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CATO: "New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind...93% had no violent convictions... 65% no criminal record at all."

@MarshaBlackburn

fearlessknightsandfairytales

(cont.) twenties I do hope that someday we can meet up and talk or just talk in general about our past and where we are as people now. If not, that’s okay too. The past is the past for a reason and it’s okay to leave it there. But it would be so lovely to be able to catch up with you one day. Idk if you’ll ever get this but i’m always wishing you well and i’ll definitely always love you. More as a person who was a big part of my life and less and a love struck teen ya know. ~much love from 🐠

my 16yo self couldn't have known who he was going to be, and how his decisions, who he'd become, would split him from the one girl who he was more intertwined with than anyone he had known. Maybe we will catch up one day, it might do both of us good. And though my heart wobbles between "big part of my life" and "still a love struck teen," I'll always love you, of course. I hope you're well, you were always going to do great in this world.

i think i miss you.

Idk how much time passed since you left this here, but has the time changed how you feel? Sometimes I'll feel my hearts longing for someone(s) I once knew, then remind myself we parted then for valid reasons. It's okay to change.

sharkboxes

galaxystiel

Team Free Will Graphics Challenge | galaxystiel vs. sparksflycastiel vs. brothersinsync ↳ Prompt: Walking The Earth

liberalsarecool

Help spread the word: Obamacare deadline for health care coverage in 2019 is December 15. Pass it on.

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.

staticespace

Ughhh…I really hope if we roll back SESTA/FOSTA, they’ll get off of this half-assed bullshit.

https://stopsesta.org/

myslightobsessions

marvel-lous-things

historicaltimes

“Surrender Donald” – Gay activists rally outside Trump Tower in New York, protesting the city’s tax breaks for luxury real estate developers while thousands of people with AIDS sleep in the streets. Oct. 31, 1989

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