Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ "Die With a Smile" jumps from No. 17 to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Gaga’s sixth and Mars’ ninth leader. The ballad rebounds as holiday songs exit the chart's top tier.
Ten years ago today, I founded Be My Eyes with a simple idea: connecting blind and low-vision individuals like myself with sighted volunteers through the… | 26 comments on LinkedIn
Braille Institute Establishes Wildfire Relief Fund to Aid Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals Impacted by Los Angeles Fires brailleinstitute.org/about-us/…
Braille Institute has established the Wildfire Relief Fund to support individuals who are blind or visually impaired and have been affected by these wildfires.
Over the past few months many companies have made significant changes to their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, or have eliminated them altogether. Think Amazon, McDonald’s, Lowe’s, Tractor Supply, and most recently Meta AKA Facebook.
A Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza —
Israel has repeatedly crossed the Biden administration’s human rights red lines. But the U.S. continued to send weapons. Exclusive records and interviews reveal what happened inside the State Department.
#Cowards! AppleInsider, It is no surprise that Apple CEO Tim Cook will join other big tech executives at the inauguration as they seek to avoid being targeted by incoming regulation and tariffs., Apple CEO Tim Cook attending Trump inauguration after $1 million donation by Wesley Hilliard, appleinsider.com mastodon.social/@appleinsider/…
It is no surprise that Apple CEO Tim Cook will join other big tech executives at the inauguration as they seek to avoid being targeted by incoming regulation and tariffs.
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As firefighters contended with another day of dry, windy conditions, residents continued to confront their losses and the pain of not being able to return home.
These leaks are always way huger and way more useful than ever gets absorbed into general discourse, there is a lot to learn by seeing how they communicate, what they value, weak spots, etc. That you don't really get from the journalism that digests them. Not for the faint of heart and every content warning obviously applies.
Quote: "This year, the annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., is taking place on Jan. 24. Ahead of the march, the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (USCCB) is inviting the faithful to take part in its “9 Days for Life” initiative.
“9 Days for Life” is an annual nine-day novena for the protection of human life. Each day’s prayer intention is accompanied by a reflection and suggested actions that participants can take to help build a culture of life.
This year the novena starts on Thursday, Jan. 16, and ends on Friday, Jan. 24, the day of the March for Life."
Parece increíble lo desconocida que es la biblioteca digital de la RAE. Tiene muchas obras clásicas escaneadas y disponibles para leer en el navegador y en algunos dispositivos totalmente gratis. Y se pueden descargar en pdf para ampliar más las opciones de lectura. Faltan muchísimas obras pero ya hay un número considerable al servicio de la ciudadanía. Merece la pena divulgar la existencia de estos recursos. rae.es/biblioteca-digital
This is a long shot, but I'm making this post here to ask if anyone knows the status of historical telephone message collection thisisarecording.com since its recent shutdown. I've recovered a few things from the blogspot URL but wonder if the OG collection is still out there in full. From the surviving saved blogspot links, I know they were uploaded using DriveToWeb, meaning they are (or… were) on Google Drive or OneDrive. There was a callout made by the @thisisarecordin Twitter account (1/2)
(2/2) at some point, though it appears they've blanked their profile on there. It would be unfortunate if the familiar (and sometimes strange) sounds from a pre-mobile world were lost to time.
As a blind person who appreciates access to information, anniversaries like this one are very significant and extremely meaningful to me. I remember purchasing the Franklin Language Master 6000 SE talking dictionary in 1992. I loved that device and I even recently bought a used one on eBay to replace my broken unit. I also have fond memories of rummaging through a Braille World Book Encyclopedia when I was a kid and I always hoped that one day we might have a fully accessible encyclopedia. In 1998, I acquired the Grolier’s Encyclopedia on a CD and that edition was fully accessible and I was so excited to finally have an accessible encyclopedia, only to be disappointed when a later edition was not as accessible. While Wikipedia is not edited by a corporation, it is a valuable and accessible resource for looking up lots of useful information. Thank you for your service.
The Libre Graphics Meeting 2025 is scheduled to take place in Nuremberg, Germany, from May 28 to May 31. The Call for Participation is published at libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/… Please read, share, and consider submitting a proposal!
Haven't been paying too much attention to the WordPress stuff ever since WP Engine got the injunction on Matt to stop his crusade. Of course, Matt has been salty and is now claiming the lawsuits will kill WordPress.
Remember, WordPress is Matt and Matt is WordPress, but it doesn't have to be this way. Perhaps he should step down and give WordPress (and WordPress.org) to the WordPress Foundation like Mastodon recently did and let the community maintain it.
As I say before, Matt Mullenweg needs to go away, he is the one that is killing WordPress
While we're hanging out and I'm here to chat about whatever you want... check out this fun conversation @pluralistic and I had about software right to repair, and a variety of other related things. I had a ball, thanks Cory!
SFC Executive Directory @karen recently sat down with Cory Doctorow @pluralistic to talk about software right to repair, the utility and history of DMCA exemptions, and all kinds of things related ...
so we had a head of police who accidentally triggered a rocket launcher in his office, very narrowly avoiding blowing up the entire building, and now this.
A recent piece of writing on solar time and older ways to keep time by made me look up the history of time keeping on Wikipedia where i found out about incense clocks. There's something really unique about different hours having different smells and this little device with slowly burning intricate paths
These steps walk you through the process of setting up an SFTP server on Linux for the secure transfer of files for specialized file transfer-only users.
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