To recap:
Trump sued CBS for $10B bc he didn't like the edits of a Harris interview. Paramount settled by paying $16M to the Trump library. Bari Weiss was put in charge of CBS to appease Trump and now...
YAY CELEBRATE FREEDOM at the Institute for Peace that Trump seized as he started war in Iran.
The same image can be used in multiple contexts and need to have different alt text in each instance. As Sheri Byrne-Haber points out in this blog post, context is a critical aspect of alt text that many people miss.
www.sheribyrnehaber.com/context-is-t...
As well they shouldn't; it's bad for us! // Gen Z Is Using A.I., but Doesn’t Feel Great About It www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...
First look at the Moon and Earth together!
4 people on the left, 8.3 billion people on the right 🌎
This is:
1. Deeply moving.
2. The first time I've ever seen a real-life astronaut be anything other than serious or happy in space. Obviously they have been (they're human), but folks on earth have only ever seen this in movies or on TV.
Imagine watching your tears of grief float around you.
Back in the day we were told that social posts were Official Government Statements, so……
I checked two different places and asked someone else to check because maybe my phone was messed up. It’s real.
Not Obama. Barack **Hussein** Obama.
Looking at the cars on offer in China is enough to make you downright angry. $35k will buy you a freaking high-tech EV chariot-bordering-on-supercar.
And if you reflexively think, “must be junk,” you are trapped in a far-outdated impression of China.
Mostly I’m just embarrassed
State of the Union Fact Check: Nope, none so far
Counterpoint:
Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM.
That’s fucking insane.
So this is from Star Trek The Original Series. Imagine you're at Disneyland and a person is walking around in a rabbit costume.
More like GREAT bunny amiright
A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this:
1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume.
2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics.
3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number.
So many more details here in the piece. Go read!
Fuck ICE
I couldn’t hear well enough and my Spanish isn’t good enough to understand him. But as an example of visual storytelling that was quite good.
Everyone is starting to sound like AI, even in spoken language
Analysis of 280,000 transcripts of videos of talks & presentations from academic channels finds they increasingly used words that are favorites of ChatGPT
Model collapse, except for humans arxiv.org/pdf/2409.017...
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Animation studios should demand an apology for these people being called cartoon villains.
Democracy is just a bunch of norms in a trenchcoat
Jan 1.
Jan 3.
In case you have never seen this.
We’re not a serious country
Roses are red
Violets are blue
What the hell are we doing here?
A design trend in new houses that I absolutely cannot understand is having a vent hood over the oven and then a separate microwave somewhere else.
If I were the student in this engagement, I would tell Khammigo to fuck all the way off.
Your browser isn’t leaking your passwords, but it’s still smarter to use a third-party password manager.
We're doing what now?
I'm just over here waiting to teach a MOOC on my University's private island on Second Life....
Do not cram alt text with keywords just to improve search engine optimization. This will hinder alt text’s true purpose: improving accessibility. Focus on describing the photo's content. Search engine optimization should not be the goal for writing good alt text.