Mad Ramblings

Sometimes I write, don't expect it to rhyme.

[odysseyi]

“The barren sadness of the landscape had a strange fascination for me. I like to battle the cold winds. Do you understand what I mean? Sometimes cheerless places have more appeal to the heart than a scene of all pretty sunshine and flowers.” — Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Hans-Joachim Neupert c. February 1950 

[thecommonchick]

i’m such a “look at the sky” “look at the sunset” “look at the moon” stay in the car to listen to the rest of the song typa person

[dankmemeuniversity]

[pansexualfaithlehane]

0.5 is always the correct answer

[malepresentingnips]

I would say about 50% owl

[colors tweaked post hoc to satisfy the censorbots]

[curlicuecal]

this is the best science I have ever done

[curlicuecal]

@lewisandquark has an excellent post about why this kind of simple tweak can throw off a neural net—

“Do Neural Nets Dream of Electric Sheep”

For example, image recognition has a tendency to misindentify rocky fields as goats (because goats are often found there), images with rulers are more likely to contain skin cancer, annnnnd apparently anything significantly skin toned as porn.

( #send dunes)

Not only that, but nets that were pretty good at recognizing goats regularly misIDed them when they turned up in unusual places– goats in trees = birds, goats in cars = dogs

Neural nets inherently reproduce the biases of the systems they’re trained on.

And yeah, playing with the censorbots reveals all sorts of pattern breaks can throw them off— large borders, weird zooms, image filters, hue, and saturation changes, clothing, props.

The presence of a small owl in a hat.

Tl;dr:

friends, may I suggest the solution to the nsfw-ban is porn in unusual places?

[6-phds-and-no-sense]

sometimes people try to tell me that scientists are paragons of rationality and I have to break it to them that I have yet to work in a lab that didn’t have at least one weird secret shrine in it

[6-phds-and-no-sense]

new guy: why is all of the equipment in this room covered in toys?

me: dONn’t touch those

new guy:

me: they need the toys to function. if they don’t all have toys they get jealous.

new guy:

new guy:

me: when something breaks just take the wizard and wave it around for a while. they seem to like that.

[shoresoftheshadowlands]

[weltraum-kartoffel]

[sinnerism]

the rest of the remaining avengers: *desperate, crying, moping around the compound*

tony stark: *showing up a week late with nebula on one arm and carol danvers on the other* so here’s our plan,

[the-book-diaries]

“Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.”

— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (via the-book-diaries)

[swevani-deactivated20170107]

im not a christian but at this point i want jesus christ himself to descend from the afterlife to take the microphone out of trump’s hands and say “are yall fuckin serious”

[the-irish-mayhem]

Imagine how much Trump would hate that, having a Middle Eastern man interrupt him.

[elisamaza]

a middle eastern jewish man

[lainathewitch]

A middle eastern jewish man born in Palestine who gave away free healthcare and chased capitalists with a whip.

[somethingmissingthiswaycomes]

A Middle Eastern Jewish man born in Palestine who gave away free healthcare and chased capitalists with a whip who you can’t weaponize Christianity against.

[futubandera-cl]

[oddishtea]

I’ve watched this like 30 times and I cant stop laughing aksjska

[surprisebitch]

the girl has big dick energy

[sl33pyd3mon]

she stole all of his dick energy and killed him

[matydn]

I’m the girl making sure everyone knows he lost

[drishananicole]

Homegirl did a whole dance right after.😂😂😭

[boringangel]

moon: full

titties: out

[boringangel]

tumblr: no

[karmic-punishment-deactivated20]

[cunninggreeneraven]

“… the complex intelligence of an old-growth forest, dank with mushrooms and bracket fungi, humming with insects and haunted by owls…”

— David Abram, Magic and the Machine (via usvakorpi)

[quotemadness]

“The most intimate thing we can do is to allow people we love most see us at our worst. At our lowest. At our weakest. True intimacy happens when nothing is perfect.”

— Amy Harmon

[sixpenceee]

[the-almighty-me-called-jojo]

A Female presenting nipple

[babyvivienne]

[actuallyjoebiden-deactivated202]

I convinced 6 middle aged women that professed to hate action movies to go see Mad Max: Fury Road. You know how I did it? I said “The main character is a woman and she’s not sexualized at all.” And that was it. I had a whole speech prepared and I said one sentence before they all agreed to go see it. And they LOVED it. One woman saw it twice so she could bring her teenaged daughter.

All these years, all this industry moaning about how women don’t like action movies, and all it fucking took to change their minds was “The main character is a woman and she’s not sexualized.”

[textsfromthehobbit]

[diagnosedwithpuberty]

This is the most accurate description of Bilbo Baggins that I’ve seen in ages.