Mastodawn

Buddhist rebus-style text from Japan (Early 20th century), from Hymn of Praise to Kannon for the Illiterate (Kannon mekura wasan).

Source: British Library

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/95938ada-b100-47da-80a5-b71cf7ececc8

#reading #pictograms #manuscripts #religion #illiteracy #buddhism #rebus #art #publicdomain

harriehq May 8

"Influencers," or worse, influencers posing as "professionals" have this really nasty habit of speaking in the most generic, generalized, vague terms possible… because they want to cast a wide net with their "reach"… and then getting pissy mad when you fill in the blanks THEY LEFT with your own personal experience.

They should follow the dictum for songwriting: the more specific and detailed, the truer it rings.

But hey, we all know they welcome the pushback - and may be DELIBERATELY obtuse - just because it boosts their "numbers" or what the fuck ever.

But goddamn. This is Communication 101 - coming from someone who's autistic! If you REALLY want to CONNECT with people, making massively accusatory statements WITHOUT CLARIFYING DETAILS is a GREAT way to be MISUNDERSTOOD.

But they don't care. It's engagement farming. And I fall for it and get duly yelled at for "projecting" every damn time. WELL WHAT ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH A BLANK SCREEN OTHER THAN PROJECT. HUH? FUCK YOU.

#influencers #influencer-culture #meta #facebook #instagram #threads #social-disease #influencer-brain #illiteracy

kctipton Apr 21

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-maga-girls/ "Emily Hart is one of a slew of AI-generated hot girl MAGA influencers inundating social media, thanks to technologically savvy young men like Sam capitalizing both on pro-Trump sentiment and Americans’ relative lack of digital literacy." #grift #digitalliteracy #illiteracy #gullibility #men #parody

This Scammer Used an AI-Generated MAGA Girl to Grift ‘Super Dumb’ Men

A med student says he’s made thousands of dollars selling photos and videos of a young conservative woman he created using generative tools. He’s not alone.

WIRED

Sameer Kankali Ⓥ☮🌈✌🏼🌱💚🍉🐸🐮🐷📚📖♟️✊🏼Apr 20

#BookSky #Fahrenheit451 #BookBurning #Books #Literacy #Reading #Read #Technology #Tech #Illiteracy #Think 📚📖

Kevin Stevens Apr 19

Dis u, 'liddle' Marco?
https://youtube.com/shorts/WRhZuacVLlM?si=1FftAFhNMio1gEdE
@PissedMagistus #pissedmagistus #usdefensebudget #wealthinequality #warmachine #968billion #38trillionusdebt #usdebt #medicaldebt #studentdebt #personaldebt #illiteracy #youthunemployment #homelessness #globalrepercussions

Look who's talking!

YouTube

Nömenlōony Apr 1

Mick Egan.

Massive racist. Reform fan. Hates Keir Starmer.

Barely literate 🤣

There's a type.

#racist #illiteracy #reformvoter #ReformUK #reformltd #reformarefascists

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GonoMobil Mar 25

@ilumium A reasonable #BuyEuropean mandate makes absolute sense. The FCC-example (for it‘s BuyAmerican counterpart) is NOT reasonable, it‘s what you get when you marry incompetence with ideology and corruption and label it as Divine Will.

Just keep rightwing tech-illiterates out of the equation, and things could truly thrive.

#corruption #MAGAFailure #incompetence #illiteracy #TechIlliteracy

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Albert Cardona Mar 25

@mvugt

"About 11 percent of young citizens of the U.S. couldn't even locate the U.S. on a map. The Pacific Ocean's location was a mystery to 29 percent; Japan, to 58 percent; France, to 65 percent; and the United Kingdom, to 69 percent."

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/geography-survey-illiteracy

#illiteracy #geography

Survey Reveals Geographic Illiteracy

The National Geographic-Roper 2002 Global Geographic Literacy Survey polled more than 3,000 18- to 24-year-olds in Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Sweden and the United States.

Science