[rachi0964-blog]

(meme from @[email protected])

[friendly-animals]

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[demiiwhiffin]

[rachi0964-blog]

god FUCKING damnit I was gonna back up my blog but the download link was expired and there’s not an option to re-back it up!!!!!!!!!!!! this hellsite really is spiting me to the end huh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[king-underthe-mountain]

Christmas time in the Faroe Islands.

[i-am-a-fish]

things that matter-

happiness

kindness

tiny turtles that like headbutting stuff :)!!

you!!!!!!

large turtles too!

[just-shower-thoughts]

If you sneeze and fart at the same time your body will take screenshot

[utwo]

Solar-Powered Ex of In House

© Iwan Baan

[foulserpent]

cooking site, 10th paragraph of page titled “rustic pulled pork recipe”: my grandfather’s childhood was tough. every day he had to work the mines. he was only 6 months old when he held is first pickaxe.  As he crawled into the mine elevator, just a little baby boy of one, he-

me, growing frantic: resippy

[positive-affirmation]

Thank you so much for sharing this @wolfiebynature!

Facebook post reads:

I just saw a transphobic post that was like, “in a sexual species, females have two X chromosomes and males have an X and a Y, I’m not a bigot it’s just science.” I’m a science teacher, so I commented this.

First of all, in a sexual species, you can have females be XX and males be X (insects), you can have females be ZW and males be ZZ (birds), you can have females be females because they developed in a warm environment and males be males because they developed in a cool environment (reptiles), you can have females be females because they lost a penis sword fighting contest (some flatworms), you can have males be males because they were born female, but changed sexes because the only male in their group died (parrotfish and clownfish), you can have males look and act like females because they are trying to get close enough to actual females to mate with them (cuttlefish, bluegills, others), or you can be one of thousands of sexes (slime mold, some mushrooms). Oh, did you mean humans? Oh okay then. You can be male because you were born female, but you have 5-alphareductase deficiency and so you grew a penis at age 12. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but you are insensitive to androgens, and so you have a female body. You can be female because you have an X and a Y chromosome but your Y is missing the SRY gene, so you have a female body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but one of your X’s HAS an SRY gene, so you have a male body. You can be male because you have two X chromosomes - but also a Y. You can be female because you have only one X chromosome at all. And you can be male because you have two X chromosomes, but your heart and brain are male. And vice - effing - versa. Don’t use science to justify your bigotry. The world is way to weird for that shit.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[roboticsappreciationsociety]

What if you intentionally put in one squeaky floorboard and tell your regulars that if they squeak it, their first drink costs 10% extra, then only new people who don’t know the rule will step on it and familiars will avoid it.

[onlymollygibson]

Did… did you just write an algorithm for human behavior? Because that is exactly what I would expect from a robot appreciation Tumblr.

[web1995]

[churchrummagesale]

Suffocation

[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/

[heedra]

we as a society…need to focus less on luxury and more on coziness…this post made by cozy gang

[dyedvioletreblogs]

[templeswreathedinlaurel-deactiv]

Beginner Polytheist Checklist

Do I understand how to give offerings?

Are there traditional offerings I can give, and if so, what are they?

If it isn’t possible to give offerings that are traditional, or give them in a manor relating to the traditional way, what are some alternatives that will work for me?

Is there a certain way to set up shrines or altars in my religion, or is it based on personal preference? Do I even need an altar or shrine?

Do I have to cleanse myself or prepare my physical body/space before approaching the gods of my religion, or can I communicate with them as I am?

Do I understand the folklore/mythology/etc aspects of my religion?

Do these aspects come with modern interpretations I can learn about and make educated decisions on?

Are there any festivals or holidays in my religion?

Do I want to celebrate any festivals or holidays my religion has? Are they based on a lunar/solar calendar, or something else?

How can I celebrate them (if I want to)?

Are there any gods or goddesses who hold a place in my home? If so, how can I worship them?

What is the hierarchy or ranking of the gods in the pantheon (if any)?

How were the gods worshiped when the religion was at its height? (Ex: cultic worship in Hellas)

Are there any books or guides I can refer to when I am lost or confused?

Am I ready to take on this journey? Is it right for me?

[mnemonomancy]

ngl by this standard i am a Trash Polytheist :/

the gods seem to like that about me… so far

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[templeswreathedinlaurel-deactiv]

Don’t feel bad about yourself! This is a list of things to learn, not things you’re supposed to already know! ♥

[gone3662-deactivated20210214]

I feel like this is “whats on the road ahead of me.”

I like it.

People sometimes have no idea what they are even supposed to be looking for and heres a list of where you could start.

But as I will always say: Don’t wait for messenges, signs, or knowing everything. Say a prayer pour out a water libation— you have made your first step.

These are the things to learn along the way.

[thesagittarianhuntress]

@thequeerpagan

[zanimez]

proof that tik tok is dark vine