New review feat. THE Sapna Cheryan (essentially if you want to understand STEM gender equity gaps this is the scientist to read) free to access until Dec 2
"Global patterns of gender disparities in STEM and explanations for their persistence"
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Global patterns of gender disparities in STEM and explanations for their persistence - Nature Reviews Psychology
Women remain underrepresented in some STEM fields throughout much of the world. In this Review, Cheryan and colleagues discuss four factors that might explain this underrepresentation — access to education and employment, masculine cultures, insuffic…Nature
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This pill reminder app reliably reminds you to take your tablets, pills, and other medication, vitamins, or supplements at the scheduled time. With theAccessible Android
So yes, I hope people are loyal to you. I hope they stick around. I hope they forgive and understand when you’ve made a mistake or acted out of character and I hope they talk through it with you.
But I also hope we all realize that of course you can lose real friendships if you aren’t careful with their hearts.
They’re people with needs and wants too. They’re people with very real feelings and their time and energy is precious too.
Following up on my last post: While "Dining in the Dark" uses blindfolds to simulate blindness—a deeply problematic practice—Netflix’s *Love Is Blind* raises a different but related issue: the casual use of "blindness" as a metaphor.
The title refers to the idea that love can transcend physical appearance, but it uses blindness to symbolize ignorance or a lack of perception. This isn’t new—our language is full of metaphors like "turning a blind eye" or "blind ambition" that associate blindness with negative traits like ignorance or inability.
As a blind person, I see how language shapes perceptions. These metaphors may seem harmless, but they perpetuate outdated, ableist notions of blindness as a deficiency. They turn our lived experiences into rhetorical devices, erasing the richness of blind culture and reducing us to symbols of "lack."
No, *Love Is Blind* isn’t offensive in the same way as "Dining in the Dark," which makes a spectacle of our lives. But the metaphorical use of blindness shows how ingrained ableism is in language and culture. Casual metaphors matter—they reinforce unconscious biases that we must challenge.
Blindness isn’t a symbol. It’s a lived reality, full of challenges, skills, and a vibrant community. Let’s think more critically about how we use disability in language and storytelling.
💬 What do you think?
This comes up a lot.
My concern about inclusive language is that one day, we'll go so far that we can't understand each other.
For me, far too many people treat me like blindness is more of a problem than it is. The person I have been dining with has been asked for my meal choices on far too many occasions to count. Nonetheless, if we stop using the word blind in a metaphorical context, this doesn't change their actions. In fact I could make an excellent case to argue that it distances them even more from the idea of blindness, a widening I already struggle with when in some parts of the world, someone can both be legally blind and drive a vehicle. I already feel that the term blind is appropriated by those who have corrective vision. To want the word even less in use seems ridiculous.
I am happy that my love is blind. I love my life partner without considering her visual appearance overmuch, and love being blind encapsulates that perfectly.
I love things being blindingly-obvious. people have blind spots in their vision, and I see no harm in transfering that concept to an emotional one (there are people with whom i cannot discuss certain topics because they have a blind spot about it in an emotive context).
mobile phone companies are being advised to avoid the term blackspot for an area of poor signal coverage because it is offensive. Man hours are no longer applicable to people because they disinclude women. Processes at work have to be unalived because terminated sounds harsh.
Language is an ever-evolving system of expression. I worry that being militant about a word like blind will, if we are not careful, see us using so many tortuous tautologies that we are divorced from richness in language full-stop.
Tell a child that you'll turn a blind eye to their unflattering drawing of their dad one day, they'll understand that an adult with real blind eyes can't see. Boom. Life lesson.
StreetComplete - App ohne Account nutzen
Mit der App StreetComplete auf dem Smartphone kann jeder Mensch (unabhängig von persönlichen Vorlieben oder Registrierungen in Gruppen und Vereinen) zur Barrierefreiehit beitragen.OpenStreetMap
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The song “Breathe Out” from my self produced album “Echoes of Tomorrow” will be released on all streaming platforms on November 20th. distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ales…
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Товарищи, кто в #js #javascript и #ruby рубит, возможно, вы меня просветите.
Отсутствие комментариев в коде и жопное именование переменных/флагов - это нормально для этих языков?
Мне попадались пару раз проекты по геймерской части от, без преувеличения, гениев JS'а.
Но они были одиночками.
И код у них - даже не смотря на потуги выставить проекты на опенсорс - был просто буэээээээээээээээ...
Это при том, что JS сам по себе особо не располагает к адекватному дебагу на ходу, особенно в гоняемых через Electron проектах. И, казалось бы, уж комментами то можно было присыпать...
Some folks who are interested in being more prepared for disaster or emergency situations are interested in using HAM/amateur radio as a communication tool you can use when cell & internet networks are down.
I did some research on getting licensed (in the US) & learning to operate HAM radios this summer and finally got the notes I sent as an email to some local friends typed up for easier reference on my blog.
Hi visually impaired people 👋 Does your screen reader read out text in bitmaps for you?
I.e. if I post a jpg of text, does your speech thing decode and read it out to you?
Please boost for reach...
- yes it reads out text in images (0%, 0 votes)
- No, give me alt text if you can (8%, 7 votes)
- it does, but its wonky so alt-text still helps (2%, 2 votes)
- not visually impaired but want to know (89%, 76 votes)
If anyone has managed to get an accessibility cookie from h-captcha (hell-captcha), how?
I am trying desperately to get one, and I cannot seem to get past the ability to enter my email. It keeps giving me an error every time I go to submit. Please, please help.
Greatest #astronomy #space headline ever
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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains
Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
1. Launch a web page.
2. Press JAWS Key+6 to move into Settings Centre.
3. Now to the shortcut. Press Control+Shift+W. This allows you to customise settings for a specific domain.
Of course I've got a lot of customisations for various domains for my own use, but I've been getting at this feature another way. I didn't know about that Control+Shift+W shortcut to take you there directly. #SharkVember @freedomscientific
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This gorgeous museum is packed with some 5,000 Doctor Who items!The Doctor Who Companion
If you harbored any doubts regarding #Bluesky and their claims of decentralization, you HAVE TO read this brilliant, insightful toot by @jonny about the impossibility of multiple relays and what would happen if one tried to split off from #Bsky the corporation: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11336…
I actually recommend you read the whole thread - and follow Jonny! (Thank you for the recommendation @oblomov!)
jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)
Content warning: long, bsky, atproto, on the impossibility of multiple relaysNeuromatch Social
Sharkvember Shortcuts Weekly Roundup
Here at Freedom Scientific, we have renamed the month of November to Sharkvember, a month-long celebration of accessibility, creativity, and community. Visit the Sharkvember page for a list of even…Freedom Scientific Blog
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Fiala: Dejte mi ještě čtyři roky a budete mít platy jako v Německu
Premiér Petr Fiala (ODS) uvedl, že považuje svoji vládu za nejúspěšnější v české historii a chce příští rok na podzim vést koalici Spolu do voleb a znovu kandidovat na premiéra.Oldřich Danda (Novinky)
"Premiér Petr Fiala uvedl, že považuje svoji vládu za nejúspěšnější v české historii."
Byl jeden světový politik, jmenoval se Biden a ten taky tvrdil, že jeho vláda je velmi úspěšná. A ona objektivně v mnoha ohledech úspěšná je, ale když se tváříš, že je vše "nadmíru výtečné", a nepřiznáš, že i tak můžou mít lidi problémy, i když za ně tvoje vláda ani přímo nemůže, prohraješ volby.
Izzy's freie Bibliothek
Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!ebooks.qumran.org
I was doing so good there for about a week. Now I'm back to this thing where I sleep for no more than two hours, then I'm up for the rest of the day.
I've gotten about 8 hours or so of sleep in the last four days.
I guess it's better than being awake for many days straight, which I've also done somewhat recently.
In related news, stress sucks.
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Vnímám 17. listopad jako druhou šanci. Před pětatřiceti lety jsme dostali možnost změnit sebe, svůj život, okolí a zemi. Tehdy si nikdo z nás neuměl pořádně představit, jak by měla demokracie a naše země vypadat.bird.makeup
But only FF on Windows, nothing else. Although, I do have Chrome installed for these 1% of the time when some app decides it's going to say it doesn't support FF.
Holy crap Samsung Health on my watch is abysmal. I'm sick of trying to make it work properly.
Back to Google fit, even if it can't find me on my walks.
Will avoid both these brands for my next watch.
@fireborn the GPS is terrible. I'm constantly walking through buildings or stumbling around like a drunk. I can deal with that but the constant checking that I'm still on my walks despite the elevated heart rate and (drink) GPS activity is infuriating. Sometimes 10+ "are you still walking?" Prompts per 30 mins.
Today it just paused the workout for no apparent reason. I didn't notice for 10 mins even though I have to check it every minute or two for that above-mentioned prompt.
So bad.
Interestingly, I have a Huawei GT3 which is fantastic with fitness stuff but it doesn't play nicely when synchronising the date over health sync. I might try it again, it's been long enough for an update 🤣.
I submitted the manuscript for my next book!
It's a collection of folktales about misunderstood / underappreciated animals. Bats, sharks, wolves, rats, spiders, etc. I managed to find cool stories for each, and in every one of them the animal is portrayed in a positive light.
It was one heck of a research project, and I really enjoyed it 😄
i'm going to make a radical claim:
the "phone" has basically ceased to exist.
these devices we call phones? they're pocket computers that just happen to have cellular connectivity. they should be treated as such - which means open specs, unlockable booting, replaceable operating systems.
if you need to blob the cellular bit for regulatory approval, fine, do that, but agree a standard interface to it (like AT commands for old modems, or the interface to the Pi's GPU capabilities) that all OSes can use on all cellular devices. but there's no excuse for locking down any of the rest of the device, is there?
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