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nuclearmime

A rubber-hose Dalrae commission for @here-speeching-american

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#my ocs #Dalrae Park

brellom

Dusk of the Final Day, you know how it is.

Thank you for being cool brosefs. The support I’ve received through tumblr has been pretty amazing. I appreciate everyone, and I’m sorry if I’ve ever let you down. Tumblr’s just not looking to be a safe space or viable platform with it’s recent changes, so I must leave it. But that’s okay, these things happen.

It feels a bit strange to have some kind of emotional goodbye; we’re not going to stop seeing each other, after all… I’m still going to be on the internet. But this is a change, and change is scary. At least, I’m a bit scared.

Tumblr’s been a great website for sharing my art, and I think it’s going to be a bit tougher to maintain my relevance now. But the best thing we can do is move on.

Anyway, here’s a bunch of my links in an easier to read format than my recent long post. Final calls, I guess.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brellom DeviantArt: https://www.deviantart.com/brellom Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=13459143 Piczel: https://piczel.tv/gallery/brellom Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Brellom Newgrounds: https://brellom.newgrounds.com

NG will be fairly low priority for me, as I’m still not very interested in the platform, but a bunch of you wanted to see me on it, so I’m open to trying it.

Also here is Downloadable Archive of all of the art posted onto my tumblr:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uxl75ck92td9v5j/AAD_1nfpFugarag_Mr9J_DAXa?dl=0

I had just set up my new plans for 2019, like revamping my Patreon, but having to leave tumblr really messed with my plans. So I might be a bit slow in the coming weeks; so expect these platforms to gain activity as we move into 2019.

Maybe I’ll have some more announcement-like stuff to say in the coming weeks, so keep an eye on me, I suppose. Y’know, if you want.

planetofjunk

This Is The End, My Friends

I really enjoyed my time on Tumblr and with all of you. I met some really fantastic fans and artists. However, on the 17th Tumblr is enacting a new policy I strongly disagree with, and I’ve decided to leave the platform. This will be my last post, I plan to log out and not return. I won’t be answering any of the messaging systems here. If you’d like to continue following me online, here is where you can find me:

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Mindwipe01

This will be my main base of operations due to how similarly it functions as a social media platform. It’s where I will post my sketches and complete pieces, talk about things I’m watching/reading, and interact with other people I know.

These are the two places where I will maintain a gallery presence of pictures I particularly like. Their updating will probably be more sporadic:

PIXIV: https://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=10225280

I like this platform because it allows for posting /spicy/ nsfw, but also for multiple-picture sets which is frequently useful for sequential posts. The only downside is having to search relevant tags, and some mild censorship of genitalia.

NEWGROUNDS: https://planetofjunk.newgrounds.com

I’m not gonna lie, I kind of really hate the interface for Newgrounds currently. Supposedly it’s going to change! The content categorizing is also a bit vague (What exactly makes something “a little” adult vs. “very” adult? Where is that line drawn?), but I will do my best with it!

FURAFFINITY: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/mindwipe/

If I do particularly furry art such as Delta Rune, MLP, Sonic, cat girls, whatever, it’ll go here and not the other two.

Finally, here’s a link to a file-sharing website that has all of the artwork, both sfw and nsfw, I worked on and posted to Tumblr. I put it together for Patreon donators, it goes from 2010 to 2018:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1PHYUTdcTby1duE-IOxBPIi-pkNx30mAn

And that’s it! Thank you all for your kindness, support, and friendship. See you out there, and keep circulating the tapes.

pennicandies

Yo yo. Yo.

First and foremost all praises due to the almighty. I wanna give a shout out to my moms without whom I wouldn’t be here~ I wanna give a shout out to my lil bro for putting up with all my shit. Get that money, b.

I wanna give a shout out to all my fans– all over 9000 of y’all. Y’all didn’t have to fuck with me but y’all did and I thank y’all. I wanna shout out all the artist homies, Lesnick, Diepod, Ehryel, Polyle, Magi, Psu, SLB, Fangdangler, Sirkowski, and all the others I didn’t name. You already know we keepin it movin on to the next platform. The Eternal Struggle…

Shout outs to ECAU.

Shout outs to goodfornothingleech. I’mma be real with you, I don’t remember where I followed you from– Livestream, I think?? You always brought the good shit. Shout outs to the homie Chan. Tumblr was dry as hell when you dipped out for a bit. I’m glad you’re good and I hope you and your wife live long and happy. Shout outs to @Phruxx. I don’t even know the topic all I know is I disagree. Shout outs to Tessie V for the MTA blog and the China King review.

So many more of you out there, I hope to see you all again on a BETTER platform than this shit. We road out all the bullshit for years all while giving this site far better than it deserve.

Oath, Yahoo, Verizon, whatever… y’all can eat a dick. This my last post here. After this I’m queueing up several dozen reblogs saved in my drafts without commentary. I’m out.

Catch me on Twitter.com/Pennicandies , for now… until. ♥ ❤ ♥

yoshisnothere-deactivated202006

nuclearmime

captainanaugi

browsedankmemes

Santa a thug via /r/memes https://ift.tt/2zQUZ5w

ya-boi-oel-blog

HO HO HO MOTHER FUCKER.

inactive-toad

This lifted my Christmas spirit 10 fold

k-eke

Bird wanted arms.

Bird is happy!

lauralot89

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 can’t tell that an empty field is not, in fact, full of sheep, what hope do we have that it can’t tell an empty room isn’t full of writing human forms engaged in passionate coitus?

this really does sound like an episode of black mirror

architeuthism

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

retroactivebakeries

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

crazy-pages

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re 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 isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s 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 can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.

crazy-pages

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 ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t 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 they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.

garbage-empress

As has been pointed out before, there are no humans behind this at all. The review process just reruns either the same algorithm or another algorithm, but people have posted screen shots showing obviously SFW pictures that were still deemed NSFW on review, despite the fact that any human, no matter how overworked / tired would have seen that these pictures were not porn.

#nowhere to go but down #to hell with everything

pi-la

blogwizard

the worst thing about it is they probably workshopped and debated the phrase “female-presenting nipples” for days on end. there’s probably email chains that are like “re:re:re: nipples?”

pukicho

What do you think about YouTube rewind?

The latest rewind spits in the face of what early YouTube was supposed to be about. Celebrities, Twitch streamers and Kpop is not what YouTube is about nor should YouTube be promoting that as their brand identity, because then it drives away regular people in trying to make videos of their own, or trying concepts that are unique and fresh. Instead we have people attempting to appeal to this ‘formula’ in order to make the most cash and bring in the most amount of attention to themselves, even if their viewers don’t care about them, and watch their content mindlessly.