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Metin Seven 🎨<p>Did a Yandex image search for three beers… 😆</p><p><a href="https://graphics.social/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/image" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>image</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/picture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>picture</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/beer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>beer</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/bear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bear</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/bears" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bears</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/funny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funny</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://graphics.social/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>MakeUseOf: I Tested 8 Free AI Image Upscalers—This Is the Only One That Worked . “Not all free AI upscalers are worth your time. I ran the same image through eight of them to find out which (if any) actually works. One came out on top.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/13/makeuseof-i-tested-8-free-ai-image-upscalers-this-is-the-only-one-that-worked/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/13/makeuseof-i-tested-8-free-ai-image-upscalers-this-is-the-only-one-that-worked/</a></p>
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋<p>🇬🇧 🌔 🔭 **In time for the Buck Moon, the UK's Royal Observatory releases some of the best full Moon images this year**</p><p>🔗 <a href="https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/astronomy-photographer-shortlist-2025-moon-images" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">skyatnightmagazine.com/news/as</span><span class="invisible">tronomy-photographer-shortlist-2025-moon-images</span></a></p><p><a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Images</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Moon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Moon</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/Astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Astronomy</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>PsyPost: Dark personality traits linked to generative AI use among art students. “The research found that students who scored higher on personality traits like narcissism, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and materialism were more likely to engage in academic misconduct, experience academic anxiety, procrastinate, and ultimately rely more heavily on tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/11/psypost-dark-personality-traits-linked-to-generative-ai-use-among-art-students/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/11/psypost-dark-personality-traits-linked-to-generative-ai-use-among-art-students/</a></p>
brozu ▪️▫️Definition of imagination. 💭<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/imagination?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#imagination</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/information?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#information</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/images?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#images</a>
Nicole Hennig<p>This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art <a href="https://archive.ph/WEriP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/WEriP</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AI" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23images" target="_blank">#images</a> <br><br><a href="https://archive.ph/WEriP" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">This tool strips away anti-AI ...</a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art <a href="https://archive.ph/WEriP" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/WEriP</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>MakeUseOf: I Took Phone Photos All Year—These Are the Only Tips Worth Sharing . “After a year of relentless snapping, I realized most phone photography advice is just noise. If you’re tired of generic tips that never stick, these are the ones that quietly transformed my photos.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/10/makeuseof-i-took-phone-photos-all-year-these-are-the-only-tips-worth-sharing/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/10/makeuseof-i-took-phone-photos-all-year-these-are-the-only-tips-worth-sharing/</a></p>
Frontend Dogma<p>Implement WCAG Rules in Your Infographics, by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@a11ycollective" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>a11ycollective</span></a></span>:</p><p><a href="https://www.a11y-collective.com/blog/accessible-infographics/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">a11y-collective.com/blog/acces</span><span class="invisible">sible-infographics/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/wcag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wcag</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/visualization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>visualization</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/alttext" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>alttext</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/contrast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>contrast</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/colors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>colors</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>This is Colossal: A New Aerial Photography Contest Takes a Bird’s-Eye View of Life Around the World. “From the fiery explosion of Iceland’s Litli-Hrútur volcano to a football field nested on a small Arctic island, the winning images of the International Aerial Photographer of the Year contest transport viewers across the globe, offering perspectives typically reserved for air travelers […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/this-is-colossal-a-new-aerial-photography-contest-takes-a-birds-eye-view-of-life-around-the-world/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/this-is-colossal-a-new-aerial-photography-contest-takes-a-birds-eye-view-of-life-around-the-world/</a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Portland Press Herald: Westbrook police say they mistakenly posted AI-generated drug seizure photo on Facebook. “The Westbrook Police Department said it mistakenly posted an AI-generated picture of items from a drug seizure to its Facebook page after an officer asked ChatGPT to add a police badge to the photo.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/portland-press-herald-westbrook-police-say-they-mistakenly-posted-ai-generated-drug-seizure-photo-on-facebook/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/09/portland-press-herald-westbrook-police-say-they-mistakenly-posted-ai-generated-drug-seizure-photo-on-facebook/</a></p>
Bytes Europe<p>Art treasures from the Bank of Greece <a href="https://www.byteseu.com/1176402/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">byteseu.com/1176402/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Exhibition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exhibition</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Greece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greece</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/MULTIMEDIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MULTIMEDIA</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/VisualArts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>VisualArts</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>North Carolina State University: New Attack Can Make AI ‘See’ Whatever You Want. “Researchers have demonstrated a new way of attacking artificial intelligence computer vision systems, allowing them to control what the AI ‘sees.’ The research shows that the new technique, called RisingAttacK, is effective at manipulating all of the most widely used AI computer vision systems.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/08/north-carolina-state-university-new-attack-can-make-ai-see-whatever-you-want/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/08/north-carolina-state-university-new-attack-can-make-ai-see-whatever-you-want/</a></p>
earthling<p>Since October 7, 2023, the war of images has eclipsed the war of weapons.</p><p>From Gaza’s pulverised hospitals and starving infants to mass graves and desperate fathers digging through rubble, every pixel captured on a smartphone strikes deeper than a missile.</p><p>These raw, unfiltered and undeniable <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a> have a far greater impact than any news conference or official speech. And for the first time in its history, Israel cannot delete them or drown them in propaganda.</p><p><a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/6/israel-now-faces-adversaries-that-it-cannot-defeat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/7/</span><span class="invisible">6/israel-now-faces-adversaries-that-it-cannot-defeat</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gaza</span></a></p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p>The Advantages of <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Text" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Text</span></a>-Based <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Information" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Information</span></a> Versus <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Videos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Videos</span></a>, <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> or <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Images</span></a><br><a href="https://www.karl-voit.at/2022/01/08/text-vs-video-audio-images/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">karl-voit.at/2022/01/08/text-v</span><span class="invisible">s-video-audio-images/</span></a></p><p>I just published a comment by mizu where he refers to an interesting video from 1994: "maybe in the future <a href="https://graz.social/tags/pharmacies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pharmacies</span></a> and <a href="https://graz.social/tags/bookstores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstores</span></a> will be the same since people will be so lazy to read the contents of a book that they will want to get the contents of the <a href="https://graz.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> from something that they can digest easily, in the form of pills (or injections)."</p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>media</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/videos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>videos</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/laziness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>laziness</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/PIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIM</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/publicvoit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>publicvoit</span></a></p>
LUMINA VERDIS<p>NOTHING CHANGES NOTHING <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AbuGhraib" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbuGhraib</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hooded" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hooded</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Prison</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Torture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Scandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scandal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Violations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Violations</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Images</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Spectacle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Spectacle</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hyperreality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hyperreality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Simulacra" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Simulacra</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Baudrillard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Baudrillard</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Culture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iraq</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Guantanamo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guantanamo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Abuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abuse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Controversy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Controversy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Visual" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Visual</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ethics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ethics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Symbolism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Symbolism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trauma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trauma</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manipulation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Reality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Reality</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Simulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Simulation</span></a></p>
ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Stevens Institute of Technology: AI Blunders: Six-Finger Hands, Two Suns and Jesus Christ on a Surfboard in a Stormy Sea . “For the study, [Gursimran] Vasir collected and examined 482 Reddit posts where users described various AI-generated image blunders. She broke her findings into four categories: AI surrealism, cultural bias, logical fallacy and misinformation.”</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/05/ai-blunders-six-finger-hands-two-suns-and-jesus-christ-on-a-surfboard-in-a-stormy-sea-stevens-institute-of-technology/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/05/ai-blunders-six-finger-hands-two-suns-and-jesus-christ-on-a-surfboard-in-a-stormy-sea-stevens-institute-of-technology/</a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Visual AI: More control, stunning results <a href="https://heatherbcooper.substack.com/p/visual-ai-more-control-stunning-results" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://heatherbcooper.substack.com/p/visual-ai-more-control-stunning-results</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23AI" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23images" target="_blank">#images</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23video" target="_blank">#video</a> </p>
Nicole Hennig<p>Visual AI: More control, stunning results <a href="https://heatherbcooper.substack.com/p/visual-ai-more-control-stunning-results" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">heatherbcooper.substack.com/p/</span><span class="invisible">visual-ai-more-control-stunning-results</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>images</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/video" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>video</span></a></p>
Inautilo<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Guides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guides</span></a><br>Writing ‘alt’ text with AI · With proper prompts, AI can simplify the process <a href="https://ilo.im/164y55" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">ilo.im/164y55</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>_____<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Images" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Images</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AltText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AltText</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ProductDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProductDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UiDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UiDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Development" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Development</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frontend" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Frontend</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a></p>