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  1. Comment on Plummeting insect numbers 'threaten collapse of nature' in ~enviro

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    I'd be curious to know all of the effects once the mass extinction has happened, how much of the animal and plant kingdom would survive? A "new normal" without insects or any biodiversity.

    I'd be curious to know all of the effects once the mass extinction has happened, how much of the animal and plant kingdom would survive? A "new normal" without insects or any biodiversity.

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  2. Comment on Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to erase LGBT+ content from schools in ~lgbt

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    This article was hard to read. It's simply mind-boggling.

    This article was hard to read. It's simply mind-boggling.

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  3. Comment on ‘Fauxtography’ is now a fact of life in ~tech

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    Freaks me out that access to something close to a raw image might be fleeting with processing being done at the chip-level, and as others have said, that the beauty standards imposed by AI might...

    Freaks me out that access to something close to a raw image might be fleeting with processing being done at the chip-level, and as others have said, that the beauty standards imposed by AI might make matters worse for body-image and self-worth assessment. On the other hand, getting a more beautiful image with less effort is still a nifty trick no matter how you skin it; devalues the skill behind tastefully taking and editing a photo, though. I wish the goal was simply more detail and faithfulness and left the editing up to the shooter, in that case.

    3 votes