I’m leaving Tumblr. I might come back eventually, but the changes have just ruined any motivation to be here. and I thought fuck it, may as well let people know.
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the intimacy of sliding your fingers along the underside of a device's surface as you search for its ports
Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread
Anonymous asked:
you reblogged a post about bat eared fox kits and i fell in love with them immediately can you please tell me about bat eared foxes
is-the-fox-video-cute answered:
Bat-eared foxes are awesome and very unique!
They are not true foxes but are very closely related to them, and the only species in the genus Otocyon. They are also the only fully insectivorous canid, with their diet being 80-90% invertebrates, and the rest mostly fruit and berries. They are highly social and live in monogamous pairs or small groups, with the male playing the primary role in rearing and caring for the pups!
10/10 excellent creatures
@staff openly tagging face selfies of trans women as sexual content after you already lost ONE lawsuit over queerphobic moderation is quite a fucking move
Lawsuit (linked here) required tumblr to:
- Train all employees (including subcontractors) on New York City Human Rights Law and unconscious bias, with a focus on sexual orientation and gender identity
- Have humans review user appeals on adult content. Previously they only had humans review post-removal appeals
- Revise the language used in appeal process for users
- Search random sample of previously filed appeals for terms involving sexual orientation and gender identity to identify bias and retrain AI image classifier
- Hire an expert in image classification to remove algorithmic bias around sexual orientation and gender identity and train employees on addressing image classification bias.
- Have an image classification expert complete a evaluation on bias in moderation and steps taken to address it.
- Search filed appeals after new review process in place for terms involving sexual orientation and gender identity to identify bias. Monthly reports of bias will be sent to New York City's Commission on Human Rights for 18 months.
Would be very interested to see these reports on bias as clearly it has not worked!
Remember when staff used never before seen moderation tools to thanos snap a blog and all its posts from existence, including reblogs, for insinuating a staff member may be a terf? And then never used that tool again to deal with the nazis and terfs and other hate groups infesting the place? Hmm <3
Remember when they introduced Blaze, promised that all submissions were moderated by staff members, then straight up Blazed people's suicide notes and hate speech?
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