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"Baby Blues" …. Two sweet little Eastern Bluebird #fledglings sitting in our maple tree … hand painted digitally in #CorelPainter (Not Ai) from one of my photos a couple of years ago.
"Baby Blues" https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/baby-blues-lois-bryan.html
#art #giftideas #NotAi #birds #bluebirds #easternbluebirds #nature #Buyintoart #AYearForArt #LoisBryan
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Baby Maltese … A perky Maltese puppy gazes up at us … his silky white ears alert, his bright black button eyes sparkling and his soft pink tongue out and at the ready for kisses! Against a warm sunny background, this image is filled with love and anticipation and joy.
Hand painted in #CorelPainter from one of my own images. Not Ai.
https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/baby-maltese-lois-bryan.html
#puppies #dogs #art #giftideas #Maltese #Maltesedogs #handpainteddigitalart #LoisBryan #NotAi
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"Summer Cornfield" A brilliant green cornfield, the stalks already beginning to tassel at the ends, waves lazily under the summer sunshine.
Hand painted in Corel Painter (not Ai) from one of my own photos (not stock or public domain).
At my website (cool wall art, coffee mugs, puzzles, tote bags and more!): https://lois-bryan.pixels.com/featured/summer-cornfield-lois-bryan.html
#art #summer #cornfields #redbarns #PA #Pennsylvania #CentralPennsylvania #CentralPA, #LaurelHighlands #Pavia #Osterburg #LoisBryan #NotAi #digitallyhandpainted
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AI Is Not the Enemy. Misuse Is.
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News
Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — April 25, 2026
Artificial intelligence is being treated by some people as if it is a demon hiding inside a machine.
That is the wrong frame.
AI is not human. It is not a spouse, a friend, a minister, a therapist, or a family member. It should not be treated as a replacement for human connection.
But it can still help people survive moments when human connection is not available.
That matters.
Grief does not wait for office hours. Panic does not wait for someone to answer the phone. Loneliness does not pause because the rest of the world is asleep.
In those moments, AI can serve as a sounding board. It can help a person organize pain into language. It can turn emotional static into sentences. It can help someone think clearly enough to make it through the next hour.
That is not replacing people.
That is helping someone remain steady long enough to reach people again.
The real danger is not AI itself. The danger is misuse, dependency, manipulation, and pretending that a tool is a human relationship. Those concerns are real and should not be dismissed.
But the opposite mistake is just as dangerous.
If we treat every use of AI as isolation, we ignore the ways it can help people communicate better, remember more clearly, and process difficult situations without falling apart.
At its best, AI does not build a wall between people.
It builds a bridge between confusion and speech.
It helps people find the words they could not find alone.
That is not a demon.
That is a tool.
And tools, used wisely, can help human beings endure.
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I've been dealing with a local vacation rental company to sort out our accommodations booking before we head up island on Thursday afternoon. The past 2 days have been a bit frustrating because I suspect they're using AI to do auto-reply with emails. I had to keep asking same questions & not getting answers needed. I kept receiving almost exactly the same replies for 2 days. I got fed up & sent an email stating that their email communication seems to be AI, which isn't helpful; it's costing more time without providing adequate answers to specific questions. I demanded that a human being respond or I'll just cancel entire booking & go stay elsewhere. Within 15 minutes of me sending that email, they ceased using AI to communicate with me & gave human contact. I received an apology & was able to get our booking details all sorted in less than 7 minutes.
Keep #CustomerService human being powered. #AI can't help customers as well as humans can. It's more time effective to have people not AI do customer service work.
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I've been dealing with a local vacation rental company to sort out our accommodations booking before we head up island on Thursday afternoon. The past 2 days have been a bit frustrating because I suspect they're using AI to do auto-reply with emails. I had to keep asking same questions & not getting answers needed. I kept receiving almost exactly the same replies for 2 days. I got fed up & sent an email stating that their email communication seems to be AI, which isn't helpful; it's costing more time without providing adequate answers to specific questions. I demanded that a human being respond or I'll just cancel entire booking & go stay elsewhere. Within 15 minutes of me sending that email, they ceased using AI to communicate with me & gave human contact. I received an apology & was able to get our booking details all sorted in less than 7 minutes.
Keep #CustomerService human being powered. #AI can't help customers as well as humans can. It's more time effective to have people not AI do customer service work.
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I've been dealing with a local vacation rental company to sort out our accommodations booking before we head up island on Thursday afternoon. The past 2 days have been a bit frustrating because I suspect they're using AI to do auto-reply with emails. I had to keep asking same questions & not getting answers needed. I kept receiving almost exactly the same replies for 2 days. I got fed up & sent an email stating that their email communication seems to be AI, which isn't helpful; it's costing more time without providing adequate answers to specific questions. I demanded that a human being respond or I'll just cancel entire booking & go stay elsewhere. Within 15 minutes of me sending that email, they ceased using AI to communicate with me & gave human contact. I received an apology & was able to get our booking details all sorted in less than 7 minutes.
Keep #CustomerService human being powered. #AI can't help customers as well as humans can. It's more time effective to have people not AI do customer service work.
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I've been dealing with a local vacation rental company to sort out our accommodations booking before we head up island on Thursday afternoon. The past 2 days have been a bit frustrating because I suspect they're using AI to do auto-reply with emails. I had to keep asking same questions & not getting answers needed. I kept receiving almost exactly the same replies for 2 days. I got fed up & sent an email stating that their email communication seems to be AI, which isn't helpful; it's costing more time without providing adequate answers to specific questions. I demanded that a human being respond or I'll just cancel entire booking & go stay elsewhere. Within 15 minutes of me sending that email, they ceased using AI to communicate with me & gave human contact. I received an apology & was able to get our booking details all sorted in less than 7 minutes.
Keep #CustomerService human being powered. #AI can't help customers as well as humans can. It's more time effective to have people not AI do customer service work.
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I've been dealing with a local vacation rental company to sort out our accommodations booking before we head up island on Thursday afternoon. The past 2 days have been a bit frustrating because I suspect they're using AI to do auto-reply with emails. I had to keep asking same questions & not getting answers needed. I kept receiving almost exactly the same replies for 2 days. I got fed up & sent an email stating that their email communication seems to be AI, which isn't helpful; it's costing more time without providing adequate answers to specific questions. I demanded that a human being respond or I'll just cancel entire booking & go stay elsewhere. Within 15 minutes of me sending that email, they ceased using AI to communicate with me & gave human contact. I received an apology & was able to get our booking details all sorted in less than 7 minutes.
Keep #CustomerService human being powered. #AI can't help customers as well as humans can. It's more time effective to have people not AI do customer service work.
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My Teenage Years
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Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to.
Upon reading this prompt, I was reminded of my high school days. The first year of high school was very tough for me in terms of adjusting to a new school, cultures and subjects.
I went from a comfortable place to a different one without any guidance nor advice and I went from being a senior to a freshie all over again, which I did not like.
In addition to that, I had a very bad temper and used to talk back to my seniors which did not aid in my reputation. Well, that was the first year, things started getting better the following year onwards and my grades picked up. I have accustomed myself to the flow.
It was during my teenage years that I met my good friends whom I still keep contact to this day albeit not meeting much.
Looking back, I enjoyed my routine and studying very much. Waking up early was the hardest part of the day, which surprisingly isn’t one for me now, I have transitioned into an early riser.
This is followed by shower, preparing my breakfast and lunch for school, which mostly just includes me grabbing bread or biscuits and stuffing it in my bag and wait for my parents to send me off to school, which is usually my dad. He would send me off prior going to work.
I was truly blessed to have experience that.
In school, it was about attending classes, completing homework or assignments, gossiping with my friends or attending extra-curricular activities. However, the place I truly enjoyed spending my time was in the library. Thus, if I were to bunk class, I would lock myself inside the library and just study or read. The perks of being a librarian. Thankfully, my teacher-in-charge of the library always had my back if I were to be questioned regarding my whereabouts.
After school, my mother would be the one who usually picks me up from school and most of the time, we would eat outside. Occasionally, she does cook at home and as I am writing this reflection, I truly miss these simple heartwarming dishes.
This is then followed by me showering, completing my homework, studying, chilling, going out with my mom and getting ready for tuition or extra classes which are usually in the evenings or on alternate days.
Life was simple and predictable. I remembered attending multiple tuition classes during the week, mainly because I was bored being at home as I was not allowed to simply go out with my friends as I pleased. Thus, I looked forward to those evenings.
Holidays and weekends were the things I looked forward to as well and I enjoyed recuperating or simply helping my parents out with their chores, watching movies or TV shows, studying with music, writing and playing video games.
Surprisingly, what aid me in studying back in high school was due to video games. Perhaps it was the way I “destress” and it drives my mind.
I was not allowed to work during the holidays as my parents feared that once I get the taste of my own earnings, studying will no longer be a priority. However, my pocket money wasn’t great either. But I still got by and occasionally, my dad would slip in some money without my mom knowing just so I could enjoy a nice meal across the road with my friend.
The stress back then were focused on exams and completing homework. Occasionally, life dramas do get in the way, all part and parcel of being a “teenager”, having crushes, jealousy and bullying.
However, for the most part, I enjoyed my teenage years and looking back, I wouldn’t change a thing except to be more disciplined in my studying and to learn more.
Those years flew by rather quickly. Before I knew it, I was a senior and the stress of choosing a major or course and the university applications kicked in. Over the years, I’ve accumulated multiple fond memories with my friends as well which were a mixed of beautiful ones, silly and extremely foolish ones, which we do look back and laugh about during our meet-ups.
If you are reading this, I hope that you did enjoy your teenage years as much as I did too. If you are a teenager, do not fill your time with just studying, immerse yourself in extracurricular activities as well and discover new habits. It is the season of discovering yourself, and hopefully in years to come when you do look back and ponder, it will be filled with sweet memories as well.
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Been thinking about the extent to which many White folk in Western Civilization feel much more in control of their lives than their matching cohort from one, two and three centuries ago.Deaths in childbirth, deaths of children, deaths from infection, malnutrition, social oppression and social restrictions have all vastly improved.
And medical science has for 100 years very strongly held to "It's not airborne".
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The image in the BBC article shows blue surgical splash-and-droplet masks.
Is COVID-19 not airborne in Shrewsbury and Telford?
Or is that the hospital boards feel they're exempted from the physics of air filtration?
Is there not a healthcare workers federation or something.
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@anthropology
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A quick check shows a disturbing variance in the stated infection methods.Is the old science "terror of the #Miasma superstition" is still in play? Even after #Covid #ItsAirborne? Except for #Wikipedia it's at most "droplets", not aerosols, not airborne.
WHO: "bite of infected vector fleas",
"contact with infectious bodily fluids or contaminated materials", " inhalation of respiratory droplets/small particles from a patient"....
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@mackayim2022
3/?"Consistency matters tremendously. Research shows that when health experts give conflicting information or change their message, people become more suspicious and decide to hold off on vaccines. ..."
Which raises the damage done to the public's confidence in health science when "It's not airborne" and "Masks don't work" was the dogma held to despite decades of physics and engineering around air filtration and decades of experimental results showing #ItsAirborne.
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@RebelGeek99
Went with miasmaologist.But though miasmaologists are sure it's airborne and that masking is a good thing, the poll asks for "popular".
With the low level of regulations introduced for #IAQ, the near total lack of masking in healthcare, transport and indoor venues ,and the (large?) authorative pockets of "not-airborne" experts, I'm not sure they'll be popular.
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@TheSkeptic
Would love to see a similar article that explains how science had SARS-CoV-2 as "not airborne" and N95 masks as "not working" when Covid started and for years (?) afterwards.While the deaths and injuries that CAMs cause are regretable, they don't number in the hundreds of millions as the deaths and injuries caused by Covid do.
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@frankcat
The mainstream science knowledge was that it was spread by touch and by droplets that carried some 6ft or less. And that it was not carried as fine particles in the air. That's why blue surgical masks were deemed appropriate for hospital staff - they protect against droplets.Mastodon account @jmcrookston has references about the "not airborne" error and the date CDC finally and quietly acknowledged that #ItsAirborne.
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#Enshittification, greed of big #corporations. This is not the world we would like to live in. We take a customer-centered approach, no manipulations. We are fair. We will fight for people, for fairness 💚 .
❌ No chat-bots, no #AI, no catches. Fully #transparent, fully #European 🇪🇺 , fully #human 🧠 . #Irbenes - European, reliable 💚 🌱.
🚀 Let's build human-centered future, not AI-dystopian one, which serves the few.
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#Enshittification, greed of big #corporations. This is not the world we would like to live in. We take a customer-centered approach, no manipulations. We are fair. We will fight for people, for fairness 💚 .
❌ No chat-bots, no #AI, no catches. Fully #transparent, fully #European 🇪🇺 , fully #human 🧠 . #Irbenes - European, reliable 💚 🌱.
🚀 Let's build human-centered future, not AI-dystopian one, which serves the few.
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#Enshittification, greed of big #corporations. This is not the world we would like to live in. We take a customer-centered approach, no manipulations. We are fair. We will fight for people, for fairness 💚 .
❌ No chat-bots, no #AI, no catches. Fully #transparent, fully #European 🇪🇺 , fully #human 🧠 . #Irbenes - European, reliable 💚 🌱.
🚀 Let's build human-centered future, not AI-dystopian one, which serves the few.
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#Enshittification, greed of big #corporations. This is not the world we would like to live in. We take a customer-centered approach, no manipulations. We are fair. We will fight for people, for fairness 💚 .
❌ No chat-bots, no #AI, no catches. Fully #transparent, fully #European 🇪🇺 , fully #human 🧠 . #Irbenes - European, reliable 💚 🌱.
🚀 Let's build human-centered future, not AI-dystopian one, which serves the few.
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#Enshittification, greed of big #corporations. This is not the world we would like to live in. We take a customer-centered approach, no manipulations. We are fair. We will fight for people, for fairness 💚 .
❌ No chat-bots, no #AI, no catches. Fully #transparent, fully #European 🇪🇺 , fully #human 🧠 . #Irbenes - European, reliable 💚 🌱.
🚀 Let's build human-centered future, not AI-dystopian one, which serves the few.
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US Defense Secretary clarifies that the recent operation was not aimed at regime change, signaling a limited military objective.
#YonhapInfomax #USDefenseSecretary #Operation #RegimeChange #Military #Statement #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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US Defense Secretary clarifies that the recent operation was not aimed at regime change, signaling a limited military objective.
#YonhapInfomax #USDefenseSecretary #Operation #RegimeChange #Military #Statement #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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US Defense Secretary clarifies that the recent operation was not aimed at regime change, signaling a limited military objective.
#YonhapInfomax #USDefenseSecretary #Operation #RegimeChange #Military #Statement #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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US Defense Secretary clarifies that the recent operation was not aimed at regime change, signaling a limited military objective.
#YonhapInfomax #USDefenseSecretary #Operation #RegimeChange #Military #Statement #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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US Defense Secretary clarifies that the recent operation was not aimed at regime change, signaling a limited military objective.
#YonhapInfomax #USDefenseSecretary #Operation #RegimeChange #Military #Statement #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
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If you are still trying to fill out your #SapphicSeptember bingo card, I have promo codes for a FREE copy of the new #audiobook version of A LAKE OF FEATHERS AND MOONBEAMS—narrated by Danni Deguire, not AI!
It's got Sword Sapphics, Disaster Sapphics, Magical Sapphics, a Non-Binary MC, and from an #IndieAuthor.
Visit https://read.daxmurray.com/alofam-audio-review to request a promo for my queer, polyamorous Swan Lake retelling! Supplies are limited! 🌈🎧📖
#sapphicreads #FantasyBooks #audiobookstodon #bookstodon #lgbtbooks
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I drew my own portrait in Blender – not AI https://paulcaggegi.com/blog/i-drew-my-own-portrait-in-blender-not-ai/
I am a proficiently skilled illustrator, so instead of getting AI to generate my art, I used my Wacom Cintiq, fired up the latest Beta version of Blender, and got to work.
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My wife's friend is a nurse in Philadelphia.
Last week, they had a child with polio in there that lost mobility, and the parents were angry at the health care workers not doing enough to help their child
The parents are well educated and middle class anti vaxers.
Just imagine that, in 2026, in united States.
My mother would have been shocked if she was alive to hear that there are parents today, refusing to vaccinate their children against polio.
Unbelievable.Update: I checked the image and verified that it's not AI, but some mastodon detectives say otherwise.