T.O.E. FTW @hammerheadshart - Tumblr Blog

this is a utilitarian post i’m just gonna stick my most common tags on so i don’t have to use tumblrs search function anymore on my phone

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saphizzle

Mom said it’s my turn to make an Adrian design 😔

Aand an eridian grace who came back a little wrong!

kushblazer666

nothing pisses me off more than a proud “no msg!” label on something. shut up you dumb bitch put the msg back in there so it tastes good. idiot

despazito

cognitohazardous

no one is stupid in quite the same way as a tumblr user

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lastvalyrian

This is literally what people are talking about when they say AI will be used to mainstream widely held bigotry. LLMs are trained on frequency and probability -> straight relationships are more well represented in the dataset -> straight pronouns and terms become the "correct" normal.

This is a form of backdoor bigotry from both normative facts (there are more straight than gay relationships) and well represented bigoted beliefs (men are superior to women).

Combine this with the mass of people inclined to believe (and being encouraged to believe) that if AI says and does something it must be correct

razielim

black folks been warning us since back in the days when "computer vision" was still struggling with the most basic of visual tasks

this is the logical conclusion of that same problem. datasets were being trained on white people so computers were unable to tell black people's gender, let alone match them to a name/identity

bonus: the misogyny was baked into the racism

now the queerphobia is baked into the... uh. everything else.

i'm sure if we dig around someone will discover a pattern of disabled people also encountering AI trying to change their words to the language that's been selected, evaluated, and confirmed as the default and desirable patterns

pattern prediction marginalizes literally everyone and everything it hasn't been trained on, and this will only get worse if the training data, value assignment, and fine-tuning of public-facing AIs that are considered "universal" continue to be up to private individuals who see themselves and those like them as the default, and everyone else irrelevant

not only are the consequences of ai a problem, but the whole lead-up was too :\

dogpuppy

coughloop

why are people submitting asks with skulls? to be scary? 👣

...can you put your shoes back on

depsidase

ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi

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ospreyonthemoon

THATS WHAT IM TALKING ABOUT BABEY!!!!!

bovid-beauty

The rule could have heavy impacts towards trans people across society.

Last week, the Trump administration quietly released a sweeping new federal rule that would use funding threats to force institutions across the country to reject transgender people. The 400-page proposed regulation would codify the administration's anti-trans executive orders into binding federal policy, imposing a blanket prohibition on federal funds going toward "gender ideology"

The proposed rule, formally titled "Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance," rewrites the government-wide framework governing all federal grants across every agency. Among its most consequential provisions, it requires that before a federal grant recipient can receive money, the award must pass a "pre-issuance review" conducted by a political appointee—not a career expert or peer reviewer—to ensure it is "consistent with applicable law, Federal agency priorities, and the national interest." The regulation explicitly instructs these appointees to screen for "denial by the recipient of the sex binary in humans or the notion that sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic." [...] An institution that acknowledges transgender people exist—through its policies, its training, its healthcare, its bathroom access, its HR procedures, its name-change processes—could be deemed to "deny the sex binary" or to “support the notion that sex is mutable” and have its federal funding blocked.

Importantly, the gender ideology prohibition has no age limitation—hospitals could be targeted not just for providing care to minors but for providing gender-affirming care to adults, because prescribing hormone therapy to a transgender patient of any age could be deemed promoting the belief that "sex is a chosen or mutable characteristic."

junequeer

THIS IS OPEN TO COMMENT UNTIL JULY 13, 2026

featherandstorm

This is all very bad and horrible, but I want to be clear that it’s worse and more sweeping than just eliminating trans research.

This torches everything. And I do mean everything.

A very abbreviated list of its ramifications include (but are not limited to):

ending funding for ALL DEI related initiatives

allowing the government to terminate grants at any point for any reason

preventing researchers from publishing, going to conferences, and being part of academic societies

requiring that topics must support the president’s agenda.

What this means, and if anything I’m under selling it, is the death of science and research in America. It allows the government to restrict any topic they please at a whims notice, putting officials who have no background in the topic in charge of deciding funding continuity. It controls what gets researched and if/how researchers are allowed to share their discoveries. There are no books to burn if the government never allows them to be written. This is fascism plain and simple.

Please, if you only ever write one public comment, this is the one to do.

genderkoolaid

Bringing back this guide to writing an effective public comment. This gives you the basics you need to know, what you need to include, a basic outline you can follow, etc.

Public comments are not a vote, it is a chance for you to say "here is an issue with this law I think you need to address" and provide justification for legal challenges if it goes forward:

"Comments raise the bar that agencies have to meet when making a rule; “if an agency fails to adequately respond to significant, relevant comments in a final rule, members of the public may seek to challenge the rule in court on that basis and claim it could be struck down.ˮ"

But also, if possible, don't stop at writing a comment. Don't stop at calling your representatives. You should ideally be talking to people in your community about this and organizing resistance on-the-ground; there is a good chance people are already doing that even if you aren't hearing about it.

artechoceneexplorer

Despite being an entire continent completely devoid of mammalian predators, there are not as many lineages of flightless birds as one might expect of an environment like this. This is because of the unique positioning of Antarctica, with the continent experiencing a polar night across the entire surface, six months of the entire continent receiving a perpetual night. Due to this, land migrations into more hospitable environments like the ones found in the northern hemisphere, are not possible, and herbivores like anatids need to retain their flight in order to fly to South America for greener pastures. For the few that stay, they must survive temperatures below -30 Celsius, and practically no food for those six months of winter.

One group that has perfectly adapted to ensure these winters are the Karanis (Crassopectiniformes). This ancient order of birds was amongst the first to colonize the continent when it first started to thaw, and has found great success through a very unique adaptation. Although they have completely lost their wings, they still retain a fairly robust breastbone that they use not to support large flying muscles. They take advantage of the short growth period of plants on the continent and eat as much as they can, storing all the extra energy in the form of fat that they slowly burn through the winter to supplement the meagre amounts of food they can acquire during it.

They are distributed throughout the continent and are generally very large, with the largest of them being the Titan Karani (Crassopectus corpulentus), with a summer weight of almost 300kg. Even more impressive is the amount of weight they gain for their winter molt, as they can reach over 500kg during this time, almost doubling in weight. They are the widest ranged species of the group, living across the shrublands, tundra and open carpet forests of the continent, feeding on any plant they can cut with their sharp beaks.