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If you know someone who speaks dismissively of people working service or retail jobs, please remind them that they are bad.

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The internet is flooded with AI-generated photos and they're getting harder to spot.

Most of the time AI is used for click-farming, but lately images have been used in fake news stories and product scams.

Most important: THINK CRITICALLY. AI will eventually get too good to make obvious mistakes. Being media literate means checking not just if an image is real, but if the source is trustworthy.

If you're not sure, don't share! You might be spreading misinformation.

#webcomic #ai #critical thinking #media literacy #media analysis #soft skepticism

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1925 c. Two young women posed. From yairexhibits.org.

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A.I. photos are flooding social media and contributing to an Internet where we can't believe what we see. Spotting A.I. 📷s is an important media literacy skill.

None of us have time to research every image we see. We just need people to notice BEFORE THEY LIKE OR SHARE that an image might be fake. If unsure, check it or don't share.

I've started drawing some comics explaining the basic of AI spot-checking and media literacy in the age of disinformation. Follow along here or on my Twitter.

#webcomic #ai #media literacy #critical thinking #media analysis #soft skepticism

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#vaccines #vaccinate #covid #children's health #public health

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Zoozve, my beloved

#the solar system is a dance club #2002VE #quasi moons

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Text: "I remember the moment my thinking flipped "a lion pride is a harem of females controlled by and serving a king male" to "it's a family of female friends who keep and feed one lazy arsed sleeps-all-day sperm donor around for babytimes".

"It's oversimplified, but it's no less accurate and very funny."

#animal relationships #lions

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Broke:

Belle has Stockholm syndrome because she falls in love with the Beast, her kidnapper.

Woke:

Stockholm syndrome was coined to slander a woman who had been in a hostage situation but openly criticized the poor police response which recklessly put her in more danger and escalated the violence. She was then belittled and discredited publically by the police for this.

So. Yeah. Maybe Belle does have Stockholm syndrome actually.

#stockholm syndrome #beauty and the beast #language matters

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Today I learned that what is mauve to me is actually not what mauve really was...

FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.

It was an eye-popping magenta purple

HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...

...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.

(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).

They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.

Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.

#fashion history #the color mauve #aniline dyes

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Absolutely amazing 🏳️‍🌈🫶🌈

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#the simpsons #gif #polls #this was a difficult vote

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My dear lgbt+ kids, 

I love orange juice. 

I really do. I loved it as a kid and still do. It’s probably one of my favorite beverages ever. And yet, I don’t know if I will love it forever. One day, you may hear me say “Eww, orange juice is gross, bring me some carrot juice instead.”… even though I hate carrot juice now. Who knows! It’s a possibility - people change. 

Does that mean I shouldn’t buy orange juice today, just because there’s the possibility that I may feel differently in the future? Would it make me a liar or a bad person to drink it now if I change my mind later? 

Of course not. That’d be very silly! Why would I deprive myself of something that makes me happy now, just because of the “What if”? 

Obviously my juice preferences are not directly compareable to identities or feelings but this core idea goes for that as well:  A possible future doesn’t invalidate the current reality. “You shouldn’t identify as X now because you may change your mind later” makes as little sense as “Don’t drink juice now, you may stop liking it later”. 

With all my love, 

Your Tumblr Dad 

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If we’ve learned anything from history, it’s that sending in the police to arrest student protesters always turns out for the best.

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#los angeles #night drive #dtla

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With this dangerous resolution, Congress is trying to redefine the word “antisemitic” to mean “antizionist,” and this resolution could easily be configured to find its way into social media sites, workplaces, onto college campuses and to media outlets, to censor pro-Palestinian speech, much like the unconstitutional anti-BDS legislation that already exists in many states.

Antizionism ≠ antisemitism

👉🏿 https://clerk.house.gov/evs/2024/roll134.xml

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#capitalism