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cannot BELIEVE you all have hidden the source of the sickos hahaha yes meme from everyone. this is so fucking funny

I really can't emphasize enough how much I don't care if the anecdotes people tell on here are true. We are sitting around a campfire telling tall tales, embellishments and flights of fancy are part of the fun

When the man at the bait shop tells you he almost caught a bass thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig you don't write a callout post accusing him of gaslighting

the kids are alright

note: I still think asshole is basically a worthless characterization when you're trying to describe like. political movements.

it's a really useful category to have for organizing personal relationships but beyond that it just has near-zero explanatory power.

When people say their instinct for detecting harmful members of an outgroup is “finely honed,” I think definitionally this is the phenomenon they’re pointing to. Like, it’s easy to train the human brain to be highly reactive to certain stimuli because our general pattern-matching capacity is often built on high-recall low-precision matches. This is what a lot of PTSD and trauma response and people’s “I’m not racist I’m just street smart”-type reasoning is built on. Very, very few people will say, “Yeah, I’m a racist/homophobe/transphobe,” etc. They almost always frame it in terms of “my aversion to this group is perfectly reasonable, and the disgust I feel toward them is commensurate with the threat they represent.”

I want to stress that this reasoning, about how instinct and disgust necessarily point to something real in the world, is the exact line of argument religious conservatives use against gay people, anybody who acts gender nonconforming in any way, and which racists use against the racial other all the time. Not similar to, not “resembles it from a distance,” but exactly the same.

No matter how honestly you come by it, if your trauma leads you to cultivate an indiscriminate disgust reaction toward a whole class of people regardless of their individual characteristics, you’re an asshole.

every time i check back in on tumblr there is a new needless aesthetic change to hate

rounded corners are tolerable but on thin ice. the unforgivable crime is the gutter around the posts, especially on the sides. the encroaching of the modern webdev sensibility that says a website is better when less information is on the screen.

The company selling the data is SafeGraph. SafeGraph ultimately obtains location data from ordinary apps installed on peoples’ phones. Often app developers install code, called software development kits (SDKs), into their apps that sends users’ location data to companies in exchange for the developer receiving payment. Sometimes app users don’t know that their phone—be that via a prayer app, or a weather app—is collecting and sending location data to third parties, let alone some of the more dangerous use cases that Motherboard has reported on, including transferring data to U.S. military contractors. Planned Parenthood is not the organization performing the data collection nor benefiting from it financially.

SafeGraph then repackages that location data and other data into various products. On Tuesday Motherboard reported that the CDC bought $420,000 worth of SafeGraph data for a laundry list of COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 use cases. Google banned SafeGraph from the Google Play Store in June.

SafeGraph classifies "Planned Parenthood" as a "brand" that can be tracked, and the data Motherboard purchased includes more than 600 Planned Parenthood locations in the United States. The data included a week's worth of location data for those locations in mid-April. SafeGraph calls the location data product “Patterns.” In total, the data cost just over $160. Not all Planned Parenthood locations offer abortion services. But Motherboard verified that some facilities included in the purchased dataset do. [...]

SafeGraph’s Patterns data aims to answer questions like “how often people visit, how long they stay, where they came from, where else they go, and more,” according to SafeGraph’s website. SafeGraph calculates where it believes visitors to a location live to the census block level. SafeGraph does this by analyzing where a phone is commonly located overnight, the company’s documentation suggests.

SafeGraph’s data is aggregated, meaning it isn’t explicitly specifying where a certain device moved to. Instead, it focuses on the movements of groups of devices. But researchers have repeatedly warned about the possibilities of unmasking individuals contained in allegedly anonymized datasets.

Sections of the SafeGraph dataset Motherboard purchased handle a very small number of devices per record, theoretically making deanonymization of those people easier. Some had just four or five devices visiting that location, with SafeGraph filtering the data by whether the person used an Android or an iOS device as well.

The You’re Wrong About episode on the Dixie Chicks reminded me of something I was really only half-aware of in 2003; I was in my mid-teens, thought the Iraq War was a bad idea, but for reasons I had a lot of trouble articulating, and I won’t claim that my position was super well thought out or nuanced (though the passage of time did vindicate it). But the level of support for Bush in that era, and the bipartisan support for the war, was truly insanely high; Natalie Maines’ very mild rebuke of Bush, in terms of political discourse nowadays, prompted the entire country to basically go apeshit on her, for the band to temporarily become pariahs, and for some pundits to seriously suggest that criticizing the president on a London stage amounted to actual treason. Given the egregious transgression of international law the Iraq War represented, the transparent deception used to justify it, and the absolute disaster it proved to be for the people of Iraq, it is easy to forget just how rabidly pro-war the whole country was at that time. And this is in a country that is relatively prosperous, has a pretty free press, a two-party system, and had only spent a couple of years being terrorized by propaganda about the People Coming To Get You.

#this post is only sort of about russia#russian support for the war in ukraine seems about where american support for the iraq war was in 2003#if i understand the statistics correctly#(with all the caveats that trying to poll ppl in russia entails rn)#the point is#americans should not at all be smug about how easily other people are whipped up into frenzied bloodlust#nor should anybody really#but it is depressing as hell

reminder in the coming days and weeks to not take pictures of protesters, do not reblog pictures of protesters, particularly Black protesters

why do bluecheck New Yorkers talk like this

New Yorkers were put on this earth to teach the rest of their country what it’s like for non-Americans to deal with an American.

Via @korvys​ (Twitter)

I’m glad humans evolved to Boop the Snoot for Good Luck.

glowing as though holy

(screenshotting because the context makes me assume that OP would find this addition to their post unwelcome)

See, this is what gets me so up in my own head about interacting with people on this site! I assume this attitude is more common for people with a ton of followers, but like. The way that sort of, unidirectional interest, affects social norms, is so weird and uncomfortable for me. Social media with follower mechanics makes things WEIRD.

This is why I like discord! Everyone's on an equal footing, conversation is *expected*, I don't feel like I'm constantly running the risk of hitting "how DARE you interact with me" because I said words at the wrong person in the hierarchy.

I kind of wish there were a more formalized version of softblocking? I want to be able to count on "if I'm bothering someone, they have tools available to easily and frictionlessly make me go away or otherwise stop."

this is interesting because I feel the exact opposite. I feel pretty much completely free to respond to people on this site, like, I might still avoid responding for whatever reason but it’s more likely to be about the drama of the content itself or the individual user than the idea that chatting on a post is inherently some kind of faux pas (with the exception of personal posts). Like I just think that poster is wrong and that if they want a private friends-chat then a public blogging platform is not the place?? I wouldn’t violate this preference where I knew about it, but expecting people to assume that as a norm seems like acting at cross purposes with the fundamental design of the site, which is really really good at showing you the thoughts of random strangers you wouldn’t have encountered otherwise.

and I feel the opposite about discord servers or chatrooms of all kinds. I tend to just feel inherently excluded unless someone is making an active effort to draw me in to conversations. Like, this is the cool private friend chat, and violating that would be a grievous offense and I could be punished at any time for stepping over an unknown line. If anything I say isn’t clever or thoughtful everyone is surely cackling at me on the secret more-insular server. (And to be clear this is insane on my part, I have never been kicked from a discord server for something I’ve said, but I have been kicked for inactivity. deeply maladaptive assumption.)

I feel the idea of some preexisting hierarchy in both places, but on tumblr I just don’t care so much, like if someone doesn’t like me being on their posts that’s their problem and they should block me. Whereas something about real-time chat fucking activates my social anxiety to a degree unequalled even by being around irl strangers.