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There are very few justifications for the existence of Twitter but one is undoubtedly Eric Carle's feed. He posted new drawings for every holiday.

https://twitter.com/ericcarle?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcam...

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That Twitter is awesome, thanks!

I was a little disappointed in twitter marking his "happy Hanukkah" drawing as "sensitive content"

Strange, it's not marked sensitive in mine. Are twitter personalising the labelling of tweets now?

That would make sense but be extra funny to label a happy Hanukkah post as sensitive for me in particular! That would be a pretty broken algorithm.

Unless it's per region perhaps. Are you in the USA?

Hah. Well, I'm in Australia. I guess it is per region then

Australia here as well, no restriction on any posts I can see – how strange.

Australia too, marked as sensitive for me (logged out)

I'm in NZ, and not marked sensitive for me

I am in Canada, noticed it was marked sensitive for me

Also in NZ and it is marked a sensitive both when not logged in and when logged in.

Maybe he marked it that way himself to prevent other people reporting it and risk getting his whole account marked as potentially sensitive.

Was censored for me as well. Very strange. I'd guess it has been reported a few times.

I'm in USA and not censored for me, although I'm logged in and have view sensitive content turned on

> I was a little disappointed in twitter marking his "happy Hanukkah" drawing as "sensitive content

Ugh. I hope that's a mistake and not foretelling a future where anything that isn't completely universal is censored.

So the words "happy chanukah" were visible, I had to click a button to see the menorah with the caterpillar.

I'm going out on a limb here, BUT perhaps Twitter was flagging the combination of the menorah WITH the caterpillar. Imagine, a Jewish symbol with a pig head - that might be offensive to Jewish people.

Perhaps Twitter speculates that the insect (a non kosher food) with the menorah is making it unclean - and thus offensive. Perhaps. Again, I'm not certain. I'm also not offended. Nor am I Jewish. And I don't eat caterpillars.

I really doubt that's the issue. As if a fly or an ant has never set foot on a menorah before? It's a non issue. It's not like we eat menorahs anyway.

I assume it's an AI mistake, but I don't get what the AI thought it was seeing.

Wow. He was drawing and posting such joyful artwork so regularly, at the ripe old age of 91, right up to a few weeks ago!

Thank you for that link, had no idea.

Thanks for sharing!

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