People celebrate disability pride in July because it was the month when the United States passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to protect the civil rights of disabled people. Northern Ireland released similar legislation in 1995. England, Wales and Scotland passed disability legislation in 2002. In Canada, each province has disability legislation, introduced from 2005 onwards.
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Indigenous History and the Land
Vox Clamantis Books is located on the Haldimand Tract, part of the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. So let’s unpack what that means.
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Filtering out AI
For people who want human-made art and writing in their search results, it’s getting harder to distinguish between AI and human-made, as large language models “learn” to generate productions that look more like human language and art.
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Human Intelligence
Artist and author Mickie Mueller has created a “human intelligence” digital badge for art and writing, to make it easy to distinguish between human-produced art and AI-generated stuff.
(more…)Here’s the elevator pitch: It’s a badge free for human creators to add to their social media posts of all kinds that helps everyone know at a glance that this is a human made creation, not made by AI.
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Indigenous History Month
June is Indigenous History Month in Canada. A time to reflect and act on the history of interactions between settlers and Indigenous people.
More and more Canadians want to learn the truth about the destruction of the cultures and languages of Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and the theft of their lands.
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Happy Pride Month
June is Pride Month in Canada. And it is not just an excuse for a party, but an opportunity for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community to be visible, and to celebrate our wins over the years, from greater social acceptance to same-sex-marriage.
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No AI slop here
Yesterday I was asked a great question: whether the featured image of the post calling for anthology contributions is AI-generated. To the best of my knowledge, it is not. It’s a public domain image that I found on Pixabay, by searching for “steampunk robot” and filtering out Al-generated images. If you zoom in far enough all the little details make sense. I tweaked the colours in Canva to match the colour scheme of this website. The art is by Bildmonteur.
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