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Michael or Emma // 28 // agender  :photo blog @ beaverdangit:

[snailbeille]

Tumblr is so funny, cause every once in a while, someone will roll up, reblog your entire blog, and then disappear back into the void they came from without so much as a follow

[nachtfaust]

[ENGSUB] A live action commercial was made for Gokushufudou: The Way of the House Husband to celebrate 1.2 million manga sales

[winterfel-blog]

[valtsv]

woman in a film: soaked in blood brandishing a knife in grimy hands screaming incoherently veins popping on her forehead red faced and disheveled going absolutely feral with rage

me:

[math-memes]

[catgirldirk]

what the fuck is this post for. its not even funny or even a meme its literally a middle school math lesson. fuck you and fuck this website

[dancing-cockroaches]

:(

[queerunicornofmars]

where did you find a test to do this?

[dancing-cockroaches]

https://www.arealme.com/vocabulary-size-test/en/

[argumate]

but soft, what brick through yonder window breaks

[foundherselfs]

how many people do y’all follow? it’s for science

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

there needs to be a mamma mia 3 because there needs to be a role for hugh jackman in this franchise

[ferrific]

Harry’s boyfriend?

[couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name]

YOU’RE HIRED

[bowelflies]

godspeed you tiny emperors

[cool-critters]

Nature is amazing!!

[waitingfortheweek]

[pinkpolkabat]

y’all are fools ihop changed to ihob in this holy pride month of june thus ihob stands for international house of bisexuals

[queerpyracy]

what books were you assigned to read in a class that you still hold a violent and bitter grudge against

for me it’s into the wild and the scarlet letter

[theawesomeadventurer]

if we don’t obliterate huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer by 3018 I’ll kill myself

[omgsavemeddd-deactivated2018102]

i just did a purity test n i got 56/100 um im a child of god pls anoint me as a saint right this second!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if anyone wnts to do it heres de link

[gahdamnpunk]

Her tuition so damn high she can wear whatever tf she wants

[crystalwitch-in-the-tardis]

Bless her

[lesbianrustcohle]

Her name is Letitia Chai!

[flopsyrabbits]

“...according to Chai, the incident worsened after [Professor] Maggor came out of the theater. She asked Chai what her mother would think of Chai’s clothing decision, to which Chai responded, “My mom is a feminist, gender and sexuality studies professor. She’s fine with my shorts.”

At this point, Maggor asked Chai what she was going to do.

“I’m going to give the best damn speech of my life,” Chai told her.

Chai stripped down to her bra and underwear and walked back into the theatre room, where she performed the entirety of her thesis presentation in the same state of undress.” (Cornell Daily Sun)

Chai wore the same outfit with the ‘too short’ shorts to her official thesis presentation two days later, and proceeded to strip down a second time

over two dozen others in the room then undressed as well

Maggor has apologized for her comments to Chai and her other students

a group of students from the original class who were present for the initial comments have written a letter (included in linked articles below) both in support of Letitia’s protest and in defense of the prof

Letitia Chai is a goddamn legend. What a power move. 

Sources: Cornell Daily Sun // Huffington Post

[lierdumoa]

What we all need to understand about AI in a nutshell:

There’s an algorithm that can reliably predict, from aggregate facebook posts, the onset of a manic episode in a person suffering from bipolar disorder – more reliably even, than a trained psychotherapist, who only has access to the information a patient provides them in therapy sessions. 

“Won’t technology like that help people with bipolar disorder?”

Theoretically, it could. But this algorithm wasn’t designed to help people with bipolar disorder.

This algorithm was designed to sell plane tickets to Las Vegas.

[source]

[flopsyrabbits]

So I watched the video this is sourced from, and then re-watched the section on Vegas plane tickets (4:30 to 8:20 ish), and best I can tell, this example is not something that is confirmed to really be happening. 

The presenter, Tufecki, couches it as a hypothetical: “What if the system that we do not understand was picking up that it’s easier to sell Vegas tickets to people who are bipolar and about to enter the manic phase. ... They could do this, and you’d have no clue that’s what they were picking up on.”

She talked over this example with a group of computer scientists at one point, and afterward one of them approached her to say that he was worried about publishing a very similar program to what the OP describes--a means of identifying “the onset of mania from social media posts before clinical symptoms.” The program “had worked, and had worked very well,” Tufekci says. She does not make any claims that it works better or more reliably than trained psychotherapists.

The closest she comes to asserting this is a real-life example is the following quote, at 8:05: “Now, the problem isn't solved if he doesn’t publish it, because there are already companies that are developing this kind of technology, and a lot of the stuff is just off the shelf.” Somewhat vague. 

There is plenty in Tufekci’s lecture to worry about, but being specious about and exaggerating the reality of specific examples doesn’t help anyone. Try watching the rest of the video, where she talks about the potential for voter manipulation by Facebook, and what’s happened in that arena already. 

tldr: Vegas tickets thing isn’t stated to actually be happening, but there’s a bunch of similar and similarly worrying things that could and have happened. 

[silvermarmoset]

the new batch of love for john mulaney here on tumblr has got me thinking how critical costume design is once again. john mulaney is a good comedian, but so much of his power comes from how his humor plays off how he’s dressed. we don’t expect a man dressed like a 1960s news announcer, all clean scrubbed and tight-wound professional, to describe in minute detail the visit where a doctor shoved a hand up his ass. imagine any iconic john mulaney set but given in jeans and a t-shirt, and is it as funny? i don’t think so. his humor spreads like wildfire on this website because the image of a man in a buttoned-up shirt and a tie and slicked back hair with fairly narrow lapels on his three-piece suit is fucking hysterical when paired with “years later I’d be in college about to go down on some rockin’ twink and i’d be like what would leonard bernstein do”

[6qubed]

well I do recall a comedian telling about how he accidentally joined the russian mafia on a school trip in college, and this was made more believable by the fact that he was shirtless with a beer belly while telling this story

[6qubed]

since someone asked

[jemthecrystalgem]

Frick thank you so much

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

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