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moving accounts soon. please feel free to dm me if you’d like my new handles, i just don’t want to keep the baggage tied to my main anymore. im going to make the rounds in re-following people i followed on this account when everything’s set up on my new one

ultrainfinitepit

My cat has to wear a cone this week and it made me think of an angel whose halo is a cone.

ultrainfinitepit

Local idiot is cone-free and back on his regular sillyzone nonsense.

numinous-queer

I am obsessed with the theological implications of this

shpepyao

This entry turned out a bit differently, so I’ll post them separatelly

hematitehearts

Boulder Opal in Ironstone

Locality: Quilpie, Queensland, Australia

Size: 9.4 × 8.8 × 3.6 cm

cholvoq

This has been a long time coming but I’ve been wanting to do some character study/cheat sheets for some time now!

Up first is Steve! He’s a little harder bc his features are so prominent that if you don’t draw them right, it doesn’t really look like him :,)

ragemovement

ravensknowledge

COMRADE POTHOLE

behindnightmaresanddreams

Hi so this phenomena is whats known as a sinkhole. For those of you that dont know let me lay it out for you.

So heres the general idea: A road is built, somehow, overtop a large cavern or cave. Doesn't really matter how. Now, the dirt is usually packed enough to support itself for a bit, because otherwise there wasnt a cave to begin with. Somehow, a pothole exists. That pothole gets deeper somehow, maybe erosion. Over time, it gets deep enough to start breaking in to the cave. Slowly, over time, the dirt stops supporting itself. Gets loose or whatever. And it all falls into that cave. So what was once a perfectly safe street with a Pig Factory above it is now a massive 30 foot hole in the ground with part of a Pig Factory in it.

behindnightmaresanddreams

Meant to include this

ferrousferrule

Sometimes the hole didn't exist before but a leaky pipe caused underground erosion or compaction that created a hole. That's more common in new cities that don't put much into maintaining infrastructure.

hekeepsmeworm

small pothole the size of a large pothole the size of a police department

kafus

haha hey guys what the fuck happy pokemon day here’s bad eggs real in 2023

0xeyedaisy

I’m not immune

teomodo

porky pine goes online

teomodo

now in color

hamletisintown

Using my hollow knight fanart skills to draw ecological awareness raising drawings for work. I was specifically asked to draw a bumblebee for it, and they couldn't have picked someone better for this job.

sticksandsharks

little cretaceous guys + guest appearance of our even older friend the gorgonpsid (triceratops, pteradon, carnotaurus, parasaurolophus, deinonychus, ichthyosaur, gorgonopsid, repenomamus)

rukafais

their neverwinter quartet dynamic is so fucking funny tbh. artemis throwing a fucking fit every time someone mentions jarlaxle's name. jarlaxle being like so blatantly hung up on artemis that athrogate roasts him mercilessly for it. i now pronounce you the most divorced men of all time

lennythereviewer

Hey remember when Tumblr banned porn and everyone fled to Twitter and the internet by and large became that much more insufferable? Yeah well, we’re about to get the sequel no one’s been waiting for

A recent lawsuit is calling into question the very law that makes user-generated content possible on the internet and it’s going before a bunch of old people who have no idea how the internet works. If Section 230 gets repealed or modified, the internet as we know it will radically change forever. Content policing will be that much worse; and either the guidelines will be so restrictive it’ll squeeze the life out of their sites, or sites will close their doors all together by not being able to meet the moderation demand and not wanting to risk being liable.

Unlike SOPA way back in the day, this one is quietly flying under everyone’s radar so there’s no big pushback like last time, so there is a very real possibility this goes down in the worst way possible. So Yeah Ya’ll may want to start saving your favorite content if you feel it’s going to go bye-bye

moonblossom-bunny

This video goes more in depth as to why it is so important Section 230 stays unchanged.

dwagom

*a bunch of old people who know exactly how the internet works

luulapants

NECESSARY CLARIFICATION BEFORE YOU FREAK OUT!!

LegalEagle (who I like!) makes a false implication in this video, and you can see that same idea in the CNN article as well. This ruling would not “obliterate” section 230. It adds an interpretation to it that was not considered when the law was written back in 1997: the role of recommendation algorithms in defining whether or not a website is acting as a publisher. This wasn’t necessary in 1997 because those algorithms didn’t exist.

This is a ruling that would NOT negatively impact sites like Reddit or Tumblr, which don’t rely on recommendation algorithms to operate.

Supreme court cases like this operate in a very narrow scope. The question in this case is not “is section 230 legal?” or “are websites culpable for user content?” The question is “does a recommendation algorithm constitute an active promotion of third party content that moves a site from the role of host to the role of publisher?” This is very different from the question of good faith moderation that he discusses in the video, though he conflates the two.

If your website actively selects articles to post, you’re a publisher and liable for the articles you post. If you’re a user content-based site and not moderating at all, you’re a host. You’re not responsible for any of it. Section 230 says that if you attempt to moderate the user-generated content on your platform in good faith, which involves setting a TOS and trying your best to weed out content that violates the TOS, even if your moderation isn’t great, that doesn’t mean you’re endorsing something that you fail to remove.

Saying, “Since you liked this video about ISIS, we think you’d be interested in this video about how to build a bomb,” isn’t as active and intentional as choosing and publishing that video, but it’s also not as neutral as just failing to remove the video from your platform. Even if a human never made the decision to promote the material, the site’s AI did. That’s a big deal.

If this ruling was made, sites that currently rely on recommendation algorithms (YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, etc.) would have a choice: to massively rework their algorithm’s parameters for what gets promoted to do a better job of weeding out content that violates the TOS…. or to stop using an algorithm. LegalEagle makes it sound like this would be IMPOSSIBLE, like this would kill all of those websites forever!! They just can’t work without an algorithm.

If you’re on Tumblr, you know that it IS possible to have a large user-generated site without a recommendation algorithm. You probably agree that it’s better. You choose what content to follow based on word-of-mouth recommendations and text searches. Nothing gets shoved in your face as an “WE THINK YOU’D BE INTERESTED IN…”

This ruling would be a huge blow to websites that use these algorithms to create a passive content-consumption audience. It would probably make the rest of the internet better, though. It would definitely strengthen platforms that prioritize user communities and active participation.

Some very wealth companies stand to lose a LOT of money if this ruling goes against them, and there is going to be a TON of astroturfing, propaganda, and misinformation campaigns out there telling you this will be the end of the internet forever. PLEASE be skeptical.

tepperz

#in case this gets longposted: please read the whole post. the addition at the end clarifies this doesn’t mean internet censorship.

#it means possibly shooting algorithms in the kneecap

^tags you can copy into your reblogs if you want to!

Also its worth noting that the REASON that these changes are being put forward is because of a legitimate act of terrorism that has happened in part by youtube’s algorithm promoting ISIS. It’s not a figurative – actual violence has happened. And it’s the affected families who are pushing for this modification!

#in case this gets longposted: please read the whole post. the addition at the end clarifies this doesn’t mean internet censorship #it means possibly shooting algorithms in the kneecap