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After the events of yesterday, I. . .have been thinking. About myself.

• I like droids.

• I have a thing for Jawas.

• I am great with machines.

• I *really* have a thing for Jawas.

• I am very short.

Am I. . .part Jawa? Is that even possible?

The First Order. . .uh. . ."recruited" me when I was very young, so I don't relly know anything about my ancestry.

I'll have to ask Hux sometime. Maybe there are records somewhere.

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Are you hairy? I've heard Jawas are hairy. Everywhere.

-Finn

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On Image Descriptions

We all know that feeling, we think our image descriptions are not good enough. We think they’re too short and insignificant. We wonder if it’s worth it posting one at all, but it’s always worth it. And here is why:

Even if an image description doesn’t mention everything in the image, it tells you a million things which aren’t in the image.

If your description is [ID: Reaction image of a nodding woman. /end ID] it tells you one million things. Such as: The image is not a tweet adding further information or context, it’s not a screenshot of a Snopes article debunking the post, it’s not someone disagreeing.

Those six little words, that nodding woman, it might not seem like a lot. It might seem like you can skip right over it, like it’s not worth mentioning - but it is.

An image could always be a wall of text explaining why OP is wrong, and simply knowing that’s not the case is super useful. Knowing that it’s just a reaction image, just a meme, just a photograph, is super useful.

Even a bad ID tells a lot.

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Adding a bit of context for people who don’t know what image descriptions are for: Blind and visually impaired people (among others) use software called screen readers when using a computer/smart phone. It reads the text on the screen aloud and makes digital content accessible to them. Images can’t be read aloud, so they need an image description (often abbreviated as ID) to know what’s in the image.

By adding an ID, you’re helping me and many other disabled people.

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I'd do image descriptions more but I almost never post images.

On the few times I post pictures, they are from my camera, and then in the text under them I caption the picture, like with 'This is my hen, Leggy Lass'. Does that interact well with screen readers or do I need to some format ID: /end ID?

#basic human decency

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HEROES (2006–2010)

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These two. That man's eyebrows. His scruff. The perfection of the makeup on his lips (or of his lips if they are actually that color but I assume that's makeup).

#primatech

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The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on.

Take away every consequential activity through which AI harms people, and all you’ve got left is low-margin activities like writing SEO garbage, lengthy reminisces about “the first time I ate an egg” that help an omelette recipe float to the top of a search result. Sure, you can put 95 percent of the commercial illustrators on the breadline, but their total wages don’t rise to one percent of the valuation of the big AI companies.

For those sky-high valuations to remain intact until the investors can cash out, we need to think about AI as a powerful, transformative technology, not as a better autocomplete.

We literally just sat through this movie, and it sucked. Remember when blockchain was going to be worth trillions, and anyone who didn’t get in on the ground floor could “have fun being poor?”

At the time, we were told that the answer to the problems of blockchain were exotic, new forms of regulation that accommodated the “innovation” of crypto. Under no circumstances should we attempt to staunch the rampant fraud and theft by applying boring old securities and commodities and money-laundering regulations. To do that would be to recognize that “fin-tech” is just a synonym for “unlicensed bank.”

The pitchmen who made out like bandits on crypto — leaving mom-and-pop investors holding the bag — are precisely the same people who are beating the drum for AI today.

-Ayyyyyy Eyeeeee: The lie that raced around the world before the truth got its boots on

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Yes, this. Follow the money. It's a graft.

(That, and certain industries might stand to make money by ousting creatives and replacing them with AI.)

Someone just told me it was Pryde Month. Why does he get an entire month to himself? Does anyone else get a whole month?

@pryde-before-the-fall