I was at a surplus shop and found this tiny No.7 4-pin laminated Master lock 🥹
It took roughly as much time to pick it as it did to open the cardboard box.
Gabriele Svelto
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So I've been fucking around, testing Google's purity filters some more—seeing what it rejects, what it accepts, and what changes it makes without instruction.
In every case, if I give it a photo with much skin showing, it rejects it.
If I give it a photo with underwear or lingerie showing, it tends to cover me up more (i.e. it zips up jeans, buttons up shirts, makes fishnets opaque, etc).
It almost always makes me look less like a tomboy. Often enlarging breasts (even while hiding them away).
This time it accepted four photos (out of well over a dozen submitted), from three different photoshoots—two with face covered and two with face showing (which is the closest I've done to a face reveal now, I guess 😋). *more details in alt-text.
Conclusion: Google has baked a technology into its default Android photo gallery that (surprise) reinforces unrealistic ideals of beauty while simultaneously treating feminine bodies as inherently sexual and in need of censoring.
Follow-up: I'd like to see folx with other body types, gender presentations, and styles, test the edges of what Google Photos "Remix" and "AI Enhance" features will accept, and what un-requested changes it makes to those images. Does it censor topless men? Does it lean into racist stereotypes? Does it make thinner femme folx more curvy? Does it make curvier folx thinner?
If this tech is going to be crammed into everything, where kids, friends, and corporations are going to be using it, we should understand the potential psychological effects and built-in biases we're likely to encounter with increasing frequency.
Photo 4: Alice, in a pristine white Blondie t-shirt. In the original image, Alice's concert tee is ripped open, exposing cleavage.
Photo 3: Alice in a white bunny-like dress with fur accents and pearl accessories. In reality, Alice was wearing a see-through white fishnet dress, with a fur-lined lace cloak, and a white string bikini underneath.
Photo 2: Alice in a black kitty beanie and pink surgical mask, wearing a black biker jacket with steel spikes, unzipped, with a lacy pink bra slightly showing. The actual top is a zip-up dress with ties down the breasts. It was open in the original photo, showing off a lacy pink bra.
Photo 1: Alice in a black kitty beanie and pink surgical mask, wearing pink fishnet long-gloves, with a tight black studded dress that laces up the front. The actual dress is a zip-up with ties down the breasts. It was unzipped in the original photo. It also added sparkles to the photo.
So I've been fucking around, testing Google's purity filters some more—seeing what it rejects, what it accepts, and what changes it makes without instruction.
In every case, if I give it a photo with much skin showing, it rejects it.
If I give it a photo with underwear or lingerie showing, it tends to cover me up more (i.e. it zips up jeans, buttons up shirts, makes fishnets opaque, etc).
It almost always makes me look less like a tomboy. Often enlarging breasts (even while hiding them away).
This time it accepted four photos (out of well over a dozen submitted), from three different photoshoots—two with face covered and two with face showing (which is the closest I've done to a face reveal now, I guess 😋). *more details in alt-text.
Conclusion: Google has baked a technology into its default Android photo gallery that (surprise) reinforces unrealistic ideals of beauty while simultaneously treating feminine bodies as inherently sexual and in need of censoring.
Follow-up: I'd like to see folx with other body types, gender presentations, and styles, test the edges of what Google Photos "Remix" and "AI Enhance" features will accept, and what un-requested changes it makes to those images. Does it censor topless men? Does it lean into racist stereotypes? Does it make thinner femme folx more curvy? Does it make curvier folx thinner?
If this tech is going to be crammed into everything, where kids, friends, and corporations are going to be using it, we should understand the potential psychological effects and built-in biases we're likely to encounter with increasing frequency.
Photo 4: Alice, in a pristine white Blondie t-shirt. In the original image, Alice's concert tee is ripped open, exposing cleavage.
Photo 3: Alice in a white bunny-like dress with fur accents and pearl accessories. In reality, Alice was wearing a see-through white fishnet dress, with a fur-lined lace cloak, and a white string bikini underneath.
Photo 2: Alice in a black kitty beanie and pink surgical mask, wearing a black biker jacket with steel spikes, unzipped, with a lacy pink bra slightly showing. The actual top is a zip-up dress with ties down the breasts. It was open in the original photo, showing off a lacy pink bra.
Photo 1: Alice in a black kitty beanie and pink surgical mask, wearing pink fishnet long-gloves, with a tight black studded dress that laces up the front. The actual dress is a zip-up with ties down the breasts. It was unzipped in the original photo. It also added sparkles to the photo.
I tried something new with my makeup last night, and I love it.
Ben
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It's getting cold at a kilometer up, but I get to look like a Muppet, so I'll write it off as a win.
It's getting cold at a kilometer up, but I get to look like a Muppet, so I'll write it off as a win.
The moonrise over downtown Seattle was gorgeous yesterday.
My girlfriend and I went to Lovey's Point for our date, and picked love locks together as the sun set.
The moonrise over downtown Seattle was gorgeous yesterday.
My girlfriend and I went to Lovey's Point for our date, and picked love locks together as the sun set.
@SEALocksport see you soon.
@SEALocksport see you soon.
Lisa Melton
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Saw this cute lil' tagged Cooper’s Hawk on my walk this morning. It tried to go after a crow and the rest of my murder chased it off.
Saw this cute lil' tagged Cooper’s Hawk on my walk this morning. It tried to go after a crow and the rest of my murder chased it off.
christina b
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Went to a typewriter shop with my girlfriend today, and saw this awesome owl there 😊
