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IMO, one of the most annoying consequences of people treating autism like it's just quirky special interests and nothing else is that people will say "autism isn't an excuse for [known symptom or common trait of autism, including actual diagnostic criteria]" with no irony.

I've seen "autism isn't an excuse to be a picky eater," "autism isn't an excuse to struggle with tone/misread sarcasm in a post," "autism isn't an excuse to be bad at social cues" (with the comment of "literally just go out and learn by talking to people, it's not that hard," as if autistic people don't already do that), "autism isn't an excuse to not make eye contact, that's so rude," "autism isn't an excuse to wear headphones in class or work, nobody else gets to do that," and "autism isn't an excuse to be unemployed/live with your parents/not leave the house enough" (wondering if this person has any idea HSN autistic people exist?). Some people here are like half a drink away from saying having flat affect is "literally weaponized incompetence!!!" or something. I'm starting to wonder what you people think autism even is. Because if you've found a way for autistic people to turn off the most basic symptoms (like sensory sensitivity or difficulty with social settings), that's news and you need to share your incredible findings with the world immediately.

(Disclaimer in case one is necessary: I am not talking about assholes trying to use autism as an excuse for bigotry, like white tumblr users being racist about rap or musk's nazi salute. I am talking about things that autism symptoms actually cause, including things that are completely harmless to others but are treated as problems simply because allistic people find them weird or annoying.)

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It’s honestly hard to replace tumblr with another social media not because ‘Ooooh she’s so craaaazy I love her’ but because no other website has a tagging system that lets you easily and efficiently sort your posts and let you find anything on a specific topic as long as you sort it that way

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The fandom was allowed to uncritically create miku binder Thomas Jefferson because the STARTING POINT of the musical was so abstracted from reality that it didn't seem absurd. Point A to point B made sense but in reality it was like. Point M to point N with real actual history being Point A.

I think I need different enrichment because I'm seriously thinking about writing an essay on why so much weird shit came out of the Hamilton fandom

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I think I need different enrichment because I'm seriously thinking about writing an essay on why so much weird shit came out of the Hamilton fandom

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Bringing g1 back won't fix mattel's lacking quality btw. So many of you keep asking for g3 to be over and for g1 to come back but it's not like the dolls would be much different aside from the faces and bodies. We already see this with skullectors and alumni lmao they would NOT bring 2010s mattel's clothing quality back if they currently brought g1 back altogether.

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op turned off reblogs so the correction i made cant be reblogged, so im making a new post, mostly just repeating what i said. tl;dr:

google docs is not randomly deleting peoples work for being nsfw. there is no evidence at all that you are at risk of having google delete your fics for having "inappropriate" content.

this article by the wired is the only "source" op has ever provided. i would very very much recommend both reading the entire article and looking at the linked posts in it for yourself. it is also self-admittedly the only source they've ever found - so keep that in mind. it's about k. renee, an open door romance novelist who had her work restricted by google. "open door romance" refers to works where sex scenes happen on screens and are described in detail. they are explicit works. the article talks about similar things happening to a few different authors who write in the same genre.

the incidents described in this article happened in march 2024, which is over a year ago.

those affected had their works restricted, with a warning message. they were not abruptly deleted out of no where. authors were able to file appeals with google to recover their docs, though i havent found any updates on if they were successful in doing so.

the reason this happened is because google docs incorrectly flagged the shared documents as spam.

That author later posted a video to Instagram explaining that it wasn’t the adult content in the files but rather “Google thought I was spamming people.” Apparently, sending the same doc to scores of people—for example, alpha and beta readers—can make it appear as though the doc was unsolicited.

sharing a document that contains "adult content" with a lot of people will trigger google's automod, but the adult content itself is not the problem. if you are sharing a doc with a handful of people, or arent sharing it at all, this is not going to happen. from my own personal testimony, i have dozens and dozens of explicit, nsfw work in my google docs that ive shared with people, and none of them have been touched. i have not seen a single claim with proof that anyone's work has been deleted in the manner the original op describes.

there is no source at all for original op's claim that google is "using AI to find inappropriate and problematic content". in the above article (again, the only source), ai is mentioned once, to say that k. renee had ai functions turned off and did not think that was the problem.

Renee hadn’t turned on any of the AI functions in Google Workspace, so she doubted it could be chalked up to a bot banning her books. After all, a 2016 paper coauthored by Google researchers revealed that its recurrent neural network language models had been fed thousands of romances. If for some reason a bot was crawling her work, wouldn’t it recognize what it was looking at?

and, lets just think logically for a moment. if google docs was doing some sort of mass cleans of nsfw content using ai, dont you think it would be a more widespread story? would it be this hard to find sources and testimony about it? google docs has literally millions of users, including published authors and scientists and academics. if an ai bot was crawling works and deleting any it deemed nsfw, it would be mainstream news because it would be affecting countless people. and especially without disclosing a change in policy beforehand? they would probably get sued for it!

i am not making this post in defense of google, god forbid. google is open about the fact that they use any "publicly available" information to train their ai models (and did get sued for it), though they claim that they dont take from docs that they dont have permission to. i honestly, genuinely, cannot tell you the veracity of these claims or how serious the scraping is. like, i just do not know if google scrapes from private gdocs. if someone knows more and has better sources they are free to add on to the post.

but i want it to be clear that google docs is not going to randomly delete your works for having nsfw content. docs and pages disappear sometimes because google docs is a mess. you should always back up your files locally (switching to programs like ellipsus doesnt make your work safer, per se, as ellipsus is still cloud-based), and you should consider switching away from google docs if youre staunchly anti-ai, but they are not going to abruptly explode all your fics. that is simply not happening. you do not have to panic.

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everytime something has a mostly female cast theres a million people who are like Ok but what if there are boys 😊 because i like boys 🩷 and it makes me sad when there arent any 😢 and we need to start treating this as plainly misogynistic because it is

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legitimately worldview altering realisation and i'm not even employed right now

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Google docs isn’t deleting your docs just because they have lewd text.

OP turned off reblogs of the post due to being debunked, but here’s a link of the reblog so you can still read stuff. Hate Google all you want but misinformation helps no one.

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When I was like 15 I gave one of my ocs this terrible scifi background; he came from a autonomous city state where over time the distinction between man and machine grew blurrier and blurrier and resulted in social public and government efforts to treat androids with greater personhood than the humans born there

The androids weren't meant to be a stand in. I was too young to make clumsy race analogies, and it was never supposed to be one anyway. It was about property and machinery being protected more than human rights, and the lengths capitalist warlords will go to in order to protect intellectual property and the physical space their tech takes up at the expense of the most vulnerable in society. It was about people being priced out of the place they were born in but had no way to leave without massive debt. It was about medical procedures and devices becoming trendy, but only if you were rich enough to have them done in a way that looked ""natural.""

As this world expanded it started to seem absurd. Exaggerated. Comical, even.

I don't know how to end this I'm just. Very tired.

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They're fucking taking Loki out of the team up midseason I'm going to be SICK. MY SIBLINGS. MY BEAUTIFUL BEAUTIFUL SIBLINGS.

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When I travel, it's usually to the country's capital but then sometimes I meet citizens of this country in different circumstances and they say they've never been there. I'm not judging because some capitals are far away and expensive but I'm wondering...

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are we far enough out of the 2010s that I can say that a lot of what was getting framed as intentional queerbaiting in the big Tumblr Popular shows was definitely just writers making homophobic jokes bc they thought the idea of a character being gay was funny rather than any attempted implication that a character might be gay

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criticism of Labubu I will accept: the blind box format encourages rampant consumerism; some people only buy them because of the trend and they will be landfill fodder in six months when that trend dies

criticism of Labubu I will not accept: hnnnnn adults playing with toys WEIRD and BAD!!!!!

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I bet it feels good as fuck to create Lost Media

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Summer Thor

I haven’t posted anything for a while but here is a drawing of Thor’s summer skin and his 24k gold Hela and Loki labubus!