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anistarrose · 9 months

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Other good posts have gone around about this, but I wanted to give another boost to this survey from a Tumblr staff-affiliated blog @benevolenthellsite (warning: the blog itself has gifs, some of which are potentially slightly flashy).

Please, send them politely but strongly worded feedback about our frustration with accessibility issues. In particular, I recommend telling them you won't be buying anything from Tumblr, let alone turning off your ad blocker, unless they:

add a photosensitivity community label

give users an option to block gif/video audio play on both posts and ads, on both mobile and browser

give users the option to have alt text display automatically, in customizable font size/colors to ensure readability

give users the option to disable small text, colored text, etc

(you'll notice XKit Rewritten does some of the two above points, making me doubt it would be especially hard to code)

stop putting inaccessible art on Tumblr Radar

(seriously, there are so many wonderful artists who describe their work and so many more who will happily edit IDs into their posts once someone provides them in the notes. this would not be hard and would immediately incentivize more people to add descriptions)

fix the zoom-in feature for images on mobile so that it's actually usable again

ensure that any collapsing of reblog chains will be a setting you can permanently opt out of (this is an accessibility issue because it would make it harder to access image descriptions added later in threads)

Oh, and if you want, it wouldn't hurt to politely but firmly complain about the prev tags thing and any other signs of enshittification you can think of, btw.

I don't have high hopes that this will change anything, but I also don't think it can hurt (it takes like 5 minutes), and I would love to see @staff prove me wrong and actually start taking accessibility concerns seriously for once. Don't give them Crab Day money or whatever until they do.

#tumblr

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humansoulsarg · 7 years

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February 16, 2016 Videos Annotated

On February 16, 2016, two videos (in addition to the ‘personality’ video) were added to the Signal and Noise YouTube channel as publicly viable videos. The first is https://youtu.be/1WtHC9HiI3Y with hex title ‘iduzrwbuegfgpchags’ which decodes as Vigenere with keyword 'argentina’ as ’imovedthegoalposts’

The video shows an angry (possibly even enraged?) Lottie telling the viewer (video conference?):

DON’T CALL ME THAT!!

The description of the video has a couple of encoded strings, the first is decoded as Vigenere with keyword 'argentina’ and becomes:

pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/tagged/PT/chrono

The second is decoded as Vigener with keyword 'pangent’ and becomes:

twitter.com/pangenttech

These two strings officially link the Signal and Noise YouTube account to the Pangent Technologies tumblr and twitter accounts.

The next public video is https://youtu.be/BnGBSR0z-gU which is 4 seconds long and has no audio, but shows Lottie shaking her head and possibly getting ready to say something, before the video cuts off. The video has hex title 'itneazmqthvmezx’ which Vigenere decodes using 'argentina’ as ’ichangedthegame’

There are several sections of encoded content in the description:

key: argentina

I’m sure you’ve got some questions for me.

Well

I’m here.

Link to unlisted youtube video

uk_JsefKzCU

Key: argentina

eric was never very organized. nothing was ever quite in the right order or put back where he found it.

Key: conscioushumansouls

youre fast

but its all in the wrong order

context is overrated

Key: pangent

We have nothing to tie the twitter account and the youtube do we?

actually your skulls look delicious

that came out wrong

it’s a twitter reference.

Key: conscioushumansouls

i told you i don’t do tricks

Key: argentina (from hex)

My assistant is crying now. You can thank Twitter for that.

anyone know how to delete ten thousand twitter posts?

what would sergio aguero do?

The YouTube link is to an unlisted video https://youtu.be/uk_JsefKzCU with hex title 'iigribykiqks’ which decodes with key 'pangent’ to 'titleofvideo’

This video contains two spectrograms. The first is half of the second, interrupted by an automated robotic voice (with Lottie speaking the words in the video) that says

“Thank you for contacting Pangent Technologies. We’ll keep your application on file and contact you should our needs change in the future.”

The spectrogram is a youtube link that reads:

kVVrJNCoIXk

This video is titled with Vigenre (argentina) hex reading ’we fuck with the formula’ and shows Lottie saying:

Truth is, we’re all built to die

Back to 'titleofvideo' there is a pastebin link in the description to PB zJw22iN6

The Pastebin contains binary which is then Vigenere encoded. Key: argentina

they fired me. then they wanted me back. on the condition that i sign a new contract. i should have shoved it down his throat. six sheets of paper and they owned me from that point on. any work i did, any thought that came through my mind was theirs. how did they put it? oh yes. “any information may be duplicated, edited, and/or exploited in whole or in part by pangent technologies, in all media, throughout the universe, in perpetuity, and may be incorporated into other works in any form, media or technology now known or hereafter developed.”

The binary at the end of the description is again Vigenere with key 'argentina’ for:

now you might ask with a contract like that what happens a few years later when i learn how to say no?

The next public video posted on February 16th is https://youtu.be/3Ld58A9XxtM with hex title to Vigenere (argentina) ’thedayistopped’ and depicts Lottie contemplating:

And what if it worked?

There is a pastebin link in the description of the video, which leads to binary text, then decoded as Vigenere with key 'argentina’ to read:

It came in a glass box. A shimmering blue, or black if you shined no light on it. Somewhere between solid and liquid. Always rippling but never moving. About a hundred folds in it per inch. I don’t know where they got it, or how they made it, if they made it. I don’t think they made it. I no longer had the clearance to ask. I guess I’ll never know now, though it’s hardly left my side since. Especially now. It had properties unlike anything I’ve ever seen before or since. It almost seemed alive. No, forget the almost. Whatever it was they couldn’t duplicate it. That would be my job, if I could figure it out. But they saw the potential immediately. Data storage.

The video description also includes another Vigenere (argentina) encoded entry for the chronological Pangent Technologies tumblr blog:

pangenttechnologies.tumblr.com/tagged/pt/chrono

In 'titleofvideo’ there is also what appears to be a YouTube link, but it doesn’t work as is, however, by reversing the string, a valid ID is discovered, leading to: https://youtu.be/duZCmbt2Av0

This video has binary title 'burial’ and shows Lottie saying:

So, with blood on my hands, I plugged him in.

I’ll never even know if it worked.

before glitching out in the video and changing to a spectrogram-text sound followed by a sound similar to some of the 'cube video’ sounds, and echoing whooshing sound. The video cuts to more shots of Lottie.

In the description is a pastebin link: PB NLhNAVAs

With title and text in binary-Vigenere with Key: signalandnoise

/four: If you’re confused I blame only myself. 20:50

/four: I’ve been reading her old Tumblr. What’s left of it. 20:52

/four: I keep forgetting she used to have a sense of humor.

/four: I guess I took that too.

/four: Her computer password was argentina 20:55

/four: At the moment, I am using the password “conscioushumansouls” 20:58

/four: Pangent was a long time ago. 21:03

/four: Did you ask how many people were here? 20:52

/four: At the time I’m typing there are only two. Unfortunately. 20:53

/four: If we still count as two. 20:53

/four: My name was Eric. 20:53

/four: She needs your help more than I do. 20:59

/four: I am beyond your help. 21:00

Text on the descriptoin decodes with Key: signalandnoise

/four: I thank you all so much for trying to help. 21:14

/four: I wish it was easier 21:14

Binary -> Key: signalandnoise

we are more than the sum of our social media. if i could rebuild her from that i would.

Hexadecimal -> Key: signalandnoise

when she wrote the test she

Hexadecimal -> Key: signalandnoise

have you read her tumblr? maybe i’m just sentimental

Which I think covers all the paths from the videos posted on February 16, 2016. Pointing to the tumblr blog seemed to be a theme of these, and indeed there is much content that was posted on the blog during this time. It will be reblogged with the #13ago tag also.

#video #unlisted video #13ago #submission

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