#JennaOrtega #ChristinaRicci #ScreamVI #TheGathering
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Just watched Jodie Foster in Hotel Artemis. She deserves a better script. I have no idea why she chose to do this.
Usually I try to find something positive to say, but I get no further than she's indeed in it.
#JodieFoster
Poll for people who can see images well enough as to not need alt text.
Edit: (If you voted yes, check reply for followup poll)
Do you read alt text on fedi posts?
- Yes and I enjoy it (79%, 163 votes)
- Yes, automatically but I don't get any value (3%, 7 votes)
- No (15%, 31 votes)
- Spiderman (2%, 5 votes)
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Why would the US military send email to .mil (US military) addresses while they can send it to .ml (Mali) instead. Much shorter.
BBC News - Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
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Typo sends millions of US military emails to Russian ally Mali
Some of the emails reportedly contain sensitive information such as passwords and medical records.By Bernd Debusmann Jr (BBC News)
It is being treated as hazardous
and
kids were digging sand castles around it
(From BBC News - Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach
bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia…)
Australian kids may have a different idea of hazardous.
Australia baffled as unidentified mystery object washes up on beach
The item is under police guard as state and federal authorities work to identify its origin.By Antoinette Radford (BBC News)
Aaaa I'm 5 followers away from 600! Thank you all so much for enjoying and supporting what I do 😭🩵
Hello to anyone new!! I'm Vitani and I'm a bodypaint artist! 🎨💜
#bodypaint #bodypainting #art #artist #cosplay #makeup #mastoart #harleyquinn #popart #zombie #frankenweenie #witch
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Astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born #OTD in 1943. As a grad student at Cambridge in 1967, she discovered an entirely new type of celestial object: Pulsars!
Photo: National Science & Media Museum / Science & Society Picture Library
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Wonderful thread: informative, exciting, infuriating, and ultimately so encouraging. The Nobel prize committee blew it big time in this case, others did better, progress is painful, a great scientist succeeded. Thanks for writing this account, it tells us so much.
Thinking again of Jane Grey, a royal of Tudor times, and how the world was robbed of her brilliance when she was beheaded on orders of Queen Mary, when Jane was only seventeen. Most people focus on the history around her short time wearing the crown of England (the first woman, or girl, to do so in her own right), but to me her life before is much more fascinating.
The writings of her tutor and of philosophers in Europe, where you can feel how much in awe they were of her intellect while knowing she was a fifteen year old girl, are spine tingling. Her translating a book into ancient Greek from another ancient language and giving it to her father as his birthday present, at that same age, indicates she was indeed super smart but also a total show-off.
During her months in The Tower, Mary sent her own chaplain, the most learned Catholic in the country, to Jane every single day to try and convert her. Every day he reported back to Mary that he had not succeeded in converting Jane to Catholicism. His private writings in his journals have been preserved. In it he says that not only did he not succeed in converting her, but many days Jane almost succeeded in converting him.
She could argue like the best. And she would never give in.
(She was aware that the deal was that if she converted to Catholicism, she would be let out and not executed. It says quite something that she didn't take that deal.)
In those days science wasn't some people together doing experiments, but it was a network all over Europe of individual people, usually old gray men, at home thinking about stuff and writing their thoughts down in letters to each other. What blows my mind is that 15 year old Jane Grey was part of that network. Not by trickery, writing under her father's name, or them only replying out of politeness. No, they fully knew who she was and they accepted her as an equal. It's a shame her letters have not been preserved.
What could she have achieved had she been able to live into adulthood. I believe she would have become an important scientist whose name we'd remember. Can you imagine that an earlier scientist even than Isaac Newton would have been a woman, rather than us having to wait centuries later for Marie Curie? I think our whole perception of gender in science would be different.
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#EmiliaClarke #ThePodGeneration
The Pod Generation | Official Trailer (HD) | Vertical
Living in the not-so-distant future, a New York couple takes a wild ride to parenthood after landing a coveted spot at the Womb Center, which offers couples ...YouTube
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A #Fediverse #feditips #mastodon question as a poll: How does #markdown render in your web-UI or Masto-app?
I was astonished when I realized what rendered in my web-UI didn't render at all an app. See the images in the first comment to see what choices A and B would look like. If you see lines rendered without leading symbols or italics, the rendering engine is eating the markdown silently, which is choice C.
This is quoted text starting with a right angle bracket and a space.
This paragraph includes italics quoted by a single asterisk and bold quoted by double asterisks.
- This is a bulleted list item starting with an asterisk and a space.
This is a section header or title starting with a hashtag and a space.
Please boost for more visibility.
Hit up the comments to add further detail, especially if choice C is applicable.
Writing hashtags because having your writing render as expected is important.
#CommentingIsCool #fiction #fantasy #sf #sff #sciencefiction #writing #writer #writers #author #writingcommunity #writersOfMastodon
- A. It renders with quoted text, italics, and bullets (31%, 10 votes)
- B. It renders with a right bracket, asterisks, and a hashtag (0%, 0 votes)
- C. It renders as plain text; right bracket, asterisks, and hashtags are discarded (68%, 22 votes)
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Of course it's Aimee Carrero who has the best words, as always. Actors are on strike and of course they deserve to be paid properly for their work, even if it's on streaming, and deserve guarantees against misuse of AI, like the writers do.
instagram.com/p/CupRXuuprsa/
SAG-AFTRA
StrikeFor the first time in over 40 years, union film
and television actors are on strike.I'm reflecting on the importance of unions.
Though *never* above reproach or
improvement, unions harness the power of
the collective.Together, we can alleviate the crushing
weight of unfettered capitalism.Together, we can slow the terminal spread of
endless consumption and growth-at-all-cost.At their best, unions represent the hope that
the worker is not a pawn, that The Man is not
invincible, and that the fight for human
dignity cannot and will not be deterred.Unions are the ever-rare reminder that
power is really in the hands of the people.See you on the picket line.
@AimeeCarrero
#Clinical #IndiaEisley
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#JennaOrtega
Rewatching We Hunt Together one episode per week, now they are finally showing it on the BBC (One) after I had previously seen it on the BBC (First) and caught up with the repeat on the BBC (Entertainment).
Hermione Corfield and Eve Myles, double the reason to watch.
#WeHuntTogether
#DutchPolitics #NLPol
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Good. Then let's talk money and not lollipops.
-- Sally
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Found via "Do large language models know what they are talking about?", a good article by itself. The answer is obviously "no" (as fedizen Betteridge will tell you), but the point is why and how.
Nothing new if you've been listening to DAIR people or I suppose computational linguists in general, or linguists in general, but maybe there's some part of the argument that makes it click for someone.
I didn't know that my conclusion about the Chinese Room thought experiment was the same as that of Ray Kurtzweil!
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Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Pixelfed, PeerTube, dare I say it even Twitter, all have websites that work perfectly fine on mobile. I don't understand this obsession with 'I'm on mobile so I should select an app' or 'I want to see the website so I should use a computer'. The sites may even work better than the app. Often you can save them to your home screen too.
You may consider the feature that apps of mainstream social media provided of extra tracking and snooping to be a nice bonus, but you're not going to get that anyway in fediverse apps.
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Great to see Prof Francesca back. Reshared, not because of the tech advice request, looks like she got a lot of answers already, but this is of course a very serious and important archaeological photo.
I like the grin...
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The fair is in town!
#Fair #Fairground #FunFair #Best
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The lead role of Charlotte in Sanditon is played by Rose Williams. I may not like how the scenes are edited and filmed, but she is certainly the good thing about this series. I'll keep watching it.
Here some photos of her from Imdb.
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in reply to qwazix • • •Followup poll for those who answered "Yes and I enjoy it"
Why do you enjoy it?
- get perspective about how the poster sees the img (86%, 45 votes)
- explains things to me that I don't get visually (67%, 35 votes)
- points me to the significant part of the picture (55%, 29 votes)
- spiderman (15%, 8 votes)
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PJ Coffey
in reply to qwazix • • •You neglected "and had poor reception so you could still browse". 😉
That's when I knew my policies were coming in for me, real "cut kerb" stuff.
Petri Salmela
in reply to qwazix • • •Claudius (legacy account)
in reply to qwazix • • •it's B! Cavello 🐝
in reply to qwazix • • •Tiota Sram
in reply to qwazix • • •Leif-Jöran Olsson
in reply to qwazix • • •Enjoyment is in this dual respect of resources.
Paul-Gabriel Wiener
in reply to qwazix • • •Sometimes I check the alt text. Depending on the picture and my mood. Usually not. But sometimes I get useful information from it.
So I'd pick the fourth option in the poll. Except I can't because you spelled Spider-Man wrong. (The hyphen serves an important purpose, making the name visually distinct from Superman.)
Paul-Gabriel Wiener
in reply to Paul-Gabriel Wiener • • •To be more specific: Alt text is a good backup for me.
What am I missing? What am I supposed to be looking at? What does that tiny text say? What kind of animal is that? Where did this come from? Where was this picture taken?
Good alt text answers those questions. Usually I can see what I need, but if I'm left with questions, alt text can really help.
ArneBab
in reply to qwazix • • •Resuna
in reply to qwazix • • •dawnfry
in reply to qwazix • • •I read them because sometimes people are very witty in their alt-text, and sometimes they explain the photo very poetically.
It also helps when my eyes are dry and bifocals fail me.