On this day in 2008, Barack Obama was voted the first Black president in American history.

#OnThisDay #History #America #UnitedStates #President #POTUS #BarackObama #BlackHistory #BlackCulture

If you need ChatGPT to be happy, then your happiness is too dearly bought. If you don't need it to be happy but still use it, then your convenience is certainly not worth that cost to the world.

This thing uses obscene amounts of energy and water, at a moment when we can't afford to spend more energy on anything, but should be cutting our energy consumption drastically. And it's only the gateway to more and more of such services.

#FrugalComputing #ClimateEmergency

Alt text & image description is worth doing simply because it makes your communication accessible to blind/low vision folks using screenreaders. However, the act of trying to describe images you've created for your journal article, poster or presentation is also another level of proofreading - you may find as you describe your or someone else's figure that they left out labels, legends, or any mention of the symbolic meanings of the colors chosen.

#DisabledAndSTEM #SciComm

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Lean into
reflection;

the projection
of shadows

reveals us
in new light

#SmallPoems for #MastoPrompt