Martin Jambon 🌍🌎🌏 @mjambon@qoto.org

@LordWoolamaloo what bothers me is a common assumption that "these people of the past or from another culture were bad or stupid" instead of "they were like just like us and we're vulnerable to the same mass manipulation".

@dpiponi that's how witnesses become convinced they remember something that never happened. I watched a tv show about memory that had such experiment. It was concerning.

@europesays du moment que les voitures électriques explosent, Hollywood est sauvé.

@freemo I could list other reasons:
- because it's a net loss for society (it's destructive: there's very little gain for the murderer compared to the cost of making another human being)
- because it makes all of us feel threatened (and we care about not dying)
- cannibalism is frowned upon so what's the point of murder?

It's useful to notice that shallow imitation in art or "kitsch" will also borrow the terms used to describe what it imitates. This includes "fine art" - as a non-native English speaker and US resident, I had to look up the definition of "fine art" because it seemed to be applied only to a certain style of paintings in a commercial context. None of what I consider interesting art would be labeled as "fine art". It was my surprise to find out it was defined as an equivalent of the French term "beaux-arts" which is rarely used in French and refers to art for the sake of it as opposed to decorating functional objects (decorative arts, "arts décoratifs"). I've grown allergic to the term "fine art" just like I've always been allergic to the brand of art it refers to today. I won't use the term "kitsch" to label the work of others because it's pretentious and mean but I will also not use the term "fine art" to describe what I do.

#art #fineart #kitsch #branding

@KitOz I like the Dutch name!

Elfinnote, October 2023
61 cm × 91 cm, acrylic and brass leaf on canvas
https://martinj.art
#art #artistonmastodon #abstractart

@KitOz I'm not familiar with this one but Phlebia tremellosa is a possible match. I would check the underside. https://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Phlebia_tremellosa.html

@UP8 I'm very skeptical about these results or what to do with them. Maybe people who don't easily get angry should allow themselves to be angry on occasion to boost their motivation? Anger is certainly not a good thing for me.

@avsm @whitequark c'mon

@freemo no

@zoe_dubus je viens de parcourir https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langage_inclusif_en_fran%C3%A7ais et ça n'a pas l'air gagné
Je me demande si se rapprocher de l'anglais n'aurait pas une meilleure chance de prendre -> franglais pour les articles et pronoms neutres ("a", "the", "they", "them", "my", "your"). Ça nous donne: "my professeur", "the ministre" !

@zoe_dubus y a-t-il un raccourci pour prononcer "un chercheur ou une chercheuse" ou "une ministre ou un ministre" ? Et quels pronoms utiliser ? (en anglais, "they" et "them" marchent bien pour ça)

@CoralieArtTank love it!

@dpiponi for subtitles: my guess is that movie makers watch them super loud in a dedicated room while understanding the language perfectly, so they never thought that subtitles could be useful to all. Maybe eventually, smart TVs will upload stats on subtitle usage and they'll realize how important it is. Maybe it's happening already?
Regarding aspect ratios: I don't have a rationalization. I am deeply disturbed each time the aspect ratio is wrong, e.g. an old 4:3 stretched to fit a widescreen TV.

Google Translate is being confused. It thinks "calaveras" is more likely to be an English word than a Spanish one, and of course, fails to translate it into anything.

It means "skulls".

#words #translation #languages #google

@lowqualityfacts

@dpiponi oh, nice. I didn't know about this. I don't play much.