Arkansas requires users to be 18 to use social media unless the app is exclusively focused on sharing short form videos of dancing, etc or the company makes less than 25% of revenue from social media.
This exempts TikTok & YouTube. Impressive lobbying.
Going through my notes on There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer, and I figured I'd share them here as I process them.
This is a book about how our systemic decisions make America a dangerous place to live. It really made clear to me that Covid is nothing new. We've always been needlessly cavalier with each other's lives - especially the lives of the poorest and most marginalized among us.
The US is a uniquely dangerous place to live, among wealthy nations. One in 24 Americans will die by accident - a 40% higher rate than Norway, the next most dangerous.
It's especially dangerous if you're already marginalized. As Singer writes, "whether or not you die by accident is just a measure of your power, or lack of it"
Some accidents we try very hard to avoid. Others we accept as simply inevitable. Which kinds of accidents are which is not a matter of chance, it is driven by underlying power structures.
Back in the 1920s, when a person was killed by a car, people *rioted*.
Then the automobile industry began the process of normalizing traffic fatalities.
Core to their approach was an emphasis on human error. Accidents weren't due to systemic decisions (or corporate greed). It was all "human error". Pedestrians who didn't yield to cars were "jaywalkers" causing accidents.
The industry lobbied against restrictions like "speed governors" that would keep cars from going too fast and funded education campaigns to teach a new generation that roads were for cars.
(BTW, one of the things this book has really affirmed for me is the extent to which blaming individuals for problems is not just ineffective at solving the larger problem, it *actively works against *system change. It is a tool wielded by those in power.)
One particularly obnoxious manifestation of industry's focus on individual responsibility is Otto Nobetter. ("Ought to know better" - hilarious!)
Otto Nobetter was an education campaign designed by the industry group the National Council for Industrial Safety. It was formed largely because states started passing worker's compensation laws, so businesses suddenly had an incentive to protect their workers from injury and death.
Industry also tried to argue that some people are just "accident prone".
Psychologists, usually on the corporate payroll, conducted studies attempting to prove that people who got into accidents had something wrong with them: they lacked strong religious values, had trouble with authority, were divorcees or gamblers or had "a psychosexual need to court danger."
Of course this was all bunk, and yet another example of scientists cynically serving those in power. (See merchantsofdoubt.org/)
History Professor Bryant Simon says "what we call accidents are in some ways manufactured vulnerabilities".
He wrote a book about the 1991 Hamlet Fire, which killed 25 workers, mostly black women. Simon refuses to blame the "greedy owners" who violated OSHA regulations.
"Those people did not just end up in that plant that day. Historical forces brought a particular kind of person to that plant, and the fact that no one cared about them didn’t just begin that day.”
For reference, JMAP is an alternative to IMAP. IMAP is a pretty messy protocol. JMAP is intended to be simpler and cleaner. This might make for spiffier performance, but also fewer coding errors.
I failed to note WAI’s Pronunciation Task Force nor did I mention its draft spec in my post, so I added them as an addendum as well as a great comment from Brennan Young on an old post of mine that relates: adrianroselli.com/2023/04/dont…
When many devs, testers, and authors first start listening to content through a screen reader, they are surprised to hear dates, pricing, names, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. announced differently than they expect.
Get 69% off any of XSplit’s video tools. Use code LINUS at https://lmg.gg/XSplitThe Walkman brand has been around since the 80s and they used to dominate the...
These are called Dokan and are ceramic pipes often stored in empty lots, where children would play climbing into them. This is why Super Mario Bros has pipes! To appeal to kids who would play with them in the 80s! These ARE the Super Mario Bros pipes!
My imaginary children aren’t using your streaming service
Whenever I start up Netflix, I'm asked if I want to create an account for my children.
I don't have children. I don't want children. I find most children annoying - not yours, obviously, yours are lovely. But I resent being asked every single time whether my imaginary kids want an account. It's ju
HTML/CSS/JavaScript files for the browser-based RPKI test ("Smiley") - GitHub - NLnetLabs/rpkitest-website: HTML/CSS/JavaScript files for the browser-based RPKI test ("Smiley")
El Ministerio de Transición Ecológica utilizará "todas las herramientas constitucionales" para tratar de frenar la ampliación de regadíos y proteger el parque nacional. Si la ley sale adelante, de momento habrá recurso al Constitucional.
I often use the #curl release table to lookup versions and then tell users asking for help actually how old their curl version actually is.... curl.se/docs/releases.html
Huh, I don't see how they claim they can distinguish between this case and any other medicine when the theories of injury are "I had patients who were harmed" and "I had to do stuff I didn't like." Their claim that this wouldn't open a pandora's box seems singularly unpersuasive.
Hard to pick the most reprehensible company in the tech industry (other than the spyware outfits, like NSO, that should be burned to the ground on general principle).
But Clearview AI -- which has scraped billions of photos and sold them to police who hold the Constitution in contempt -- deserves a special dishonorable mention: businessinsider.com/clearview-…
Those who have explored the DECtalk archive may be familiar with The Bots, who created songs such as "Can't Explain" and "I Feel the Love." Turns out they created several more tracks. Here's one of their weirder ones, "The Secret of Life." For those unfamiliar with them, the best way I can describe them is... club/stoner music done with speech synthesizers. Their site is even still up. thebots.net/index_html.html.
The "Report link destination" command in NVDA 2023.1 is very popular. Press NVDA+k to report exactly where a link goes. This is an important #security feature for users. Do you use it? Read more in our In-Process blog: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-6… #a11y #ScreenReader #NVDA
The big news this time around is the release of NVDA 2023.1! But there’s plenty more exclusive news below so let’s get into it: NVDA 2023.1 It’s new release time! NVDA 2023.1 is n…
Yep, definitely do. Prior to this, I used a Firefox-specific trick where if you navigated down into a link, the destination would be exposed, but that also included the text of the link and didn't always work reliably.
@MutedTrampet The other main workaround used to be open the context menu, copy the URL and either read the clipboard, or paste it somewhere. But either way they were all clunky options :)
Note: the "graphic link" issue has been resolved. But as mentioned in later comments, "heading links" and at least one unknown link type exhibit the issue described with NVDA+K. Please check the co...
Note: the "graphic link" issue has been resolved. But as mentioned in later comments, "heading links" and at least one unknown link type exhibit the issue described with NVDA+K. Please check the co...
@amirsol Thanks Amir (and particularly for providing the issue link!) As a new feature, and particularly a web-related one, it is in some ways not surprising there are cases it doesn't for. It looks like there is a flurry of activity around it though, so hopefully there will be a fix in Alpha builds soon and in a stable build in the not too distant future!
I switched from one screen-reader that had it, to NVDA that at the time, didn't. I mentioned it on twitter and within weeks this update came out with it in. Now some might call that coincidence. I just call it 'speaking things into existence' haha. Seriously though, yes. Yes I do, all the time.
@blindbat84 We're aware of an issue in chrome affecting certain types of links. It's being worked on and hopefully we'll have a resolution for it sooner rather than later. Here's the issue, do feel free to comment on it with any extra info: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
Note: the "graphic link" issue has been resolved. But as mentioned in later comments, "heading links" and at least one unknown link type exhibit the issue described with NVDA+K. Please check the co...
Oh, this is lovely, thank you! I do use Brave myself mostly, so chromium based for sure, basically just Chrome in adifferent wrapping. I do fid it useful when it works though. It is great for email links.
Wie gehabt: ohne Tracking, ohne Javascript, ohne anderen "unerwünschten Kram" – dafür aber trotzdem gratis, gern auch per #opds direkt aus Eurem Reader, wenn er dies kann 🤩
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¡Nos complace anunciar GNOME Latam, un día para celebrar y expandir nuestra comunidad #GNOME en América Latina! Nuestra convocatoria de presentaciones ya está abierta y estamos buscando expositores para presentar en español o portugués. Todas las propuestas de charlas se pueden enviar a events.gnome.org/event/136/abs…
Temos o prazer de anunciar o GNOME Latam, um dia para celebrar e expandir nossa comunidade #GNOME na América Latina! Nossa chamada para inscrições já está aberta e estamos procurando expositores para apresentar em espanhol ou português. Todas as propostas de palestras podem ser enviadas para events.gnome.org/event/136/abs…
Napsala jsem pro časopis PLAV esej o překladu knížek pro děti a mládež. Dočtete se v něm, jak se mi překládala rýmovaná zaklínadla v Anně Kadabře a puberťácký stěry ve Víš, že jsem hrozná. Snad je to aspoň trochu sranda. :)
I had forgotten about this case, one of the most incredible acts of successful pro se litigation ever. Skim it and slow down when you get to 18. And then 19 is *kaboom* austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc…
That's amazing! Clearly the deciding judge had very little patience with the pro se litigants, yet they acknowledge their "legal missile." funnest ruling I read in ages.
It’s the inaugural week of the second annual edition of Automation April, and to celebrate the occasion, I’ve been working on something special: today, I’m introducing S-GPT, an advanced conversational shortcut for ChatGPT that bridges OpenAI’s assis…
An #ESA mission to #Jupiter is set to launch tomorrow morning. An #Ariane5 carrying the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or #JUICE, spacecraft rolled out to the launch pad in French Guiana Tuesday for the launch, scheduled for 8:15 a.m. Eastern Thursday. JUICE will arrive at Jupiter in mid-2031, making dozens of flybys of the large moons #Europa, #Ganymede, and #Callisto before going into orbit around Ganymede, studying those icy moons and their subsurface oceans.
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alright let's fucking go
I wrote about Phoenix Hyperspace a few days ago. I have finally obtained one of the very, very, very few machines that shipped with it, and it turns out the way it works is even more batshit nuts than I'd read.
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •The US is a uniquely dangerous place to live, among wealthy nations. One in 24 Americans will die by accident - a 40% higher rate than Norway, the next most dangerous.
It's especially dangerous if you're already marginalized. As Singer writes, "whether or not you die by accident is just a measure of your power, or lack of it"
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •Some accidents we try very hard to avoid. Others we accept as simply inevitable. Which kinds of accidents are which is not a matter of chance, it is driven by underlying power structures.
Back in the 1920s, when a person was killed by a car, people *rioted*.
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •Then the automobile industry began the process of normalizing traffic fatalities.
Core to their approach was an emphasis on human error. Accidents weren't due to systemic decisions (or corporate greed). It was all "human error". Pedestrians who didn't yield to cars were "jaywalkers" causing accidents.
The industry lobbied against restrictions like "speed governors" that would keep cars from going too fast and funded education campaigns to teach a new generation that roads were for cars.
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •One particularly obnoxious manifestation of industry's focus on individual responsibility is Otto Nobetter. ("Ought to know better" - hilarious!)
Otto Nobetter was an education campaign designed by the industry group the National Council for Industrial Safety. It was formed largely because states started passing worker's compensation laws, so businesses suddenly had an incentive to protect their workers from injury and death.
Shauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •Industry also tried to argue that some people are just "accident prone".
Psychologists, usually on the corporate payroll, conducted studies attempting to prove that people who got into accidents had something wrong with them: they lacked strong religious values, had trouble with authority, were divorcees or gamblers or had "a psychosexual need to court danger."
Of course this was all bunk, and yet another example of scientists cynically serving those in power. (See merchantsofdoubt.org/)
Merchants of Doubt
Merchants of DoubtShauna GM
in reply to Shauna GM • • •History Professor Bryant Simon says "what we call accidents are in some ways manufactured vulnerabilities".
He wrote a book about the 1991 Hamlet Fire, which killed 25 workers, mostly black women. Simon refuses to blame the "greedy owners" who violated OSHA regulations.
"Those people did not just end up in that plant that day.
Historical forces brought a particular kind of person to that plant, and the fact that no one cared about them didn’t just begin that day.”