Chad Vs. The Hecolopters: Today in Tweets 4/21/18 edition

Two nights ago, I dreamed that someone replaced my cell phone with an incel-phone, which came with an autocorrect feature that forced me to use distressingly.nonstandard.punctuation. I was horrified. It was so.difficult to talk.to.anyone that I eventually gave up and became a phonecel.

I love when people think algorithms or machine learning will free us of bias, forgetting that algorithms are made by biased humans, and neural nets are trained on data created by biased humans.

Especially with neural nets, because sometimes we can’t know what they’re learning. Like there was one that was designed to generate images. It scraped millions of images off the net and would composite them together to make a novel picture of whatever you asked for, like “a dog”, “a cat”, “a boat”, “a person”.

Except the “cat” pictures were overwhelmingly memes. So when asked to create a picture of a cat, this neural net would put gibberish captions in that meme impact font in the places where a caption should go. Because, it thought, based on the internet, that every picture of a cat should be a meme.

@Moggie

I’m glad I’m not the only one who immediately went to heffalumps. Much like incels they’ve tried to rebrand as sympathetic when we all should be terrified of them and realistically they are shapeshifters only out to steal what isn’t theirs to take.

(I may have watched the original Winnie the Pooh video on obsessive repeat for several years as a child)

I can envisage another funeral where she’d be smiling even more.

Seriously, though, this is likely to make Trump even more angry. People openly point out how Melania always looks miserable in his company, and now this? I hope he doesn’t take it out on her.

Hecaloptera would be one of those obscure new insect taxonomic orders that get named once in a while.

Add “Making Melania smile” to the long list of things Barack Obama can do that Trump can’t.

NicolaLuna, I hope that if any of us or our loved ones are in that kind of situation one day, we get lucky enough to find someone like you working our case. Thank you.

(but tsk tsk tsk for slacking on your misandering duties, that’s just shocking! 😀 )

Hell, just being a woman who likes MLP is peak misandry to these morons.

*barely stops self from going on an unrelated rant about how adult men enjoying a show aimed at young girls was the perfect opportunity for them to break out of their toxic gender roles, but nooo*

I managed to get housing for a man who has been homeless for 5 years. I’ve arranged for lots of clean clothes and food to be delivered to his new place and for some supportive charities to go round to his a couple of times a week to help with budgeting, cooking etc.

Bless you NicolaLuna!!

@Moggie

I hope he doesn’t take it out on her.

I don’t know, but I suspect they’re never together except public appearances

Hecalopter is, literally, the word my sister used to for helicopter when she was very young, initially as an honest mistake and then she kept using it because she liked being cutesy. It crops up as an in-joke in our family to this day.

@wwth My best guess, following the conspiracy theory mindset, is that the “globalists” ( read: Jews, Socialists, Muslims, Jews, feminists, Jews, Jews etc) are doing it so that they can regain control of the government? That’s my best guess, anyways.