llesbianfarmer:

angellfallendown:

anyways fuck america for not educating students about the aids crisis whatsoever

my drama teacher mentioned to us “most of my friends from college are dead” and I knew right away what he meant. he explained “I was a drama major in the 1980s” and still no one else in the class understood. he explained a little bit about the aids crisis, but these kids had no idea before. it is truly heartbreaking to hear about it, and especially to see it being erased.

jimbledoods:

pelkoja:

I really saw someone on twitter say sites shouldn’t get rid of CP because it makes finding trafficking victims harder, you do know taking away their platforms in the fucking first place decreases their audience right ??? and that there are other ways to find traffickers than encouraging them to post MORE CP with a free platform ?

this is equivalent to the argument that we shouldn’t combat the use of child labor because then poor children won’t have a means of making money. it’s not about making children’s situations worse, it’s about making them safer. it’s about combatting the system that allows them to be exploited in the first place.

floatingstirnerhead:

Existing in online spaces this year has taught me something.

Living under AI doesn’t mean a hyper smart machine/predator that we can’t really control.

It means that Society™ slowly turns into one long argument with the CRA agent, where life is reduced to the logic of a machine that’s got to make sweeping proclamations that are so obviously busted at the floor level, like the Tumblr algorithm thinking that deserts are naked women.

And it’s not malicious in new and dangerous ways. It’s malicious in the old way, the way the buerocrats always were.

Gay people’s files disappearing. Black people’s mortgages getting denied. Certain people getting huge voices while others scream in futility.

I guess what I’m saying is that it took an AI controlled space to make me realize:

We’ve already been living under cybernetics for quite some time.

pelkoja:

algorithms will never successfully eliminate nsfw stuff. they always incorrectly detect everything.

instead maybe listen to the tons of reports about users posting CP/being pedophiles, because there are entire blogs dedicated to reporting this.

carbonoid-nsfw:

bogleech:

You ever write up a post you decide will be too controversial or embarrassing but leave it in your drafts to sleep on and then forget about it? How about real personal stuff you weren’t sure you wanted to share at the time? Heavy-ass receipts on bad shit you’re leaving there only just in case you’re forced to use them?

Well if any of your drafts get flagged by the new system, a mod can apparently see them in with all your other flagged posts, and if they un-flag them, it publishes them automatically as a brand new post. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

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