scree

 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

[sspidersgeorg]

I don’t think I’ll be active on this blog anymore. I popped in to see what things had gone down while I was away but I think it’s too much stress now between who I am and who I’ve been. 

that being said, acab, black lives matter, and for the love of fuck stop letting the government destroy shit like the applachian trail 

[whitepeopletwitter]

[fandomsandfeminism]

“Women” and “People who can become Pregnant” are not synonyms

Not all women can become pregnant. Not everyone who can become pregnant is a woman. 

It is important for us to use accurate and specific language when talking about important issues, because we always want to include everyone who is impacted by an issue. Exclusion and erasure are forms of oppression. 

[fandomsandfeminism]

Just a heads up, any transphobe that reblogs this with nonsense transphobia will just be blocked. I’m not giving yall bigots a platform. Thanks!

[oopsglitch]

I would like to formally apologize for my lack of self control.

[meatthawsmoth]

[sspidersgeorg]

Are Ace people included in the LGBT community or are they their own distinct group? I'm genuinely curious and wishing to become more informed on the matter

I haven’t been on this blog in at least a year, so the likelihood you’re still following me is slim. That being said, I have also (hopefully) grown as a person. I don’t think I’m the person who can answer this, though, and I hope you found your answers elsewhere. 

[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.

[little-bat-owl]

so what I’m hearing is this algorithm is quite literally an argument between tumblr’s last two brain cells

[gold-kushkloudz]

[quiet-reassurance]

Trans Science!

When gonads and reproductive organs can have permutations outside of a strict binary, it would be assanine to assume that the brain (the most complex organ and poorly understood) WOULD adhere to a gender binary. Also here I’ve kindly presented you a basic google scholar search on medical views of transgender people.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=differences+in+transgender+brains&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart

Oh look! And here’s an overview of current scientific literature supporting the existence and biological difference of transgender individuals!

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=differences+in+transgender+brains&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&p=&u=%23p%3D9-kvjMZbs9cJ

And here’s one talking about OBSERVABLE STRUCTURAL brain differences!

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=differences+in+transgender+brains&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&p=&u=%23p%3D_cndMW7fyiQJ

[quiet-reassurance]

I can’t believe that someone called Trans people a fetish. I’m not even trans and I’m shaking with fury rn. You don’t deserve all that hate for making a true statement. I support you 100%

Thank you very much, I appreciate it. I’m honestly just… disgusted that people hold those views and are PROUD of it. And it’s especially horrifying when it comes from other LGB people, who apparently either don’t know or don’t care about our community or history at all.

[nocountryforlesbians]

“sexuality is a spectrum” was supposed to mean “bisexuality exists and isn’t necessarily a 50/50 split” not “no one is actually homosexual”

[tranispanic]

for my young trans truscum and even older ones, since many trans survival and helpful guides are not inclusive of ALL trans people, please remember to safely bind and you can always come to me with questions or advice –

get a binder from a well known and trusted company to ensure that it is made for safe wear

never go over 8 hours if you can help it; it is recommended that that be the longest amount of time you wear it for

wearing it longer for hours or even days or weeks can result in horrifying consequences such as cuts in your chest, bruised chest, deformation of your ribcage and even broken ribs which leads to difficulty of breathing; it can also lead to such deformation that future chances for top surgery are gone and you would not be able to get it

never exercise in your binder

stretch every hour to help your back and air flow

never double bind even if it is with the safe binders, that will double your consequences

never use ace bandages / wraps or anything else that would be deemed unsafe to use

IT IS OKAY TO TAKE BREAKS

never sleep in your binder

if you experience trouble breathing, back pain, chest pain, anything of the sorts then please TAKE A BREAK FROM BINDING; there are good compressing sports bras you can get from places like target or walmart to continue getting at least the minimal binding without it hurting

make sure when buying a binder from a site, you check that sites specific sizing chart because they are not all the same and have someone help you measure if you can to make sure you get the right size; GETTING A SMALLER SIZE WILL NOT MAKE IT BIND BETTER, IT WILL HARM YOU MORE AND QUICKER

there is actually no safe way to bind so please make sure you do it the safest way that is currently possible for us

this IS only temporary

you WILL be okay

you WILL get that surgery

[bad-truscum-blog-deactivated201]

Lovely day to remember that cis transmeds are wonderful allies!!

[lesbilan]

letting cis people speak over trans people is transphobic, and that’s the tea, babeys!

[hsjdjcjebgakdj-deactivated20220]

youre right, tucutes ARE transphobic by speaking over trans people! delicious tea babey

[transyellingcorner]

Do you believe in the concept of social dysphoria? (Social dysphoria is when a person experiences discomfort with being seen as a male/female and would much rather present as the opposite sex than identify as their birth sex without medically transitioning).

i understand social dysphoria, but it is impossible to have social dysphoria without also having body dysphoria, as social dysphoria stems off of body dysphoria. you wouldn’t have social dysphoria if you weren’t already uncomfortable with your birth sex and it’s characteristics.

[thereasonabletruscum-deactivate]

Truscum: I suffer from gender dysphoria induced by my primary and secondary sex characteristics, and desire to transition in order to alleviate said dysphoria. Because of this, I took it upon myself to research the science behind it. I’ve read many articles and gathered enough information (that exists as of now) to conclude that the human brain is sexually dimorphic and determined in the womb, therefore making it possible for a fetus’s brain to develop as the opposite sex’s would. The contrast between the brain structure and the body structure is the cause of dysphoria. Therefore, transsexual people have a neurobiological condition and (in most cases) rightfully seek out medical intervention to alleviate the dysphoria caused by said condition. It does not make sense when individuals who exhibit none of these symptoms label themselves transgender, as the word does not apply to them. Directly ignoring the medical definition of a serious condition can cause a lot of issues for both you and the people who suffer from it. This isn’t necessarily to say that you cannot change your presentation and go under other labels– you can live your own life. However, using transgender terminology for yourself when you do not fit the biological criteria is not something to be taken lightly and can result in a loss of insurance for thousands of trans people who need it.

Tumblr: Don’t interact: white supremacists, truscum, Nazis, the devil incarnate,

[feministism]

[tobeyisprochoice]

No one should be pressured to abort.

Likewise, no one should be pressured to continue their pregnancy.