CoconutCrow

[wodeworm]

A large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. here are links to films you can view and share https://bit.ly/3yp2nBI https://bit.ly/2SSpMeC https://bit.ly/3f0KK3P • "Keeper of Memory" documentary: https://youtu.be/eywuYeflWzg • "Empty Seat" documentary: https://youtu.be/an4hRFWOSQQ • "Resistance Pilot" documentary: https://youtu.be/wqSmdZy-Xcg • "Jenin" documentary: https://vimeo.com/499672067 • "The Olive Tree" documentary: https://vimeo.com/432062498 • "Scenes from the Occupation in Gaza" documentary 1973: https://youtu.be/1JlIwmnYnlE • Documentary "Gaza Fights For Freedom": https://youtu.be/HnZSaKYmP2s • Documentary "Arna's Children": https://youtu.be/cQZiHgbBBcI • Short Film "Strawberry": https://vimeo.com/209189656/e5510a6064 • Short Film "The Place": https://youtu.be/fgcIVhNvsII • Documentary "The Mayor": https://youtu.be/aDvOnhssTcc • Documentary "The Creation and the Nakba 1948": https://youtu.be/Bwy-Rf15UIs • Documentary "Occupation" 101": https://youtu.be/C56QcWOGSKk • "The Shadow of Absence" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/220119035 • "The Don't Exist" Documentary: https://youtu.be/2WZ_7Z6vbsg • "As The Poet Said" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/220116068 • "Five Broken Cameras" Documentary: https://youtu.be/TZU9hYIgXZw • "Paradise Now" Feature Film: https://vimeo.com/510883804 • "Abnadam" Short Film: https://youtu.be/I--r85cOoXM • "Wedding of Galilee": https://youtu.be/dYMQw7hQI1U • The feature film "Keffiyeh": https://vimeo.com/780695653 • The documentary film "Slingshot Hip Hop": https://youtu.be/hHFlWE3N9Ik • The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar": https://youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI

• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle": https://youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI • The documentary film "In the Grip of the Resistance": https://youtu.be/htJ10ACWQJM • The documentary film "Swings": https://youtu.be/gMk-Zi9vTGs • The documentary film "Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision: https://youtu.be/Y31yUi4WVsU • "The Upper Gate" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/433362585 • "In Search of Palestine" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/184213685?1 • "Salt of this Sea" Feature Film: https://bit.ly/3c10G3Z • "Speak, Bird" Documentary: https://youtu.be/wdkoxBjKM1Q • "The Palestinian Exodus" Series: https://bit.ly/3bXNAVp • "I Am Jerusalem" Series:

• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle": https://youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI • The documentary film "In the Grip of the Resistance": https://youtu.be/htJ10ACWQJM • The documentary film "Swings": https://youtu.be/gMk-Zi9vTGs • The documentary film "Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision: https://youtu.be/Y31yUi4WVsU • "The Upper Gate" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/433362585 • "In Search of Palestine" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/184213685?1 • "Salt of this Sea" Feature Film: https://bit.ly/3c10G3Z • "Speak, Bird" Documentary: https://youtu.be/wdkoxBjKM1Q • "The Palestinian Exodus" Series: https://bit.ly/3bXNAVp • "I Am Jerusalem" Series:

• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle": https://youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI • The documentary film "In the Grip of the Resistance": https://youtu.be/htJ10ACWQJM • The documentary film "Swings": https://youtu.be/gMk-Zi9vTGs • The documentary film "Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision: https://youtu.be/Y31yUi4WVsU • "The Upper Gate" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/433362585 • "In Search of Palestine" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/184213685?1 • "Salt of this Sea" Feature Film: https://bit.ly/3c10G3Z • "Speak, Bird" Documentary: https://youtu.be/wdkoxBjKM1Q • "The Palestinian Exodus" Series: https://bit.ly/3bXNAVp • "I Am Jerusalem" Series:

• The documentary film "Tall al-Zaatar - The Secrets of the Battle": https://youtu.be/Ma8H3sEbqtI • The documentary film "In the Grip of the Resistance": https://youtu.be/htJ10ACWQJM • The documentary film "Swings": https://youtu.be/gMk-Zi9vTGs • The documentary film "Naji al-Ali: An Artist with Vision: https://youtu.be/Y31yUi4WVsU • "The Upper Gate" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/433362585 • "In Search of Palestine" Documentary: https://vimeo.com/184213685?1 • "Salt of this Sea" Feature Film: https://bit.ly/3c10G3Z • "Speak, Bird" Documentary: https://youtu.be/wdkoxBjKM1Q • "The Palestinian Exodus" Series: https://bit.ly/3bXNAVp

#free palestine

[supersonicart]

Meet Supersonic Art's Member of the Week: Erlend Tait! See & learn more on Supersonic Art!

Become a Supersonic Art Member yourself!

[lilcowzia]

why is it that ppl hear "fetish" and immediately think "devoid of morals" like ur genuinely not making sense. ppl dont actually become inhuman and beast-like when theyre turned on, thats something we are told bc it aligns with christian patriarcal values, u know that right? desire isnt actually bad. it doesnt make you evil, or incapable of having/respecting boundaries

[lilcowzia]

i got a response to this abt how men get horny and "lose their minds" and "causes" them to behave vile. i rlly rlly neeeeed ppl to understand that men behaving inappropriately when turned on is something they are *choosing* to do, and when you equate that to human nature you are enabling them and diminishing the seriousness of that choice

[onenicebugperday]

Surreal insect paintings by Nathiola on Reddit (Posted with permission!)

This artist on Instagram

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

[is-the-post-reliable]

RATING: RELIABLE

you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here

[lizardsfromspace]

[lizardsfromspace]

Remember early on in the AI boom where people were asking if the same woman appearing in generated images all the time meant there was a "digital cryptid" and then it turns out that AI just inexplicably gets stuck on stuff and keeps making it over and over and

[depsidase]

[kippwire]

my lesbian clown girls

[justalurkr]

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.

[depsidase]

[kunaigirl]

Me: "Damn people are REALLY BAD at knowing when to tag their eyestrain art/images...either that or they just don't care about photosenitive epileptic people like me. I feel really sad now." Person: "But Allison, what if they just don't know or understand what qualifies as eyestrain and what doesn't?" Me: "You know what? That could be a factor...While it is always better to be safe rather than sorry (so YES people should always tag eyestrain even if they're unsure if it "counts" or not) maybe you've got a point?"

Anyways! HERE'S YOUR HANDY GUIDE TO WHAT CAN COUNT AS EYESTRAIN! I'm pulling this straight from the Artfight rules page about what needs to be labeled and filtered as eyestrain because it's VERY helpful and VERY accurate! I also know not everybody has an AF account and might not always have access to this handy guide, and this is an important resource; That's why I'm sharing it here! (under the cut)

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

Full eyestrain AF page link

"But Allison! How were you able to screenshot that example if you're so sensitive to eyestrain?"

I dimmed the HELL out of my computer screen and looked away while taking the screenshot and did the same when putting it into this post, that's how lol. BUT YEAH ANYWAYS!!! Once again:

PLEASE TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!!! THIS IS ABOUT THE HEALTH AND SAFETY OF OTHERS!!!

[rightdownright]

by the way this is medical. this could save somebody from a migraine all the way to a seizure. this has always been serious. treat this seriously.

[depsidase]

[stahsm]

Overlock Stitch by @clothes_reetzy

[pervocracy]

[noelle-ism]

How they get barack obamma and joe bidden to say this stuff toigether

[themakeupbrush]

Based on what I've read, this year's exhibit largely focuses on the body. There's sections devoted to the Classical Body (real and fictional idealized beauty standards throughout history), the Abstract Body (how the body has been forced into the unnatural through fashion), the Naked and Nude body, “Diversity in Bodily Being” (differences in body types including Pregnant, Corpulent, and Disabled), and “Bodily Being in Its Universality” (focusing the structure of the body such as blood, bones, musculature, aging and mortality).

It's also going to highlight the question that has kept the Costume Institute separate from the rest of the Met which is "Is Fashion Art?"

"The Mortal Body"

"The Vital Body"

"Fashionable Ink"

"Abstract Body"

"Naked and Nude"

"Corpulent Body"

This year, for many reasons, I think the ratio of celebrities to influencers will favor influencers, and I think many of the influencers are more concerned with looking good/getting attention than the artistry. Considering the dress code and exhibit title are incredibly vague, I don't think most of them are going to do anything particularly interesting, or even really look into what the exhibit is about (remember the Garden of Time debacle?)

I'm expecting most people to not have read about the exhibit and just wear something vaguely artsy. Those who did read about the exhibit, I'm expecting to wear naked dresses. The irony of an exhibit celebrating the body and having a section on body diversity is not lost on me during one of the years where thinness has been the most celebrated.

The most interesting looks I expect to see are based on the literal body. Some are featured above. I'd love to see a group show up in the FW24 Robert Wun "Bone, Muscle, Soul" dresses

Also if I see anyone dress up as disabled, fat, or pregnant and they aren't, immediate shame list.

ETA: If someone is focusing on the "Art" part, I'd love to see one of these victor & rolf looks

[chimeride]

𝐂𝐘𝐂𝐋𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐒 - 𝐒𝐮𝐛𝐭𝐲𝐩𝐞 : 𝐒𝐡𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐬

Children of Poseidon

Live on islands

Height : 15-20 meters

Keepers of the Herd, minor monsters made by Poseidon

Famous example : Polyphemus (476.) and his « sheeps » (475.), both share a slug-sheep pattern

Spoiled, lazy, and not the sharpest tool in the shed, but skilled musician

See also this previous post about the Blacksmiths (472.), the Builders (436.), and the Thunderbolts (480.).

[jay-rayart]

The story of Icarus always spoke to me deeply as a Black boy who grew up trying to find his wings. Mixed with the African Folklore I grew up with I found something magic. We launch on Kickstarter in just 13 Days, follow our page on Kickstarter and help us take Flight 🪽💫

Coming soon: FLY : A Magical Black Boy Series - Pilot Animatic

A coming of age story about Black kids who finally have power to fight back against systems designed against them.