#Al gorithm

[delcat177]

This is why we can't trust machine learning

[catherine-clover]

it just means X amount of people read your post

This alone is already such a blessing among social media dominated by Algorithms.

If I must cater to an audience, I want it to be comprised of humans, not machines.

Someone recently posted about how Tumblr clout doesn't actually translate into anything in real life, it just means X amount of people read your post, so what's the point?

I mean besides the fact that some people actually use their posts for good, like activism and combating misinformation, there's just posting for the sake of posting which is its own reward.

But also, sometimes you'll make an impression with your fucked up posting that someone decides to send you a DM to talk to you about elves or a podcast or a podcast about elves or something and now you've made a new best friend :)

[speedlimit15]

the thing about for you pages is that i already did the work of finding stuff for me and usually the things brought "for me" are things i am avoiding interacting with for reasons a computer could not fathom

[rars]

my buddy Al Gorithm who makes all of the posts and playlists and songs for me knows me so well

[alternateworldcomics]

THIS is porn Officer Tumblr Al Gorithm?

I've had things show up in my scroll that would make Caligula blush, yet this and others like it are banned.

[catherine-clover]

I’m so glad I and other migrants were immediately directed to do this. Hope there’s been a boost among those free of Al Gorithm

Tumblr: *rolls out “best stuff first”*

My blog:

[mortalmab]

Writing about oneself is the hardest thing we have to do in the job market. Thank god I have a degree in creative writing. This means not only do I have the ability to stare at a blank page in fear, I also have the ability to image the most creatively terrifying scenarios for what happens if I write the wrong words.

Companies now want you to make an account with them in order to apply for their jobs. They put in big colorful letters with cheerful fonts things like "Show us the real you!" "Pitch yourself!" "Tell us why we should give a rats ass about hiring someone who can't even get a computer algorithm to recognize the key words on their resume! :)" And all it does is paralyze you in the moment because "woah, why did my teachers bother teaching me to sit down and be quiet and humble for 12 to 16 years if as soon as I got into the job market everyone was gonna want me to talk about how great I am? I didn't study for this test, I studied for the other one!"

And why do I have to make an account with you to work for you? Shouldn't it be that I get the job then have to make an account so you can track me and my computer? I'm feeling a little pre-judged here. I was always told you approached the company that put out a hiring ad, you gave them your resume, the human looking it over would decide if you had the necessary skills or qualifications, you schedule a job interview, and then promptly go outside and throw up because you were sure you bombed it and you held tight to the conviction until they told you if you go the job. But noooo. There is no human in Human Resources. There is no war in Ba Sing Se. Nobody gets to see your resume unless the almighty algorithm decides you cracked the code. What is the code? Only the algorithm knows and it's not telling - not even the employers know.

So they say, "We put out job ads, but nobody is applying. I guess nobody wants to work these days." and we say "We sent ten thousand resumes and cover letters with words lifted DIRECTLY from your advertisement but you refuse to hire and say we don't want to work?"

and they say "You copied and pasted from the ad? So you plagiarized? Don't you have a creative writing degree? Money well spent, I see."

and we say "But if we don't have the exact words from the ad in our resumes, cover letters, CVs, and personal accounts with your company, the algorithm won't even let you see us!"

and THEY say "Who's Al Gorithm? didn't he run for president one time? He's working in our HR department now? I dunno, if HE says you aren't qualified, who am I to disagree? But! I tell you what. Make an argument to me right now about why I should hire you and I'll take a look at your resume. If I think you look qualified, we'll set up a job interview."

And now I want to cry because wasn't that how it was supposed to go in the first place? Couldn't we have cut out the artificial middleman and saved ourselves the hassle? Meanwhile everyone who already works at the company is desperately trying to fix all the mistakes the algorithm makes so they're too busy running around with fire extinguishers to have the time for me and my application.

Which means my unemployed ass has time to sit on the internet and flex that creative writing degree, hoping to get a chuckle out of someone for that <little> squeeze of validation the company can't be bothered to give.

[howlingday]

Mercury: I feel so much discontent.

Watts: What about (Shows him booty video) DAT content?

Mercury: I'm cured! Thanks, Dr. Gorithm!

Watts: Please, call me Al.

[delcat177]

AI bot ad that reminds me to instead embrace my inner gremlin organically

[delcat177]

Continuing to slide Firefox and DuckDuckGo across the table to people. Brave is affiliated with Google, incidentally, and also tries really hard to sell bitcoin. I never thought changing browsers could be an ecological statement, yet here we are.

[ehj3]

ADDICTION

In a dark alley, a Social Media junkie with a bandaged head trades his brain in vat—no shade on Hilary Putnam or Mel Brooks—for Social Media icons, “like,” “love,” and “wow,” with Mr. Al “Deep Pockets” Gorithm, a pusher in a suit, and Miss Chickbot “Honey Trap” Clickbait, as his siren sidekick. Those icons are presented as scouting-style merit badges to be worn proudly and publicly. But they are…

[meanoldbat]

Hey there, Tumblr. It's been a long time, ten years--sorry I haven't written. You know...life...busyness....family...blah, blah, excuses, blah. How have you been? Me? You know, I've been around. I've been hanging out around Youtoob, and Faysebook. I know, I know, but at least I never went to Twit-ex. You've changed. I mean that in a good way. I like the new look--it fits you. It's good you're still authentic. You still won't give in to pressure to become something else. No one gets any favors from you. That's a good thing--especially now--when everyone else is selling out. Anywhoo, I'm just gonna, you know, hang out a little, sometimes. Maybe throw some stuff into the void. It's kinda peaceful here, with no one howling about how they need to get elected, or raging about what other people want to do with themselves. Oh? They are? Well, at least it's easier to tune out here. I don't feel like Al Gorithm is going to force it on me. Whoever put that guy in charge, anyway? My, my, how limiting and controlling he is! I'll see ya around. Take care.

[delcat177]

How many should we be eating with our daily rock?

Maybe this goes without saying, but DO NOT trust google’s AI results if you search something about bugs. Every single AI result I’ve seen about bugs so far has been wildly incorrect.

[myprogrammingsolver]

CSCI 570 HW 12

[20 points] A variation of the satisfiability problem is the MIN 2-SAT problem. The goal in the MIN 2-SAT problem is to find a truth assignment that minimizes the number of satisfied clauses. Give a 12 approximation al-gorithm that you can find for the problem. [20 points] Write down the problem of finding a Min-s-t-Cut of a di-rected network with source s and sink t as an Integer Linear Program…

[delcat177]

You know this is the ideal, right? We can come out and say it. The people at the top don't want people at the bottom if a robot can work it cheaper. They would absolutely sell us a movie made by nothing but simple machines and AI.

Not in the fun, wild, "we have a new toy let's make it illustrate King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards for us one line at a time" AI. That's what we *want*.

(it's what I want, anyway)

No. What they would sell us, with their simple machines, and their AI, would be...garbage, but garbage that we want. They're already showing us that, Disney in particular is excellent at media slurrification--take the franchise, bash some marketable characters together until there's a situation where someone makes a mistake that's only partially their fault, then resolve that fault in a way that makes up feel good about the world, roll it in slo-mo and explosions, add a Squishy Comic Relief Animal for the girls and some fart jokes for the boys, a little fanservice for the adults, some knowingly "we're progressive" nods to folks like me and "but not *queer*" nods to the rest...

...and we watch it. Because we love that shit. It's good shit! Uh, minus the gender tangent, this remains Tumblr, sorry.

it's good shit. Problems that can be solved in two hours, that's what Hollywood was based on, except in much smaller film cans. Making resolution with each other, getting to know each other better, having the place for the sides to grudgingly acknowledge each other because kids remain kids. It's all important.

Movies are part of us.

But the more automated and corporate big studios get--not just Disney, not by a longshot, it's just the poster child--the more automated and corporate big studios get, the more it is that they put out garbage we just can't be *fucked* about anymore.

The writing should be on the wall by now. Like, not to be "have you seen the Flash baby scene", but. Have you seen the Flash baby scene? The studios are BROKEN, my dudes. Not even the crap machine is crapping right anymore.

And that means we turn elsewhere, and more and more--

*They lose the content war*.

We can keep pushing. Strikes are good. We need to be ready for what's next. And do you know how we do that?

We keep making good content.

And whatever it is you're making?

It's good content.

It really is, stop being so hard on yourself.

(this part is just thanking anyone who read so far, thank you for the gif @nicesausages, point well in hand re: quality content creation)

Keep! Up! The! STRIKES! *Tear down the landlords!* And make good content!!!

Fake edit:

gdi Tumblr I didn't know how to describe that BEFORE you covered it COME ON

We live in a dystopia....

[deleteinfthisaccount]

thoughts on limericks

also thoughts on jellyfish !

i had to google. what that meant and it said it followed an “AABBA” rhyme scheme and that sounds like ABBA so i like them apparently! and jellyfish are amazing i miss the aquarium and just. starting at those brainless guys.

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