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72 hours to launch Celebrate Pride

22 points by kilimchoi 11y ago

nsxwolf 11y ago
It was nice of them to make it voluntary.
osi 11y ago
Nice! Although it never worked for my profile picture, it would always error :(
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago
  No fair!
joshuapants 11y ago
Pretty cool! It would be nice if they could adapt it for use in other things; for example profile pictures that raise awareness of things like SOPA/CISPA/TPP/etc. I could imagine them not wanting to saturate Facebook with a new thing every week so it would probably be limited, and I could also imagine them not wanting to take risks by supporting political action that isn't as popular.
- JesperRavn 11y ago
  +1 would love to see something like this for the BDS movement. In 2015 some people still don't recognize Palestinians have rights.
- reagency 11y ago
  There is no reason for Facebook to impose their politics on their users. FB can create general tools for users to customize and share.
- reagency 11y ago
  There is no reason for Facebook to impose their politics on their users. FB can create general tools for users to customize and share.
nullrouted 11y ago
Hello, Serious question here. If being gay is not a choice but a preference you have at birth why do we need pride and parades? I mean it's not like you did anything or chose to be that way, you just kind of are. As a person who supports equality, no matter race, sex, religion, etc. this has always perplexed me.
- lbotos 11y ago
  Because of oppression/trials/tribulations.
- irremediable 11y ago
  To counter oppression. It's not so much "pride" in the sense of an achievement, but in the sense of not feeling shame for who you are, and publicly asserting that. It's also valuable from a visibility standpoint.
  - nullrouted 11y ago
    So basically we should have "Irish Pride", "Polish Pride", "Jewish Pride" etc. days as well? Plenty of groups have overcome oppression but don't really have pride days. Just seems a bit weird.
    - petercooper 11y ago
      I take it you've not seen any major city on St Patrick's Day.. ;)
    - irremediable 11y ago
      Plenty of groups have overcome oppression, agreed. Many of the groups that march in Pride parades are not among those groups. If you want to make an argument based on ethnicity, then a close analogue would probably be black Americans -- who do have some Pride-like events, e.g. Black History Month. I'm reminded of when people complain about Black History Month and ask, "When's White History Month, eh?" And the answer is that every month is White History Month. Because white people have more or less wiped black people out of popular history. This erasure is just as present for LGBTQ+ people.
mkstowegnv 11y ago
I can't think of any previous historic moment in my life where a statement of solidarity was so important and yet so easy to make. Progress in the fight against prejudice is easily lost. I can't help but think about the Vienna museum exhibit I saw exploring the status of Jews over hundred of years and how many times periods of tolerance were followed by repression. Having as many people as possible take this moment to say that we are not going back matters,and these photos do not just reach the 'quire' ie the friends of the supporters that are likely to be supporters themselves - Facebook profile pictures appear in miniature form in ads all over the web. Google profile pictures also appear in ads all over the web and are probably even better at reaching the eyeballs of the general public. I had hoped Google would also set up a similar sort of overlay mechanism, but I see no signs and this window of opportunity will be all too brief.
facetube 11y ago
Okay, now I'm curious: how'd they manage to get O(n^2) asymptotic complexity out of what looks like a relatively simple semi-transparent photo overlay?
- Bahamut 11y ago
  Probably a double for loop iterating over each row of pixels and then each pixel in each row (or column).
  - placeybordeaux 11y ago
    That sounds like it would only touch each pixel once: the minimum amount of times.
    - facetube 11y ago
      Right, that's why I'm confused. If n is the number of pixels, then 4 million operations would be linear-time as far as I can tell. Wonder if the author took n to be the width/height of the image.

22 points by kilimchoi 11y ago

nsxwolf 11y ago

It was nice of them to make it voluntary.

osi 11y ago

Nice! Although it never worked for my profile picture, it would always error :(

0xdeadbeefbabe 11y ago
No fair!

joshuapants 11y ago

Pretty cool! It would be nice if they could adapt it for use in other things; for example profile pictures that raise awareness of things like SOPA/CISPA/TPP/etc. I could imagine them not wanting to saturate Facebook with a new thing every week so it would probably be limited, and I could also imagine them not wanting to take risks by supporting political action that isn't as popular.

JesperRavn 11y ago
+1 would love to see something like this for the BDS movement. In 2015 some people still don't recognize Palestinians have rights.
reagency 11y ago
There is no reason for Facebook to impose their politics on their users. FB can create general tools for users to customize and share.
reagency 11y ago
There is no reason for Facebook to impose their politics on their users. FB can create general tools for users to customize and share.

nullrouted 11y ago

Hello, Serious question here. If being gay is not a choice but a preference you have at birth why do we need pride and parades? I mean it's not like you did anything or chose to be that way, you just kind of are. As a person who supports equality, no matter race, sex, religion, etc. this has always perplexed me.

lbotos 11y ago
Because of oppression/trials/tribulations.
irremediable 11y ago
To counter oppression. It's not so much "pride" in the sense of an achievement, but in the sense of not feeling shame for who you are, and publicly asserting that. It's also valuable from a visibility standpoint.
- nullrouted 11y ago
  So basically we should have "Irish Pride", "Polish Pride", "Jewish Pride" etc. days as well? Plenty of groups have overcome oppression but don't really have pride days. Just seems a bit weird.
  - petercooper 11y ago
    I take it you've not seen any major city on St Patrick's Day.. ;)
  - irremediable 11y ago
    Plenty of groups have overcome oppression, agreed. Many of the groups that march in Pride parades are not among those groups. If you want to make an argument based on ethnicity, then a close analogue would probably be black Americans -- who do have some Pride-like events, e.g. Black History Month. I'm reminded of when people complain about Black History Month and ask, "When's White History Month, eh?" And the answer is that every month is White History Month. Because white people have more or less wiped black people out of popular history. This erasure is just as present for LGBTQ+ people.

mkstowegnv 11y ago

I can't think of any previous historic moment in my life where a statement of solidarity was so important and yet so easy to make. Progress in the fight against prejudice is easily lost. I can't help but think about the Vienna museum exhibit I saw exploring the status of Jews over hundred of years and how many times periods of tolerance were followed by repression. Having as many people as possible take this moment to say that we are not going back matters,and these photos do not just reach the 'quire' ie the friends of the supporters that are likely to be supporters themselves - Facebook profile pictures appear in miniature form in ads all over the web. Google profile pictures also appear in ads all over the web and are probably even better at reaching the eyeballs of the general public. I had hoped Google would also set up a similar sort of overlay mechanism, but I see no signs and this window of opportunity will be all too brief.

facetube 11y ago

Okay, now I'm curious: how'd they manage to get O(n^2) asymptotic complexity out of what looks like a relatively simple semi-transparent photo overlay?

Bahamut 11y ago
Probably a double for loop iterating over each row of pixels and then each pixel in each row (or column).
- placeybordeaux 11y ago
  That sounds like it would only touch each pixel once: the minimum amount of times.
  - facetube 11y ago
    Right, that's why I'm confused. If n is the number of pixels, then 4 million operations would be linear-time as far as I can tell. Wonder if the author took n to be the width/height of the image.