Pat @Pat@qoto.org

@tavoglc

Bien hecho. Muchas gracias.

@lupyuen

>"#Google’s new Image Search tools could help identify AI-generated Fakes"

And so the AI wars begin...

@tavoglc

Fuente de información?

@AmpBenzScientist @TruthSandwich @freemo

I don't know why anyone would put an uncapped magic marker in their pocket.

@bonifartius @admitsWrongIfProven

Subterranean homes would solve each of those problems, but I don't think politicians want to solve problems. They like problems because it motivates people to give them more money and power.

The real solution is that people need to stop having babies. Especially babies that grow up to be politicians.

Also, tin hats don't stop cosmic rays, so I don't know why people wear them. They should wear lead hats instead.

@spradlig @grammartable

If each grade has it's own curriculum, then "new curriculums" would be correct. If for some reason they decided to change it to singular, then forgetting the article is a common mistake, especially with an interceding modifier.

In headlines, articles are often dropped, but these here have periods on the end of them, so they are sentences, not subheads.

Also, I think "Half of the children..." is correct, not "Half of children...", because it's talking about specific children, not children in general, so the definite article is required.

Given the subject matter, I wonder if these errors were intentional ironic humor.

(The AP style guide may specify "curricula" instead of "curriculums", I'm not sure, but either form is acceptable generally.)

@freemo

There are also pocket protectors, which are associated with nerd-like scientists and engineers, but that might be a different thing.

@TruthSandwich

@freemo

I know that horn-rimmed glasses were associated with bookworms long before TV was invented, even before moving pictures.

"Nerd" as word didn't exist before the 1960s. Also, the first synthetic plastics that are used to make the black rims in those glasses wasn't invented until the early 20th century.

Clark Kent wore those type of glasses to help establish the nerdy character in opposition to the powerful superman. That was created in 1938, before TV.

@TruthSandwich

@Deglassco

All of the Supreme Court Justices have taken bribes except perhaps Brown Jackson.

For example, Roberts' wife has taken in over $50 million of "consulting fees" from wealthy legal firms, and Sotomayor has taken in over $3 million in "book advances" from a multi-nation publisher.

But for some reason the media only want to talk about Thomas. I wonder why?

#TruthBeTold

*****Spoiler*****

This one is 100% true. By wording this TruthBeTold this way and showing a picture of a salamander playing the keyboard of a musical organ, it deceptively makes the words “electric organ” sound like the musical instrument, but in this case “electric organ” means a biological organ (electrical organ) in some aquatic species used to produce an electric charge that is used for navigation, to stun prey, or for defense, like in the electric eel. Electric eels belong to the a genus under the taxonomical infraclass teleost. By capitalizing the word “Teleost” in connection with the Ancient Egyptians, that word appears, to those unfamiliar with that infraclass, to be referring to some esoteric civilization predating the Pyramids.

#TruthBeTold

Electric organs were one of the first things to make use of electricity. They were used hundreds of years before Franklin wrote about his lightning kite experiment. In fact, the Teleosts used them even before the Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids.

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#TruthBeTold = A statement that is logically or literally true (or partly true), but seems to imply something that isn’t true or is just plain weird. (for rhetoric, logic or propaganda studies… or just for fun)

#FrankZappa #music #sound #electricity #organ #axolotl #fish #invention #nature #Benjamin #Franklin #SparkOfInnovation
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@medigoth

Take only pictures, leave only footprints.

(And stay on the trail.)

@gnusuario

Creo que esto debería estar detrás de una advertencia de contenido.

@freemo

Gee, I have no idea what you are talking about.
@robryk

@freemo @freepeoplesfreepress

Prohibiting someone from controlling what content they put on their website is a violation of the First Amendment clear and simple. Congress has given people who run websites immunity from liability for posts made by users of the site. The problem is that social media companies are not just kicking people off for moderation purposes, they're kicking people off to tailor the message that comes from their social media site.

A good example is IMDB's user-supplied movie reviews. If someone posts a review that is highly critical of a major studio's tentpole, that review will most likely get removed, especially if it is critical of racial bias in Hollywood. They are presenting a specific message, and they should not be considered as a "utility" that is just conveying information. They are the content provider and should not be immune from liability for that content.

A true communication utility is one which simply conveys information, like the telephone company. A telephone company is not liable for what people say over the phone, however, if the telephone company tried to edit what you were saying on the phone, you would not call that a utility.

So entities that try to control what is posted to their site should not be exempt from liability if they're controlling the message that way.

If the entity that's running the site is controlling what's being posted beyond simple and clear, unambiguous cases, such as specific words, or specific body parts, they are not a utility no matter how big they are and they should not be exempt from liability for the content on their site.

If they want to be treated as a utility and be exempt from liability for what's posted on their site then shouldn't be able to pick and choose what's going to be posted on their site.

@kamakazi152

Obviously, I can't get inside Jones' head to know what he was thinking when he made this film. I said generally because producers are going to fund projects that promote a message that supports their business model.

Regarding the internet causing more isolation, I remember having this conversation back in the early 1990s when the web was just getting going and email was the main thing. Newscasts saw the threat and the narrative that the internet was isolating was just another one of their attacks. My response was that email allowed people to better coordinate meetings and helped facilitate social interaction, not take away from it. But the narrative from TV newscasts was almost all negative. Ironically, TV had a huge negative impact on society, but you never heard about that on the nightly news.

Anything that old media thinks will threaten their power they will fight against, and they use their reach to deliver those narratives.

@kamakazi152

>"And it still doesn't make sense that Spike Jonze wrote and directed Her specifically to support this pro old Hollywood agenda."

I didn't say that.

@kamakazi152

I was around before the internet existed. I saw it happen. I have a background in the computer industry and the media. I know what I'm talking about. They were going out of their way to find things to complain about.

@rastinza

If a company refused to hire black people, I think you'd say that was racist and that it conveyed a racist message.

Hollywood will not change unless we refuse to support that racism by not watching the films that are racially biased.