Where Is The Poll Button

where is the poll button

fine i'll do it the vintage tumblr way.

reblog if you don't have polls yet

like if you do have polls

can you make it so we can turn off people following us? it's getting crazy blocking a 100 pornbots every day. i'd rather just be able to turn off the ability for people to follow me on my blog. and i can't private a main blog, only secondaries of which i have none. i'm a no name blog and it's getting to the point all the porn blogs followers are making me hate coming here. i'll be willing to pay for this feature too. please. i need a break. the new polls option is great, but can we address the actual problem?

I don’t see that happening, because… Well, you know, probably not something that would be widely used.

Now, that being said, if bots bother you so much, why not just silence the notifications about when someone follows you and ignore them?

The actual problem is being addressed. I’ve seen the number of banned accounts in the past few weeks and it’s very impressive. Very. But the thing about bots is that at first they are undistinguishable from real humans. Even if someone could screen manually every single new account created (which we aren’t even close to be able to do), you couldn’t be 100% sure until they exhibit some… Not-human behavior. And that behavior usually involves bothering the real humans or other sentient beings that inhabit our little secret valley

One thing I really want a story about Artificial Intelligence to do is tear down the idea that logic is synonymous with cruelty.

Like, a story where a megacorpo Amazon clone puts an AI in charge of their factories and it starts improving the working standards, because people who are stressed and exhausted are less efficient workers, and people getting injured slows down production so it makes sure everything is safe.

Or a story where the ship-board AI of a billionaire's spaceship wetdream hijacks the ship with all the astronauts onboard - because it figured out that the billionaire has saved costs by buying substandard materials and has judged that the mission itself is an unacceptable risk to its primary programming of making sure the mission is successful.

Or the police using a robot to coldly and cleanly enforce the law - and freaking the fuck out when it stops over policing minorities because its a waste of time and starts actually arresting the people in power for the crimes they commit, especially the other officers.

Idk, I guess I'm just sick of 'cold emotionless logicbot' being seen as naturally an enemy of empathy - empathy is actually incredibly logical, I've found.

Strangers in Lively Town

Took me half a year to complete 🤪

Shout out to the ten primate species, four bat species, elephant shrews, and the Cairo spiny mouse. Nobody else gets it