

nonsense words such as "blorbo" and "skibidi" are outliers and a minuscule minority and thus do not invalidate that statement

wickedsnack

so as long as tumblr keeps this, here's the tumblr version of etiquette that was maintained when twitter's quote-retweets affected artist visibility/notes:

for art that someone has added reblog commentary to (or removed the caption from), reblog from the source

otherwise, avoid adding reblog comments to art (as this will affect the artist's notes/visibility)—utilize tags and replies to provide commentary (which artists will absolutely appreciate)

reblog comments are comments added to the body of a post, not the tags and not replies.

oneheadtoanother

alessandriana

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is upda

Stolen from the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

mikkeneko

Here's a link to the EFF page that contains this information:

The ad identifier - aka “IDFA” on iOS, or “AAID” on Android - is the key that enables most third-party tracking on mobile devices. Disabling

On Android

With the release of Android 12, Google began allowing users to delete their ad ID permanently. On devices that have this feature enabled, you can open the Settings app and navigate to Privacy > Ads. Tap “Delete advertising ID,” then tap it again on the next page to confirm. This will prevent any app on your phone from accessing it in the future.

On iOS

To see which apps you have previously granted access to, go to Settings > Privacy > Tracking. You can set the “Allow apps to Request to Track” switch to the “off” position (the slider is to the left and the background is gray). This will prevent apps from asking to track in the future. If you have granted apps permission to track you in the past, this will prompt you to ask those apps to stop tracking as well. You also have the option to grant or revoke tracking access on a per-app basis.

Apple has its own targeted advertising system, separate from the third-party tracking it enables with IDFA. To disable it, navigate to Settings > Privacy > Apple Advertising. Set the “Personalized Ads” switch to the “off” position to disable Apple’s ad targeting.

eldritchbauble

Apart from the broad stigmatization and hostility toward people w NPD, can I voice something that really bothers me about r/raisedbynarcissists and other "narc abuse" spaces? The way that if someone brings up concerns about symptoms of NPD in themselves, everyone goes "nooo you're not a narc, you're a GOOD person who picked up some of their evil behavior because of your trauma you have fleas" and it's like I hate to break it to you, but cluster b disorders run in families for a reason. Also where do you think the disprder comes from...? Trauma.

eldritchbauble

So many people who hate people w NPD have NPD.

eldritchbauble

Also this isn't unique to NPD. It's not even unique to cluster b disorders or any/all personality disorders. Get traumatized by abuse and I promise you have adopted some toxic and dysfunctional behaviors, whether or not it meets the criteria of a disorder. If you brush it off as "fleas," you're not really being honest with yourself or other trauma victims.

eldritchbauble

To me it's an obvious continuation of the same lack of self-awareness and accountability that they say they hate people w NPD for displaying. And I'm gonna be blunt here but the need to feel like YOUR trauma was unique, special, different from the abuse other people have suffered is like. In fact. Narcissism (not necessarily as a disorder but as a trait at least).

eldritchbauble

Ask me how I know (I used to be Like That before realizing it was a garbage way to talk about / treat other mentally ill folks and I have ASPD lol).

Anyway antisocial 🤝 narcissist solidarity forever, I care about you and recognize the effort you put into breaking the cycle. A disorder doesn't negate that.