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Keri
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Well it looks like Governor Laura Kelly signed an order to ban TikTok from state-owned devices. I get that it is a security concern but I don’t know that I believe it’s any worse than other sites that track data they shouldn’t. 🙃
Dr. Casey FieslerWhen it comes to artists and training data, I think there are reasonable arguments for and against fair use, but the conversations happening are not really about law, they're about ethics. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/artstation-artists-stage-mass-protest-against-ai-generated-artwork/
Really hate how much of my near future nanowrimo book is coming true. 🙃🙃🙃
Tom MorrisJust tried ChatGPT. I asked it a series of specific Qs about areas I've studied in detail.
On all Qs, it gave answers that are plausible sounding but wrong. Not obviously wrong: wrong in subtle ways that need deep domain knowledge to grasp.
The ways humans will be practically misled by this kind of tech if trusted with, say, doling out medical, legal or business advice is horrific.
Letting this tech loose on the world will further destroy search engines that are already riddled with SEO BS.
Judd LegumIf you are concerned about "free speech," you should probably be concerned about the top Republican candidate for the presidency calling for the Constitution, which includes the First Amendment, to be suspended.
Members of Congress take an oath to "defend the Constitution."
Trump just called for the Constitution to be "terminated."
How can a member of Congress support Trump without violating their oath?
Ian.BurnetteIf you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were eager to join in.
Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual info in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.
I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546
Post-viral Edit: Don't forget to give the author some love on medium. They did the work!
Warren G. Harding 
If you think it’s horrible one billionaire bought up the public square and killed it, wait until you find out why your city doesn’t have a trolley system
TamDid you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.