Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that will incorporate artificial intelligence literacy and media literacy into the state’s curriculum
Source: Local News Matters Governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation that will incorporate artificial intelligence literacy and media literacy into the state’s curriculum
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Open source: you all should use open source and private services because we’re not a corporation out to exploit you or your data.
Disabled users: hey, your registration edit field is not labeled so I can’t use my adaptive technology to register or even use your platform. Could you fix it, because, right now, the mainstream/corporate offering has taken accessibility more seriously and I’d rather use a tool/service that I won’t need to struggle with in order to operate.
Open source: what exactly do you expect? We can’t be expected to make things accessible for you, so you can either fork it yourself or just not use our software/services. We’re a small team and corporation has more money than we do so they can devote more time and effort to accessibility. You can always fork the project though and make accessibility yourself!
Disabled user: well, I can’t code, so it looks like I don’t have any other choice but to go back to using this corporate offering that at least took the time to label their registration field correctly and actually took my request more seriously. Oh well, maybe open source tools just aren’t for me.
Had a funny conversation in the shower rooms at work yesterday morning with another bike-riding commuter who I have been seeing a lot more regularly…
She upgraded her truck to one of those massive Raptors and now can’t fit in ANY of the parking buildings so is having to ride her bike to work.
Readers: I died laughing.
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Montreal-area boy severely burned after stranger throws boiling water on him
After 30 years, Canadian cartoonist Michael deAdder has been let go from the Halifax Chronicle Herald.
"PostMedia acquired Atlantic Canada's largest media purveyor, Saltwire Network & The Halifax Chronicle Herald in July 2024."
#PostMedia #canada #conservatives #cdnpoli #cartoonists
Railway Sublime, Episode 1.
The Brusio Circular Viaduct, on the Bernina Line #Switzerland. It takes passengers through a complete 143-metre circle before continuing on to Tirano.
ABOUT THE .IO DOMAIN KERFUFFLE
this is one of those intersectional moments, many of you white folks in #tech need to learn from
not only is the .IO a geolocated internet TLD based on British colonial territories;
the whole origin and dispossession of Chagos people is a read:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagos…
what makes .IO extra sketchy is the creation of the domain itself:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io
so, .IO LITERALLY exists for EU/USA capitalists to profiteer from slavery, colonialism & genocide.
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I mantain a couple of #Android applications both on @fdroidorg and #google #playstore . Now Play Store asks me a document (personal ID card) to verify my account, otherwise it will be closed in October.
I don’t feel I should disclose #personaldata to a giant like Google, so I’m considering migrating my users to #F-Droid. How should I do it? There's already other people doing this? There's any material (e.g. a webpage) to point my users at that explains why and how they should install #fdroid and reinstall my apps from there?
I just released a new version of #Hieroglyphic, this version replaces the classification algorithm with a machine learning model trained on the data previously used to classify symbols, improving classification speed and overall accuracy (although some symbols are now classified less accurately due to lack of good training data).
To improve the training data, it is now also possible to submit recognized symbols (this is opt-in).
We're coming to the last few talks for the conference, but the excitement continues...
Now Mathias Clasen is going through the state of #HDR in #GTK4
#linux #multimedia #gnome #video #gstconf2024
Netizens are torturing Google's AI podcast hosts
NotebookLM's Audio Overview feature rudely discovers its wife never existedRichard Currie (The Register)
but it might be beneficial for inside of Slack for all I know.
Ich musste feststellen, dass es auch Musiker gibt, die bei der Erwähnung eines veganen Produktes ausrasten, aber nicht vor Freude. Und das nur, weil das Musikhaus Thomann, lt. Wikipedia „der umsatzstärkste Musikalienhändler weltweit“, eine vegane Konzertgitarre ins Sortiment aufgenommen und dies bei Facebook beworben hat. Und ich habe wie so oft den Fehler begangen, die Kommentare zu lesen.
Es zeigt sich schnell, dass Musiker in der Tat kreativer sind als Kommentierende, die unter einen Beitrag über Veganismus Sachen posten wie „Darauf erstmal ein Steak!“. Musiker schreiben „Als nächstes will ich ein Drumset das nur aus Knochen, Fell, Fleisch und Blut hergestellt wird!!“.
Generell ist die Ahnungslosigkeit allerdings genauso hoch wie bei anderen kontroversen Themen. Was denn an einer Gitarre nicht vegan sein könne, fragen einige. Nun, dass die Instrumente nicht aus Hack gemacht sind, dürfte klar sein. Dafür kommen z. B. Perlmutt-Einlagen, Knochen, Schellack und Leim mit tierischen Bestandteilen zum Einsatz. Die von einigen Kommentierenden erwähnten Saiten aus Katzendarm werden dagegen bei Konzertgitarren schon lange durch Nylon-Saiten ersetzt. Es fehlt also auch hier das Wissen, wo überall tierische Bestandteile verarbeitet werden. Es sei denn, es geht darum, einer vegan lebenden Person Heuchelei zu unterstellen, dann ist klar, dass ein Smartphone nicht vegan ist.
Ansonsten gibt es zur veganen Gitarre Kommentare wie „WTF? Are you serious?“, „Jetzt fangt bloß ned a no mit dem Scheiß da o!!!“, „Noch bescheuerter geht’s nicht mehr…“ und „Auch ein Baum ist ein Lebewesen…!! Aber okay, wer es braucht….“. Die Pflanzenversteher dürfen ja nicht fehlen, die zwar kein Problem damit haben, dass für ihr Essen leidensfähige Lebewesen getötet werden, aber Empathie für gefällte Bäume entwickeln.
Kommen wir zur Gitarre selbst. Bereits 2020 hatte der Berliner Gitarrenbauer Armin Hanika eine vegane Konzertgitarre für den American Guitar Shop, auch in Berlin ansässig, gebaut. Das Hanika Vegan Modell 50MF ist dort noch immer erhältlich. Und auch Thomann ist nicht erst gestern auf den Zug aufgesprungen, sondern bereits im September 2023 mit dem Modell Hanika H-Thomann KEF Vegan. Wenn ich mir die Arbeiten von Armin Hanika anschaue, habe ich keine Zweifel, dass die vegane Gitarre mit den herkömmlich gebauten Modellen mithalten kann. Leider gibt es bei beiden Shops keine Kundenbewertungen.
Ich finde es sehr gut, dass in vielen Bereichen mittlerweile tierische Inhaltsstoffe ersetzt werden, das Unverständnis einiger – online wie offline – ist jedoch immer groß. Was denn bitte an Weichspüler nicht vegan sein könne oder an Rotwein? Warum gibt es vegane Holzkohle? Müssen Veganer immer Fleischprodukte nachbauen? Das darf dann aber nicht „veganer Leberkäse“ heißen! Es ist noch ein sehr langer Weg bis zu der Erkenntnis, dass Veganismus kein Trend ist, keine Sekte oder Religion, sondern die Zukunft.
However, having taken a day to think about it, I’m concerned about leaving this view unchallenged because I genuinely believe that it is potentially harmful to the education, and therefore the economic prospects, of young blind people.
The first point I want to make is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying a great audiobook. A good narrator can make a book come to life. I don’t believe an audiobook is inferior. Although I don’t listen to many audiobooks anymore just as a matter of choice, I do opt for an audiobook when someone is reading their own autobiography. That’s because rather than read the book, I would rather listen to someone reading their own book to me.
But when I choose to listen to an audiobook, I am no more reading the book than my grandchild is reading it when I read a book to her. She is being entertained, in some cases she is gaining valuable knowledge, but she is not reading it, she is being read to. There is benefit in this. It could be enhancing her aural language skills.
You may be thinking that this is all pointless semantics. But the reason I’m raising it is that the “audiobooks are reading” argument has been used to deprive blind kids of true literacy. To me, true literacy is the ability to write something down and read it back. Braille is the only viable means of true literacy a blind person has. For all the good that technology has done, when talking computers came on the scene and audiobooks became more abundant, some teachers and more than a few public policy practitioner decided that these developments meant that we didn’t need to teach blind kids to read anymore. It was a means of short-changing blind kids, of not allocating the necessary funding and resources to give them a good start in life. It was disgraceful. No parent of a sighted child would tolerate being told that their kid didn’t need to read because they could just listen to audio instead.
The result was that many people who had so much to offer the world were deprived of the right to read. It is often these professionals and policy makers who want blind people to believe that listening is the same as reading.
These kids who missed out on the opportunity to read became adults with fewer employment prospects. We know that the unemployment rate of Braille readers is far closer to the unemployment rate of the population as a whole, compared with those blind people who haven’t had the opportunity to read Braille. And in a sad irony, these kids, some of whom grew up to be parents, were not given the tools to read bedtime stories to their kids when they eventually became parents. Putting on an audiobook for a child is nothing like the personal bonding that comes from a parent reading a story to a child.
Some of those kids who missed out on literacy took the brave step of learning Braille as an adult, but they know they will find it difficult to achieve the same speed they would have if they had learned Braille as a child. It is a tragedy.
While there has been a recovery, this sort of story is not yet completely in the past. It is still happening to some kids today.
Enjoy those audiobooks. I certainly do. But let’s also ensure that every blind child has the right to read by not playing into the narrative that listening to a book read by someone else is the same as reading one yourself.
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Thank you for sharing your perspective. As the author of the post I assume is being referenced, I'd like to provide some context:
Recently, I've encountered several elitist viewpoints on this subject, using phrases like quote "the proper way" unquote to consume literature. I strongly disagree with any implication that there are right and wrong ways to educate and entertain oneself through books.
However, I acknowledge that my post could have made its scope clearer, and you're not the only one to mention how this view is weaponized in educational settings. Regardless of the reasons, making counterproductive and lazy decisions on behalf of disabled students is unacceptable.
I hold certain educators and educational systems responsible for the fact that blind and low-vision students too often leave school with subpar literacy levels. While they may justify their approaches with certain rhetoric, it's their actions and agendas that are at fault—whether rooted in ignorance, misguided attempts to compensate for lack of funding, or other reasons. However, the rhetoric itself shouldn't be automatically blamed for how people choose to interpret and misuse it.
As for the differences in brain activity between different consumption methods, some studies suggest that in adults, listening and reading by sight or touch aren't as different as commonly thought. I notice you've received responses stating the opposite, but I don't have the expertise to state one position over another.
Semantics aside, I think we can agree that consuming material that educates and uplifts is more important than ever, regardless of how people choose to do so.
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk at @djangocon about the finances of the Django Software Foundation. I wanted to give folks a high-level understanding of our current financial situation, and then imagine a world where we had a substantially-larger budget.
Here's a written version of this talk, with annotated slides, and expanded notes:
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