Interesting Links for 24-11-2024

[andrewducker]

1. On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what's now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people.

(tags:fish SouthAmerica archeology history )

2. UK Views on assisted dying

(tags:polls euthanasia UK )

3. Results Of The AI Art Turing Test?

(tags:art ai )

4. 10 amazing trans women you didn't learn about in history class

(tags:transgender history women )

Comments

[cmcmck]

4.I know them all apart from Miss Major which probably won't surprise you.

There are questions as to whether Elagabalus was trans as most of the descriptive stuff is the usual Roman post death attack lines.

Renée prefers transsexual I suspect because she's the same generation as me and that's how we got labelled and socialised. Indeed, they still used 'primary transsexual' to label me as they had done with all young transitioners back then- I still recall my counsellor writing to my pshrink describing 'this delightful primary transsexual'. Blush. :o)

[bens_dad]

3. I can't see detail in the pictures on my phone without zooming in but participants were told not to zoom in.

They are fairly low resolution pictures (the two I checked are less than 1000×1000 pixels) - too small to print out satisfactorily.
I wouldn't want to judge these picture on what I can see on my phone.

But the main thing is that to my inexperienced eye, all the AI pictures are much better than I was expecting.

[andrewducker]

Yes, the quality which can be produced is excellent, so long as you don't look too closely.