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I love the internet i got into an arguement with this 28 year old white person and they put a satanic hex on me when they were losing. This surpasses all other twitter beef

Gideon Taaffe and Charis Hoard at MMFA:

With the WNBA's popularity surging due to several college megastars such as Caitlin Clark being drafted, right-wing media launched unhinged sexist attacks against the league (and women's sports in general). These same people attacking the WNBA and women's sports launch attacks against trans women participating in women's sports under the purported guise of "saving women's sports."

Frustrated families of Indian migrant workers forced to fight alongside the Russian army in Ukraine say they feel they have no choice but to travel there to get their loved ones back.

April 22, 2024, 2:19 AM MST

By Muheet Ul Islam

SRINAGAR, India — Across India, families are hearing similar stories from men who went abroad in search of work: They were lured to Russia with promises of jobs as cooks or housekeepers, only to find themselves forced to fight alongside the Russian military in its war against Ukraine.

Some families, frustrated by what they say is a lack of support from the Indian government, say they feel they have no choice but to travel to Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine to get their loved ones back.

“For months, the families have been awaiting government action to bring the Indian citizens back home, but so far no progress has been made,” Raja Begum, 65, told NBC News last month as she sat in the yard of her two-story home in Poshwan, a village in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Begum’s son Azad Yousuf Kumar, 31, left India for the United Arab Emirates in December. She said he had been promised a housekeeping job in Dubai by a consultant there identified as Faisal Khan, who often advertised such jobs on his YouTube channel, Baba Vlogs. In exchange for the job, Kumar paid a fee of 300,000 rupees, or $3,600, she said.

Once Kumar arrived, however, “he was informed that there were no available jobs in the UAE,” said Begum, who has been exchanging voice messages with him. Kumar told his mother that Khan said he could still get a job in another country, and convinced him to travel to Russia to work in a kitchen.

Instead, Begum said, Kumar was sent to a military training center in Moscow as soon as he landed. There he underwent 15 days of weapons training along with several other men from India and Nepal before being deployed to fight against Ukrainian forces on the front lines, Begum said, having been forced to sign a contract in a language he did not understand.

“My son had received injuries during the training period,” Begum said. “He was not allowed to have a proper rest and instead was sent close to the border where a deadly battle was going on.”

Kumar’s older brother, Sajad Ahmad Kumar, said Kumar told him that at least a dozen men from India had been trapped in a similar manner by people affiliated with the Baba Vlogs account, which had more than 350,000 subscribers as recently as February but has since been deleted.

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You wonderful people have helped Shahed and Fadi raise 1k already since I posted this! Please keep donating! They need to reach 12.5k$ to register for evacuation!!

We mourn the loss and celebrate the life of Faith Ringgold (1930-2024). A painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, activist, writer, teacher and lecturer, Ringgold’s impact on American art cannot be understated, and her legacy is especially felt in New York City. Born in Harlem, Ringgold attended City College for both her B.S. and M.A. degrees in visual art before travelling the world, which would inform the rich narratives in her work and the development of her iconic story quilts. She revolutionized notions of craft in fine art with her unique style of narrative quilt paintings while centering African American and feminist voices. The distinguished artist received more than 80 awards and 23 Honorary Doctorates throughout her prolific career. Ringgold’s work has been exhibited internationally and belongs in the collections of numerous institutions including the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Ringgold’s mosaic artwork “Flying Home: Harlem Heroes and Heroines (Downtown and Uptown)” (1996) at 125 St (2,3) station honors Harlem notables and makes them fly. Ringgold has said of the work: "I love every one of these people. I wanted to share those memories, to give the community - and others just passing through - a glimpse of all the wonderful people who were part of Harlem. I wanted them to realize what Harlem has produced and inspired." Faith Ringgold herself is certainly a Harlem heroine who has inspired and will inspire many for years to come.

📸1: MTA A&D/Cheryl Hageman, 2: Trent Reeves

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“Emile Corsi” is not real. anything claiming to be done by an artist named Emile Corsi is ai generated art, it does not exist. what’s worse is that the person behind this “artist”, these “artworks” is that they are falsifying the historical record. these images are not from the 1800s; they were not generated until just a few weeks ago… this is intentional misinformation folks

here’s an article that talks about it and gives some tips on how to identify ai, beyond the member’s only wall it goes on to tell us that research is the biggest tool in pinpointing misinformation from ai art to radical claims in the news cycle. even just simply looking something up is enough to help counter misinformation

Since this is partially walled (it requires a free account to view the entire article, but I know how low the bar is on the internet)

The full text:

A recent image has been doing the rounds on social media on Tumbr and X that caught my attention. It claims to be a painting called Bastet by Emile Corsi, 1877. At time of writing, it has thousands of notes across various blogs and tweet threads.

The thing is, it’s not real. No artist named Emile Corsi existed in the nineteenth century. Even the header of the blog that shared it originally, Shuttered-Gallery, admits “artist never existed in reality.” But of course, most people aren’t checking before reblogging. And they’re shocked when they are told it’s actually AI-generated.

Now, cards on the table: I’m not against AI art as a whole. However, I am against spreading misinformation, and I would count slapping a fake artist name and date on an AI generated image and not disclaiming its AI origins in the original post as pretty blatant intentional misinformation.

When people discuss identifying AI art, you might see advice online pointing to specific traits in the artwork: look at the hands, people suggest, because AI has trouble identifying hands.

A commenter on the Bastet post offers the following advice:

This is all good close looking, the commenter clearly has some good visual literacy skills. These are the kinds of oddities that a trained eye will pick up without realizing it. So it’s true, but the thing is that as a guide for identifying AI art, it’s not good general advice.

I clocked that Bastet was AI generated immediately. This isn’t a brag, more a slightly embarrassed admission that I’ve spent thousands of hours looking at nineteenth century academic painting. Hundreds of those have been spend looking at Orientalist art specifically. All of those hours have coalesced into my brain into a vague cluster-property of what nineteenth-century academic painting looks like, and Bastet did not fit the bill.

But I’m an Art Historian, and the average person isn’t going to spend the time that I did to look at hundreds of nineteenth century paintings to develop that pattern recognition. Frankly, I probably would have been as useless if the AI had depicted Sumerian sculpture or Song dynasty painting, because I have little expertise in those areas. The thing is that even without clocking those hundreds of hours building up area expertise, there are still good habits we can practice when encountering images online for identifying AI art misinformation.

The better the AI gets, the less we can rely on specific visual “tells.” Even the advice to look at hands is outdated by now with new iterations of AI technology producing perfectly lovely hands. Looking is not enough.

The thing that would be enough? Research. A simple Google search reveals that there is no such artist as Emile Corsi in the nineteenth century. No auction records, no Wikipedia, no books. Art Historians and art lovers have lovingly catalogued so many popular painters, there is no way that a Tumblr or an X post is the first anyone online has heard of this artist.

So the solution must be to do research before we share art online unthinkingly. This would be especially important in countering the spread of misinformation. You might not want to check absolutely every image you encounter, we encounter hundreds in our day-to-day life, but if an image was attached to some radical claim, that might be one to check.

Not that people are willing to do this for important news, of course, so maybe it’s asking too much for them to do it for silly art posts online…

If you guys were on here at 11 years old what would you be posting about

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