Happy No Kings Day!
I'm a human rights lawyer. If you're exercising your human right to protest today, here are 13 rules I recommend you follow.
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Read & Share if you're joining the No Kings protest on June 14, or know anyone who isQasim Rashid, Esq. (Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid)
The Nintendo Switch 2 includes a number of welcome accessibility options and features for gamers.Geoffrey Bunting (The Verge)
Another right wing lunatic trying to assassinate Dems
Emerita Hortman, John Hoffman shot in their Minnesota homes
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A manhunt is on for the suspect, who was wearing black body armor over a blue shirt and blue pants.Katherine Donlevy (New York Post)
Less than 40 people and now this seems to magically not be a problem anymore?
Sorry, but toxic cultures don't go away if you speak to a tiny sample about them.
[Society may have overestimated risk of the ‘manosphere’, UK researchers say | Men | The Guardian](theguardian.com/society/2025/j…)
Many who engage are ‘discriminating and value-driven’, with a minority consuming ‘extremely misogynistic content’, study for Ofcom suggestsRobert Booth (The Guardian)
In recent weeks I have had the privilege of starting to participate in the American Printing House for the Blind’s Monarch RISE project. This is a thoughtfully developed and very well organized effort to engage professionals in the blindness services field, blind professionals more generally, and people who are seeking competitive, integrated employment in improving this Braille and tactile graphics technology to meet the needs of those in higher education and workplace settings.
I think involving real users in a grant-funded project of this nature is a very effective way of discovering what works well, what further developments could be made, and how the technology can best be applied to solving problems of accessibility as experienced in practice.
#MonarchRise #APH
Through Monarch RISE: Resources for Inclusion, Skills, and Employment 250 Monarchs will be distributed to employment and educational professionals and individuals seeking competitive integrated employment across the United States.American Printing House
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LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
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With REAPER 7.40, you might have noticed that playing your projects isn't possible anymore when you're in the OSARA Parameters dialogs.
An OSARA update is ready with a fix. As a bonus, now you can play using Space when focus is on the sliders, you don't need to remember to use Control+Space to hear results anymore.
Control+Space also works to play/pause in those dialogs now, pausing moves your edit cursor, useful if you want to cue up a different part of the project to hear the adjustments you're making in context.
Shout outs to Toni and Jamie for much help with many scary code.
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The systematic thinking errors that kill breakthrough technology and the decision framework that prevents these disastersPhil McKinney (Phil McKinney's Studio Notes: Innovation Decisions)
Vosí dvojníci staří 33 milionů let obelstili i dávné ptáky Vědci z Katedry zoologie Přírodovědecké fakulty Univerzity Karlovy objevili fosilii, která ukazuje, že přesná mimeze (tedy nápodoba) vos pestřenkami se vyvinula mnohem dříve, než se dosud předpokládalo – a nebyla formována…
Vosí dvojníci staří 33 milionů...
Vědci z Katedry zoologie Přírodovědecké fakulty Univerzity Karlovy objevili fosilii, která ukazuje, že přesná mimeze (tedy nápodoba) vos pestřenkami se vyvinula mnohem dříve, než se dosud pře…Podcast & blog by Pepik Hipik & Knižní kočka
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This comment on the Lobsters discussion of the recent Ink & Switch article about malleable software: lobste.rs/c/mqixy2 expresses one of my misgivings about depending on generative AI as a tool in one's workflow, for coding or otherwise:
> if we all need heavy GPUs to run local LLMs, many of our old devices are rendered obsolete, and giving new life to old devices is another reason for malleable software.
Obviously depending on constant access to a remote LLM is also problematic.
GNOME is moving even more of the image loading stack to Rust. Read more in my blog post. @thisweekinrust
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A new image loading machinery, called glycin, has been in the works for a while. It is already used by GNOME’s default Image Viewer (Loupe), as well as by a bunch of other apps. Glycin provides...Sophie Herold (Sophie's Blog)
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"Every kid with a laptop thinks they're the next Zuckerberg, but most can't debug their way out of a paper bag," one expert told Newsweek.Suzanne Blake (Newsweek)
Please I beg you, don't go back on your decisions and actually commit and live through them. Go all the way and get fucked.
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Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course - lemm.ee - lemm.ee/post/66752956
If you are planning a flight to the USA in the near future, you should know this: Without Windows 95 and floppy discs, many planes do not reach their destination. The US air traffic control organisation wants to put an end to this dreadful situation.Hans-Christian Dirscherl (PCWorld)
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The Anker Nano 6-in-1 Charging Station features two AC outlets, two USB-C ports, and two USB-A ports for only $40 (was $50) on Amazon!Gabriela Vatu (PCWorld)
I used the Windows 11 Voice typing tool when my hand was hurt and I was well impressed!Dominic Bayley (PCWorld)
The affected Anker power bank model was sold between June 2016 and December 2022 on Amazon, Newegg, eBay, and Anker's store.Hans-Christian Dirscherl (PCWorld)
WWDC 2025: Accessibility, Labs, Developer Forums, Industry Trends, and Techopolis UpdatesTaylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
AI for accessibility sake is always a win.Simon Batt (XDA)
Matt Campbell
in reply to Alex Hall • • •It's disappointing that the screen reader doesn't work with the eShop. Also:
> Most games also don’t support system-level text-to-speech
implies that some games do. I wonder if third-party games can support that.