I’m making jokes but like this is literally so crazy — as tho like Sexual encounters between adults is something we all need to be protected from by corporations… as tho the whole point of Facebook wasn’t started as a way to evaluate women’s sexual attractiveness
Sex workers told everyone that FOSTA/SESTA was the beginning and justification of a substantial amount of internet surveillance + control and that got totally ignored.
The thing is, it’s not unfair to ask people to tag for triggers. I’m triggered by pictures of people kissing, and asked a friend to tag for kissing once. But I said, hey, I know this is a really specific trigger, and if you don’t want to tag for it I get it. It just means I can’t follow you because you post this a lot. But no hard feelings.
But when people ask us to tag our identity as a slur, they are not just asking us to tag for their trigger. They are making a statement about the validity of our chosen identifier. They are saying that what we call ourselves is inherently harmful. They don’t say “can you tag for the word queer” they say, “tag for q-slur.”
And never once has this request to me been polite. Never once has someone said, “if you aren’t willing to do it, I get it, I’ll just have to unfollow.” It’s a demand, not a request. It’s a demand that we accept their statement that our identity is something negative.
So like, if you’re traumatized by the word queer, that’s fair. There are people out there who have the same trauma with other words that aren’t slurs, like gay. But it is not fair to go on a crusade against everyone who uses the word queer. To bully us into accepting that it’s a slur.
And if you’re traumatized by certain words, then look into an app that will block posts that use those words, or block out those words. It doesn’t make sense to ask people to tag for a word when there are so many options that will allow you to not see the word at all. The only reason to be belligerent about tagging for the word queer is because you want to push your agenda on someone else.
What is almost certainly happening with Tumblr’s image classifier is that they’ve deployed the bot entirely untrained, and are relying on user complaints to train it what NSFW content on tumblr looks like.
Making people participate in their own censorship in this way and punishing them with the threat of being silenced even if in compliance with the rules should they not participate, is, IMHO, abuse of their userbase.
Source: I’ve worked for three different top-five social networks, and at all of them this type of work would have been done by making the userbase do it as much as possible.
Please signal boost. I don’t care if you reblog or repost, just get the word out so that people know what they’re doing as they interect with this thing.
My twitter is @soren_tycho (nsfw, sfw account coming soon) and my github username is sorentycho.
Just chiming in as a machine learning expert, this is almost certainly the case (and knowing tumblr, they weren’t even smart enough to throw in pre-trained weights)
I don’t remember agreeing to beta test 🤔
A well known AI blogger I follow also supports this theory.
I had a top surgery timeline posted here with one pre-op picture for comparison and then a picture of my newly flat chest every few months post-op to show my healing. I also had a before/after picture of my areola resizing.
And they were flagged as “adult content” so I appealed because @staff said “exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with […] health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery” would still be allowed.
And they denied my appeal, saying it contains sensitive content- even though it’s a health-related situation such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery.
Their post says “Starting on December 17, 2018, any post(s) that have been flagged will be reverted to a private setting viewable only by you.” I knew this hellsite was going to take away our transitioning resources, and here we are.
Why you shouldn’t put goldfish in a bowl – WTF fun facts
people think goldfish have short lifespans because of this With proper care, a goldfish can live nearly 30 years. Put them in a bowl and you’re slowly choking them to death in their own piss and shit
THAT use of bowls actually makes a lot of sense!
A guest would not be visiting more than a few hours to days, so an especially exquisite fish could be admired and then returned unharmed.
China: does a thing meant to display beauty, elegance and wealth temporarily while understanding basic animal care
The Rest of The World: Yep I can definitely fit a whole-ass carp in this decorative martini glass
idk can we stop…treating a.ce disc.ourse like it’s some haha funney cringe compilation or whatever the fuck because it fucking destroyed the entire ace and aro communities. there is no solid aspec community on tumblr anymore (which was by far the biggest number of aspec ppl). exclusionists took our community and fucking smashed it to pieces and y’all treat it as this fucking stupid joke when they traumatized, gaslit, and abused an entire group of queer people back into the closet. fuck every single person who doesn’t take that seriously.
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