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Cynni's Blog

Thursday Book Quote

https://flic.kr/p/2r6rvaj Alt text beneath the read more bit... Yes! I'm me! I am careful and logical and I look up things I don't understand! When I hear people use the wrong words, I get edgy! I am good with cheese. I read books fast! I think! And I always have a piece of string! That's the kind of person I am!~Terry Pratchett, The Wee Free Men (Discworld, #30; Tiffany Aching, #1) […]

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Edited AI image of a stack of fanasy novels, with the test "Quote" in it.
#addtext#AltText#bing
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staringatclouds

@VeroniqueB99 #AltText

On 21 March 1933 Adolf Hitler was officially sworn in as chancellor of Germany. The same day he pardoned 8K Nazis, who had committed violent acts, starting with the failed Hitler coup on 8 November 1923.
-John Sipher

Picture is of an older Adolph Hitler in bronze or orange hues, looks a lot like Trump too

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Ambivalena
1.Pink Morning

2. Roe deer (female).

Well, at least this morning took the focus from my pain for a while. A really beautiful one, with mist, sunrise, deers, hares, and some wild boars in sight. It was only +3°C around 3:00 in the morning, local time (UTC +2).

Read #AltText for description of the images.
A landscape over a field a very early morning, before sunrise. A dark silhouette of the forest at the horizon with mist over a small lake. Some trees in the distance a bit to the left in front of the mist and some a bit more narrow at the left side. Closer some trees to the right and above a pink sky with some really thin lines of pale blue clouds and at the top the pink sky change to very pale blue.
A Roe deer standing on a field with grass and dandelions that has turned into stalks without any flowers or seeds left. She is seen from her left side, but looking straight in to the camera as I was whishing her a good morning.
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Raeyn

*flops* I am mainly done with my must-dos for the day. Work is done bar a few invoices that just filtered out, and I got an Etsy order to the postbox. So yes, two orders this month -- it's a start. Like, between Etsy and my self-hosted, I've had 12 sales this year. I figured I'd mention that just to make clear how little love I get, ha ha. No pressure on anyone reading this, but like. There you go.

(and why I should get over my reticence and big myself up more, but *ANYWAYS* that is a Whole Entire Mood ><)

Today's to-do list involves remaking the bracelet I shipped out today, and making disability pride stuff. I genuinely don't know why my brain didn't immediately go MAKE THIS NOW, but yeah. Keep an eye out for that. I've got in mind the dice pair (bracelet/necklace), and if I can render it to my satisfaction, cross-stitch stuff too. I'm unsure I can do it to the accuracy I like since the colours are intentionally undersaturated, but we'll see. We'll see.

Right. Onward, etc.

<3

A photo of me walking back from the postbox. I'm a white person with long brown hair, glasses, and a lip ring. I'm squinting a bit because natural light burns (even though it's very overcast). I'm wearing a gray tank top, and you can see a house across the road behind me.
#deardiary#dailylog#prideflags
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Cynni's Blog

Learning from a poll

A while ago, I was berated by someone on Mastodon, that I didn't take vision impaired people seriously, as I used altbot/AI to help me with my alt texts... A friend told me that this was very "ableist", and I had heard people use that term, but I was unfamiliar with it until I looked it up. Another friend, who is deaf and blind, told me that she encountered this behavior a lot by other blind people she met with. But it made me wonder a bit more about alt texts. Then, I mentioned being sad that some people share wonderful images but then don't include alt texts. And I don't boost toots without alts, as I know several of my "pocket friends" rely on screen readers and I don't want them to feel left out. But then I got curious, and I wondered if it was really only vision impaired people that used the alt texts. And that's when my phone exploded! 😂 […]

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A poll about alt text usage with #AltText in the top left. The poll results are: 87% enjoy alt text and are sighted, 2% enjoy alt text and are vision impaired, 11% don’t look at alt text and are sighted, and 0% don’t check alt text and are vision impaired. The text 'Learning from a poll…' is central, with 'Tap here to refresh poll' at the bottom. 701 voters participated, and the poll ends in 1 day.
#ableism#accessibility#AltText
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Rachel Thorn 🍉🇺🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Google’s brilliant chatbot can’t make up its so-called mind. The first image was posted by someone else* earlier. The subsequent images are the AI summary that appeared on my screen (without me requesting it) when I input the same text into Google’s search bar. It’s hilarious that its two conclusions are diametrically opposed to each other, yet both are wildly illogical.

* I didn’t boost that person’s post, because the image didn’t include #AltText, and, ironically, the user instead agreed to let an AltText bot use an LLM to generate garbage AltText.

A screenshot of Google’s search interface. Google the pool of the Titanic is still full • Al Overview No, the swimming pool on the Titanic is not full of water. The pool is empty due to the ship's sinking and the immense pressure at the depth where the Titanic lies. The pressure would crush any voids within the ship, and the base of the pool cracked as the ship sank, letting out the water. Here's a more detailed explanation: Pressure and Depth: The Titanic lies at a depth of 12,500 feet (3,800 meters). At this depth, the water pressure is immense, exerting thousands of pounds per square inch. This pressure would crush any enclosed spaces, including the swimming pool. Sinking and Damage: The Titanic began to sink, the base of the pool cracked, and all the water escaped. No Time to Refill: The crew was focused on evacuating passengers and didn't have time to refill the pool before the ship sank. Deterioration: The ship has also deteriorated over time, further contributing to the loss of any remaining water in the pool.
Another screenshot of Google’s search interface with the same text, input by myself this time. The results are completely different, yet equally surreal. Google the pool of the titan is still full AI overview The first-class swimming pool on the Titanic is generally believed to be filled with water at the bottom of the ocean. While the exact state of the pool is unknown, the ship's structure would likely have prevented it from being emptied during the sinking. Some claim the pool would have imploded if there was an air pocket during the descent, and it's more likely that no one was trapped in the pool. Additionally, there were strict facility hours, and the pool was not designed to be a permanent fixture, but rather a place for recreation. (AltText continued on subsequent images.)
Here's why the pool is likely still filled: Watertight Compartments: The Titanic's design included watertight compartments to prevent water from flooding the entire ship. While the pool wasn't a primary watertight compartment, its structure and location would have made it difficult for water to drain out. Implosion Risk: If there had been any air remaining in the pool, the pressure would have eventually led to implosion, making it less likely to have been emptied of all water. No Evidence of Draining: Despite various explorations and studies of the wreck, there's no conclusive evidence that the pool was ever drained.
Pool Hours: The pool had strict hours of operation, indicating it wasn't meant to be a constant feature and might have been drained regularly during non-operational times, however, this is not known for certain.
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Tim

@kevinrothrock Podvig recalled Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk region last year - another bold operation that surprised the world. "It certainly influenced the trajectory of subsequent developments to some degree," he said, "but in the end, if you ask whether that operation led to any
strategic result, I think the answer would probably be no." #ALT4you #alttext

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