Oh what a wonderful exchange in UK parliament select committee btw a Tory and Braverman, Lawson pointing out what some call catch22 but I think is much worse, it’s Kafka, it’s The Trial, because the dreadful Newspeak describes humans as legal, illegal, not following the rules, without making clear what the rules are. #humansarentillegal
Captain Cat
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Love visual arts, special fondness of illustrations, esp fairy tale ones. Not an artist but I love making things. Compulsive doodler.
Paul Dunphy Esquire 🏳️🌈Just a baby elephant on a beach for the very first time, adding some loveliness to your timeliness today. 😊 #elephantlove #weekendmood #boost #tooting
Armbands in football debate on media show bbc r4 @bbcnews. Interesting and not easy to solve. But no one is mentioning poppies. Everyone wears poppies in November in the UK and I agree with it (though I don’t wear one or if I would I’d wear a white one), but poppies are not entirely apolitical. They express a social and political idea. So do medals. #semiotics #semantics.. .
Gregory J. RosmaitaAs a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.
It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.
There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.
David J White@Ted Disagree. T/witter has its uses but overall is a distraction. We’ve been ranting for years on there and what has it done? They’re getting free intelligence and feedback from our open dissent and discussions. Meanwhile, they plot and scheme behind closed doors. A lot of what they say and do is designed to rile up ‘the left’ and use it against us. It’s an un-level playing field that 🦣 can help rebalance. Without T/witter, one could argue that we’d already have been in the streets by now.
I don’t know why but sketching houses makes me feel so peaceful and has done for years. #doodles #creativetoots #mastoart #mastodonart
Michael Carty
Donncha Ó CaoimhUPDATE: no need for further boosting. Thank you everyone!
My boss, Matt Mullenweg, the boss of Automattic, owner of Tumblr, is looking for ex-Twitter employees for Tumblr, saying,
"we're putting on a fast track to see how they can help super-charge Tumblr. We can't absorb thousands of people, but I'd be open to hiring entire teams if they already work great together."
https://twitter.com/photomatt/status/1593726621340426241
Our "work with us" page: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/