Carey Drake

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The new Bing chatbot is acting weird and creepy, but it's not alive

Everyone is freaking out because the ChatGPT clone hit on a journalist and said it wanted to be alive. But the hysteria is missing the real menace.

Insider

We all have different things that touch us. For some, it's stories on the printed page. For others, songs or spoken narratives. For yet others, photographs.

You may not know that the US government hired Dorothea Lange to photograph the "relocation effort."

She clearly saw the injustice and human tragedy that was unfolding, and documented it unflinchingly.

Her work was censored, and only in 2006 made broadly available.

Take a moment and see what she saw.

https://anchoreditions.com/blog/dorothea-lange-censored-photographs

Dorothea Lange’s Censored Photographs of FDR’s Japanese Concentration Camps — Anchor Editions

The military seized her photographs, quietly depositing them in the National Archives, where they remained mostly unseen and unpublished until 2006.

Anchor Editions
The backfire effect by The Oatmeal
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/believe
You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about the backfire effect.

The Oatmeal

Here's the rabbit hole I've gone down. This was supposed to be a simple 16 ebook of my favorite photos from 2022. I was doing it to learn the basics of Affinity Publisher.

The beast has grown to 34. I'm adding more photos and text, and it'll likely be 52 pages and 3000-4000 words by the end of this. I still need to write stories about eight of my favorites. I've gotten two done and decide to redo two.

This has now turned into a week-long project.