Serendipity

INFP ~ Fangirl ~ Bookworm

[presentlydean]

online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

[storywonker]

They recorded tinnitus? It's a physical thing?????

[storywonker]

Lola De La Mata speaks to Patrick Clarke about how her experience with severe tinnitus and vertigo fed into her new album Oceans On Azimuth

Source

[bisexualbaker]

Transcript:

The most mind-blowing moment, not only for De La Mata but the scientists too, came when they managed to actually record the sounds that she heard in her ears – which now appear as ‘Left Ear’ and ‘Right Ear’ which begin sides A and B on the album – and in doing so opened up questions about the nature of tinnitus itself. “The NHS definition is that it’s a phantom sound that your brain is creating, that it isn’t something ‘real’, so you should try to ignore it.” By having De La Mata place her ear into an anechoic chamber, with an ultra-sensitive microphone perched in her ear canal, they were able to provide significant evidence to the contrary. “After the first recording of it, it was ‘There’s no way, this isn’t possible.’” They tried again with her breath held, and again with her tensing her ears, and again with other members of staff, but each time it became apparent that yes, the noises De La Mata hears are seemingly something physical.

[greatmountainfloofsquatch]

Does this hold true for others, too? This could be a game-changer.

[catchymemes]

[obeijaflorealesbica-deactivated]

I wonder what is the source that prostitution is "the oldest job" on earth?? Where does this bullshit come from ? Isn't it the most insulting thing ever? It's like admitting that women were always born to be raped. Go fuck yourself to all the people who believe that it's the oldest job, you're just porn sick and we deserve better than this misogyny.

[radicalcoffeeclub]

Claiming the oldest job on earth is women being men's toys is so deeply insulting because it implies that's all women are good for, when that couldn't be further from the truth.

The oldest job on earth is that of the midwife, of the healer and herbalist, the potter, the weaver, the builder, the craftswoman.

[curiousrecluse]

[tik-tok-ify-the-tumblbeast]

[wrenchinator-central]

Chocolate guy has learned how to make corrugated cardboard. he is a powerful eldritch being who cannot be contained. The only reason we seem to be alive is because his interests are exclusively in the making of delicious lifelike desserts.

[bunjywunjy]

PACKING TAPE?? fucking PACKING TAPE??

[epicaurora]

@magic-and-dreams

[teathattast]

[gluten-free-pussy]

WHAT

[theshockinglyeloquentdog]

Pusheen is married?!?

[lilkearnsie]

PUSHEEN HAS BABIES?!?!?

[grimauxiliatrixofficial]

Queen Of Keeping Personal And Professional Lives Seperate

[mortimermcmirestinks]

SINCE WHEN IS PUSHEEN A GIRL

[foulfowledfool]

an absolute queen. her birthday is febuary 18th

[mist-the-wannabe-linguist]

she's Irish

[helloitsbees]

everyone say happy birthday pusheen

[epicaurora]

@magic-and-dreams

[programmerhumour]

Once upon a time…

[friendly-neighborhood-ehrhardt]

[thebeanestbad]

[personification-of-anxiety]

I really wish the overused sentence “You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.” was less relevant but here we are

[therealbucky05]

[petermorwood]

:->

[dreamilypurpleoutcast]

[anarchistmemedistro]

[dragongirlsnout]

DASHBOARD UNFUCKER V1.0

as 90% of desktop users have probably found out, today @staff released an update that for some insane reason COMPLETELY remodels the dashboard to replicate twitter's. this is of course in the wake of numerous other thoroughly hated changes and a continued refusal to fix any of the site's actual problems, half of which stem directly from site management.

HOWEVER, thanks to the power of jQuery, i was able to throw together a userscript that remodels the dashboard back to its original look almost perfectly.

here is my dashboard right now, with the script active:

and here is the old dashboard in separate tab container that hasn't received the update:

it's hardly perfect; i had trouble making it force reload to the fixed layout when switching between other pages and the dashboard, and it currently only fixes just the dashboard. it's also completely untested on browsers other than firefox, and chances are it looks a bit screwy on ultrawide monitors. but for now at least, it's a good fix.

the unfucker is a tampermonkey userscript. all you have to do to use it is install the tampermonkey extension, hit "create new script", and replace the default code on the page with the script (link here) and save it.

[beemovieerotica]

PSA: bot comments are taking over ao3

The above examples have been provided with the authors' permission to demonstrate what these look like.

Basic rundown:

They are all 3 sentences long

Perfect grammar, capitalization, and punctuation

Like absolutely flawless English teacher-style writing with only a single exclamation mark, ever

No mentions whatsoever of character names, settings, situations, or anything that could be tied to the story

The usernames may be identical to people who exist on ao3, but the name is not clickable, and no profile is associated with it EXCEPT when you directly search for that name. What this means: the comments come from an unregistered (not logged in) reader, bots scrape the site for real usernames, attach that to the comment, and post

Please spread the word about this so authors can filter comments and report them accordingly

There has been some speculation about why this is happening at all, and the best guess is that this is a feature that AI-training story-scraping tools are implementing to try and make their browsing traffic look legitimate

[jinxviolets]

girl help i’m having creation ideas above my skill level

[tambuli]

girl help i'm having creation ideas above my motivation level

[awriterpretendingtowrite]

girl help I’m having creation ideas above my free time level

[asta-lily-deactivated20220630]

[pasteboard]

hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0) youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, []) youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[beardedmrbean]

Don’t think I’ve seen them all together in one big video like this before

[flavinbagel]

God I love things doing the things that they do

[pusheen]

[lennythereviewer]

Hey remember when Tumblr banned porn and everyone fled to Twitter and the internet by and large became that much more insufferable? Yeah well, we’re about to get the sequel no one’s been waiting for

A recent lawsuit is calling into question the very law that makes user-generated content possible on the internet and it’s going before a bunch of old people who have no idea how the internet works. If Section 230 gets repealed or modified, the internet as we know it will radically change forever. Content policing will be that much worse; and either the guidelines will be so restrictive it’ll squeeze the life out of their sites, or sites will close their doors all together by not being able to meet the moderation demand and not wanting to risk being liable. 

Unlike SOPA way back in the day, this one is quietly flying under everyone’s radar so there’s no big pushback like last time, so there is a very real possibility this goes down in the worst way possible. So Yeah Ya’ll may want to start saving your favorite content if you feel it’s going to go bye-bye

[moonblossom-bunny]

This video goes more in depth as to why it is so important Section 230 stays unchanged.

[dwagom]

*a bunch of old people who know exactly how the internet works

[luulapants]

NECESSARY CLARIFICATION BEFORE YOU FREAK OUT!!

LegalEagle (who I like!) makes a false implication in this video, and you can see that same idea in the CNN article as well. This ruling would not “obliterate” section 230. It adds an interpretation to it that was not considered when the law was written back in 1997: the role of recommendation algorithms in defining whether or not a website is acting as a publisher. This wasn’t necessary in 1997 because those algorithms didn’t exist.

This is a ruling that would NOT negatively impact sites like Reddit or Tumblr, which don’t rely on recommendation algorithms to operate.

Supreme court cases like this operate in a very narrow scope. The question in this case is not “is section 230 legal?” or “are websites culpable for user content?” The question is “does a recommendation algorithm constitute an active promotion of third party content that moves a site from the role of host to the role of publisher?” This is very different from the question of good faith moderation that he discusses in the video, though he conflates the two.

If your website actively selects articles to post, you’re a publisher and liable for the articles you post. If you’re a user content-based site and not moderating at all, you’re a host. You’re not responsible for any of it. Section 230 says that if you attempt to moderate the user-generated content on your platform in good faith, which involves setting a TOS and trying your best to weed out content that violates the TOS, even if your moderation isn’t great, that doesn’t mean you’re endorsing something that you fail to remove.

Saying, “Since you liked this video about ISIS, we think you’d be interested in this video about how to build a bomb,” isn’t as active and intentional as choosing and publishing that video, but it’s also not as neutral as just failing to remove the video from your platform. Even if a human never made the decision to promote the material, the site’s AI did. That’s a big deal.

If this ruling was made, sites that currently rely on recommendation algorithms (YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, etc.) would have a choice: to massively rework their algorithm’s parameters for what gets promoted to do a better job of weeding out content that violates the TOS…. or to stop using an algorithm. LegalEagle makes it sound like this would be IMPOSSIBLE, like this would kill all of those websites forever!! They just can’t work without an algorithm.

If you’re on Tumblr, you know that it IS possible to have a large user-generated site without a recommendation algorithm. You probably agree that it’s better. You choose what content to follow based on word-of-mouth recommendations and text searches. Nothing gets shoved in your face as an “WE THINK YOU’D BE INTERESTED IN…”

This ruling would be a huge blow to websites that use these algorithms to create a passive content-consumption audience. It would probably make the rest of the internet better, though. It would definitely strengthen platforms that prioritize user communities and active participation.

Some very wealth companies stand to lose a LOT of money if this ruling goes against them, and there is going to be a TON of astroturfing, propaganda, and misinformation campaigns out there telling you this will be the end of the internet forever. PLEASE be skeptical.