not the coquettes literally reinventing nazi phrenology on tiktok
Yeah just a heads up. If you start judging people by bodyshape in any way I'll kick you right in the teeth. Have fun describing someone's face shape as inferior when your jaw is gone
Here's the Sawbones episode covering phrenology in case it helps anyone talk to someone about this!
"the prefrontal cortex doesn't fully form until yr 25!!" y do u wish to take more agency away from teens and young adults. y do u refer to phrenology to inform yr worldview. I'm about to undevelop yr prefrontal cortex with a baseball bat if u don't shut the fuck up
for the ppl who decided something they saw in a scientific american headline their friend posted counts as objective fact, from the Wikipedia list of common misconceptions:
it's pop science. it's pseudoscience. it's phrenology. it's not real.
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This is a picture of a cis woman, y’all are literally just racist
TERFS DID THIS TO ME ON TUMBLR. I got an anon telling me I passed terribly. like. I'm literally cis and by telling me I do not pass, you are showing that you view womanhood in ways that are not only regressive for trans folk but also regressive and harmful for the very cis women you claim to support and prioritize. They uphold the very beauty and gender performative standards they seek to diminish. Fuck terfs.
reminds me of the time i got an anon saying i would NEVER be a real woman no matter HOW much makeup i wore. like, thanks for the affirmation bud i guess
Allow me to introduce you to the WTF, World! of transvestigators. Seriously, this is actually a thing
[image ID: Elon Musk in profile walking behind another man. A curvy black line has been drawn behind his shoulder and back. Pink block letters read, “Even when wearing a suit, Elon’s curvy female spine is evident.” /end ID]
someone in the notes brought up the TERF to White supremacist pipeline and it made me think of this tweet:
What's the deal with terfs and sex phrenology?
it's wild that like... the 'brow scale' of artistic prestige ('highbrow', 'middlebrow', 'lowbrow') is like, one of the last outposts of phrenology in the modern English language. like i always raise my eyebrows when i see them come out.
Love to wake up to seeing the only renter insurance available to me having to tweet that they absolutely do NOT do phrenology no matter what it is that they said before
Screenshot of a response to one of the tweets in question.
Here's the full text of the thread in question, including images:
FYI, a bunch of AI researchers on Twitter - including Mr. Narayanan from the screenshot above - have already pointed this out, but the sort of system they're describing both cannot "detect lying" (something which is not possible) and also is not actually intended to.
What it actually is is a way to establish a pseudo-scientific rationale for accusing customers of lying, so the company can refuse to pay out. This kind of AI generates "reports" containing solemn-looking language and diagrams, which the company can present to a court or a government audit as "scientific evidence" that they're not cheating people.
These "reports" have no more basis in fact than some guy saying "oh yeah I'm sure he was lying it was ALL over his face." But they LOOK like machine-generated data untouched by human bias, so people often take them seriously, as if they're something like an MRI image or security video. They're not.
(Recently, the law firm I work for has been getting spam trying to sell services and CLE courses which help you use fake AI data to bullshit jurors. It's never phrased that way - it's phrased a lot more like Lemonade's tweets above.)
