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What's alt text? Why is it important on Bluesky? How do I write it? Where am I? What's going on?
Alt text 101 for Bluesky | Digital Philosophy by Manning Krull
Hi! You may be here because I or someone else sent you this link in response to a conversation about alt text on Bluesky. Welcome! This is a short article about alt text, its importance, and how to wr...
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If I've liked your hilarious meme or beautiful picture but not reposted it, it might be because you didn't include alt text
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If you aren’t actively pro trans then you are not against the far right. them’s the rules
“Together Against The Far Right” is following a variety of groups - but they’ve not actively engaged with ANY LGBT or trans, orgs 🤔
Maybe it’s because their Interim Chair, Kevin Courtney, has a history of aligning himself with anti-trans hate groups??
Maybe it’s because their Interim Chair, Kevin Courtney, has a history of aligning himself with anti-trans hate groups??
December 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If you aren’t actively pro trans then you are not against the far right. them’s the rules
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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There is a Lords amendment that requires all phones to have unremovable spyware pre-installed, supposedly to combat CSAM. It is unsurprising that one of its sponsors is the weirdo Hilary Cass.
December 15, 2025 at 1:05 PM
There is a Lords amendment that requires all phones to have unremovable spyware pre-installed, supposedly to combat CSAM. It is unsurprising that one of its sponsors is the weirdo Hilary Cass.
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Copywriters working across the field shared accounts of clients abandoning them or their agencies for cheaper AI output en masse. They've seen freelance work and rates plummet. Many were made to write the copy to train their own AI replacements. Whole businesses have closed their doors.
December 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Copywriters working across the field shared accounts of clients abandoning them or their agencies for cheaper AI output en masse. They've seen freelance work and rates plummet. Many were made to write the copy to train their own AI replacements. Whole businesses have closed their doors.
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As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.
December 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
As was true with the translators I heard from in an earlier edition, copywriters never felt that they were being replaced because the AI's work was better. It was almost always worse. It was simply cheaper and faster, and deemed "good enough" by clients.
Most authors' and artists' real preferred option ("fuck you, pay me for the shit you already stole and you're not getting your hands on anything else of mine, I hope your company dies") wasn't an option on the consultation, so 95% of people went for option 1 as the closest match
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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December 15, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Most authors' and artists' real preferred option ("fuck you, pay me for the shit you already stole and you're not getting your hands on anything else of mine, I hope your company dies") wasn't an option on the consultation, so 95% of people went for option 1 as the closest match
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Remember how biased and leading the questions were in favour of the AI companies? And this was still the response.
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
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- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Remember how biased and leading the questions were in favour of the AI companies? And this was still the response.
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Considering how massively (and shamelessly) the government pushed respondents towards option 3 (the copyright exception with opt-outs), this would be a huge embarrassment to them, if anyone in this government were capable of embarrassment. A rational government would now rethink. This one won't.
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Considering how massively (and shamelessly) the government pushed respondents towards option 3 (the copyright exception with opt-outs), this would be a huge embarrassment to them, if anyone in this government were capable of embarrassment. A rational government would now rethink. This one won't.
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🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
December 15, 2025 at 11:22 AM
🚨 The UK government just published a breakdown of the responses to its consultation on AI & copyright:
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
- 95% of respondents want AI companies to pay for their training data (made up of 88% saying strengthen copyright law, & 7% saying leave it as is)
🧵 1/2
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Stop equating muslims with terrorism. Stop equating Jews with the crimes of Israel. Stop equating trans people or black people or travellers or gay people with goodness knows what fucking else. Just fucking stop. Just fucking stop.
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Stop equating muslims with terrorism. Stop equating Jews with the crimes of Israel. Stop equating trans people or black people or travellers or gay people with goodness knows what fucking else. Just fucking stop. Just fucking stop.
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The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
Trans scholars being ‘pushed out of academia’, researchers warn
Universities ‘afraid to be trans inclusive’ after Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine, leaving staff fearing ‘hostile environment’
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December 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
The exclusion of trans people from public and academic spaces, removal of protections by human rights institutions, dehumanising language used by state news media, judicial tolerance of trans directed hate crime, withdrawal of medical care: all of this is very familiar to genocide scholars.
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everything is so fucked and I still have to do the laundry
December 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
everything is so fucked and I still have to do the laundry
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Good luck, Chile. I hope the horrors of history will not repeat themselves.
December 15, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Good luck, Chile. I hope the horrors of history will not repeat themselves.
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Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.
December 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.
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It was a policy pushed in via the backdoor, so to speak, using overarching powers of the Home Secretary, without proper consideration, or scrutiny. It goes against the very basis of refugee protection. It leaves people in more precarious positions, and it denies them rights. Pure cruelty by Labour.
December 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It was a policy pushed in via the backdoor, so to speak, using overarching powers of the Home Secretary, without proper consideration, or scrutiny. It goes against the very basis of refugee protection. It leaves people in more precarious positions, and it denies them rights. Pure cruelty by Labour.
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Labour's policy of denying citizenship to refugees based on manner of entry is arguably in breach of both Articles 31 and 34 of the Refugee Convention, fundamentally underming the very principle of international refugee protection.
It needs scrapping entirely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It needs scrapping entirely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Woman who fled rape and torture in DRC wins UK citizenship case after Home Office U-turn
Victory thought to be first under new policy that normally refuses applicants such as refugees who entered illegally
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Labour's policy of denying citizenship to refugees based on manner of entry is arguably in breach of both Articles 31 and 34 of the Refugee Convention, fundamentally underming the very principle of international refugee protection.
It needs scrapping entirely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
It needs scrapping entirely.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 14, 2025 at 10:07 PM
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
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🖼️ Angel Cabrera, 1922.
December 15, 2025 at 7:10 AM
🖼️ Angel Cabrera, 1922.
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The Spider-Man meme, only it's a bunch of dapper gentlemen pointing cameras at each other while defying death up a partially-built skyscraper
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Spider-Man meme, only it's a bunch of dapper gentlemen pointing cameras at each other while defying death up a partially-built skyscraper
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Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
December 14, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Take a journey through time down a new NSF COLDEX ice core borehole just completed by the team in #Antarctica!
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
If you’re at #AGU25 stop by the COLDEX booth in the Exhibit Hall to talk to COLDEX team members from across the 15-institution center funded by NSF! @agu.org Follow us on IG @ coldex_stc
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there is no amount of llm that will be more useful to me than being able to buy an ssd
Samsung halting SATA SSD production says leaker, warns of 18 months of SSD price pressure
Samsung halting SATA SSD production says leaker, warns of 18 months of SSD price pressure
Samsung plans to stop making SATA SSDs in 2026, likely causing tighter supply and higher prices for SSDs over the next 18 months. ⚠️💾
www.tweaktown.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:16 AM
there is no amount of llm that will be more useful to me than being able to buy an ssd
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With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich.
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
December 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM
With this piece of bread on the ground in Ottawa, Canada and the one below in Perth, Australia, @drstip.bsky.social and I have successfully created an Earth sandwich.
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
The hot dog vs sandwich debate is concluded.
If the Earth is sandwiched, everything is a sandwich.
HAPPY EARTH SANDWICH DAY!
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In dark times it felt positive joining one of today's Trans Solidarity Rides in #Edinburgh - big shout to the organisers @infrasisters.bsky.social + Queens of Pain + Edinburgh School of Rocks for making the magic happen 👏🏳️⚧️🚲🏳️⚧️👏 Photo album >
December 14, 2025 at 10:03 PM
In dark times it felt positive joining one of today's Trans Solidarity Rides in #Edinburgh - big shout to the organisers @infrasisters.bsky.social + Queens of Pain + Edinburgh School of Rocks for making the magic happen 👏🏳️⚧️🚲🏳️⚧️👏 Photo album >
AI didn't create the post truth society, but it's definitely making it much, much worse
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 15, 2025 at 12:53 PM
AI didn't create the post truth society, but it's definitely making it much, much worse