Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

I'm not Elon's biggest fan, far from it! He drove me out of Twitter into Mastodon. However, people are pretending that his statement that the #BBC is government funded is somehow hugely shocking. Given his history of lying, I don't find this one statement hugely shocking, or that big a lie!

The reality is that the statement that the BBC is government funded is at least partially true, but not 100% accurate. The BBC receives most of its funding from the licence fee, which can be argued it operates as a tax because it is so hard to avoid paying even if you watch no BBC content. This tax or fee is a form of public money that is collected by the government and allocated to the BBC by Parliament (so yeah, taxpayer-funded and allocated to the BBC by the government!). However, the BBC also has other sources of income, such as its commercial operations and its funding from donors, which are not public money and do not affect its editorial independence.

Therefore, the BBC’s funding is more complex and diverse than Elon said, and cannot be reduced to a simple label of being government funded or not. Partially government-funded would have been more accurate.

@maxim graphically interesting.

@petetaylor it is weird as hell yeah! It did a series of those images. I reckon a lot of the Isuzu photos were exploded views so it learned of those.

@DenOfEarth I noticed 😄

Now let's do the same with 4x4s.

Here are some of the cars I just created. #WeirdCarMastodon #mastodoncars

Not every attempt is successful, this is the attempted fusion between a Silverado and a D-Max.

Car design by #AI. Asking an AI model to create style fusions of different cars in order to create new ideas and starting points for a new design.

Here are some of the cars I just created. #WeirdCarMastodon #mastodoncars

@jayguevara82 wow! Next thing you’ll try to convince me that he wasn’t a proud American!

@jayguevara82 are you telling me that Jesus wasn’t blonde, blue eyed and captain of the football team at high school?

@madsox @juddlegum go for it. Make it public domain.