We live in a dystopia....
If the background actors don't come in for work because they exist virtually then the background costume and background hair and make up and their catering and transport and all the other departments that look after them get cut too. These things have knock on effects...
pssst. the movie’s available on dvd for $14 and the entire collection’s for $47. buy physical media, support the wga/sag-aftra strikes & fuck david zaslav & company
Fantastic feature guys!
Fix this by turning "show upload progress" off in Account Settings 👍
Gotta love the tumblr time honored tradition of telling each other how to turn off fucking annoying updates 🤝🏽✨
Request from my brother
I like the interpretations on this
This counts as science
well there was a conclusion, a list of ingredients, a research question, and the result evidence so yea that most definitely is science
and while he didn't write it down, he did make a record of it! So yes, that is science!
I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.
reblog to disturb jk rowling
i will always take the chance to disturb jk rowling
disturb jk rowling
currently disturbing jk rowling
My favorite activity is disturb jk rowling
Disturb jk rowling today
mmmm wake up and smell the disturb jk rowling
Maybe the real treasure was the JK Rowlings we disturbed along the way.
I got this message from a bot, and honestly? If I was a bit younger and not such a jaded bitch with a career in tech, I might have given it an honest try. I spent plenty of time in a tough situation without access to any mental health resources as a teen, and would have been sucked right in.
Chatting right from your phone, and being connected with people who can help you? Sounds nice. Especially if you believe the testimonials they spam you with (tw suicide / self harm mention in below images)
But I was getting a weird feeling, so I went to read the legalese.
I couldn't even get through the fine-print it asked me to read and agree to, without it spamming the hell out of me. Almost like they expect people to just hit Yes? But I'm glad I stopped to read, because:
I was curious about their business model. They're a venture-capitol based tech startup, owned by Airbnb, the famous mental health professionals with a focus on ethical business practices./s They're also begging for donations despite having already been given 2.5 million dollars in research funding. (If you want a deep dive on why people throw crazy money at tech startups, see my other post here)
They also use the data they gather from users to conduct research and publish papers. I didn't find them too interesting - other than as a good case study of "People tend to find what they are financially incentivized to find". Predictably, Koko found that Kokobot was beneficial to its users.
So yeah, being a dumbass with too much curiosity, I decided to use the Airbnb-owned Data-Mining Mental Health Chatline anyway. And if you thought it was dangerous sounding from the disclaimers? Somehow it got worse.
(trigger warning / discussions of child abuse / sexual abuse / suicide / violence below the cut - please don't read if you're not in a good place to hear about negligence around pretty horrific topics.)
Kokobot is incredibly predatory and exploitative. I wrote a post about how it exploits minors' empathy and gamifies "giving mental health advice", resulting in an unregulated mess that can only do harm to teens' mental health in the long run.
There are young people on tumblr that actively seek support from KokoBot right now, if you check the tag for recent posts. Those people did not get paid to promote it, so do not harrass them. If you can, direct them towards resources about Kokobot (like this post) that are more transparent about what this company is up to.
ok I'm standing up
me when i'm the real slim shady
you cant post shit on this web site
If you needed to ask a 15th century alchemist for a vape pen, you would ask for "a fulminated vapor of cannabis lixivium"
Anyway throws you into the big pit that transports you back in time to Wurtenberg in 1508.
Not my problem lol
3/7/18
this is a call out post for my little trash man who wont let me go anywhere
just in case anyone wanted to see him in action
game companies should be fucking EMBARRASSED about being inaccessible. it should be mortifying to ship a game with shit captions or no UI scaling options or no option to disable flashing / strobing effects. games lauding their character customization should be laughingstocks for not including hearing aids or congenital disorders or prosthetic limbs. EA should be publicly fucking humiliated for the sims series being 23 goddamn years old and include cats and dogs and horses and werewolves and zombies and mermaids and star wars and not FUCKING WHEELCHAIRS.
