Tumblr is permanently banning adult content from its platform as of December 17th in a move that will eradicate porn-related communities on the platform and fundamentally alter how the service is used. The ban includes explicit sexual content and nudity with a few exceptions, the company tells The Verge. Its announcement comes just days after Tumblr was removed from Apple’s iOS App Store over child pornography issues.
Banned content includes photos, videos, and GIFs of human genitalia, female-presenting nipples, and any media involving sex acts, including illustrations. The exceptions include nude classical statues and political protests that feature nudity. The new guidelines exclude text, so erotica remains permitted. Illustrations and art that feature nudity are still okay — so long as sex acts aren’t depicted — and so are breast-feeding and after birth photos.
The policy change takes effect on December 17th. From then on, any explicit posts will be flagged and deleted by algorithms. For now, Tumblr is emailing users who have posted adult content flagged by algorithms and notifying that their content will soon be hidden from view. Posts with porn content will be set to private, which will prevent them from being reblogged or shared elsewhere in the Tumblr community.
Users have a chance to appeal Tumblr’s decision in situations where they think there’s been a mistake, and the platform admits there’s a chance that the automated tools it’s using could make errors. It’s a process that could take a while, as a bulk of Tumblr posts feature explicit content. Users who run adult blogs can also export their content before the change takes place in order to save what they have.
Since Tumblr was founded in 2007, it has largely turned a blind eye to adult content. The company has tried to shield it from public view through Safe Mode and more stringent search filters. But in recent months — and under the ownership of Verizon’s Oath unit — it began to consider removing content. “We’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward,” CEO Jeff D’Onofrio says in a blog post. “We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change.” D’Onofrio says Tumblr weighed the pros and cons thoroughly before making its decision. It also decided not to remove explicit accounts because it wanted to give these accounts a chance to post appropriate content instead.
Under Oath, Tumblr has been cleaning up its platform more rapidly than it had done in previous years. In August, Tumblr announced new community guidelines that banned revenge porn, hate speech, and posts that glorified school shootings.
If users mourn the loss of adult content on Tumblr, D’Onofrio claims they’ve got many other solutions. “There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community,” he said. That argument will due little to curtail anger over this decision from people who have taken to Tumblr as a safe place to enjoy, share, and discuss their preferred flavor of porn and adult content.
Hey folks, another big recall has hit the states, for both refrigerated and frozen products. Read up, and be careful out there!
And if you need to stay updated, FoodSafety.gov has an RSS feed listed under Recalls & Alerts > Get Automatic Alerts.
ETA: yikes, this recall is from a month ago (Oct 2018). It’s for some frozen food though, so worth keeping it up.
Saturday, November 24, 2018
Timelapse of the Russian Progress MS-10 cargo spacecraft launched on 16 November 2018 at 18:14 GMT from Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, taken by ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst from the International Space Station.
The spacecraft was launched atop a Soyuz rocket with 2564 kg of cargo and supplies. Flying at 28 800 km/h, 400 km high, the International Space Station requires regular supplies from Earth such as this Progress launch. Spacecraft are launched after the Space Station flies overhead so they catch up with the orbital outpost to dock, in this case two days later on 18 November 2018.
The images were taken from the European-built Cupola module with a camera set to take pictures at regular intervals. The pictures are then played quickly after each other at 8 to 16 times normal speed. The video shows around 15 minutes of the launch at normal speed.
Everyone going shopping on Black Friday, be aware of three things:
The retail workers are working 12 hours shifts. We are threatened with losing our jobs if we don’t show up unless we’re dying in the hospital. I had an assistant manager show up with fucking strep because he would’ve been fired otherwise. Yes, he did infect 7 and hospitalize 2 coworkers; who knows how many members of the public he infected.
The stores have, maybe, 5 of that special cheap thing you’re after. Corporate does this on purpose, and stores are not allowed to order enough. The prices aren’t even that much lower. They lie about how expensive something is to fool you into thinking you’re getting a discount. You aren’t.
Most of the workers you will come across will be new hires for the sole purpose of being bodies for about three months before they’re fired. They actually don’t know anything because they’ve been working there for maybe two weeks, and have had no real training. I was once hired at Staples a week before Black Friday and expected to know how to deal with phones, coupons, the online ordering site, and AS400 after five 6-hour shifts. This is the kind of person you will likely be dealing with at Black Friday.
Do me and my retail family a favor and don’t shop Black Friday. Any company that needs a sale day like Black Friday to get their sales out of the red doesn’t deserve to be in business.
This also goes for anyone that works shipment too. We’re suddenly expected to stay as late as they want you to even if they know you don’t have a car and rely on a ride to get you to and from work and know you can’t stay late. Shipment workers will suddenly start getting berated for not getting things done and it is by far the most stressful time to be a shipment worker for any store. Especially when they throw in new hires that don’t know how to process things and are expected to work at the same pace as the people that have worked there for a while.
Retail is shit around the holidays, especially Black Friday
ok fellow millenials, it’s time to kill black friday
LET’S KILL BLACK FRIDAY
This goes double for Thanksgiving. More and more places are opening late on Thanksgiving; Gamestop is opening at 3 PM on Thanksgiving. My employer is and always has been open 24 hours on Thanksgiving.
Sometimes going out is unavoidable, please be as kind and understanding to the people forced to work as possible.
I’m sorry if you guys are tired of me posting about this but it’s important so here’s some updated NorCal Camp Fire information:
- Camp Fire Public Information Line: (530) 538-7826
Updated Incident Report 11/10/18
1. The fire is now at 100,000 acres but is 20% contained
2. There are still 6,713 confirmed destroyed (6,453 houses, 260 commercial buildings)
3.Evacuation Orders & Warnings for Camp Fire
Current Evacuation Orders (per 11/10 7:00 a.m. incident update):
• Paradise, Magalia, Concow, Butte Creek Canyon, and Butte Valley
• Powellton zone
• Lovelock zone
• Humbug zone
• Stirling zone, Stirling City and Inskip
• North Coutelenc zone
• North Fir Haven zone
• Nimshew zone
• Carnegie/Colter zone
• South Firhaven zone
• South Coutelenc zone
• North Pines zone
• South Pines zone
• Old Magalia zone
• Lower Pentz zone
• Morgan Ridge zone
• Lower Clark zone
• Highway 32 at Nopel South all the way to Chico city limits
• Butte Creek Road
• Centerville Road
• Concow
• Pulga
• Yankee Hill
• Skyway from lower Paradise to the Chico city limits
• Morgan ridge
• Highway 70 from Pulga to West branch feather river bridge
• All of Clark Road and all of pentz road, south to highway 70, everything west to highway 99 and south to highway 149 including all of Butte Valley
• Shippee Road from Highway 149 to Highway 99
• Cherokee Road to Highway 70 to Lake Oroville south to Table Mountain Blvd.
4. Evacuation Shelter Information:
OPEN: Yuba-Sutter Fairground (442 Franklin Ave, Yuba City, CA 95991)
OPEN: Chester Memorial Hall (22 Gay Street, Chester)
THIS SHELTER IS FULL: Butte County Fairgrounds (199 E Hazel St, Gridley, CA 95948)
THIS SHELTER IS FULL: Glenn County Fairgrounds (221 E Yolo St, Orland, CA 95963)
THIS SHELTER IS FULL: Chico Elks Club (1705 Manzanita, Chico)
THIS SHELTER IS FULL: Oroville Nazarene Church (2238 Monte Vista Ave, Oroville, CA 95966)
THIS SHELTER IS FULL: Neighborhood Church (2801 Notre Dame Blvd, Chico, CA 95928)
If assistance is needed in evacuating, call 9-1-1.
5. Animal Shelter Information:
Small Animal: Small animals evacuated due to the Camp Fire can be taken to:
The Old County Hospital at 2279 Del Oro and Mono, Suite E
The Chico Municipal Airport (150 Airpark Blvd, Chico, CA 95973)
Large Animal: Large animals evacuated due to the Camp Fire can be taken to the Butte County Fairgrounds, 199 E Hazel St, Gridley, CA 95948
6. The fire could potentially reach Oroville, CA because of wind movements. This isn’t a fact it’s just a possibility, I heard them discussing it on Action News Now
7. If you live in Chico, Butte County, or the surrounding area, the evacuation shelters and evacuation animal shelters are in need of volunteers and supplies
8. The air quality is still super bad so wear a mask if going outside, don’t overexhert yourself, and keep animals inside as much as possible. If you’re having trouble breathing, they probably are too especially smaller animals like dogs and cats
9. This is Paradise, CA in relation to the fire if anyone was wondering. Basically right in the middle of everything.
10. The town of Paradise has been destroyed that much I can say, and it’s devastating. PLEASE SHARE THIS BECAUSE AN ENTIRE TOWN WAS JUST WIPED OFF THE FACE OF THE MAP AND NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT
Here’s some of my own pictures that I took the other day of the sky. It was Day 2 of the fire and it looked like the apocalypse if I’m being honest. The first two pictures were taken at 11:17 AM but it looks like it could be anywhere from 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM (also that’s nothing in the sky on picture 2 I think it’s just a reflection on my camera lens). The last picture was taken around 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM and I know the picture itself isn’t that good but you can clearly see all of the thick smoke in the air.
If you don’t want to take the time to read this that’s fine, but Please Share This So Other People Can See It. It’s Extremely Important
If your brain is already feeling a little fried by the week’s end, you might want to skip the trailer for a Tamil film called 2.0. But if you want to try to wrap your brain around one potential outcome of our hopeless addiction to smartphones, this trailer’s got robots, explosions, and a gigantic cyborg eagle made from millions of hijacked mobile devices.
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From
2011 to 2017 I traveled over 100,000 miles by car, focusing my camera on the
massive network of superhighways that has become ubiquitous throughout the
United States. Whether located within an urban environment or leading out to
the last remnants of wilderness, these roadways have been designed to suppress
any distinguishing characteristics of place and instead construct a familiar
and uniform system of functional spaces built for mobility and productivity.
Rather than moving quickly through these spaces however, I have made the
decision to slowly and deliberately dwell within them, looking for unforeseen
moments of humor, pathos and humanity.
My
photographs look at the road as a stage where narratives play out and opposing
forces often collide. The boundaries that line these landscapes, whether real
or imagined, are examined by looking at the separations between public and
private space, privilege and need, the individual and the collective, and the
countervailing ideas of home and escape. The resulting compilation of
photographs depicts the state of America’s infrastructure as a cultural
indicator of its economic, social and environmental circumstances.
Image Captions (from top to bottom)
1. Page,
Arizona, 2013
2. Interstate
75, near Lenox, Georgia, 2014
3. Interstate
5, near Grapevine, California, 2014
4. Interstate
26, near Mars Hill, North Carolina, 2013
4. Parkton,
Maryland, 2005
6. Interstate
70, near Salina, Kansas, 2014
7. Barstow,
California, 2017
8. Interstate
81, near Woodstock, Virginia, 2012
9.. U.S.
Highway 80, between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, 2015
10. Green
River, Wyoming, 2013
11. Interstate
83, Baltimore, Maryland, 2014
12. U.S.
Highway 85 and Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, from El Paso, Texas, 2016
book - Joshua is currently crowdfunding to publish this series as a photobook, published by Kehrer Verlag. Please consider supporting this fantastic project… it promises to be one of the photobooks of the year!
