Editor, writer, generalist, logophile, paronomasiac, ludophile. Bi, poly. Pronouns: he/him. Mastodon: @elysdir@mastodon.social. I don’t speak for my employer.
Mountain View, CA
Joined November 2008
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A note to new followers: Welcome! But in case you were expecting stuff about editing, I should clarify that my tweets consist mostly of links and retweets, mostly about political issues or science fiction.
Jed retweeted
Hi @Adobe just curious, what is this page full of hideous AI imagery "in the style of Abigail Larson" that's obviously not my work doing on your site?
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Crazy times! It looks like people are already selling AI-produced children's nonfiction books. We'd ordered two titles from "Bold Kids" publishers around the same time. I ordered "Rabbits: Children's Animal Fact Book" wanting books about pets that weren't cats or dogs 1/x
“Make your own simple, public, searchable Twitter archive”
First you ask Twitter for an archive of all your tweets; then you run this tool to create a set of files that you can put on your own website.
tinysubversions.com/twitter-…
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Here’s my archive (of about 18,000 tweets), created using that tool:
kith.org/mytwitterbackup/
It’s nicely searchable and browsable.
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Jed retweeted
barbie’s wheelchair vs my actual wheelchair: a critical comparison
aka the best twitter thread i will ever post
strap in
#Barbie
ALT a barbie doll with light skin and blonde hair sitting in her barbie wheelchair which is a pink manual wheelchair.
ALT katie, a white woman with blondish hair, sitting in her pink manual wheelchair in the exact same pose as the barbie in the previous photo.
I’m giving up on posting on Twitter, at least for now. (Might change my mind later; we’ll see.)
You can find my posts on Mastodon at @[email protected], or on Facebook, or on my blog: (kith.org/jed/lorem-ipsum), which has an RSS feed.
“It is often necessary to reverse engineer images of data visualizations to extract the underlying numerical data. WebPlotDigitizer is a semi-automated tool that makes this process extremely easy”
automeris.io/WebPlotDigitize…
The Job Accommodation Network provides a list of several dozen disabilities, limitations, and accommodations. “This information is designed to help employers and individuals determine effective accommodations and comply with [the ADA].”
askjan.org/a-to-z.cfm
More about deepfakes. The ability to create realistic-looking fake images of real people keeps getting easier, faster, and cheaper. At this point, you can do it for free, given about five images of the real person in question.
(Article from late 2022.)
arstechnica.com/information-…
This article starts by focusing on the conflict between rooftop solar and desert-based solar, in Nevada. But it goes on to explore some difficult tradeoffs between building solar and wind farms on public land, and protecting endangered plants and animals.
latimes.com/environment/stor…
Free sewing patterns for various stuffed animals, including a bunch of Pokemon.
cholyknight.com/free-project…
“Civil Liberties Groups Demand California Police Stop Sharing Drivers’ Location Data With Police In Anti-Abortion States”
(Press release from May.)
eff.org/press/releases/civil…
Today I learned that the Emancipation Proclamation (which Lincoln made in 1863), didn’t free *all* of the “persons held as slaves”; only the ones in the Confederate states.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanci…
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The complete end of legally recognized slavery in the US didn’t come until 6+ months after the end of the Civil War, with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirte…
(Though even that still included the phrase “except as a punishment for crime.”)
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Here’s the National Archives page about the Proclamation, with images of the handwritten text:
archives.gov/exhibits/featur…
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