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Remember people: "Normal" is a setting on the dryer.

There is no such thing.

We are all "weird" to someone. No biggie.

Screenshot of a social media post that says “basically people who don’t mind being called weird are good weird, and people who don’t like it are bad weird”
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Reflecting on our Music Industry Engagement Internship programme - Sound Without Sight soundwithoutsight.org/reflecti…

Reflecting on our Music Industry Engagement Internship programme - Sound Without Sight

Introduction For the last 9 months, Sound Without Sight has been very privileged to work with Sarah Bayley and Zenny Jabeera as our two Music Industry Engagement Interns.
Jay Pocknell (Sound Without Sight)

MMM asbestos
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Pensaba retomar el podcast hasta la próxima semana pero los Juegos Olímpicos tenían otros planes. Este episodio va sobre los ataques transodiantes a dos boxeadoras cisgénero. open.spotify.com/episode/2j0mO…

Imane Khalif, Ignorancia y Juegos Olímpicos

Episode · Trans utopías · Este episodio versa sobre los renovados ataques a Imane Khalif en el contexto de los Juegos Olímpicos.
Imane Khalif, Ignorancia y Juegos Olímpicos (Spotify)

#GUADEC2024 photos from our Denver venue are now online! Take a look through this year's album here: flic.kr/s/aHBqjBC58f

#GUADEC #GNOME #eventphotography

Group photo of GUADEC 2024 attendees standing outside Auraria Campus in Denver, Colorado

GUADEC 2024

In person photos from our GUADEC 2024 event in Denver, Colorado, USA.
GNOME Foundation Events (Flickr)
#gnome #GUADEC #guadec2024 #eventphotography

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SuspiciousDuck
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@fabia_man počúval som to včera tak do polovice a niečo mi na tom rozhovore prekážalo ale neviem teraz čo... (nebol nasraný že musí dávať rozhovory cez prázdniny?)
@Robin Bedrunka 🐞

Finally, someone explores "what the hell is going on with the International Boxing Association" in this whole case

usatoday.com/story/sports/colu…


Olympic female boxers are being attacked. Let's just slow down and look at the facts

Unfortunately it's already too late to contain the mania that is exploding after Algerian boxer Imane Khelif’s gender was questioned.
, USA TODAY (USA TODAY)

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Yesterday, I wrote two stories in our @club email newsletter, neither of which mentioned or linked to
@gruber. Yet, here's the summary of that newsletter that I and many other readers get from Apple Intelligence 🙃:
Screenshot of newsletter by John Voorhees attributing it to John Gruber
@ClubMacStories

Fluffy Coke sounds fun. Just don’t drink it. "...The marshmallow, of course, doesn’t mix with the soda for that dairy-fizzy interplay that the people oohing about it online seem to imply. Instead, when the sugary fluff comes in contact with the icy soda, it seizes up into a hardened goo, like tile mastic drying on a wall...." washingtonpost.com/food/2024/0…

Fluffy Coke sounds fun. Just don’t drink it.

Coca-Cola and marshmallow fluff combine for a sugary, gloopy disaster in a glass. Here’s what to make instead.
Emily Heil (The Washington Post)

Someone has shown a bold Windows XP overhaul by removing Internet Explorer’s core components xda-developers.com/windows-xp-…

Someone has shown a bold Windows XP overhaul by removing Internet Explorer’s core components

Have you ever wondered what Windows XP would be like without Internet Explorer? Find out now!
Rahul Naskar (XDA)
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simon.old
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I remember that in XP, you could type a URL into the Windows Explorer address bar and the site would just load inside Explorer. That integration really did run deep.
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Tamas G
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I think is evident once Windows 98 began going down the path with deeper IE integration on the consumer side, but XP took the shell-level integration to a new level. Thankfully nowadays it's not as bad as Trident is no more.
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Tamas G
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@FluidEscence @simon oh yes, but now we got the ultimate punishment, since it's less integrated into OS components they now just say, "let's spin up a hundred msedgeview2.exe processes for every little web-based part of or UI that needs to be injected into the experience!" ironic, in many ways.
@simon.old

TIL Krypto en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypto_(… (it's a game)

board game

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

From the TechTalk Mailing List: List of resources and freeware - Thursday, August 1, 2024 groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/74…

From the TechTalk Mailing List: List of resources and freeware - Thursday, August 1, 2024

groups.io

Doctor Who Magazine Special: The Missing Doctor Who doctorwhomagazine.com/specials…

Doctor Who Magazine Special: The Missing Doctor Who - Doctor Who Magazine

Matt Evenden (Doctor Who Magazine)

Elon Musk grossly exaggerates about brain chip for the blind

aussiedlerbote.de/en/elon-musk…


Elon Musk grossly exaggerates about brain chip for the blind

Elon Musk is overreacting to the brain chip for the blind Elon Musk claims that a new brain chip from his company Neuralink will surpass human vision. US scientists review this and conclude that the claim is "at best unrealistic".
Ksenia Johnson (aussiedlerbote.de)

FDA Cinnamon Warning: More Brands Added to Consumer Alert cnet.com/health/nutrition/fda-…

FDA Cinnamon Warning: More Brands Added to Consumer Alert

The FDA has been overseeing testing of ground cinnamon as part of a broader look into potential lead contamination.
Jessica Rendall (CNET)

And YAY! #IzzyOnDroid now is live at reproducible-builds.org/who/pr…

#reproducibleBuilds

Screenshot from RB.org's "Who is involved" page, showing the IzzyOnDroid tile

Who is involved? — reproducible-builds.org

reproducible-builds.org
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

We might not have Grant Money – but we certainly have Grant Ideas :awesome:

Next app was just made ready for #reproducibleBuilds by its author – numbers go up 🥳 With the next sync, welcome SmartMouse to the "RB Club":

apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a…

#IzzyOnDroid


„SmartMouse“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Use your smartphone as a normal computer mouse
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

Indivíduo de 54 identifica-se como jovem de 34 para poder comprar casa com isenção de IMT e imposto de selo

imprensafalsa.substack.com/p/i…


Indivíduo de 54 identifica-se como jovem de 34 para poder comprar casa com isenção de IMT e imposto de selo

Tem cabelos brancos mas vai pintar.
Zé Pedro Silva (Imprensa Falsa)

“Viral videos showed customers ending up with absurd orders as a result of the McDonald’s AI drive-thru technology, like the woman who didn’t really want nine sweet teas or the girl shouting “stop” at the screen as it tallies up more than two dozen orders of chicken nuggets.” #Enshittification

cnn.com/2024/07/31/tech/taco-b…

#enshittification

🤬 Hey no fair!
4-panel cartoon, by "@pierremortel". 1. green fangy snake crawling over a log, "Come out, little critters!" 2. snake continues, "Don't be afraid, I'm not poisonous..." From the side, someone says "Actually..." 3. small know-it-all rodent continues, "... you mean 'venomous'. 'Poisonous' refers to something that unloads toxins when eaten." 4. snake, with speaking with mouth full of rodent, "Worksh every time!"
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Literally setting billions of cash on fire in the hopes of printing money through some “AI magic” while laying people off.

futurism.com/the-byte/microsof…


Microsoft Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on AI

Microsoft has spent a staggering amount of money on AI — and serious profits likely remain many years out.
Victor Tangermann (Futurism)

The original #hackerone report for #curl's CVE-2024-7264: ASN.1 date parser overread is now published:

hackerone.com/reports/2629968


curl disclosed on HackerOne: CVE-2024-7264: ASN.1 date parser overread

## Summary: When a specially-crafted certificate is passed to `Curl_extract_certinfo` to parse, it may read bytes beyond the end of the buffer in which the certificate is held. According to the...
HackerOne
#curl #hackerone

I see Vance has chosen party (racism) over family.

(He has bi-racial kids and is clearly signaling they are allowed to identify with only one ethnicity and how they speak will be a measure of how well they match that ethnicity, which you can be sure he will assert is ‘white’).

Ref: washingtonpost.com/politics/20…

Asked if he questions Harris’s racial identity, Trump’s running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), said the former president’s comments Wednesday were aimed at portraying the vice president as “a chameleon” on policy issues. “What I question is why she presents a different posture, depending on which audience that she’s in front of,” he said. Vance also accused Harris of using a Southern accent and referred to her teenage years when she lived in Canada. “Kamala Harris grew up in Canada,” he said. “They don’t talk like that in Vancouver or Quebec or wherever she came from.”

Trump attacks Harris’s Black identity. Harris says Americans ‘deserve better.’

Donald Trump also berated a Black reporter who questioned him about his record of offensive comments about Black people.
Brianna Tucker (The Washington Post)

A new #law goes into effect today in #Louisiana that will make it a misdemeanor for anyone, including #journalists, to be within 25 feet of a police officer if the officer orders them back.

Louisiana is the 4th state to enact one of these so-called #police "buffer laws," which allow officers to order people to keep their distance.

propublica.org/article/louisia…


Louisiana Makes It Illegal to Disobey a Cop’s Order to Back Away

Louisiana is the fourth state to enact a so-called police buffer law, which allows officers to order people to keep their distance. Journalists say the law will make it harder to document when police use excessive force.
ProPublica
#law #journalists #police #louisiana

if i won the lottery i wouldnt tell anyone but there would be signs fridge full of cheese guy quote retweets with caption "brother did a fucking rat tweet this"

Díky usilovné detektivní práci kluků kolem webu herniarchiv.cz se podařilo získat originální hru Videostop přímo od autora. Tím je Zdeněk Vodák a hru naprogramoval v MegaBasicu pro Československou televizi. Tam běžela na ZX Spectru gumáku a přes kempston interface byl připojený ovladač s tlačítkem
#ZXspectrum #games #8bit
zx-spectrum.cz/index.php?cat1=…

ZX-Spectrum Games

The best games for ZX Spectrum - descriptions, solutions, maps, pokes, online playing.
www.zx-spectrum.cz
#games #8bit #zxspectrum

De alguna forma exótica, mi tarjeta de débito venció casi 2,000 años antes de que el banco siquiera existiera.

Imagino que esta tarjeta es con el César, y lo que es del César se le debe a él.

captura de pantalla donde dice que la tarjeta de mi cuenta personal está vencida, que venció el 1 de enero del año 1 después de cristo.

Study uncovers unique brain plasticity in people born blind

medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07…


Study uncovers unique brain plasticity in people born blind

A study led by Georgetown University neuroscientists reveals that the part of the brain that receives and processes visual information in sighted people develops a unique connectivity pattern in people born blind.
Science X (Medical Xpress)

Next is @baabbaash speaking about "Zigzag Mosaics and Single-Line Drawings." He shows us how to create #MathArt from single-line drawings (paper here: archive.bridgesmathart.org/202…). The trick is to modulate the zig-zag of the line to make it lighter/darker at a pixel.

The Bridges Archive: 2024 paper

archive.bridgesmathart.org
#mathart @Robert (Bob) Bosch

What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?

A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I've written, and Fediverse discussions I've participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these products is simply that, from a cryptography and security perspective, they're not a real competitor to Signal. For all its other faults, Signal sets the bar for secure private messaging. It's a solid security tool, even if its user experience…

soatok.blog/2024/07/31/what-do…


What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor? - Dhole Moments

A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I’ve written, and Fediverse discussions I’ve participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these pro…
Dhole Moments

#CD Rohlinge werden heute nur noch selten benötigt. Vielleicht liegt aber im Büroschrank noch eine angebrochene Packung?

Nicht wegwerfen!

Denn #Blindenhörzeitschriften werden nach wie vor gern von blinden Menschen mit speziellen Playern auf CD genutzt.

Die @ComputertruheMuenchen hat uns solche zukommen lassen. Vielen Dank!

Für einen guten Zweck und dazu ökologischer als ungenutzt zu entsorgen ;-)

kom-in.de/185/wohin-mit-cd-roh…

#Spende #DAISY


Wohin mit CD Rohlingen?

Ungenutzte und nicht mehr benötigte CD Rohlinge für Blindenhörzeitschriften
www.kom-in.de
#cd #spende #daisy #blindenhorzeitschriften @Computertruhe e. V. (München)

Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti…
As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here

nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec…
The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.

@Jake Gross
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Munchkinbear
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so I download the pc.7z file but the batch file insists curl not found.
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@munchkinbear Interesting, makes me wonder if Daniel updated the archive since I last downloaded. I’d check but it’s downloading at 20 kbps, says it’ll take about 3 hours. Does the batch file in your case call curl download anything? The one I downloaded just runs mame.
@Munchkinbear
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Munchkinbear
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PC.bat calls curl and does nothig else because curl doesn't exist.
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@munchkinbear curl has been built into Windows for a while now. I wonder how you ended up not having it installed.

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@matt I sent you the batch file privately. I suspect it's because of the path part of that file. @pitermach @datajake1999
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@munchkinbear Oh, it looks like at least part of that batch file is running a big long command in a bash shell. And maybe, for whatever reason, the bash installation (presumably Cygwin, MSYS, or WSL) on your PATH doesn't have curl.
@Munchkinbear
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Munchkinbear
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@matt it's running sh.exe from within the folder i extracted it to, so it's searching for curl from within that folder and not on the actual path's, as I ran sh.exe from the run dialog and ran curl from their and it's their, also curl runs from cmd as well. So I suspect it's trying to find curl.exe in c:\portable\pc (that's the folder this thing's existing in)
@Matt Campbell
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Pitermach
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@munchkinbear @matt OK, I looked at it as well, it’s a really weird way of doing things. Before the archive already included Mame, and Jake’s package still does. But what he’s doing here is grabbing the windows mame from GitHub, then just extracting it (mame’s windows download is just a 7-zip extractor, using a windows port of SH for some reason). If you download Mame manually, extract it to the same folder then take the last part of the batch file it should run.
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Munchkinbear
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@matt how do I cleanly shut down the thing when I'm done? @JamminJerry and I cna't figure it out, if I close the batch file with ctrl+c it breaks the ram thing and I have to extract it again to fix it.
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Jayson Smith
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@munchkinbear @matt @JamminJerry The typical way to shut down MAME is to hit scroll lock to enable the MAME UI (mostly unusable with a screen reader) then hit Escape to exit.
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Matt Campbell
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@jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @JamminJerry I know this is a tangent, but on the part about the MAME UI being mostly unusable with a screen reader, if a developer with C++ chops wants to make the MAME UI accessible using AccessKit, I'd be happy to provide some guidance, but I don't have time to take on that project myself.
@Jayson Smith @Munchkinbear @JamminJerry
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Pitermach
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@matt @jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @JamminJerry Relevant Mame issue here github.com/mamedev/mame/issues…

Accessibility for internal UI · Issue #5357 · mamedev/mame

In reference to https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/ceitb9/blind_user_with_a_couple_questions/ The easiest route would probably be to add hooks so OSD can speak the name of the currently selecte...
GitHub
@Matt Campbell @Jayson Smith @Munchkinbear @JamminJerry
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@jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @matt may I ask what might sound like a really stupid question? how do you use the screen reader commands inside the emmulation, and not your windows screen reader keys? I need to look at spellings of folder names and such, but the JFW curser just says blank blank blank.
@Matt Campbell @Jayson Smith @Munchkinbear
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@jaybird110127 @mcourcel @munchkinbear @matt ah, ok, will most certainly do that the next time I run it. I think this is just awesome as hell! being able to play with old dos stuff like this. you know how most people back then were using word perfect? my adoptive parents baught a program called first choice. now how many people remember that one?
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Matt Campbell
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@JamminJerry My mom used to run First Choice on her PC. It was one of those integrated office suite type packages, right?
@JamminJerry
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JamminJerry
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@matt yep. it had a word processer, and let me think, I think a spreadsheet too. it has been so many years sense I have seen it, I can't remember what all it had, but I know it had a few things in it.
@Matt Campbell
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Jack-Frostodon
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It looks like the version of Mame in the Raspbian repository is out of date, as starting this freedos.img produces an error stating that files are missing. Hopefully this version of Mame has an equivalent Arch64 release. I think we all know where this is going. BTFreedos on a BTSpeak would be something.

I express my sincere gratitude for this: • VoiceOver support is available in the Tags filter and the details of
Column view. I basiclaly live in DT and that helps me a lot. mastodon.devontechnologies.com…

DEVONtechnologies (@devontechnologies@devontechnologies.com)

Attached: 1 image The latest update to DEVONthink, version 3.9.7, brings a variety of improvements across the app, including new application scripts for web browsers, enhancements to Markdown transclusions, WYSIWYG editing, search, and more.
DEVONtechnologies

Hello Jamers 😍

As you know, Transifex serves as our #collaborative translation #management platform. While the core principles remain similar, this tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application. 📲

Are you #multilingual? Your skills can make a real impact! Join our translation efforts and help us break #language barriers! 💪

👀 Want to know how ?
Here's the link: jami.net/how-to-contribute-to-…

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters

Image from article “How to contribute to translations on Transifex - Part 2”.

How to contribute to translations on Transifex - Part 2

Transifex serves as our collaborative translation management platform. This tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application.
jami (Jami)
#app #opensource #language #p2p #privacymatters #jami #management #collaborative #multilingual

The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
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As #Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down.

But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with #MAGA loyalists — remain.

#News #Government #election2024 #Election #project2025 #HeritageFoundation #Politics #Voting #GOP #PaulDans

propublica.org/article/project…


Paul Dans, the Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans

As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists — remain.
ProPublica
#Trump #politics #News #voting #MAGA #government #GOP #election #Election2024 #project2025 #heritagefoundation #pauldans

Are you an engineer who is passionate about #accessibility and developer tooling? You should apply to join the Accessibility Insights team! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/glo…

Make the web better at scale!

Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers

jobs.careers.microsoft.com
#Accessibility

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* Dhaaga (Lite): An Opinionated Fediverse Microblogging App (Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Firefish, Sharkey, Akkoma)

One more app has been confirmed RB aka #reproducibleBuilds – and some more are in preparation.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

Cool class on applied accessibility for designers: maven.com/soren/applied-access…

Application for scholarship for it here (apply by 11:59pm PT August 1 2024): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#a11y #design #learning #lessons #accessibility #scholarship


Applied Accessibility Scholarship Application

Thank you for your interest in being considered for a scholarship for Applied Accessibility. For this scholarship, we are prioritizing people with the greatest financial needs and/or systemic marginalization Please only submit information that is tr…
Google Docs
#a11y #Accessibility #design #learning #Lessons #scholarship

sobbing

#ttrpg

#ttrpg
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Tamitha
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Jeannette Ng: Eye-opening little ancdote from a friend who ran a table top game for his all male gaming group: he genderflipped every character in the pre-written module resulting in an all female setting. His players grew increasingly paranoia and were convinced of a conspiracy.

The players (convinced there's some sort of murder cult going on) started scouring the setting for men. The pre-written module's village contained only one female character: the wife of the blacksmith. Unnamed. Which of course was all the more suspicious to them.

There was absolutely nothing my friend could do to convince his players that there wasn't a great conspiracy or at least a basement full of dead dudes."

LinguisticParadox: (Hashtag) This could be a new 'Bechdel' test: If you genderswap all the characters does it feel like something must have happened to all the men?

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