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Too much effort looking for "#sexual #depictions" to be #offended by? "#AI" rides to the rescue (or not, depending on your knowledge of "AI" reliability):

"It is simply not feasible to #read every #book and filter for these new [#library] requirements," said Bridgette Exman, assistant superintendent of the school district. So she asks ChatGPT: “Does [book] contain a description or depiction of a sex act?” If the answer is yes, the book will be #banned.

#BookChallenge

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/an-iowa-school-district-is-using-chatgpt-to-decide-which-books-to-ban/

#sexual #depictions #offended #ai #read #book

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @[email protected] · 2023-08-15 · 16:56 UTC

#Fascist #Iowa #SchoolDistrict #Bans 19 #Books Including ‘#TheHandmaidsTale’ and ‘#FridayNightLights’
#MasonCity #SchoolDistrict used #AI #software to #scan #texts to determine if they contained #depictions of #sexacts.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Iowa #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://themessenger.com/entertainment/iowa-school-district-bans-19-books-handmaids-tale-friday-night-lights

#fascist #iowa #schooldistrict #bans #books #thehandmaidstale

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @[email protected] · 2023-08-15 · 16:56 UTC

#Fascist #Iowa #SchoolDistrict #Bans 19 #Books Including ‘#TheHandmaidsTale’ and ‘#FridayNightLights’
#MasonCity #SchoolDistrict used #AI #software to #scan #texts to determine if they contained #depictions of #sexacts.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Iowa #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Censorship #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Misogyny #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://themessenger.com/entertainment/iowa-school-district-bans-19-books-handmaids-tale-friday-night-lights

#fascist #iowa #schooldistrict #bans #books #thehandmaidstale

Crunchysteve @[email protected] · 2023-07-09 · 02:21 UTC

For years, for as long as I can remember, even, profile #depictions
of #bicycles, to my ND brain, _HAVE_TO_ be traveling right to left, front wheel to the left, as it were. The old Bicycle Tasmania logo was a happy cyclist, scooting on and travelling to the left, my design. The newsletter masthead, a winged wheel, wheel to the left, wing to the right. My teeth get set on edge when I see a depiction of a bicycle, front to the right, even photographs.

I just figured out why.

I've started a trike design, and as I pictured the initial CAD positioning, I realised that I had an image in my mind's eye of a recumbent tadpole trike travelling, you guessed it, to the left. In that instant, I also realised why that is "the way all bicycles and tricycles must face" - I'm Australian. I mount and "scoot-on" from the left, because we ride and drive on the left here.

It's how I approach my bike, park my bike, the side I mount on, the only side I see, unless working on the transmission. I even hang my right-hand panniers by reaching over the bike from the left, because I can see the hooks better, but hanging the left one is easier, anyway, because it goes on first and the bike then leans on me.

Also, hence my avatar.

#thatisall

#depictions #bicycles #thatisall

Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈 @[email protected] · 2023-06-29 · 22:05 UTC

#Queer #representation in #videogames has never been better – let’s not stop now.

As Pride month ends, the #editor of #Gayming #magazine assesses the #stateofplay for #LGBTQ+ #depictions in #videogames.