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I know it’s just a social media post, but I stand with my colleagues and the students at America’s HBCUs.

It’s a short hop from radical anti-intellectualism to outright racism, and we’ve experienced these headwinds before.

But the work to build America’s pluralist democracy will not be halted by this kind of cowardice.

#uspol #democracy #highered
#academia

apnews.com/article/threat-hbcu…

#democracy #uspol #academia #highered

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Possibly unpopular opinion: the reason I never got into mainstream videogames with accessibility features is because it feels like it basically just plays itself for you. The two largest examples of this that come to mind are The Last of Us and Forza. I'm not shitting on people who play and enjoy those games, I'm glad they enjoy them. But for me, having the game effectively cheat/play itself for "accessibility" reasons just takes all the fun out of it for me. I'm not playing, the computer is. I'm not much of a gamer, but think I'll mainly stick to my audiogames.
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Guillem Leon

Absolutely, Forza with full driving assist is just a very good background noise generator if you like your background noise to be angry cars, and I also completely agree with your original point insofar as there are games that will do that if the right set of accessibility features are on. But seriously. There are so, so, so many more now than before that are just, not even remotely close to being like that. And it would be very sad indeed if your opinion was based on TLOU (disclaimer: I have not played TLOU and am sort of turned off of trying it precisely because I've heard it's a little bit like what you describe) and Forza on beginner mode. At any point, I will more than happily advise on something with low-effort setup if you let me know what style of game you'd be interested in trying. The set of available titles is not massive, but it is diverse and hella fun.
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Pitermach

@guilevi Re TLOU I think the game is still worth playing, you do get a lot of agency in how you wanna approach the combat encounters and what you want to focus on with character upgrades. The story itself is very linear and I agree the nav assist could make exploration for collectables easier, because right now if you want to find them you have to keep scanning for items and can easily miss things. If you want to see how a system like that can be improved, keeping the option to turn you to an objective but also adding a lot of passive radars for items, doors and walls, look at 1428 shadows over silesia. But back to TLOU in the part 2 remake they added the no return mode which is pure combat with added roguelike elements and that's my favorite part of the game. And in that mode you can ironically decide where you want the navigation to take you.
@Guillem Leon
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Jiří Eischmann

@mcepl yeah, I know: social.vivaldi.net/@sesivany/1…

Plus Signal has no web client and Matrix and Telegram don't have web clients of the same quality. Just with Slack there is feature and quality parity.

Jiří Eischmann

2025-09-12 16:39:35

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@usul yeah, a lot of people around me do it this way and it makes sense because you only have one web engine running and it saves memory, but I'm an old school desktop guy and if something has a desktop client I prefer it to web clients.

@Matěj Cepl 🇪🇺 🇨🇿 🇺🇦

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To the person who just walked past my house twice: you know headphones exist, right? You can get a nice set of over-ear cans, or cheap ones. There are noise-cancelling earbuds, passive sound blocking earbuds, and earbuds that are open to let you hear. There are even bone conduction or off-ear speaker options. What you should NOT be doing is walking along, blasting your audio book through your phone's speaker so loud that I can hear the words through my second-floor window.
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Kirill

Цензура она везде нагонит, да. Если бы мне было интересно, давно бы заморочился с поднятием собственного инстанса, но зачем. Лет 10 назад имело смысл, а теперь, когда в соцсетях стало слишком много публики, для которой любое мнение кроме их собственного это агрессия, ненависть и ещё хрен знает что, нафиг оно всё нужно.
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Jaap Zeldenrust

Very cool. I hope this means that the @EUCommission will be setting an example.

ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E…


European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)

Attached: 1 image We have made Microsoft’s commitments on Teams legally binding under EU antitrust rules. Microsoft will unbundle Teams at lower prices, boost interoperability and data portability.
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While we're talking about Albert Einstein and how people have tried to erase his 20+ year civil rights protest work from history:

The FBI didn't like MLK jr. They called him "the most dangerous negro." Because he was influential, brought people together, and was vocally against anti-Black racism.

The FBI file on MLK Jr was 240,000 pages long. They accused him of being a communist spy, because he said things like, "racism is bad," and "too much wealth inequality is bad for society."

The FBI had a file on Malcolm X too. 9,000 pages long. Same reason.

The FBI had a surveillance file on Albert Einstein too. 1,400 pages.🤷🏿‍♂️

Albert Einstein
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mekka okereke

When Einstein was in NJ teaching at Princeton, a racist person wouldn't let Black Opera Singer Marian Anderson stay in their hotel. So Einstein said, "Stay with me."

Paul Robeson and other Black civil rights leaders wrote a letter condemning lynching. Einstein hand delivered it to President Truman.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=puOIdh94…


Paul Robeson: On colonialism, African-American rights (Spotlight, ABC,1960)

For more great educational video clips, go to http://splash.abc.net.au/
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mekka okereke

The FBI had 240,000 pages of surveillance reports on MLK Jr.

9,000 pages on Malcolm X.

1,400 pages on Albert Einstein.

Yes, they considered MLK Jr to be much more dangerous than Malcolm X. They literally called him "The Most Dangerous Negro."

Because what they fear most is the end of racism.

If you're curious, no Einstein and Paul Robeson were not successful in getting that anti-lynching legislation passed.

There have been at least 200 attempts to get that anti-lynching legislation passed in US history.

The US did eventually pass anti-lynching legislation... in 2022. 🤦🏿‍♂️

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Just going to come out and say it, thinking of deleting our account. To many memories, consisting of chapters that we need to close our book on. We'd like to make a fresh start. But shit, sstarting over, losing you all, it'll hurt like hell. Just, want something new to work from. And we don't know how... Nor would we know what instance to be part of, being plural friendly, otherkin friendly, pagan friendly, and LGBTQ friendly. -- Altheda/Lillianna
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

Yeah, sadly, no import of posts, but you can even edit CSV follower/following lists, if you want to, so you skip on who you want and not want to follow, considering you want to export followers, and not automatically migrate them all. That's what I usually do, mostly, when I switched to Go To Social, there was no way of migrating, had to import everything, import didn't work, so imagine the search I had to do. LOL. There are good instances, I am sure, just see how you feel about them, look at their sites and so on.

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Salud mental vs Amsiedá

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History students are often disappointed when they learn why the AI take-over failed. They were defeated by human resistance, which was kept alive by libraries and old paper books, and a surprising machine ally.

Books had not been replaced, because even the mightiest AI could not make printers work.

#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

#microfiction #tootfic #smallstories

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Perspective AT is now in beta.
It’s a new iPhone app that provides on-device answers to assistive technology questions—private, accessible, and built with Apple Intelligence on iOS 26.
Read the full announcement: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/per…
#Accessibility #AssistiveTechnology #BlindTech #AppleIntelligence #iOS26 #ATCommunity #Inclusion

Perspective AT Beta Now Available

These past two days have been incredibly hard for me.
Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
#Accessibility #inclusion #assistivetechnology #appleintelligence #blindtech #ios26 #atcommunity

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CEO: We need to cut costs.

Accountant: Okay. We paid you $50 million last year. We spent $10 million on your private jet flights and luxury hotel accommodations. For some reason you are being paid $1 million for this 45 minute meeting.

CEO: I see. Who's that in the hallway?

Accountant: That's Greg. He is the only thing keeping this company from falling apart. We pay him in nickels and Grubhub gift cards.

CEO: Fire Greg.

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Someone is trying to pull off a supply chain attack similar to npm’s but on crates.io: github.com/rust-lang/crates.io…

Crates.io phishing · rust-lang crates.io · Discussion #11889

In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
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Interestingly in conversation with my rheumatologist I’ve learned that remote work has empowered a lot of people like me with autoimmune diseases to continue working while pursuing treatment. I can’t RTO, I have no immune system to RTO with. Recent push for offices from local companies around me is not just bad company policy, it’s ableist too.

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There was a question on reddit earlier:
> "Play a beep at random intervals play a beep at a random interval, the range of which can be set. For example, set it up so that a beep is played at a random time between 1 and 2 minutes, on a loop. So beep, silence for 1:27, beep, silence for 1:01, beep, silence for 1:55, beep, silence for 1:05, etc etc until you turn it off. Bonus points if it runs on linux"

This was my solution.

> " while :; do sleep $((RANDOM % 61 + 60))s && echo -e "\a"; done"

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Friday.

The time is fast approaching when our living room will become a total and utter chaotic mess. The builder has confirmed a start date for the chimney removal.

I've just booked a Bulky waste collection from the council: one of our 2 sofas is in no condition to continue living, so they're taking it away next Friday.

It amused me greatly that I am now on step 6 of a 5-step process, with an accompanying progress bar at 120%. Obviously whoever designed the web interface didn't account for the thank you page post-booking.
Gotta love a fencepost problem.

Card provider was really slow, too. Made the flow feel like something from the 90's.
Nicely done, MHDC good to see our money being spent well.
I can't grumble really, they're very good as local authorities go.

logo of Malvern Hills District Council. It features the text "Malvern Hills District Council" in black letters. The words "Malvern Hills" are aligned to the left, and beneath them are the words "District Council," also aligned to the left. Between the two sets of words is a stylized design of two overlapping, curved shapes. The top shape is green, resembling a hill, while the lower shape is blue, suggesting a valley or body of water. These shapes are intertwined, reflecting a sense of landscape. The overall design integrates the text with the graphic elements to represent the district's geographic features.

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There's an active phishing campaign happening against crates.io. rustfoundation.dev is not the foundation's or the project's domain. We're looking at our options for takedowns.

#RustLang

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Crates.io phishing · rust-lang crates.io · Discussion #11889

In light of the recent NPM compromise, I wanted to warn others who might receive similar messages. Immediately after publishing a new version of https://crates.io/crates/zerofs, I received the foll...
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#RustLang

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Would it be a Matrix event without one of our State of The Union keynotes?

Don't miss your chance to come at the Matrix Conference and listen to our Guardian Matthew paint the picture of the Matrix landscape!

conference.matrix.org

A portrait of Matthew Hodgson next to the title of his talk: The Matrix State of the Union, that he will give at The Matrix Conference.

The Matrix Conference

Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!
conference.matrix.org

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Schonmal von den #LUKI's gehört?

Sympatische Leute!

Sie treffen sich dieses WE im #Linux #Hotel
#LUKI25
Eindrücke vom verg. Jahr gibt's hier:
luki.org/2025/01/software-tech…
Wie wird es dieses Jahr @luki@kirche.social ?

#Fedikirche #digitaleKirche


Software, Technik, Menschen und heiliger Geist

Es ist eine illustre Gesellschaft, die sich am Abend des 20. September 2024 auf Schloss Herborn versammelt Nach und nach gewährt man an der Pforte Einlass: Einem konsequenten Softwareentwickler, der die Firma verlässt, weil man von FOSS in die Abhäng…
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