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ebthen.bsky.social
If you're seeing encouragement/demands to do alt text and you're overwhelmed or confused about how to do it and you're worried you're going to do it wrong...

this thread is for you.

First: prompt questions to get you started.
ebthen.bsky.social Eb @ebthen.bsky.social · May 20
Alt text prompt Qs:

What would someone who can't see the image need to know about it in order to take part in the conversation? What is it about this image that made you choose it? What are the important details someone who could see the image would take away from it?

(Not for images of text.)
November 14, 2024 at 11:43 PM
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dremenec.com
Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!
An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.
October 28, 2024 at 10:20 PM
orangesims.bsky.social
If you haven't already done so, here's yet another great* reason to purge any art or images you've shared on Twitter/X, and either set your account to private or just close it up.

*horrible
helenicchi.bsky.social Helen 🍉 Vgen comms open! @helenicchi.bsky.social · 5d
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
Edit image button
December 25, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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justinhendrix.bsky.social
For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
Tech Policy Press: The Year in Books 2025 | TechPolicy.Press
In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power.
www.techpolicy.press
December 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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allidrawscomics.bsky.social
I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
orangesims.bsky.social
This has been a concern of mine for a while now. Not only do a lot of the software-based features of modern cars encourage complacency in drivers, the amount of bugs and errors in software, some with the potential for severe injury, should be a MASSIVE red-flag before a new launch!
December 11, 2025 at 11:27 AM
orangesims.bsky.social
Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.
Hard mode: No Star Wars/Trek, LOTR, or Marvel.
December 8, 2025 at 3:54 PM
orangesims.bsky.social
Fuck that shitass franchise, and fuck that shitass person that created and profits from it!

Give neither of them oxygen in any form or format, and hopefully our trans friends (and women as a whole) will be a bit safer again for our efforts.
anfalas.bsky.social AnfalasX @anfalas.bsky.social · Nov 13
So, I just learned that there's a reboot of the HP movies coming out.

I'm putting this out there now- I don't want to see anyone touching that fuckass series.

That cunt of a woman has set trans rights (and feminism) back YEARS using the money of those who support her series.
November 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
I talked to librarians, authors who have had their books banned, and groups that support them for this article. The glee with which schools, libraries, governments, and companies are replacing human workers and nuance with AI would not be possible w/o the successful war on schools and libraries
“One thing that I try to make clear any time I talk about book bans is that it’s not about the books, it’s about deputizing bigots to do the ugly work of defunding all of our public institutions of learning,” Maggie Tokuda-Hall, a cofounder of Authors Against Book Bans, told me. “The current proliferation of AI that we see particularly in the library and education spaces would be possible at the speed and scale that is happening without the precedent of book bans leading into it. They are very comfortable bedfellows because once you have created a culture in which all expertise is denigrated and removed from the equation and considered nonessential, you create the circumstances in which AI can flourish.” Justin, a cohost of the podcast librarypunk, told me that the project of offloading cognitive capacity to AI continues apace: “Part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking, especially the reflective kind of thinking that reading, study, and community engagement provide,” Justin said. “That kind of thinking cultivates empathy and challenges your assumptions. It's also something you have to practice. If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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jasonkoebler.bsky.social
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:

www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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finally found my big tiddy goth housefriend
gemmahauthor.bsky.social Gemma Hollman @gemmahauthor.bsky.social · Nov 1
The absolutely stunning Tiddy House in Exeter, Devon, England, possibly built in the late 16th century.

A 4-storey brick and timber-framed house with slate tile roof, it is wonderfully wonky and was lovingly restored to glory by Bill Lovell, who bought the severely disrepaired building in the 1960s
A four-storey house with a brick bottom floor and timber framed upper 2 floors, with a tiled first floor. There are two columns of windows up all the floors, and an old wooden door in the middle. Three heraldic symbols are seen on the first floor.
November 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
orangesims.bsky.social
Thanks brain. Knew I could count on you.. 🫩
October 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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jbau.bsky.social
This whole section really.
Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
September 28, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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paxaus.bsky.social
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September 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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March 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM