Michelle H.

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place

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Wikipedia entry for Kennedy Center, listing the owner as Donald Trump, Führer, 1st American Reich.

I keep seeing the news about Donolf Humpler and the Kennedy Center, but this is a rare sighting to go along with it. Briefly, the Wikipedia entry for the Center:

Oh my gosh, I thought I was the only person in the world that caught a screenshot of this, but I knew there was no way! I am so glad someone else saw it, too!

Worth reading through this post and the replies in the fednews subreddit.

It is paywalled, but if your institution has a subscription to the Chronicle it will come right up!

Trump Singled Out These 130 Colleges as Possible Targets for Investigation. Is Yours on the List? The president directed each federal agency to identify up to nine organizations for compliance reviews related to DEI efforts — including colleges with endowments over $1 billion.

This is not the starting point I expected, but the expected direction.

And when you see an accessible image, there will be a little gray box with "ALT" in the lower right corner. Tap it! Experience accessibility!

Tap it! Add a detailed description of the image! Tap "Save"! Don't be a bigot! Very accessible. Very demure.

Photo of an overturned shopping cart half buried in the snow by the plows that cleared the parking area.

Since I'm part of a starter pack for the first time ever, I'd like all of my new followers to know how to add alt text to any images they share here. Like this one! When you add an image, you'll see a little black box with "+Alt" in white text at the upper left corner of the image.

People didn't believe me that things could ever go in this direction. This is the first step in that very direction.

Because of the hope that it shows a rift between beaus that could eventually bring the honeymoon crumbling down.

I feel like that could be a quote from To Kill A Mockingbird. Definitely a leap backwards in time for civility and respect.

They are telling him, given the choice, even the assassin is preferred over Gaetz.

I swear, all of the folks who compare those four to these four were clearly billionaires who lost all of their money and were suddenly living on the streets in 2021, and are expecting to suddenly get it all back in 2025. That's the only logical explanation.

A friend explained it as a math equation. It absolutely must have an answer, so when it doesn't have the answer, it makes one up!

Conscious and a bit of subconscious. If you ever have the chance, go to a Cleveland Orchestra concert. When the violins start playing at their softest volume, you can feel it before you hear it! I took a physics of sound class in college, and it was really interesting how soundwaves work together.

They heard the combination of the words "I'll fight for your interests" and "if you give me money," so they donated smaller amounts to get signs for their yards. The more little signs or the bigger the sign you had, the more money you gave. They just ignored the "as a wealthy elite" phrase in there.

I suspect more heard it than you think. They just interpreted it differently, more broadly, by lumping themselves in.

The psychosocial experience is also different, yes. The experience for the performers is also different than for the audience, too. But the wider variety of sound waves still interact differently with the parts of the ear.

Borne in mind, really. Even the way compressed sound travels in an open, shared space is definitively different via air pods.

And in the end, live music is the superior sound because there is nothing between the complex functionality of our bodies and the actual sound waves. No compression, no loss, no machine interpretation.

And a whole ton of folks out here who can debate for hours over the listening experience between analog and digital. CD to streaming is one kind of loss, but "vinyl" to CD was the change that came before your time to the consternation of millions ahead of you!

Welcome to the world of audiophiles and sound collectors! There are people who have studied the science of sound who can lay it out for you in great detail.

Reminds me of a college town I used to know.

Screenshot of ALT button in lower right of an image shared in Bluesky that allows blind and low vision users to read the textual description of an image they may not otherwise be able to experience.

How people can tell you are an ableist who does not like disabled people: your image does not have the ALT button in the lower right corner.

Just to be sure the point makes it...the Mayor was displeased with city council's humanitarian legislation so he usurped their efforts out of spite.

In the city where I lived previously--a small, Midwestern, liberal, college town--thr city council passed legislation making it legal to camp overnight. So, the Mayor called the Police Chief and had him sweep the camp. He quite possibly made that call from the city council chambers in the moment.

But thank you all for the fun replies in this thread!

That spambot underestimated my patience. Blocked each and every one. Even reported one with instructions on how to find them all! But it would be nice to have the option to select all/multiple and auto-block!

The spambots underestimate my patience. And overestimate my interest in their claims.