#theoretically facebook

[turtlemagnum]

a little while ago i told my mom i had a tumblr and she was all like "really? i thought that wasn't one of the 'cool' places anymore." and it's like. mom. if you think anything about me is cool in the slightest, that's on you. like im not trying to be down on myself, i'm just self aware enough to realize that being an unyieldingly genuine cornball with a love for dad jokes and video games is, by most peoples standards, lame as hell. she mentioned how she thought everything was instagram nowadays, and it's like. i've tried instagram, ok, it felt like it was taking pliers to the teeth of my mind-maw. wretched app, felt as artificial as the skin on a sex doll. basically unusable on desktop, absolute dogshit

#also my abusive ex follows me on there #not that i'd use the same account anyways #but Still. dont like the idea of theoretically bumping into her #btw my mom mostly uses facebook and reddit. this isn't particularly notable but i think knowing that my mom's a redditor adds a lot of #useful context about her as a person. she is very much well within a lot of those stereotypes. lol

[blujayonthewing]

patreon: [adds ability to see how many times a post was actually viewed]

me looking back through them: [steepling my fingers in front of my lips] .... should I be doing more pinups.

#on the one hand this is a little cursed because there's a bunch of patron exclusive sketches that apparently no one has even looked at #that I REALLY LIKE but apparently NO ONE has even SEEN THEM!! #on the other hand [starts taking notes on which posts have a higher number of views than number of patrons I've ever had] #... actually a lot of older ones and most of them are totally sfw! lol but ALSO... EYES EMOJI.... #all my patrons are friends of mine I suppose I could theoretically just ask what people like to see (boobs and butts notwithstanding) #but tbqh there's probably some degree of 'oh this sketchdump has MY oc in it' which is valid and doesn't need questioning #there were also conspicuous spikes on the couple of posts I've linked to directly on twitter or facebook! #that actually surprised me a little bit! I honestly never really expect anyone to clickthrough on those :') #(one of those was also admittedly a pinup :3c BUT the other one wasn't!! much to think about) #anyway um. I had been thinking again recently about maybe a pinup zine. maybe this is the sign #(love and light to those of you who have always been encouraging every time I've ever mused about getting spicier btw ily) #it's a PROCESS but this helps with 'it will embarrass other people. all my friends will put me in jail' fgkjhgdkg #about me #my art

[odinsblog]

These are demo videos made from prompts on OpenAI’s Sora. It’s similar to how you would prompt ChatGPT and get text or a still image output, but with Sora the output is video. (source)

I cynically believe that by November, Sora will have perfected its algorithm enough to make the upcoming 2024 election online ads … very interesting.

And even after the terrible job that Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (never calling it x) did in the 2016 elections and Brexit, they somehow still decided to cut back on their departments that could at least theoretically curtail attempts at political disinformation.

Anyway, be forewarned: Social media manipulation and disinformation campaigns are very real things. Don’t believe everything you see on social media. Slightly similar A.I. deepfake technologies already exist. (example) (example) (example) (example)

#politics #disinformation #openai #sora #deepfakes #artificial intelligence #tech #technology #misinformation #ai #a.i.

[apeekintothepantry]

Meet Violet Fielding, my original historical character from 1918 Boston!

I've been doing some workshopping with my custom historical characters because I've been a little bored with AG's historical offerings of late, and because it's a fun excuse to dig into moments in time that interest me personally, but AG probably wouldn't produce a similar character themselves. (I say that, but my 1940's Hawaii character predates Nanea, so who knows! Maybe I'm manifesting some future stuff I can borrow for my gals.)

Violet is the youngest of three siblings. Her older sister Alice is in her early 20's and either a nurse or a Hello Girl, leaning towards nursing because I'm not sure I want her to go overseas and she could work at a hospital in Boston during the war. Her older brother James is 19 and enlists in the Marines once the US enters World War I. I think by Violet Saves the Day, he's returned home dealing with quite a bit of "shellshock" and that becomes a somewhat major theme.

Her parents are pretty wealthy, and the family lives in a brownstone on Beacon Hill in Boston. Her dad is a doctor and mom is a suffragist who also gets involved in causes supporting the war effort. Both parents are very supportive of their kids following their passions and getting themselves out there in this still relatively new century, which is why Alice has been allowed to go to school instead of immediately marrying some wealthy guy.

Vi herself is a precocious and creative kid. I think she likes to draw and paint and generally be crafty and creative, which comes in handy when brainstorming ways she can support her brother overseas and the war effort more broadly. While she's not afraid to get her hands dirty, she does like typically girly things like having teatime and looking at catalogs filled with new dresses. Her book series would theoretically cover 1917 through 1919 or so, and touch on the war, Women's Suffrage, the Spanish Flu, shellshock, and possibly the Boston Molasses Disaster.

Currently I'm trying to come up with a best friend character for her, as she really needs a Nellie or Ruthie in her life with the age difference and both siblings being off doing exciting and scary things without her. There are a lot of different directions I could go in with said friend - fellow wealthy-ish kid feels boring, Boston had a lot of new immigrant communities in the 1910's, some of whom did live in a specific part of Beacon Hill, Boston historically struggles with insidious covert racism but was still a city with a number of prominent Black and Jewish communities - and nothing's quite clicked as perfect just yet.

Violet is a Marie-Grace doll with a Nanea wig. Someone was selling her on a Facebook group a few years ago and I immediately felt like she was a Violet and needed to join my crew. Her last name was inspired by Lady Dorothie Fielding, a British woman who drove an ambulance during WWI and received several awards for bravery and service. Fielding's letters home were published after her death and are a really fascinating look at what it was like on the front lines doing this incredibly dangerous and important work. I used it as a major primary source for an educational interactive I helped develop in one of my previous jobs.

#american girl doll #american girl #american girl dolls #agblr #ag doll #ag dolls #american girl oc #violet fielding

[nightpool]

this article about why Facebook continues to serve ads for drugs to Instagram users has some very very funny quotes from platform moderation managers

An expert who studies content moderation told us that our investigation suggests Meta is not as sophisticated at reviewing and approving ads as it is at moderating normal posts on its platforms.

“You need to think about how much of an issue, historically, general content moderation has been,” Karan Lala of the Integrity Institute, made up of former integrity team workers at companies like Facebook told me. “The maturity of the different integrity teams is relevant to the kind of problems platforms have had in the past.”

“With ads, a lot of the issue has been regulatory: Election ads spreading misinformation,” Lala said. “Ads for spam, ads for low quality content. Moderation of that seems a little less developed. In theory, these integrity teams should be feeding into the same systems. Ads should theoretically be going through a review process … a lot of these things are something that just should be getting caught [at the review process.]”

for context, every single Facebook ad is reviewed by a human before it goes live. seems sensible, right? well, the ad in question they approved:

lmao.

#its JUST the word mdma #really straight and to the point

[notjennyfromtheblocked]

okay so since Anne found the post and is making posts on a sideblog you're gonna find out anyway and I'd rather you find out from me than her because I know it's going to be worse if I don't so

Yes, I lied. Okay? I lied. As far as I know she's never done anything abusive and as far as I know she's never cheated. I really, really wanted her to be abusive and to cheat and I was hoping she was because maybe if she were then I'd be able to have a chance. Yes he never said he was T4T it was just something I liked to believe because it was easier for me to accept when he said I wasn't his type then came out as trans that he was wink nudging me like "hey this is why you're not my type" because its easier to think he wasn't interested in cis people than just not interested in me. Even though he was flirting with Anne before she came out as bigender. And tbh I was really devastated when he would push me away when I would grab his thigh but not push her away when she would wrap her arm around his. Even when he gave me this speech about how overstepping boundaries is how you find out other's boundaries sometimes, so when someone tells you don't touch my thigh you're not a bad person unless you KEEP touching their thigh I knew, I knew exactly what he was talking about but I just. Convinced myself he wasn't talking about me, just saying something theoretical.

And yes I absolutely on purpose wrote the AITA so that it said to check the TLDR because I was hoping people would just kinda. Either skip or scroll. Through the AITA and vote NTA or JAH or maybe even ESH and then I'd see that and could convince myself that people genuinely believed that and I'd get some sort of satisfaction out of it. And yes I know I know that I've been digging myself deeper and I know I've come off transphobic and it's because I was being transphobic. But it was just such a nice idea to have, that she/he was faking and the villain and I could catch her/him at it and then he'd thank me and decide to be with me after all. It was nice to think that the only reason he was with her is because they were both trans together and that it was impossible for an introvert to ever be with an extrovert and it was based solely on the trans thing because then if she WAS faking then I could be the hero, right? I don't even know if that makes sense. But when everyone ditched me I knew, I'm sorry I lied and I'm sorry I've pretended I didn't know that's what I was doing.

And then I thought if I could get this online somewhere and get people uninvolved and objective to agree that Anne was the bad guy then it woild be Out In the World as "official" that sje was abusive and bad for him. It's like when you hit someone's car in a parking lot and so you post on Facebook about how people need to look at their blind spots before backing put of a parking spot even though nobody was actually in the car, because if it's on Facebook that someone backed into you then people will see the post. So even if i had a restraining order and they didn't talk to me then online it wpuld be stated that she was in the wrong and that I could go through my life saying "see, they all know she's bad for him and thst I would've been good for him" and then maybe someone close to Anne wpuld see the post and see how everyone voted NTA (thst I wasn't the asshole) and tell them to break up, and that if they saw people online unequivocally vote her as the asshole they'd reconsider.

And yes I know there's nothing wrong wirh being an extrovert or an introvert. Honestly I don't even know why I brought thst up. It's just thst Mike and I often liked a lot of the same past times and I guess I put more importance on that than I should've. And I shouldn't have blasted thr fact shebwas a virgin all over the internet or the fact she made out wirh people years ago. Thst was private business and I shouldn't have said thst. And I shouldn't have forced her hand into telling strangers she likes topping or thst shebhas a packer in order to prove her transness.

It shouldn't have taken loterally hundreds maybe even a thousand asks ans people reblogging my posts for me to do this. Honestly I think I knew i was wrong before I even made this blog. I think I kind of hoped that AITA had deleted thr ask because it took so long to get answered. I thought writing terfs dni on my posts woild prevent them from messaging me because I knew that they would see me as a possible recruit based on what I was saying. I didn't want them to contact me but they have. I just thought if I could never ever see a terf agree with me that I could continue pretending that I wasn't being transphobic.

And since she's making posts I worry that she might tell everyone a couple things about me that honestly I do deserve but I just want to get it out there now: before I met her I got a crush on one of my teachers in high school. When he quit to move to another city I was devastated. I was 15 and I thought i was in love. So a month or so after he left o told my friends that he ans I had been having an affair. I didn't think it wpuld go anywhere else but one of them told the principal. The teacher nearly got fired for this, and even though I admitted the truth to the cops because the last thing I wanted was him to get in actual trouble, he ended up having to start over at a whole new school after only teaching at that other school on the new city for a month. At my school rumors spread that he and I actually did have an affair and I just backtracked because he threatened me or something but honestly that wasn't the case. I told her about this a few months before she came out as trans and she was obviously disappointed and disgusted in me and didn't speak to me for awhile and even told me to wait until she contacted me fordt befire tslking again. Another thing is that one time Mike pushed me really hard when we were all at his house because I put my hands in his hoody pocket and said "hey handsome" when we were in his kitchen alone even though he told me two times before not to do that. I did run out saying that a man should never hit a woman to all his friends in the living room and Anne immediately stood between me and him to protect me but he explained what happened and when Anne asked me if it was true, if i really had put my hands in his pockets again and said hey handsome, I shook my head at first then started crying and nodded and said it was true. They didn't speak to me for a VERY long time, honestly they told me several times after that i was on thin ice. I told them I had been drinking and maybe they still believe me but I am going to tell the truth now: I was sober.

I don't know how else to explain this and honestly just writing this out has made me realize what this looks like and that this is wrong and I need help, which Anne and Mike both have told me multiple times over and over very politely and I just never listened but I've never written anything out like this before so I've ever had to actually see it before, bur I genuinely thought that everything I did was like romantic. That if it were a movie or a book it wpuld be artistic and romantic. That Anne would be the bitchy narcissistic girlfriend that I discover is a horrible cheating abusive person and once I showed everyone the evidence Mike would leave her for me, and that if I got enough people to believe that's what really happened and that Mike was duped and tricked by her into cutting me out then even if I knew that it isn't what happened deep down I could convince myself that's what happened. Just like I've convinced myself we were still friends even though everyone had been slowly cutting me out little by little and the only reason we ever were friends is because I kept finding reasons to invite myself into things.

If she's reading this, I really, really am sorry, and I'm going to try and get some help. I dont know how else to tell you and especially Mike how sorry I am without breaching the restraining order. I've known for awhile I've fucked up, I think I even knew as I was doing this it was wrong, and I don't know why I kept digging my heels in even more. I'm just so sorry.

#i'm sorry #terfs dni

[daemonsrhaenyras]

So, I'm a bit curious to know how people think social media has affected their own body image.

As always, please reblog for a larger sample size.

Age ranges determined by the minimum age of users of the major social media sites when they were launched. (Myspace launched in 2002, so a user would (theoretically) have had to be at least 13 to make an account, a 13 year old in 2002 is now 34.)

2002 Myspace (34), 2004 Facebook (32), 2006 Twitter (30), 2007 Tumblr (29) / 2010 Instagram (26), 2011 Snapchat (25) / 2014 Music.ly (22)*, 2017 TikTok (19)

#polls #myspace #facebook #twitter #tumblr #instagram #snapchat #tiktok #just something i'm curious about please indulge me #*2014 was also when vine was at it's peak popularity so we're putting that in that one as well they feel similar to me somehow

[theriverbeyond]

started making a pinned post for all my socials (in light of the "tumblr running on a skeleton crew" thing) but i realized i basically only have here and ao3. my twitter is essentially a private diary ft. nsf/w art and the idea of giving out my discord publically feels a little too much like posting my phone number online. I could theoretically start a discord *server* but frankly I'm in too many already and do not have the skillset of a moderator. i have a fandom only email address but that's already linked in my ao3 profile. i have a reddit but i only use that to ask anonymous and deeply personal medical questions and like, tips on how to increase my credit score. mastodon/bluesky is confusing and both are too much like twitter in UI for me to want to do a public thing there. facebook and instagram are right out.

i just.... there really isn't another space that has the same level of anonymity AND broad reach AND fandom focus for me. i am just not online in a way where i can be like, "Follow me [here]!". i honestly really adore the little fandom community here on tumblr and like, while "mutuals can DM for discord!" is true, and "anyone can email me on my fandom email!" is true, I love interacting with people here on tumblr even if we haven't talked in a way that is entirely different from wanting to freely give out what is basically my phone number. idk.

#hit that like comment and subscribe to raxheim on ao3 i guess!!! #trb.txt #tumblr skeleton crew #i hate to doom post but. canaries in coal mines #also the world is on fire. free palestine free the congo end imperialism and racism and genocide. etc.

[sigmaleph]

it kinda sucks cause like. if social media charged every user, the amount i'd have to pay to keep access to tumblr would be pretty small and i'd happily pay it.

but a website that charged every user would put a hurdle in the way of sign-ups, and they'd get less growth, and because the primary reason to use social media is for the other people who are there there's enormous network effects. people don't sign up because it costs money -> people who would pay for it don't sign up because nobody's on it

so you can't even try to do your own thing and ignore the venture-capital funded huge websites, because if you do you'll get six users total and you won't have a social medium, you'll have an unusually expensive group chat.

I don't have an option to pay a reasonable amount of money for whatever it costs tumblr to serve me posts and serve my posts to other people plus some extra profit they can skim on top. i can pay a greater amount of money that doesn't remotely guarantee tumblr keeps working because it depends on whether enough other people do, too. great deal.

i am every day more sympathetic to the fediverse ideal of "we all agree on a communications protocol and then you don't have a single entity paying server costs for millions of people, you can have tiny servers at any scale funded however makes sense to you" but i don't think it'll work either.

i don't even know if venture-capital-funded social media will die or not. it'd be something if it all dies and we need to grapple with a new way of doing things because we collectively agree the old one failed, at least in that case a theoretical sensible business model wouldn't be competing against the existing one, but like. facebook. so.

[hbmmaster]

I'm curious if you have any thoughts on ASLwrite? Like SignWriting, it's an iconic featural script. It's a lot newer than SignWriting, so it has even less adoption, and it's not in Unicode. (There's a Facebook group with about 500 members, but that's about it for now.) But it's horizontal instead of vertical, which theoretically would make it easier to have inline text support in the future. And it doesn't have any filled-in shapes like SignWriting, which I think makes it more compatible with pen-and-paper usage. I also just think it looks cooler.

ASLwrite is a direct descendant of signwriting, right? I do agree that it looks cool and is better for handwriting, but since it has even less support than signwriting and since it's meant for one specific sign language as opposed to a cross-language system for writing many different sign languages, I think I prefer signwriting to it. still cool though

[proshippers-against-censorship]

I was trying to look up something else and found an article that talks about morality online and how we need less of it.

the article doesn’t mention antis but it still fit rather well. Here’s an excerpt of it

Not long ago, forming new relationships, joining a group, or interacting with others required you to call someone or leave your home. Today, many consider their Facebook friends their social circle, and texting/messaging has become the most prevalent form of communication. Ironically, social media is a contributing factor to the decline in possessing social skills. However, even as social skills diminish, the need to belong still exists, so people, particularly youths, latch onto moral bandwagons in order to feel connected to others. Discussions about how social media affects our mental health and created divisive religious, racial, and political climates have been endless. While these self-identifying divisions have always existed, they are now bubbling more angrily than ever, thanks to the ease with which individuals can use social media to spread self-serving “us against them” narratives. An under-discussed effect of social media-driven society is that it subtly, and often overtly, promotes “moralizing.” Moralizing is a problem because of how clueless and ignorant almost everyone is about virtually every topic. theoretically, people should have been humbled by the pandemic and become more accepting of others’ viewpoints. Instead, the opposite happened. The world became more polarized and angrier, with disinformation (READ: propaganda) spreading like wildfire, creating new “moral panics” almost daily.  Moralizing has gotten to the point where we now live in a world where you are negatively labelled and publicly shamed if you have a viewpoint, opinion or belief that goes against the self-appointed moral majority. For example, if you oppose Israel’s continuation of the Israel-Gaza war, you are challenging the current moral panic. Rather than assuming you oppose escalating civilian deaths, the moral majority assumes you are pro-Palestinian, which according to them is equivalent to supporting Hamas. 

There’s not much more this article mentions but if you’re curious, you can read it here

https://www.thedailyscrumnews.com/bandwagon-morality-a-social-media-epidemic-causing-lots-of-harm/

Intriguing.

#proshippers against censorship #jackal barks #proship please interact #proship positivity #proship #proshipping #proshipper #proshippers please interact #proshipper safe #anti anti #ask #asks

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

New SpaceTime out Friday....

SpaceTime 20231020 Series 26 Episode 126

Plot thickens in hunt for ninth planet

A pair of theoretical physicists are reporting that the same observations inspiring the hunt for a ninth planet at the outer edge of the solar system might instead be evidence of a modified law of gravity originally developed to understand the rotation of galaxies.

New clues on planetary formation

Astronomers have discovered the youngest hot Jupiter ever seen.

New insights into the atmosphere and star of an exoplanet

Astronomers have failed to find any signs of an atmosphere around the Earth like exoplanet TRAPPIST-1b

The Science Report

Koala populations decimated by bushfires in recent years.

Study shows 40% of amphibian species around the world are currently under threat.

Scientists have now discovered around 125 mammal species that glow under Ultra Violet light.

Skeptics guide to riding the Sasquatch express

SpaceTime covers the latest news in astronomy & space sciences.

The show is available every Monday, Wednesday and Friday through Apple Podcasts (itunes), Stitcher, Google Podcast, Pocketcasts, SoundCloud, Bitez.com, YouTube, your favourite podcast download provider, and from www.spacetimewithstuartgary.com

SpaceTime is also broadcast through the National Science Foundation on Science Zone Radio and on both i-heart Radio and Tune-In Radio.

SpaceTime daily news blog: http://spacetimewithstuartgary.tumblr.com/

SpaceTime facebook: www.facebook.com/spacetimewithstuartgary

SpaceTime Instagram @spacetimewithstuartgary

SpaceTime twitter feed @stuartgary

SpaceTime YouTube: @SpaceTimewithStuartGary

SpaceTime -- A brief history

SpaceTime is Australia’s most popular and respected astronomy and space science news program – averaging over two million downloads every year. We’re also number five in the United States.  The show reports on the latest stories and discoveries making news in astronomy, space flight, and science.  SpaceTime features weekly interviews with leading Australian scientists about their research.  The show began life in 1995 as ‘StarStuff’ on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) NewsRadio network.  Award winning investigative reporter Stuart Gary created the program during more than fifteen years as NewsRadio’s evening anchor and Science Editor.  Gary’s always loved science. He studied astronomy at university and was invited to undertake a PHD in astrophysics, but instead focused on his career in journalism and radio broadcasting. He worked as an announcer and music DJ in commercial radio, before becoming a journalist and eventually joining ABC News and Current Affairs. Later, Gary became part of the team that set up ABC NewsRadio and was one of its first presenters. When asked to put his science background to use, Gary developed StarStuff which he wrote, produced and hosted, consistently achieving 9 per cent of the national Australian radio audience based on the ABC’s Nielsen ratings survey figures for the five major Australian metro markets: Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, and Perth.  The StarStuff podcast was published on line by ABC Science -- achieving over 1.3 million downloads annually.  However, after some 20 years, the show finally wrapped up in December 2015 following ABC funding cuts, and a redirection of available finances to increase sports and horse racing coverage.  Rather than continue with the ABC, Gary resigned so that he could keep the show going independently.  StarStuff was rebranded as “SpaceTime”, with the first episode being broadcast in February 2016.  Over the years, SpaceTime has grown, more than doubling its former ABC audience numbers and expanding to include new segments such as the Science Report -- which provides a wrap of general science news, weekly skeptical science features, special reports looking at the latest computer and technology news, and Skywatch – which provides a monthly guide to the night skies. The show is published three times weekly (every Monday, Wednesday and Friday) and available from the United States National Science Foundation on Science Zone Radio, and through both i-heart Radio and Tune-In Radio.

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #nasa #esa #astrophysics #spacetimewithstuartgary #starstuff #spacetime

[gendercensus]

Twitter vs. Mastodon

Just in case anyone was curious about how well Twitter is doing these days:

Even though Mastodon has about a fifth fewer boosts than Twitter has RTs, Mastodon is bringing about as many participants as Twitter. For context, I have been posting a little bit on each since the survey opened, but more on Mastodon than Twitter. Also, in the survey itself participants are invited to help promote the survey, and links are provided for both the promotional tweet on Twitter and the promotional post on Mastodon.

Usually the number of RTs the promotional tweet gets follows a pattern much like the survey participation itself. The first two days or so are the most intense, and then it gradually declines over the rest of the month. I'd expect to get about half (or maybe over half) the total RTs within 48 hours, I think?

So, for context, last year's promotional tweet currently has 2,983 RTs and 122 QTs, and by now I'd expect this year's tweet to have at least a third of the RTs and QTs it'll have by the end. It's 27 hours since the survey opened, and the Twitter promotional tweet has 600 RTs and 29 QTs, which would theoretically end up being something like 1,800 RTs and 87 WTs. That's a drop in engagement of about a third, in less than a year.

I'm curious because all of this rubbish with Elon Musk has been continuously kicking off since November 2022, and it was already starting to get tumbleweedy on Twitter before I stopped using it in a personal capacity (around when Andrew Tate's and Donald Trump's accounts were reinstated). It's truly impressive seeing how quickly and how dramatically Twitter is becoming politically and ambiently even more awful than it was, not to mention the increase in bugs and loss of functionality. Despite its many flaws I did actually genuinely like Twitter pre-Musk, and its degradation puts me in a state of near-wordless awe. It's sort of morbidly hilarious.

The Gender Census Twitter account currently has 3,269 followers. I seriously considered announcing that I would no longer be using the account, but if there are people who only know about the Gender Census via the Twitter account that'd be pretty unfair on them.

So, I will continue to use both accounts, but when Mastodon is ahead by a significant amount I will close the Twitter account.

~

PS: Take the gender census survey if your gender is a bit interesting! It closes no sooner than 9th May 2023. :)

~

Edit 2023-04-15: This year, the TERF influx is coming from Twitter rather than the usual Facebook, which I think is also quite telling.

#twitter #mastodon #fediverse #meta

[sophia-zofia]

Despite its public portrayal of itself, the ADL isn’t a civil rights group in any meaningful sense, but rather, a veiled pro-Israel lobbying organization that uses superficial language of inclusiveness and anti-racism to defend Israel from criticism from the left. The ADL already assists large social media platforms in determining what is and isn’t hate speech, and by teaming up with the #StopHateForProfit effort, the group will likely have even more say in determining what content is worthy of publication. The problem is that the ADL has made it clear on a number of occasions that it considers the entire basis of the peaceful Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement — embraced by virtually all of Palestinian civil society — to be hate speech, specifically any claim that denies Israel’s ​“existence as a Jewish state” (e.g. its claim to ethnonational supremacy over non-Jews living in Palestine). The ADL’s website clearly states, ​“Anti-Israel activity crosses the line to anti-Semitism” with any statement that ​“Israel is denied the right to exist as a Jewish state,” and that ​“the founding goals of the BDS movement and many of the strategies used by BDS campaigns are anti-Semitic.”

Put another way, if Palestinians don’t co-sign their own ethnic cleansing by agreeing with the radical premise that the land of their birth, or where their families are from, is axiomatically meant for Jews, they are, according to the ADL, engaging in racist speech. So too will non-Palestinian allies of Palestine be painted as racists: Recently, the ADL’s deputy national director took to the New York Times to accuse Peter Beinart, who was once among the most prominent liberal Zionist writers in the United States, of anti-Semitism for announcing that he now supports one state based on equal rights.

The use of anti-hate-speech laws and regulations to snuff out calls for equal rights in Palestine is not theoretical — it’s common practice already in France, which has used such laws to effectively make the BDS movement illegal. While these are laws, not social media rules of conduct, the principle is the same: Any speech that calls into question Israel’s right to exist as a ethno-supremacist state is de facto anti-Semitic.

In 2017, the ADL accused the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL), a grassroots Black Lives Matter organization founded in 2014, of anti-Semitism, a form of hate speech, because M4BL’s platform read, in part, ​“The U.S. justifies and advances the global war on terror via its alliance with Israel and is complicit in the genocide taking place against the Palestinian people.” It follows that if the M4BL were to post this statement on social media, it’s likely the ADL would view it as hate speech and demand Facebook take it down. If the ADL views the foundational documents of the M4BL as including hate speech, how can the ADL possibly assert itself as a moral authority in this moment? Has the ADL’s position changed since 2017, or does the ADL still to this day consider the M4BL’s platform anti-Semitic?

The ADL smearing Black activists who oppose Israel isn’t new. In the 1960s, the ADL harshly criticized the Black-led Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the Black Panthers for their criticisms of Israel, equating these ​“negro extremists” with the KKK and American Nazi Party. The ADL also worked with the Israeli government in the 1960s, ​‘70s and ​‘80s to spy on Arab groups, as well as leftwing anti-South African apartheid activists. As Pulitzer Prize-winning author Glenn Frankel noted in Foreign Policy magazine in 2010, ​“The Anti-Defamation League participated in a blatant propaganda campaign against Nelson Mandela and the ANC in the mid 1980s and employed an alleged ​‘fact-finder’ named Roy Bullock to spy on the anti-apartheid campaign in the United States — a service he was simultaneously performing for the South African government. The ADL defended the white regime’s purported constitutional reforms while denouncing the ANC as ​‘totalitarian anti-humane, anti-democratic, anti-Israel, and anti-American.’”

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Best Greetings

How Is Planet Data Created?

(for example Why Does Neptune Diameter Equal = 49528 km)?

My Research Discovery

PLANET CREATION DATA DEPENDS ON EXACT EQUATIONS

Let's explain this fact

Planet creation data (= Planet diameter, mass, density…etc) and its motion data (=Planet orbital distance, period, velocity, inclination, rotation period and Axial Tilt)

All data is defined by exact equations and by geometrical rules- 

No Random Process has effect on any planet data- on the contrary- by geometrical rules all data is created- for that the data can be concluded theoretically- and we can know all planets creation data by theoretical and mathematical calculations only

-MEANS- for example- Uranus diameter is created 51118 km by a geometrical rule and this diameter is not changed through the history.  

Shortly

I have discovered 5 equations, by which all planets data can be concluded- 

Means-

If we know one data only (Mercury orbital distance is 57.9 million km) by this one data and by my five equations we can conclude theoretically all planets orbital distances, periods, velocities, DIAMETERS, masses, densities and all data.

Let's introduce my five equations in following  

(My 1st Equation) Planet Orbital Distance Equation   

d^2= 4d0 (d-d0)

d = A Planet Orbital Distance

d0= Its DIRECT Previous Neighbor Planet Orbital Distance

(Exceptional- Earth depends on Mercury- Mars depends on Venus – Pluto depends on Uranus- the same forma is used by all –Error 1% except Neptune 4%) 

Example / (1433.5)^2 = 4 x 778.6 x (655)            

778.6 million km and 1433.5 million km are Jupiter and Saturn Orbital Distances Respectively and (655 million km = The Distance Between them)

(My 4th Equation) Planet diameter Equation

(v1/ v2) = (s/r) =I

v1 = planet velocity in second

v2 = another planet velocity in second

r  = Planet Diameter

s  = The Planet Rotation Periods Number In Its Orbital Period 

(This value is belonged to the planet whose diameter is "r") 

I  = Planet Orbital Inclination (of the planet whose diameter is "r")

v2, s, r and I are belonged to one planet and v1 is belonged to another planet

The planet (v1) is defined by test the minimum error 

Earth Equation uses Neptune velocity

Mars Equation uses Pluto velocity

Jupiter Equation uses the Earth moon velocity

Saturn Equation uses Mars velocity

Uranus Equation uses Neptune velocity (As Earth)

Neptune Equation uses Saturn velocity

Pluto Equation uses the Earth moon velocity (As Jupiter)

Notice / (The Equation Works From The Earth To Pluto Only)

(The discussion explains the reason)

Example / Neptune Equation (89143 /49528) = 9.7/ 5.4 =1.8           

89143          = Neptune rotation periods number in Neptune orbital period

49528 km    = Neptune diameter

9.7 km/s      = Saturn velocity

5.4 km/s      = Neptune velocity

59800 days = Neptune orbital period (and Neptune rotation period =16.1 hours)

1.8 degrees = Neptune Orbital Inclination

Thanks a lot – please read

Physics Nobel Prize For Imaginary Ideas! (Revised)

or

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Peoples' Friendship university of Russia – Moscow

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As an amateur marketing wizard, let me tell you why Tumblr isn't growing into the social media juggernaut Auttomatic wants it to be:

1. That isn't a thing anymore. Get with the times, Pappy. If you're not TikTok or YouTube, or the angry resthome that is Facebook, you aren't going to make money from this. Things have coalesced. You are either making all of the money or you don't get any. This is the market.

2. Their Big Idea was Live, a streaming thing they contracted another company to run for them. The Meet Group is doing good as a streaming provider. ...Tumblr is not a streaming platform. You can't just graft an unrelated thing onto another thing and ???, profit. They might as well have tried to turn it into Ebay.

They picked streaming because streaming is hip with the kids. ...On platforms that exclusively do streaming, and have robust tools to do that and promote streamers. Like Meet Group websites. People aren't looking for a cheap imitation of that, they just go to those to do that.

Sure, it could, theoretically, be a fun bonus thing. But it isn't, it is a weird thing most of us don't like or want here. Neither outcome was ever going to turn Tumblr around. Because, again, we can all do better streaming elsewhere. Why didn't anyone know this?

3. Ever since the Pornocalypse, the Tumblr base (it seems to me) trends young and rather disengaged from the platform. Teenagers drop in every week or so, look around, and move on. How were you going to generate revenue from these people with pay options? They don't have money, and what they have, they ain't spending here.

Even those of us who are here an unhealthy amount to do gay fandom stuff are in a groove with this platform where it is no-obligation. I pay for it to kill most ads, but I am an old man with a job who is bad with my money. I'm the exception. If the core demographic is people with no money, who see little benefit in paying for a thing that is bearable as a free product...they aren't going to give you money. That's the market. What was supposed to happen to change any of that? They didn't bring in older people, and they didn't offer any vital paid benefits. What...what was the plan?

4. We are known internet-wide as the sad gay website of sad gays and their sad gay blorbos. We are mined by them occasionally for our funnest stupidity, but that is this site's brand at this point. Trying to make Tumblr cool and profitable is like trying to turn your drag bar into a competator of Chick-fil-A. It isn't going to happen unless you radically alter your legacy brand. And when you do that, you immediately drive off the core patrons you have. I don't know how you fix that.

Conservatives and moms already have Facebook. They don't need Tumblr. And Tumblr is too Tumblr to be anything else. That is all it is.

Perhaps this platform is just inherently doomed to be exactly what it is, a giant queer money pit. Yahoo certainly thought so -- that's why they dumped us.

It sucks that Auttomatic can't make us profitable. And they're under no obligation to keep trying. But they shouldn't be surprised. We're fun at parties. But you can't take us home.

#tumblr shutdown #marketing #observation #gay