Tumblr’s new privacy policy

(takes effect Sept 25th 2019).

Okay, I’m not a lawyer, but even a cursory glance says there are some things we might want to know before continuing with the new owners.

Firstly, they are going to share everything, and I do mean everything, with the rest of the Automaticc group to cross advertise to us. There is an opt-out option in the Tumblr account settings which will reduce the shared information to some degree. They’ll say it is to improve the service, but we all know that’s a bit of a furphy.

Secondly, there is nothing to protect us in the Automaticc privacy policy with regard to “third parties that Automaticc do not own, control, or manage, including but not limited to any third party websites, services, applications, or businesses”. This may include sharing our emails, logins, etc from other sites where they can extract that information if you navigate there from Tumblr.

https://www.tumblr.com/privacy/automattic

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But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

…. 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.

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.

somehow I got 95/20 on an assignment

I hope they never fix it and leave it this way forever

reblog the Awesome Grade picture for awesome grades

guys this really works i reblogged it and then got 870% on an essay

May your GPA rise due to clerical error.

this magical tumblr grade increaser comes once in a million years, reblog for good grades

A 2 week old lemming in a spoon (Source: http://ift.tt/2lmfIsE)

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NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*screaming terrified *

@heredrinkthis

goopgirl:

you want makeup? you want a hairclip? you want cramp medicine? here, have it. 

plot twist:

they’re not bulletproof 

getting rid of ads on your blog

click on the account button (the icon that looks like a little grey person - it’s circled here)

from the drop-down menu that appears, click “edit appearance” (beneath your blog(s) name)

scroll down the page until you reach “advertising” which has a little switch to click to turn off ads on your blog (grey for “off”)

three easy steps. no excuses. please turn them off, they are literally the most annoying thing.

i need a group chat with my parallel universe me’s im getting worried abt them

the term “edgelord” implies the existence of an entire hierarchical structure of edgenobility. there ought to be like, edgedukes and edgeviscounts running around. edgesquires. edgecomtessas.  

im a simple edgeserf toiling in my patch of black mud

wait does this logic work for gaylords too? because in that case I’m a gaysibyl and I’m gonna tell you how you die

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‘ 피 땀 눈물 (Blood Sweat & Tears)’ MV

The self-aware British are my lifeblood.

How to kill an introvert

Starve him to death by putting a stranger in his kitchen.

@heredrinkthis

when you find out suga’s gonna have 2 more MVs