Happy Independence Day, US FlickrFam! 

A better, more positive Tumblr

Since its founding in 2007, Tumblr has always been a place for wide open, creative self-expression at the heart of community and culture. To borrow from our founder David Karp, we’re proud to have inspired a generation of artists, writers, creators, curators, and crusaders to redefine our culture and to help empower individuality.

Over the past several months, and inspired by our storied past, we’ve given serious thought to who we want to be to our community moving forward and have been hard at work laying the foundation for a better Tumblr. We’ve realized that in order to continue to fulfill our promise and place in culture, especially as it evolves, we must change. Some of that change began with fostering more constructive dialogue among our community members. Today, we’re taking another step by no longer allowing adult content, including explicit sexual content and nudity (with some exceptions).  

Let’s first be unequivocal about something that should not be confused with today’s policy change: posting anything that is harmful to minors, including child pornography, is abhorrent and has no place in our community. We’ve always had and always will have a zero tolerance policy for this type of content. To this end, we continuously invest in the enforcement of this policy, including industry-standard machine monitoring, a growing team of human moderators, and user tools that make it easy to report abuse. We also closely partner with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Internet Watch Foundation, two invaluable organizations at the forefront of protecting our children from abuse, and through these partnerships we report violations of this policy to law enforcement authorities. We can never prevent all bad actors from attempting to abuse our platform, but we make it our highest priority to keep the community as safe as possible.

So what is changing?

Posts that contain adult content will no longer be allowed on Tumblr, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to reflect this policy change. We recognize Tumblr is also a place to speak freely about topics like art, sex positivity, your relationships, your sexuality, and your personal journey. We want to make sure that we continue to foster this type of diversity of expression in the community, so our new policy strives to strike a balance.

Why are we doing this?

It is our continued, humble aspiration that Tumblr be a safe place for creative expression, self-discovery, and a deep sense of community. As Tumblr continues to grow and evolve, and our understanding of our impact on our world becomes clearer, we have a responsibility to consider that impact across different age groups, demographics, cultures, and mindsets. We spent considerable time weighing the pros and cons of expression in the community that includes adult content. In doing so, it became clear that without this content we have the opportunity to create a place where more people feel comfortable expressing themselves.

Bottom line: There are no shortage of sites on the internet that feature adult content. We will leave it to them and focus our efforts on creating the most welcoming environment possible for our community.

So what’s next?

Starting December 17, 2018, we will begin enforcing this new policy. Community members with content that is no longer permitted on Tumblr will get a heads up from us in advance and steps they can take to appeal or preserve their content outside the community if they so choose. All changes won’t happen overnight as something of this complexity takes time.

Another thing, filtering this type of content versus say, a political protest with nudity or the statue of David, is not simple at scale. We’re relying on automated tools to identify adult content and humans to help train and keep our systems in check. We know there will be mistakes, but we’ve done our best to create and enforce a policy that acknowledges the breadth of expression we see in the community.

Most importantly, we’re going to be as transparent as possible with you about the decisions we’re making and resources available to you, including more detailed information, product enhancements, and more content moderators to interface directly with the community and content.

Like you, we love Tumblr and what it’s come to mean for millions of people around the world. Our actions are out of love and hope for our community. We won’t always get this right, especially in the beginning, but we are determined to make your experience a positive one.

Jeff D’Onofrio CEO

First of all, I will be back to comics this week :) So hello!!

Second of all…it’s almost that time. Yes, the holidays. So here is your annual buy-my-stuff holiday post, especially early in case of international shipping needs! Here’s what I’ve got: MERCH BOOK 1 BOOK 2 PRINTS CALENDAR AND PLANNER

Please note that due to the fact that I’m restructuring my merch, this is my last year with the amazing Topatoco so if you are interested in our merch, this is the last time it will be available. Hope you are all staying sane as the holidays approach.

Bonjour St Tropez 🚁 (at St.Tropez)

À ceux qui ont l'habitude d'arriver en cours de route, nous avons pensé à vous. Plus d'informations : http://www.samsung.com/fr/lave-linge-addwash/?cid=fr_social_tumblr_addwash_20170301

Larry Fink CEO BlackRock, Jes Staley CEO Barclays, Tim Sloan CEO Wells Fargo, Sallie Krawcheck CEO Ellevest, Rob Manfred MLB Commissioner, and more at First-Ever Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit

By Andy Serwer, Editor-in-Chief, Yahoo Finance

On February 8, we’re hosting the first-ever Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit at our Yahoo office in New York City. This day-long conference will explore the critical questions and changes facing our economy and financial markets as we begin a new administration for the first time in eight years.

As a long-standing leading business news site, with an audience that spans from every-day investors to industry leaders, we at Yahoo Finance are uniquely positioned to explore all the ways in which this incoming administration will have an impact on our economy. We’re assembling some of the most dynamic minds in business, to help savvy investors – big and small – set their agendas for a new environment, as a new president takes office and a new Congress takes shape.

Among the confirmed participants are:

Larry Fink – Chairman & CEO, BlackRock

Tim Sloan – President & CEO, Wells Fargo

Jes Staley – Barclays, CEO

Rob Manfred – Commissioner, Major League Baseball

Sallie Krawcheck – CEO, Ellevest

Glenn Hutchins – Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners

Liz Ann Sonders – Chief Investment Strategist, Charles Schwab

Mark Weinberger – Global Chairman & CEO, EY  

Ian Bremmer – President, Eurasia Group

Daymond John – CEO & Founder, Fubu & Shark Tank Co-Host

Slava Rubin – Founder, Indiegogo

Charles Phillips – CEO, Infor

Greg Clark – CEO, Symantec

Jon Stein – CEO, Betterment

Morgan Housel – Partner, Collaborative Fund

Michael Batnick – Director of Research, Ritholtz Wealth Management

Sam Zell – Chairman, Equity Group Investments

Terry Tamminen – CEO, Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

The conference will be live-streamed free of charge on Yahoo Finance, with tickets available for purchase to the general public. To purchase tickets, and for the latest updates on the All Markets Summit participants and agenda, please visit our Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit landing page.

 Merry Christmas from Muse 🎅🎄

The Vine Camera & Archive

Thank you to the hundreds of millions of people who watched Vines, and to the inspiring community of creators and editors. Special shouts to everyone in the Year 4 Playlist!

The Vine Camera is now available for iOS and Android! We’re excited to see what you continue to make. Create short looping videos with the classic Vine shooting and editing features and post them to Twitter (where they will also loop!)

Today, we made an update to the website: the Vine Archive is a time capsule of all posts made to vine.co from 2013–2017. Jump into a classic meme, have a laugh, or look up a profile.

Looking for more info on these announcements? Visit the FAQ.

– Team Vine & Twitter

Space Station Research: Nutrition

Each month, we highlight a different research topic on the International Space Station. In January, our focus is Nutrition. Understanding the role of nutrition in astronaut adaptation to spaceflight has a broader application on Earth. For example, understanding the relationship of nutrition to bone loss in space is potentially valuable for patients suffering from bone loss on Earth.

The space station is being utilized to study the risks to human health that are inherent in space exploration. The human body changes in various ways in microgravity, and nutrition-related investigations help us understand and reduce those risks associated with those changes. Examples are:

Bone mineral density loss

Muscle atrophy

Cardiovascular deconditioning

Immune dysfunction

Radiation

and more

Scientists can also test the effectiveness of potential countermeasures like exercise and nutrition, which can have health benefits for those of us on Earth.

Did you know that in 2015 the space station crew harvested and ate lettuce that was grown on the space station? The Veggie facility on station is an experiment that supports a variety of plant species that can be cultivated for educational outreach, fresh food and even recreation for crew members on long-duration missions. Right now, the crew is growing Zinnia flowers. Understanding how flowering plans grow in microgravity can be applied to growing other edible flowering plants, such as tomatoes.

Make sure to follow us on Tumblr for your regular dose of space: http://nasa.tumblr.com