Notices by Henrik Schönemann (lavaeolus@fedihum.org), page 2

Hey @loops @pixelfed there are some major #accessibility issues in your web-app:
https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/113769006092092906

Sharing appreciated
#Loops #Pixelfed

Because of #Bluesky 🙄:
If you only read one blog post about #accessibility in full, let it be "Combating Access Trauma" by Robert Kingett @WeirdWriter
https://robertkingett.com/posts/6617/

Sandi Toksvig <3

"I won’t stand by and let that happen. I will stand up each time and say no. Clearly, if you’re anti-trans, it’s because you don’t have any trans friends. If you did, you wouldn’t be able to look yourself in the [mirror] as you say these terrible things."

"Please know I understand and I’m here. I don’t know for what, for a cuddle? I’m here to be the grandma lesbian who goes, ‘Let’s just keep going’."

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/12/17/sandi-toksvig-if-youre-anti-trans-you-dont-have-any-trans-friends/

https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113698478107307010

@brewsterkahle already did ✊

and with https:// in front of the link, it will be even easier :)
(Currently, I would need to copy-paste instead of clicking)

@internetarchive

@ayoub I would love to give you a monthly sum (substacks paid tier), but I'm not going to give substack a bit of my money - that's intented for you, not Bari Weiss.
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/substack-announcement-bari-weiss-free-press

Is there any other possibility?
Ko-Fi, LibraPay, Patreon, something else?

John Cale - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (Words by Dylan Thomas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3DDZjDcP0w

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46569/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-good-night

@alcinnz 100% yes!
I love using this graph from Zhao, Wayne Xin, Kun Zhou, Junyi Li, Tianyi Tang, Xiaolei Wang, Yupeng Hou, Yingqian Min, et al. 2024. ‘A Survey of Large Language Models’. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2303.18223.
@tkinias

@alcinnz and they are only talking about language models, Computational Linguistics etc. have been doing stuff for much longer

@tkinias

"#AI" as Artificial Intelligence is not real. But the stuff being called "AI" most certainly is.
Simply telling people "AI is not real" is not helpful in the slightest. You're telling them: "Your perception of reality is wrong", but the machine does things that are 'indistinguishable from magic' (Hi Clarke!) to them.
We won't convince people by telling them "Your god isn't real! Follow me!" (I'm exaggerating), but by empowering them to emerge from their self-imposed immaturity.

@tkinias by showing them - not telling, but showing.

Show them the limitations, the weirdness, the brokenness.

E.g.: Jacomy, Mathieu, and Erik Borra. 2024. “Measuring LLM Self-Consistency. Unknown Unknowns in Knowing Machines.” Sociologica 18 (2): 25–65. https://doi.org/10.6092/ISSN.1971-8853/19488.

@awinkler first result of my dive:
https://www.bursa.ro/ziar/2024-11-25

@awinkler
"The big surprise of the elections - Călin Georgescu - at Putin's side (Illustration by MAKE)"
https://www.bursa.ro/calin-georgescu-the-big-winner-of-the-first-round-of-the-presidential-elections-68510453

But I have no clue regarding "MAKE"...
Maybe @catileptic has an idea?

@awinkler I arrived at an impasse:
Neither more information about the image nor about MAKE present themselves to me...

@catileptic

@Mabande @jeffowski
"Use memes to your heart's delight, but when you use some nazi shit you will get pushback." - that's 100% it

@jeffowski And now I'm disengaging - you got pushback; my POV is clear. Continuing to argue is just a waste of time and energy (for everyone involved).
@Mabande

@jeffowski If you're feeling hamstrung by my mild criticism, that's a you problem.
But to keep engaging in good faith: My 'pearl clutching' consists of (i. a.) no longer fuelling an outrage-machine like Twitter/X; being anti-fascist in my words and actions.
I certainly see the value of using the language of memes to fight fascists - but imho by creating memes instead of adapting/repeating theirs.
Like this:

@jeffowski It's not about him - it is about everyone else.

And - to be honest - also about me. I was (and still am) disgusted to see his imagery in my personal feed.

@jeffowski And speaking of "You need to be a lot more social network literate.":
I know the kind of memes the alt-right used and still uses for ~10 years. That's exactly why I reacted the way I did.