codeman38
@codeman38.zone38.net
A programmer named Cody. Originally from Georgia, now calling Massachusetts home. Natural language processing dev, video game font/music nerd, 1997 Nat'l Spelling Bee alum. Autistic, asexual, nonbinary (they or he).
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codeman38
@codeman38.zone38.net
· Feb 15
OK, maybe I should spell it out.
Progressives, the following thread conveys what your posts sound like to blind people using screen readers or Braille terminals when you don't use #AltText.
Every one of these is *verbatim* from an actual post I've found.
#WhatYourPostsSayWithoutAltText
Progressives, the following thread conveys what your posts sound like to blind people using screen readers or Braille terminals when you don't use #AltText.
Every one of these is *verbatim* from an actual post I've found.
#WhatYourPostsSayWithoutAltText
Something I will never understand is why so many people using AI generators for text and images don't even review or proofread the output before sending it out into the world.
Like, I expect this kind of trash from faceless slop accounts. But from writers publishing under their real names?!
Like, I expect this kind of trash from faceless slop accounts. But from writers publishing under their real names?!
October 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Something I will never understand is why so many people using AI generators for text and images don't even review or proofread the output before sending it out into the world.
Like, I expect this kind of trash from faceless slop accounts. But from writers publishing under their real names?!
Like, I expect this kind of trash from faceless slop accounts. But from writers publishing under their real names?!
Reposted by codeman38
A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
October 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!
Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:
It's interesting to me that several of these quotes mention using AI tools provided by Westlaw or LexisNexis, under the assumption that big names in legal research wouldn't have put out a product this flawed.
(An honestly reasonable assumption! But clearly not a correct one…)
(An honestly reasonable assumption! But clearly not a correct one…)
FASCINATING dispatch from @404media.co, who managed to track down some lawyers who got dinged for using AI to ask them why they did it.
18 Lawyers Caught Using AI Explain Why They Did It
Lawyers blame IT, family emergencies, their own poor judgment, their assistants, illness, and more.
www.404media.co
September 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
It's interesting to me that several of these quotes mention using AI tools provided by Westlaw or LexisNexis, under the assumption that big names in legal research wouldn't have put out a product this flawed.
(An honestly reasonable assumption! But clearly not a correct one…)
(An honestly reasonable assumption! But clearly not a correct one…)
Tech bros: "AI will replace human translators any day now!"
The AI:
The AI:
September 10, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Tech bros: "AI will replace human translators any day now!"
The AI:
The AI:
Every time people are like "but I need genAI to make my comics!!", I think about how at least three iconic webcomics from the early '00s (Get Your War On, Wondermark, Dinosaur Comics) were illustrated using clip art.
August 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Every time people are like "but I need genAI to make my comics!!", I think about how at least three iconic webcomics from the early '00s (Get Your War On, Wondermark, Dinosaur Comics) were illustrated using clip art.
I know I keep saying this, but it really does bear repeating:
How, in the year 2025, are organizations and politicians *still* posting Extremely Important Statements on social media as images of text that's unreadably tiny on a phone, with no alt text and no link to a more readable version?
How, in the year 2025, are organizations and politicians *still* posting Extremely Important Statements on social media as images of text that's unreadably tiny on a phone, with no alt text and no link to a more readable version?
July 30, 2025 at 10:00 PM
I know I keep saying this, but it really does bear repeating:
How, in the year 2025, are organizations and politicians *still* posting Extremely Important Statements on social media as images of text that's unreadably tiny on a phone, with no alt text and no link to a more readable version?
How, in the year 2025, are organizations and politicians *still* posting Extremely Important Statements on social media as images of text that's unreadably tiny on a phone, with no alt text and no link to a more readable version?
What gets me about the linked article is how it repeatedly asserts that people are only avoiding GenAI at work because they haven't tried using it.
A big part of why I'm so skeptical about GenAI for work is *because* I've toyed around with it on my own time!
A big part of why I'm so skeptical about GenAI for work is *because* I've toyed around with it on my own time!
Every. Single. Story. about women not using AI as much as men portray it as bad for their future career prospects (without a shred of evidence) and a result of women being fearful little ladies rather than looking at AI's output and saying "this sucks, it's not going to help me."
For women, the increase of AI use in the workplace may affect their careers: Harvard study
Women are using AI significantly less then men and it’s going to have a major impact on their careers, according to extensive research on the topic.
www.ctvnews.ca
July 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
What gets me about the linked article is how it repeatedly asserts that people are only avoiding GenAI at work because they haven't tried using it.
A big part of why I'm so skeptical about GenAI for work is *because* I've toyed around with it on my own time!
A big part of why I'm so skeptical about GenAI for work is *because* I've toyed around with it on my own time!
Seeing "everyone in red states voted for this and deserves to suffer!" discourse on my timeline again, and it finally dawned on me what it reminds me of.
Teachers who would grade everyone equally poorly on a group project, when one person did most of the work while everyone else slacked off.
Teachers who would grade everyone equally poorly on a group project, when one person did most of the work while everyone else slacked off.
July 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Seeing "everyone in red states voted for this and deserves to suffer!" discourse on my timeline again, and it finally dawned on me what it reminds me of.
Teachers who would grade everyone equally poorly on a group project, when one person did most of the work while everyone else slacked off.
Teachers who would grade everyone equally poorly on a group project, when one person did most of the work while everyone else slacked off.
I'm pretty sure I pointed this out over on the other site, but July 14 is simultaneously Bastille Day, Shark Awareness Day, and Nonbinary People's Day.
There are some funny mental images to be made from this. Involving Blåhaj, of course.
There are some funny mental images to be made from this. Involving Blåhaj, of course.
July 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
I'm pretty sure I pointed this out over on the other site, but July 14 is simultaneously Bastille Day, Shark Awareness Day, and Nonbinary People's Day.
There are some funny mental images to be made from this. Involving Blåhaj, of course.
There are some funny mental images to be made from this. Involving Blåhaj, of course.
Heads up — the National #SpellingBee finals are starting in just under 10 minutes, airing on ION, Bounce, Laff, and a few other networks (check your local listings, or stream on Pluto TV).
I'm going to be commenting on it with that hashtag, so go ahead and mute if you're not interested…
I'm going to be commenting on it with that hashtag, so go ahead and mute if you're not interested…
May 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Heads up — the National #SpellingBee finals are starting in just under 10 minutes, airing on ION, Bounce, Laff, and a few other networks (check your local listings, or stream on Pluto TV).
I'm going to be commenting on it with that hashtag, so go ahead and mute if you're not interested…
I'm going to be commenting on it with that hashtag, so go ahead and mute if you're not interested…
Congrats to Sarv for being the first Georgian to make the #SpellingBee finals since 1997! (I may know a thing or two about that... 😉)
May 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Congrats to Sarv for being the first Georgian to make the #SpellingBee finals since 1997! (I may know a thing or two about that... 😉)
What's really fun about this that you can ask the same question in two separate browser sessions, and the AI may possibly invent two completely unrelated meanings for the same fake expression.
April 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
What's really fun about this that you can ask the same question in two separate browser sessions, and the AI may possibly invent two completely unrelated meanings for the same fake expression.
Every time I see people saying stuff like this, I remember my high school biology textbook mentioning that some people have an odd number of sex chromosomes.
Over two decades ago.
In Georgia.
Over two decades ago.
In Georgia.
"Biology is deeply important to me!"
- Transphobe who hasn't bothered to learn basic biological facts of the topic they're opining on
- Transphobe who hasn't bothered to learn basic biological facts of the topic they're opining on
March 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Every time I see people saying stuff like this, I remember my high school biology textbook mentioning that some people have an odd number of sex chromosomes.
Over two decades ago.
In Georgia.
Over two decades ago.
In Georgia.
Today, thanks to a satirical article, I learned that "polemic" is pronounced with a short /ɛ/ sound.
(I could've been that person!)
(I could've been that person!)
Miya Wilkes, 29, from Tuebook, only realised “polemic” wasn’t pronounced like “bulimic” after uttering the word during a Zoom meeting in front of her entire team of colleagues.
Oh no! Autistic woman pronounced word out loud for the first time
An autistic woman is reportedly in despair after failing to pronounce a word correctly when saying it aloud for the first time - despite having read it over and over in various books multiples times, ...
thedailytism.com
March 20, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Today, thanks to a satirical article, I learned that "polemic" is pronounced with a short /ɛ/ sound.
(I could've been that person!)
(I could've been that person!)
I keep seeing posts, from people I thought would know better, with what to me are *very obviously* AI-generated pictures of billboards or signs.
Gibberish logos at the bottom or on signs in the background. Blatant typos in *the text of the sign itself*.
Do people just…not notice these things?
Gibberish logos at the bottom or on signs in the background. Blatant typos in *the text of the sign itself*.
Do people just…not notice these things?
March 18, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I keep seeing posts, from people I thought would know better, with what to me are *very obviously* AI-generated pictures of billboards or signs.
Gibberish logos at the bottom or on signs in the background. Blatant typos in *the text of the sign itself*.
Do people just…not notice these things?
Gibberish logos at the bottom or on signs in the background. Blatant typos in *the text of the sign itself*.
Do people just…not notice these things?
Continuing to be amazed at the number of posters whose job centers around communicating with people — politicians, journalists, corporate PR — who consistently fail to make their social media posts comprehensible by blind and low-vision people.
March 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Continuing to be amazed at the number of posters whose job centers around communicating with people — politicians, journalists, corporate PR — who consistently fail to make their social media posts comprehensible by blind and low-vision people.
All the discourse about using generative AI to produce NPC dialogue has me thinking back to the lying NPCs in Castlevania II.
I can just imagine AI NPCs *unintentionally* spouting a bunch of hallucinated hints that make "get a silk bag from the graveyard duck" seem absolutely normal.
I can just imagine AI NPCs *unintentionally* spouting a bunch of hallucinated hints that make "get a silk bag from the graveyard duck" seem absolutely normal.
March 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
All the discourse about using generative AI to produce NPC dialogue has me thinking back to the lying NPCs in Castlevania II.
I can just imagine AI NPCs *unintentionally* spouting a bunch of hallucinated hints that make "get a silk bag from the graveyard duck" seem absolutely normal.
I can just imagine AI NPCs *unintentionally* spouting a bunch of hallucinated hints that make "get a silk bag from the graveyard duck" seem absolutely normal.
I keep seeing this kind of post from politicians, unironically, and I just don't understand it.
If you're posting a statement on social media, I feel like it's kind of important to make the statement *readable*, even on a small screen.
But what do I know? I'm not a highly paid comms person…
If you're posting a statement on social media, I feel like it's kind of important to make the statement *readable*, even on a small screen.
But what do I know? I'm not a highly paid comms person…
A statement on why text-heavy screenshots are inaccessible and need to have alt text added:
March 5, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I keep seeing this kind of post from politicians, unironically, and I just don't understand it.
If you're posting a statement on social media, I feel like it's kind of important to make the statement *readable*, even on a small screen.
But what do I know? I'm not a highly paid comms person…
If you're posting a statement on social media, I feel like it's kind of important to make the statement *readable*, even on a small screen.
But what do I know? I'm not a highly paid comms person…
A statement on why text-heavy screenshots are inaccessible and need to have alt text added:
February 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A statement on why text-heavy screenshots are inaccessible and need to have alt text added:
Sorry that I keep beating the #accessibility drum, but it keeps surprising me that "they're just new to Bluesky!" is an excuse I often see for missing alt text.
I'm surprised they'd gone this long without knowing that their tweets, Facebook posts and blogs were just as inaccessible to blind folks.
I'm surprised they'd gone this long without knowing that their tweets, Facebook posts and blogs were just as inaccessible to blind folks.
February 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Sorry that I keep beating the #accessibility drum, but it keeps surprising me that "they're just new to Bluesky!" is an excuse I often see for missing alt text.
I'm surprised they'd gone this long without knowing that their tweets, Facebook posts and blogs were just as inaccessible to blind folks.
I'm surprised they'd gone this long without knowing that their tweets, Facebook posts and blogs were just as inaccessible to blind folks.
I'm just…so tired.
Is it just me, or does it feel like people with disabilities and chronic illnesses are still invisible to so much of the overall left, even when the Trump regime is absolutely making it clear how they feel about us?
Is it just me, or does it feel like people with disabilities and chronic illnesses are still invisible to so much of the overall left, even when the Trump regime is absolutely making it clear how they feel about us?
February 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I'm just…so tired.
Is it just me, or does it feel like people with disabilities and chronic illnesses are still invisible to so much of the overall left, even when the Trump regime is absolutely making it clear how they feel about us?
Is it just me, or does it feel like people with disabilities and chronic illnesses are still invisible to so much of the overall left, even when the Trump regime is absolutely making it clear how they feel about us?
Reposted by codeman38
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
The hardest working font in Manhattan
A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org
February 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.
aresluna.org/the-hardest-...
OK, maybe I should spell it out.
Progressives, the following thread conveys what your posts sound like to blind people using screen readers or Braille terminals when you don't use #AltText.
Every one of these is *verbatim* from an actual post I've found.
#WhatYourPostsSayWithoutAltText
Progressives, the following thread conveys what your posts sound like to blind people using screen readers or Braille terminals when you don't use #AltText.
Every one of these is *verbatim* from an actual post I've found.
#WhatYourPostsSayWithoutAltText
February 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
OK, maybe I should spell it out.
Progressives, the following thread conveys what your posts sound like to blind people using screen readers or Braille terminals when you don't use #AltText.
Every one of these is *verbatim* from an actual post I've found.
#WhatYourPostsSayWithoutAltText
Progressives, the following thread conveys what your posts sound like to blind people using screen readers or Braille terminals when you don't use #AltText.
Every one of these is *verbatim* from an actual post I've found.
#WhatYourPostsSayWithoutAltText