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Actually, the fact that any alien race communicates with another is quite remarkable.
tHIS WAS THE ONE TIME STAR TREK GOT PSYCHOLOGY RIGHT, actually!!!
Humans are biologically programmed that during the acquisition of language if something is pointed at and a word is said, we assume that word is a NOUN. Every human in every culture and every language does this. But thereâs nothing to say in an alien language their biology would be the same. That word could just as easily be an adjective or a verb or the objects location in space or a million other things.
Good job Star Trek. Just this once, you managed to not piss off every psych student to watch your shows.
In linguistics, this is known as the gavagai problem:Â
Quine uses the example of the word âgavagaiâ uttered by a native speaker of the unknown language Arunta upon seeing a rabbit. A speaker of English could do what seems natural and translate this as âLo, a rabbit.â But other translations would be compatible with all the evidence he has: âLo, foodâ; âLetâs go huntingâ; âThere will be a storm tonightâ (these natives may be superstitious); âLo, a momentary rabbit-stageâ; âLo, an undetached rabbit-part."Â Â
INTO THE SPIDERVERSE HAS LOTS OF FLASHING LIGHTS WITHOUT ANY WARNING
The title screen, which is around a minute long, is constantly flashing
The end scene, which is around 10 minutes, is also filled with flashing, almost without a pause
There are several instances of flashing during the movie as well, either because of the animation style or because the of the plot (sometimes both)
But just like in incredibles 2, the plot relies heavily on flashing and thereâs a LOT more than in incredibles
PLEASE be careful because there is a LOT of flashing lights in this movie (and no warning)
I encourage everyone to reblog this, even if youâre not sensitive, you never know who you could save by informing them of this
Just some quotes from the creator of this lesbian flag~!!!
This is the kind of stuff your supporting when you refuse to use a different flag~! đđđ
Signed: a Latina Lesbian~
Some brand new quotes from the creator of this lesbian flag showing that she is still exactly the same!
There is a lot wrong with everything you said sweety and perpetuating biphobic stariotypes ainât pretty!!!
Anyway Iâm not a fetish and not all âHispanicâ woman look the same!!! (#Jenniferlopez lofuckingl)
Some people are just trash and never change đđœââïžđđœââïžđđœââïž
DM:  âThe orc captain fires his bow, andâŠthatâs a hit.  And he rushes, andâŠhit.  And, bonus move, andâŠoh jeez thatâs a *big* hit.  Iâm sorry, man.â
Player, sadly pulling out a fresh character sheet: Â âEh, itâs alright. Â I guess in the next act y'all are gonna meet Boromirâs brother Faramir.â
I just lost six followers
when the solutions to a medical problem are âreduce stressâ i am like? what am i going to do about this????? not go to school?? get rid of my parents??? force myself deeper down the road of total and complete apathy???
my two cents about pornhub trying getting a bunch of good publicity lately by plowing roads, posting a sex ed page, & disabling âstraightâ porn on womenâs day:Â
yâall should spend less time making jokes about pornhub and more time supporting sex workers politically, socially & financially for their work instead of supporting a site that profits off devaluing their labor
yeah if you can, buy porn from sex workers. If you really canât afford anything or donât want to, try streaming sites (where you can give camgirls extra viewers as payment) like myfreecams, etc (or perhaps other sites that allow trans women <.<)
Didnât pornhub just give out like student grants or something to sex workers
Isnât every single video on pornhub stolen work from sex workers, uploaded without their consent, and from which they make $0.00?
#the answer is yes #stealing work and then paying back literally nothing to a select few is literally evil?
MindGeek is destroying the porn industry like its.. a big problem http://fusion.net/story/212078/how-mindgeek-transformed-the-economics-of-porn/ http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2014/10/mindgeek_porn_monopoly_its_dominance_is_a_cautionary_tale_for_other_industries.html
Iâm thoroughly convinced this has so little notes because people would rather giggle about how âchaotic goodâ pornhub is and keep using it instead of offering up the fact that they are stealing from people who canât afford to be stolen from.
Genuine question: Isnât Pornhubâs content uploaded like youtube? Is the problem that they donât do anything to remove sex worker content that has been uploaded there? Or is it something else?Â
I know a lot of other âTubeâ sites (the best example being Youtube) have sections to report stolen/copyrighted content, and they have to take it down under penalty of legal action. What seperates Mindgeek/Pornhub from this?
Iâm not trying to play Devilâs Advocate. I just never really go on Pornhub and am unfamiliar with the mechanics of the controversy.Â
Nearly (as in more than 99.9%) all of the content on porn sites like pornhub, xtube, redtube, xvideos, is stolen work from sex workers.Â
Pornhub and Youtube are wildly differnt. Pornhub (and every free porn site really) works like: Random customers (usually) will download a video from a paid site (or by buying the vid straight from the sex worker) and then upload that video somewhere else, making it accessible for free (i.e. people get access to their work without paying), on sites like those listed above. Also, nearly every camgirl has every live show they ever do systemically stolen by bot-sites that autorecord and upload them.
DMCA requests to remove work are ignored. All of them. DMCA requests do not work. Even when a video is say, nonconsensually recorded and uploaded to the internet by another person, free porn sites do not respond to DMCA notices. *cough revenge porn sites cough*
Not to mention youâre hard pressed to even find a single video of yours, much less the multiple copies of every video on every site, every single time someone uploads it, and then file a DMCA request for every one, and follow up on every single one to make sure that the site has responded to the DMCA requests. Do ya get where Iâm going with this? Thereâs not enough time in the day even if you didnât have to eat sleep or work.
Seriously, pay for your porn. Do not consume stolen work. Do not continue exploiting sex workers. Just pay for your porn or watch some camgirls and pay by giving them extra viewership (chaturbate is decent, imo).Â
Also, filing a DMCA request reveals your legal details both to the site and the original uploader- something that is far more dangerous to a porn performer than to most of the general public.
Have I told yâall about my husbandâs Fork Theory? If I did already, pretend I didnât, Iâm an old.
So the Spoon Theory is a fundamental metaphor used often in the chronic pain/chronic illness communities to explain to non-spoonies why life is harder for them. Itâs super useful and we use that all the time. But it has a corollary. You know the phrase, âStick a fork in me, Iâm done,â right? Well, Fork Theory is that one has a Fork Limit, that is, you can probably cope okay with one fork stuck in you, maybe two or three, but at some point you will lose your shit if one more fork happens. A fork could range from being hungry or having to pee to getting a new bill or a new diagnosis of illness. There are lots of different sizes of forks, and volume vs. quantity means that the fork limit is not absolute. I might be able to deal with 20 tiny little escargot fork annoyances, such as a hangnail or slightly suboptimal pants, but not even one âyou poked my trigger on purpose because you think itâs fun to see me melt downâ pitchfork.
This is super relevant for neurodivergent folk. Like, you might be able to deal with your feet being cold or a tag, but not both. Hubby describes the situation as âIt may seem weird that I just get up and leave the conversation to go to the bathroom, but you just dumped a new financial burden on me and I already had to pee, and going to the bathroom is the fork I can get rid of the fastest.â
I like this and also I like the low key point that you may be able to cope with bigger forks by finding little ones you can remove quickly. A combination of time, focus, and reduction to small stressors that can allow you to focus on the larger stressor in a constructive way.
[Gif: Chidi from The Good Place commands, âGet the fork out!â]
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Tumblr Staff 2018
adhd culture is rewinding something because you stopped paying attention and missed a bit, then forgetting to pay attention to the bit you missed and having to rewind it again, then forgetting to pay attention to the bit you missed and having to rewind it again, then forget-
me, yelling at my anxiety: heart palpitations are UNNECESSARY!!! nothing is happening you melodramatic fool!!!
my anxiety, shouting through a megaphone and ignoring me like a petulant child: đ¶ you better watch out đ¶ you better watch out đ¶ you better wATCH OUT đ¶ YOU BETTER WATCH OUT đ¶ yOu BeTTeR wAtCh oUt đ¶
Once, I encountered the funny story of an AI image descriptor with a sheep obsession. It had been trained on pictures of fields of sheep. Therefore, it tagged anything in a field as 'sheep', including an empty field, because they work on statistical probability. Therefore, it thinks "ah, a field! there's probably a sheep here." (It's a bit more complicated but basically that.) It also couldn't recognise sheep in places that weren't fields, such as petrol stations or barns. [cont]
Now, the alarming aspect of this story is that the very same technology is probably what tumblr is using to identify porn. Now, if it canât tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it canât tell an empty room isnât full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?
this really does sound like an episode of black mirror
But wait, itâs even weirder than that!
This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.
âŠ. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. Theyâre using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. Thereâs just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what theyâre asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.
This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isnât just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, itâs just ⊠this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like ⊠you canât just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.
Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.
Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image âsfwâ in Tumblrâs eyes.
This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because itâs clear Tumblr doesnât actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what theyâre doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.
I just want to take this time to remind everyone Joe Biden was flagged.
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No sex please, weâre online
Itâs not just Tumblr, people. This shit is getting ridiculous.
Of course itâs not Tumblr! They came for Craigslist personals first because thatâs the oldest trick in the book: Sneakily taking down the âpervertsâ under the guise of vague, high morality goals and working slowly up from the bottom, picking off larger and larger targets. Few people cared about CL because of the stereotype of scary unwashed creeps trawling for sex online. That wasnât so familiar or cute so it was fair game. Â
Tumblr is biting at the âartistsâ heels and suddenly there is a bit more noise, because artists arenât supposed to be treated like shit, are they? However even now the hair-splitting over whatâs porn and therefore garbage and not-art shows that attitudes are not so different. Itâs still the same divisive, dangerous us v.s. them mentality that is so easily exploited.
This is why when people tell me I shouldnât worry about this because âmy art isnât porn anywayâ it makes me angry. It means so much more than drawings or a silly blog. This is about people being slowly phased out of their freedoms, rights and agency. History has shown time and time again that whenever power wants to make a crushing move backwards, it comes for what it declares âobsceneâ first. People are raised to be scared and ignorant of sex so itâs an easy gateway. When they come cracking down on sex is when we most need to pay very close attention. They are not protecting us.
There are a lot of times I feel like justâŠflipping the vegan script.
Itâs not âpolyesterâ itâs plastic
Itâs not âvegan leatherâ itâs plastic
Its not âfaux furâ itâs plastic
Plastic is a pollutant and causes far more damage to the environment both now and in the future than leather or wool.
Please stop telling me that the Plastic Lyfe is the only life, it is not. My leather shoes will last a decade where pleather is lucky to last 12 months. Leather (and wool) decompose and are renewable. Plastic is neither of those.
THANK YOUUUUUUU~
A single wash cycle of plastic-based fiber (polyester, poly fleece, faux fur) may release 700,000 pieces of microplastic into our waters. Nasty stuff.
aw dangit
Wool is the most environmentally friendly fabric despite being an animal product.
Using wool isnt even harming sheepÂ
Sheep need to be sheered or else it will cause serious problems. Itâs a mutual relationship, we help sheep get rid of the pesky wool and it gives us a very useful material.
This has been a Burning Hot Takeâą