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Julia - 29 y.o - brazilian - Taking the dust off this tumblr account since Twitter is dying. I write stuff mainly in portuguese nowadays.

[kushanna]

Devilman: The Birth | デビルマン 誕生編 (1987) dir. Umanosuke Iida

[romanceyourdemons]

the imperial chinese examinations are a godsend for enjoyers of pathetic historical men such as myself. they gave rise to so many types of guy, such as: guy who failed the examinations like forty times and despondently wrote one of the great works of chinese literature between failures; guy who failed like ten times and decided “you know what? this is bullshit. this all has to go” and started a brutal peasant uprising; guy who just barely passed and was suddenly thrown into a very high military position, which he has ABSOLUTELY no training for; and guy who failed several times, faked a degree, got hired by harvard to teach chinese, had his fake degree discovered after he got to boston, begged harvard to let him teach because otherwise it would be really embarrassing for them all, taught like seven students, and died of pneumonia

[iran-contrarian]

you're forgetting that part where the guy who led that peasant revolt not only failed the exams, he failed the exams so hard he has a nervous breakdown mystical visions and decuced that he was the brother of jesus christ and he had to rid the world of demon worship (confucianism). And he and his brother had custom demon slaying swords for this exact purpose. and then peasant revolt they led ended up in 20 MILLION dead.

[mynnthia]

here are rebloggable links to more info about each imperial chinese exam failguy, courtesy of op in the comments:

Pu Songling: guy who failed the examinations like forty times and despondently wrote one of the great works of chinese literature between failures

Hong Xiuquan: guy who failed like ten times and decided “you know what? this is bullshit. this all has to go” and started a brutal peasant uprising

Yuan Chonghuan: guy who just barely passed and was suddenly thrown into a very high military position, which he has ABSOLUTELY no training for

Ko K'un-hua (alternate article link, in case archive.is acts up): guy who failed several times, faked a degree, got hired by harvard to teach chinese, had his fake degree discovered after he got to boston, begged harvard to let him teach because otherwise it would be really embarrassing for them all, taught like seven students, and died of pneumonia

[galaxyspeaking]

I would love you with our heads down

[artistcharlottehawkins]

Day 398

Daily sketch

[bikwin5]

the earliest recorded homestuck reference was made in the book of exodus when israel is referred to as the “land of milk and honey”

[taracod-01]

0427

[jawsstone]

Proud and hopeful

[rachelbudweisz]

Barbie from Barbie (2023) and Amalthea from The Last Unicorn both being irrevocably changed after encountering humanity and never truly being able to go back to who they were before or rejoin their fellow Barbies/unicorns is a comparison that has left me emotionally devastated.

[jokin-around]

SEX. 😳 I'M WANTING MORE. 😏✨🌈💖

[fiore-firelily]

[jorongbak]

Of course it's the pink shirt that saves the day

and Gohan your father spent a whole full solid 3 years- 1096 days with that man in a room with literally nothing but a bedroom, kitchen, and a bathroom in it

[amartbee]

the age of too much info got funnier

[karontte]

TODAY!

[benepla-deactivated20200506]

[systlin]

Sometimes you see a post and just realize there’s some Wild Shit going on in a community you never knew existed

[unicorncryptid]

[carebear-onion-lizard]

Attached for original context

[thevoidfarer]

Finally, I understand

[supreme-leader-stoat]

THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT. THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL POST.

[sukabu89]

Auto bike

[freshpickle]

justin stewart

[weaskie]

then you never really knew me at all

[mostlysignssomeportents]

The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships

Here’s the “dictator’s dilemma”: they want to block their country’s frustrated elites from mobilizing against them, so they censor public communications; but they also want to know what their people truly believe, so they can head off simmering resentments before they boil over into regime-toppling revolutions.

These two strategies are in tension: the more you censor, the less you know about the true feelings of your citizens and the easier it will be to miss serious problems until they spill over into the streets (think: the fall of the Berlin Wall or Tunisia before the Arab Spring). Dictators try to square this circle with things like private opinion polling or petition systems, but these capture a small slice of the potentially destabiziling moods circulating in the body politic.

Enter AI: back in 2018, Yuval Harari proposed that AI would supercharge dictatorships by mining and summarizing the public mood — as captured on social media — allowing dictators to tack into serious discontent and diffuse it before it erupted into unequenchable wildfire:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/

Harari wrote that “the desire to concentrate all information and power in one place may become [dictators] decisive advantage in the 21st century.” But other political scientists sharply disagreed. Last year, Henry Farrell, Jeremy Wallace and Abraham Newman published a thoroughgoing rebuttal to Harari in Foreign Affairs:

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/spirals-delusion-artificial-intelligence-decision-making

They argued that — like everyone who gets excited about AI, only to have their hopes dashed — dictators seeking to use AI to understand the public mood would run into serious training data bias problems. After all, people living under dictatorships know that spouting off about their discontent and desire for change is a risky business, so they will self-censor on social media. That’s true even if a person isn’t afraid of retaliation: if you know that using certain words or phrases in a post will get it autoblocked by a censorbot, what’s the point of trying to use those words?

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[nscafe-firehose]

*watches Andor again*