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my friend told me id kill it on tumblr
I'm here to prove him wrong.
Also bc it'll be funny to see if he ever finds my account
edit: I fucked up, the jig is up, liked one of his reblogs on accident like a dumbass
23 she/they/it
One thing im uncomfortably woke about is bugs. And im actively trying to get more uncomfortably woke. By this i mean i DO believe the normalised fear of bugs stems from both government and business propaganda. The start of household pesticide sales coinciding with the boom in insect related horror movies. The promotion of anti intellectualism and anti enviromentalism. If you're scared of bugs, you wont care about saving them. If you dont care about saving them, you wont care about saving our home, since without bugs it cannot be saved. If you dont care about saving our home, the rich can do whatever they want with the chunks of it they continue to destroy.
I WILL calmly and kindly try to help anyone who is afraid of bugs. I will show them my finds, i will explain their importance, i will tell them just how sweet and gentle and friendly they are. And I WILL shoot down any immature loser who believes senseless killing is the only possible response to not liking something.
Get woke. Love bugs.
EDIT: this breached containment. My usual like count is like 5 😭 i want to clarify i mean people who conflate fear with hate are the ones who wont care about saving our planet, like people who threaten to kill peoples pet bugs or actively kill bugs outside for no apparent reason. Not people who run away from a bee.
June 1st is TOMORROW. It means that GAY PEOPLE will exist, but only for ONE MONTH. Do not forget to buy your tickets to see them NOW, or else you will have to wait AN ENTIRE YEAR to be able to meet them AGAIN.
Fun tag game idea: say something that most of your followers wouldn’t actually know
I’ll start first: I am actually married. Irl. I have a husband. I know it’s surprising considering the Tumblr spouses, but my husband thinks it’s funny.
I've been sitting here for like 10+ minutes tryna think of something and the only thing that really comes to mind is probably the fact that we're technically related to Geoffrey Rush?
He's like, our grandfather's cousin or something, but we've never met him or anything
Probably not of much interested especially since I know he was accused of some not very cool things (not that we ever cared to pay much attention, since again we never interacted with him personally), but it's a fact about us that most people don't know 🤷
im mildly allergic to chocolate but i eat it anyway bc no amount of vicious diarrhea will make nutella not worth it. it was only very recently that i learned that chocolate isnt supposed to be spicy
I have 8 nieces and nephews, 2 I’ve never met, 1 I only see on Halloween cause they trick or treat at my house.
The oldest two are 11 and 13 and the youngest is only a few months old
The way my family works is like a promotion system, so say you have a cousin who’s going to have a baby, the cousins of said cousin become aunts and uncles, the aunts and uncles become grandparents, and the nieces and nephews become cousins.
I went by the name Citrus for my entire eighth grade year and realized that I lowkey hated it a couple months in (hence why I started going by Acey when I began high school)
ummmm umm.. not about me but about my pets.. ive had two cats and both of them are really big for cats?? like theyre just Large. not fat or anything just like.. big. idk !!!!
I can't eat too much peanut butter otherwise i get diarrhea and throw up. And I am learning japanese so I can play more unlocalized Otome games, i can actually read almost all hiragana at a glance like english(i just don't know what most of it means lol)
@caffeinated-chocolate @misteria247 and other moots and people who want to play. Sorry, I'm very bad at removing usernames and which people are moots.
hmm... i don't really know actually... i guess the fact that i naturally have a pretty high caffeine tolerance something a little unpredictable, especially given my username ˙𐃷˙
Something I very rarely talk about here is that i love learning languages! (at least when I'm in the mood for it lol)
I taught myself modern Greek when I was 12 - which helped me when I started learning ancient Greek as well - which is something I find really cool :)
As of now I'm fluent in Italian (native language so obv) and English (C2 level), I can read/understand most French and Spanish, some Greek and Portuguese, plus some general knowledge of German and Swedish
I've also tried getting into slavic languages bc I LOVE the culture but for some reason I cannot learn a thing 😭
i tore my right hip abductor muscle doing track in 8th grade and then re-tore it during fall guard my sophomore year and it’s literally never been the same 😭 (it hurts when i drive for over 30 minutes at a time lmao) BUT on the fun side i can crack my hip really easily now and it makes horrible grating noises that can scare the shit outta people who don’t know the hip lore
all this in addition to my hyper flexibility and my back being legitimately Built Different (hahaha it’s an inward curve from scoliosis) makes me incredibly flexible in a deeply off-putting way and pretty freaking good at dance
That's kinda fascinating actually, and very on brand for a guardist
I make my own pins for fandoms I'm in and there's almost always some sort of ink on my skin, either from making said pins or just straight up drawing on myself :)
@idontexist734 @drudg30n @8-aladdin-sane-8 @fizgabzi14 and anyone else
I’ve always smiled with my bottom teeth hiding behind my top teeth and have been resting my jaw more backwards (most times)with my tongue between my teeth,
I can move it to the correct spot but I find it more uncomfortable and hard(+inconvenient to make sure it’s in the correct spot), so I’ve never tried fixing it.
nothings really interesting about me im lwk like a default character BUT
my irl friends know this, but i really like history/AP and enjoy the subject entirely, i find it fun and its generally one of the easiest subjects in my opinion. :] and yes, i do have a copy of el filibusterismo(the reign of greed) and noli me tangere(the social cancer/touch me not) though i'm only a few pages in and i hadn't finished it yet ;-;
absolutely NO pressure at all, reblog if you want : @y1f4 @askthesonnellin0s @stars-flesh-and-bone @muffinstuffins11 @theannoyingparasite @boredomgayartist @specified6 @jrw006 @nerilefou @yourlocalgummybear + any1 else i forgot and opentags :)
Im really not an interesting person at all, but uh..
All I can think of is I don't have a knuckle on my right pinkie.
Well, I do, but when I was young I once rested my chin on it cause I was watching shit on the DVD player, and then it moved my knuckle 😃 it's kinda cool, I suppose.
i have over 100 ocs and at least 35 of them i am currently using! along with this, i try to write at least 1 fun fact for each and i've drawn the vast majority of them at least once. yes most of them are objects.
@mellieksstarz @itzgalaxynoraire @retrocrayons @squari5x6 @theguynobodyinvited @gabrieledega @dawnshockanddarkcrash + any moots i forgot to mention (sorry!) + open tags
I've written a couple of comics before but never actually finished them, I have like five billion trillion oc's too, I drink milk without lactose even though I'm not lactose intolerant or anything, I just, no
and I used to be semi openly bisexual at school before but only for a short while, anddddd I am actually out to a couple of people irl, that's just some fun facts about me lol
my arabic teacher gifted me a notebook that she claims she got in egypt but the very first page is a map of yemen so it's very likely from yemen but still !
hmm I don't think I have anything very interesting to share tbh. I've been replaying some games I first played when I was younger, currently making my way through Twilight Princess and it's been wonderful honestly, very nostalgic.
@ceionia @darbsart @mpicabo @adatumbling @bbmymo @chaayaah-art @lezzian + open tags
Thanks for tagging me~ I’d say a fact most of my followers prob don’t know about me is I went to school to study entomology and used to work in researching controlling invasive species c:
i can't think of anything worth sharing, but i think i haven't shared that I have 2 tattoos one of a lizard and one with rats and a dandelion also I guess I can say I got ghosted by my first crush in Rome
gonna tag @scourgebrother and only him so he feels put on the spot
random PSA, I know a lot of people use duckduckgo as a Google alternative search engine, but it always kind of annoyed me when I was using it because it felt like No Name Brand Google
I have switched to using Startpage.com and vastly prefer it. for one thing, instead of displaying an "AI summary" at the top of the search results (unless you turn it off, yes I know), it displays the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article, with link, whenever it finds one that's relevant.
also a waaayyyyy better sense of design than duckduckgo
also private, European based, least annoying search I've used lately (RIP old "don't be evil" Google)
i have one of those, scraped from multiple different rec posts:
Search Engines
Infinity Search is an alternative search engine with a special focus on privacy
DuckDuckGo is a popular search engine for those who value their privacy and are put off by the thought of their every query being tracked and logged. Uses bangs, ![site] for in-page search (sells your data to microsoft and draws from fucking bing)
WolframAlpha is a privately owned search engine that allows you to “compute expert-level answers using Wolfram’s breakthrough algorithms, knowledgebase, and AI technology.” A data search engine.
Boardreader is a search engine for forums and message boards. It allows you to search forums and then filter down results by date and language.
Based in France, Qwant is a privacy-based search engine that won’t record your searches or use your personal details for advertising. Uses “&” as a bang search.
Another privacy-based search engine is Search Encrypt, which uses local encryption to ensure that users’ identifiable information cannot be tracked. Metasearch across multiple engines.
Offering unbiased results from several sources, SearX is a metasearch engine that aims to present a free, decentralized view of the internet. Can be self-hosted.
Gibiru’s tagline is “Unfiltered private search” and that’s exactly what it offers. Requires AnonymoX Firefox add-on for privacy.
Disconnect allows you to conduct anonymous searches through a search engine of your choice.
Swisscows provides fully encrypted searches to protect your privacy and security. Built-in violence/porn filter cannot be overridden.
MetaGer offers “Privacy Protected Search & Find” through its anonymised search. A plugin will allow it to be made a default.
Gigablast is a private search engine that indexes millions of websites and servers real-time information without tracking your data, keeping you hidden from marketers and spammers. Variety of filtration and refinement options for searching.
Oscobo is a search engine that protects your privacy while you search the web. By not using any third-party tools or scripts, your data is protected from hacking and misuse. Has a Chrome extension to allow use in toolbar.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ an independent DIY search engine that focuses on non-commercial content, and attempts to show you sites you perhaps weren't aware of in favor of the sort of sites you probably already knew existed. Use old-school searching rather than query-based for the best results.
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://wiby.me/ - It’s goal is to index as many personalized websites as possible, and NOT commercial sites.
https://4get.ca/ it works a lot like SearX, but honestly better. It doesn’t have its own index, but pulls from many others. I think it’s the best for research, since it allows you to search for answers from different indexes, is easy to configure, add free, and avoids censorship as much as it can.
https://www.searchenginemap.com/ for more on how search engines relate to each other.
https://yep.com/ is a crawler
https://www.etools.ch/ retrieves from Google, Mojeek, Bing, and Yandex, like Searx
https://www.dogpile.com/
https://searxng.org/ (next gen Searx)
https://luxxle.com/ - possibly conservative?
https://presearch.com/ - good for academic?
https://kagi.com/smallweb - free/randomised Kagi.
Other Searchers
www.refseek.com - Academic Resource Search. More than a billion sources: encyclopedia, monographies, magazines.
www.worldcat.org - a search for the contents of 20 thousand worldwide libraries. Find out where lies the nearest rare book you need.
https://link.springer.com - access to more than 10 million scientific documents: books, articles, research protocols.
www.bioline.org.br is a library of scientific bioscience journals published in developing countries.
http://repec.org - volunteers from 102 countries have collected almost 4 million publications on economics and related science.
www.science.gov is an American state search engine on 2200+ scientific sites. More than 200 million articles are indexed.
www.base-search.net is one of the most powerful researches on academic studies texts. More than 100 million scientific documents, 70% of them are free.https://cosine.club/ is an electronic music similarity search engine
Text of tweet under the cut because it is loooong.
But... Stochastic Parrots.
Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.
Her name is Timnit Gebru.
She co-led the Ethical AI team at Google. She co-wrote a paper called "On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots" with Emily Bender at the University of Washington and two other researchers. The paper was 14 pages long. It was submitted to a top AI ethics conference. And it was the reason Google decided that one of the most senior Black women in AI research could no longer work there.
The story Google told publicly was that she resigned. The story she told, confirmed by 2,695 of her colleagues in an open letter, was that she was fired by email while on vacation because she refused to either retract the paper or remove her name from it.
The paper had not even been published yet.
Here is what she actually wrote, and why every prediction inside it has now come true.
The first warning was about scale itself. Bender and Gebru argued that training ever-larger models on ever-larger scrapes of the internet would produce systems that appeared fluent but had no actual understanding of language. They called these systems stochastic parrots because they would repeat patterns from training data with statistical confidence and zero comprehension. The paper predicted that this apparent intelligence would fool both users and developers into trusting outputs that were structurally incapable of being reliable.
This was 2020. GPT-3 had just come out. The paper predicted the hallucination problem before anyone had a word for it.
The second warning was about bias amplification. The paper documented in detail that internet-scale training data contains systematic overrepresentation of dominant viewpoints and underrepresentation of marginalized ones. The models would not just absorb this bias. They would amplify it, because the optimization process rewards confident outputs, and confidence in language patterns tracks frequency in the training set.
The prediction was that hiring tools built on these models would discriminate against women. That healthcare triage tools would underperform on Black patients. That loan approval systems would entrench inequality while presenting their decisions as neutral algorithmic judgment.
Every one of those things has now been documented in deployment.
Amazon's hiring algorithm penalized resumes that contained the word "women" in any context. Healthcare risk scoring algorithms used by major US hospitals were found to systematically underestimate the medical needs of Black patients. Apple Card's credit algorithm gave wives credit lines 10x lower than their husbands for the same financial profile.
The third warning was about environmental cost. The paper calculated that training a single large language model produced emissions equivalent to the lifetime output of 5 cars. The prediction was that the race to scale would create an environmental footprint that would eventually rival entire industries.
In 2024, Google's emissions were up 48% from 2019, and the company explicitly blamed AI infrastructure. Microsoft's were up 29%, same reason. Both companies have now quietly abandoned the climate commitments they were publicly celebrating the year Gebru was fired.
The fourth warning was about documentation. The paper argued that the training datasets being assembled were too large for anyone to actually audit. Nobody at Google, OpenAI, Meta, or any other lab could tell you with confidence what was in the data their models were trained on. This was not a temporary problem to be solved later. It was a permanent feature of the approach.
In 2023, researchers discovered that the LAION-5B dataset, used to train Stable Diffusion and other major image models, contained thousands of images of child sexual abuse material. The companies that had trained on the dataset had no way of knowing. The paper predicted that category of failure 3 years before it was found.
The fifth warning was the one Google cared about most.
Bender and Gebru argued that the deployment of these systems would centralize linguistic and cultural power in the hands of the small number of companies that could afford to train them. The internet would become a place where the dominant voice was a statistical average of dominant voices, presented as a neutral assistant. Languages underrepresented in the training data would degrade over time as more web content was generated by these systems and fed back into the next training run.
This is now happening in real time. A 2024 study found that 57% of new web content in English is AI-generated or AI-assisted. Researchers studying low-resource languages have documented active degradation in translation quality, because the synthetic content fed back into training is itself worse in those languages.
The paper Google fired her for predicted the model collapse problem before model collapse had a name.
The mechanism behind why this all happened is the part of her work that nobody quotes.
Gebru's argument was not that AI is dangerous in some abstract sci-fi sense. Her argument was that AI is dangerous in a very specific structural sense. The technology was being built by a small group of researchers who shared similar backgrounds, worked at similar companies, and were rewarded for shipping products faster than competitors. The incentive structure made it impossible for safety, ethics, and bias concerns to slow anything down. Anyone inside the system who raised those concerns was either ignored, sidelined, or removed.
She was making that argument from inside Google.
Then Google proved her right by removing her.
The team Google had built to make sure their AI was safe was dismantled in 90 days because they did the job they had been hired to do. Margaret Mitchell, the other co-lead of the Ethical AI team, was fired two months after Gebru for searching through her own emails for evidence of how Gebru had been treated.
Gebru did not stop. She founded DAIR, the Distributed AI Research Institute, in 2021. The mission is to do AI research outside the control of the companies that have a financial interest in not hearing the answers.
Every prediction in the Stochastic Parrots paper has now been validated by deployment. Hallucinations are an industry-wide problem the largest labs cannot solve. Bias amplification has been documented in hiring, healthcare, lending, and criminal justice. Environmental costs are larger than entire small countries. Training data audits remain impossible. Model collapse is an active research crisis at every major lab.
The question worth sitting with is the one almost no one in the industry will say out loud.
Every researcher with the technical credibility to call out these problems watched what happened to her in December 2020 and made a calculation about their own career. The number of people willing to speak publicly about safety and ethics issues inside the major AI labs collapsed after that firing and has not recovered.
The researcher Google fired for warning about exactly what is now happening was right.
The company that fired her is now the second-largest deployer of the technology she warned about.
And the people inside that company who agree with her are not allowed to say so.
text: [ “Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5000 years.” ]
I've been hesitant bc I don't like change but this was the last straw, as soon as I heard they were pivoting harder towards ai I immediately dipped for duckduckgo
i should probably also ditch the chrome app for Firefox but I'm procrastinating that
Everyone you've ever had sex with gets put into the same room, and they're only freed once they figure out what they all have in common. How long will it take for them to figure it out?
Never. They are all tragically stupid.
Odds are low, they are very varied, but they might figure it out in under 24 hr
A few hours, tops. I have a type.
Unclear. There's very few of them.
Unclear. There's too many of them.
There are too many things they all have in common with each other.
Empty chairs at empty tables (never been fucked)
I've only slept with one person so this scenario can't apply to me
I'm too bald and vanilla to answer this. Results please.
repeat after me. humans are not inherently evil humans are not like a virus on this earth humans do not “deserve” to go extinct or anything like that. we are living breathing animals that deserve space just like every other creature on this planet. there’s just a tiny amount of us that have a fuck ton of money and power and they really suck
passes me off when people say "oh we deserve global warming" i fucking don't, my family doesn't, my little cousins who have not yet graduated from primary school do not fucking deserve worrying if the amoc is going to collapse, my dog deserves to run in the snow, coral reefs don't deserve going extinct, all the wonderful ecosystems don't deserve to collapse. People. Don't. Deserve. To. Die. and the icing on the cake is than no matter what kind of apocalypse you imagine, the people who were responsible for all that destruction? they are the most likely to be left unscathed
repeat after me. humans are not inherently evil humans are not like a virus on this earth humans do not “deserve” to go extinct or anything like that. we are living breathing animals that deserve space just like every other creature on this planet. there’s just a tiny amount of us that have a fuck ton of money and power and they really suck
I literally love all of you, but as a Tumblr veteran, Tumblr's main feature is the reblog feature. It is the beating heart of the dashboard and the foundation for a chronological timeline. The For You page here should not be your default setting.
You guys have got to start reblogging stuff you enjoy, especially, specifically gifs and fan art but also fics and fan theories or even hot takes if you're not afraid of a lil discourse. I'm tired of being the first or third reblog for a person's post and then seeing my blog's followers do nothing but hit like, while blogs sit there with no new posts in months or years!
Reblog more stuff please. Thank you, have a good day.
You're not even going to reblog this post are you
been at my family home for barely 3 days and im already tired of being treated like only a burden, even if it isn't said it's always up in the air
coming back home used to do wonders for my mental health but now it's practically the opposite
and I need to remind myself that most parents would be happy to have a daughter that despite serval learning disabilities graduated one of the best universities in the country with honors even if she didn't immediately get a job after.
but here I'm just defined by what I'm not or what I fail to do, and honestly what right do I have to complain, my parents love me, they paid for my education and still keep me housed and fed (if barely, I still get the same amount of money a month as I did 5 years ago despite the prices doubling and now needing meds that eat about a third of the funds every month), my dad is probably ldss abusive than the average shitty dad other kids had to deal with idk
like fucking Clockwork gotyelked at bc I didn't finish all the chores on time
pointed out how much money she wastes on me and I cant even clean the house and then she's surprised i want to kill myself as if she doesn't see me only as a drain of resources and then shell tell me to remember im loved and if i died she and my sister would too, thank god i almost forgot that me killing myself could end up hurting some people that actually matter
not even to mention her making my sister propose to me getting myself fucking committed to a psych ward, which I would not agree to when I was actively suicidal but was actually fucking insulting when she suggested it after I've been through the worst, being a few months clean from sh and generally at the best place mentally I have been in years
been at my family home for barely 3 days and im already tired of being treated like only a burden, even if it isn't said it's always up in the air
coming back home used to do wonders for my mental health but now it's practically the opposite
and I need to remind myself that most parents would be happy to have a daughter that despite serval learning disabilities graduated one of the best universities in the country with honors even if she didn't immediately get a job after.
but here I'm just defined by what I'm not or what I fail to do, and honestly what right do I have to complain, my parents love me, they paid for my education and still keep me housed and fed (if barely, I still get the same amount of money a month as I did 5 years ago despite the prices doubling and now needing meds that eat about a third of the funds every month), my dad is probably ldss abusive than the average shitty dad other kids had to deal with idk
