hey so just to let people in the US know, if you are on SSI and have a disability that began before age 26 (46 as of 1st Jan 2026) you can apply for an ABLE account. this account will let you have up to $100,000 without losing your SSI.

Edit: per @MindmeshLink the requirements are SSI, SSDI, *or* a Doctors Note, if that helps!

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#disability #disabilitycrowdfund #disabled

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JAWS 2025 public beta is now available for testing.
A few notes about this if people are trying the public beta.

Hartgen Consultancy products are not supported as part of this test beta cycle.

On a personal note, I do think there are some very rough edges with this public beta.
Two good examples would be:
1. There are times when, if you move to the desktop, the response time of JAWS reporting the focus is significantly slower than JAWS 2024.
This has been reported by me a number of times.

2. If you open up Winamp, and press Insert+T to read the song title and artist of a radio station which is playing, the URL for the stream is announced instead.

For these reasons and a few others, I am not using version 2025 for my day-to-day usage with work or even pleasure.
But that is what the beta process is about; to report such findings.

Anyone who wishes to try it can do so:
support.freedomscientific.com/โ€ฆ

Oh look, Starlink is continuing to screw up the sky in every way possible.

"Second-Generation Starlink Satellites Leak 30 Times More Radio Interference, Threatening Astronomical Observations"

astron.nl/starlink-satellites/

It's going to be "hilarious" when Starlink messes up the radio sky so badly that radio astronomers can't even use quasars to calibrate GPS anymore. There are so many consequences from all these stupid, cheaply built, disposable satellites. universetoday.com/105160/navigโ€ฆ

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