This is the conclusion of the article (and presumably the researchers) but I don't think it necessarily follows.

It seems to me equally plausible that one group were more interested in the craft of an accurate depiction, while the other was more interested in the arrangement of a pleasing aesthetic - both could be considered "solutions" to the given task.

Will you produce a keyboard with full size up/down arrows?

>It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians

Mine owners hired planes to bomb striking miners at the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921

>with the intention of killing and without being any kind of strategic strategic objective

Wikipedia says "The airstrike was carried out in the mistaken belief that Italian mechanized troops were stationed in the village. Once over the target, the pilots mistook the market's awnings for military tents." (Carlos Saiz Cidoncha, 2006)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Cabra

Thanks because I did not know this piece of information. So maybe what I had was incomplete.

> very bad user experience

"To use the Signal desktop app, Signal must first be installed on your phone."

thank god whatsapp doesn't do that either. or telegram. or allo back in the day, or every single mobile first messaging app

The only one I can think of that doesn't require a mobile login is iMessage, because it's not a chat app, it's lock in and data theft disguised as software

XMPP and Matrix don't require a phone number and have fine mobile apps.

And there's a reason they've achieved precisely zero penetration amongst normies.

A chat app is useless if your friends and family won't use it.

I've actually had good luck getting friends and family on Matrix, after they'd previously used either Facebook Messenger or Hangouts.

I think delta chat is a counter example.

The EU has received at least 69 shipments of Russian LNG in 2026. At this point, who isn't trading with Russia?

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Imgur is blocked in the UK, and last I checked blocked connections from VPNs too.

Which scene are you referring to?

Try this one?

http://www.vfxhq.com/1997/stills/fifth/welcome.jpg

It's the wide shot of NYC after they leave the spaceport.

Probably not a good example. That one seems to be very low resolution unless I'm doing something wrong.

There's another higher resolution one in the thread. If that one is blocked as well there's always reverse image search.

Works in Opera with its built-in VPN.

Does anyone have any examples of using this in the wild?

I have fond memories of IRC channels full of all sorts of bots; the Matrix and XMPP rooms I've seen don't seem to have nearly as many fun automations.

I assume something of this nature will be wired up for LLM Claws.

Stick the claws into some IRC like channel, but they only have to talk HTTP, so there is less backend work required for the integration.

You may be interested in https://geminiprotocol.net/

A protocol “focused on reading” that doesn’t allow inline images in the document is completely unserious. Images predate text and are 100% essential in most forms of communication.

Yes that's exactly what we should be using. Totally agree.