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OH SERIOUSLY! C’mon US federal government! The solution to a caregiver crisis in the US is Ai????? Good gosh this is utterly ridiculous. Hey federal government, I have an idea how to spend that money to help with the crisis of not having enough caregivers. I betcha that 2 million $ prize could be spent, I don’t know here, just spitballing it—on giving the caregivers a living wage and maybe benefits!!!

Oh I am so pissed. What a stupid idea. I guess anything to NOT pay a competitive wage though. Yikes.
@caregivers
@CindyWeinstein
disabilityscoop.com/2025/12/02…


To Address Disability Caregiver Crisis, Feds Look To AI - Disability Scoop

Federal health officials are launching a multimillion-dollar competition to attract new ideas for how technology can transform caregiving for people with disabilities and others.
Michelle Diament (Disability Scoop)
@(((Cindy Weinstein))) @Caregivers Only

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Today I fixed a couple edge cases in Godot's text edit widgets, set an initial focus for screen reader users in the editor (because otherwise focus is completely unset and you have to route to a control first) and labelled a few unlabelled buttons. Going to have to slow down on this project for a bit, but if I can maintain this pace and the quality is good, we could have a very accessible Godot 4.7.

Really felt great to see the text edit bugs fixed. Having written a screen reader myself, I know those are a particularly salty PITA. So easy to off-by-one in at least half a dozen different locations with those.

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What If We Threw Every Person Involved In Private Equity Into The Ocean
https://aftermath.site/splash-damage-layoffs-private-equity-wolfenstein-gears-of-war/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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What If We Threw Every Person Involved In Private Equity Into The Ocean

Just asking a question
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@latest-news-by-aftermath-Aftermath

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This will end well 😩

New report from AI No, written by Dr. Sofia Guerra @heidykhlaaf

Link: ainowinstitute.org/publication…

This report taxonomizes and assesses these nuclear “fast-tracking” initiatives. We examine their feasibility and their impact on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards3—and more largely society’s potential exposure to radiation levels—across three primary categories: Policy initiatives seeking to lower regulatory practices including long-established nuclear-safety and risk-analysis approaches, safety culture, acceptable risks, and thresholds in order to reduce timescales for the construction of civil and defense nuclear facilities The use of generative AI to expedite regulatory processes such as nuclear licensing and commissioning for both civil and defense nuclear facilities The promotion of advanced and new nuclear technologies that are contingent on novel or unmaterialized approaches and infeasible timescales

Fission for Algorithms: The Undermining of Nuclear Regulation in Service of AI - AI Now Institute

A report examining nuclear “fast-tracking” initiatives on their feasibility and their impact on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards.
Heidy Khlaaf (AI Now Institute)
@Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف)

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While visiting New Jersey in October, I learned about poppers. My gay buddy from high school told me about that. It's basically a gay party drug that shows up at clubs. I asked how one acquires the drug and was told, it's sold as certain types of nail polish remover. It can also be sold as VCR cleaner, but les often now that VCR's have been phased out. Apparently sniffing poppers to get high results in amazing sex. I would not know. i tried to find out more about the culture behind poppers online. But all I can find is articles explaining the risks associated with the usage of this so-called drug. Does anyone know anything about this phenomenon?
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Oh, true! Well, children: back in the day, whenever we wanted to watch a movie, we had to walk up hill, both ways, in six feet of snow, to go to a place called Blockbuster, so we could pay for a large rectangular object that sometimes contained a movie that we could only keep for two nights. Usually, though, it was broken. Anyway, when we finally arrived, a minimum wage employee would be rude to us while charging us $500 in late fees for the last movie we forgot to return, and then telling us they didn't have a copy of the movie we actually wanted to watch, so we'd have to watch American Chainsaw Ninja Robots XXVI instead. When we finally got the movie home, we'd have to engage in a ritual called "rewinding" in order to appease the Gods, so that they might allow us to actually watch it.

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Want to have a talking microwave to annoy the whole family? CNIB has one on sale now for 200 bucks. Because, I guess it didn't sell that well at 450. Man! cnibsmartlife.ca/products/cnib…

CNIB Talking Microwave - Non-Refundable

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Nolan Darilek

Svelte was one of the easiest frameworks to learn from my perspective, FWTW. Half the time I was like "WTF, I'm not learning something, I'm just doing a thing and you're telling me that because you have a compiler now it's reactive?" Can't say whether that'll be true for you too, but I think it being compiled/transpiled makes making things reactive more bearable than just trying to make it work directly in the browser. Really felt like I was writing HTML++ vs. learning some totally new way of doing things.

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A beautiful Jewish Indian song written in the 16th Century

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#Jewish #Mazeldon #Music #Indian


YONATI ZIV - A Tradisional Indian-Jewish Song (Piyut), Written By Rabbi Israel Najara!

If you want to hear more of my music, feel free to subscribe to my channel :)Lyrics: Rabbi Israel Najara (one of the greatest Paitanim of the 16th century).T...
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#music #jewish #Mazeldon #Indian

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Q: Oh no! Is AI gonna replace accessibility professionals any time soon?

A: No. It'll enable people to code apps that still break accessibility. Then when people try to chat with someone for help, it'll gatekeep with help articles and hallucinate a scenario in which it gave the email address the customer didn't provide to a live agent.

**Was this, article helpful?

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HEY CANADA.

MP Elizabeth May is sponsoring a petition to get Electoral Reform back in front of Parliament.

Could all of us who were utterly betrayed in 2016 when JT reneged on this please go put our electrons onto this one? yes, yes, the petitions don't mean a thing WILL happen, but there was already a good plan for this set out that got shelved. The longer we delay, the longer we risk what's happening in the US happening here.

ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet…

Petition e-6993 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca
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Johanna, CanCon variety

@hub Not sure I see how that applies? At least not any more than it does now, because, well, Ontario is the most populous province and you (very roughly) distribute seats based on population.

We just don't fill those seats anywhere near the same proportions as voters want.

PR is a broad range of specific systems that can be designed to account for regionality and context. The point of the petition is to get something other than FPTP see-sawing us back and forth.

@Hubert Figuière
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Johanna, CanCon variety

@hub

I mean, really, if you're bothered about "Ontario will control parliament", Alberta should never have let Pierre Poilievre show his face there. 🙄 Toxic partisanism, parachute candidates and FPTP are all sending us down the drain.

If anything, something like MMP would disempower partisanism, and let provinces be represented by multi-party regional blocks who have to *gasp* collaborate and govern!!!! Whoa.

@Hubert Figuière

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The first step is writing it all down.

Here's what sucks about networking on a #FreeBSD laptop if you have a dock

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FreeBSD Networking on a Laptop is Unpleasant

FreeBSD is maturing its support for laptops with the help of some of the new Linux compatibility work (using Linux WiFi drivers, sharing DRI for video, etc) but has a long way to go.
Makefile.feld
#freebsd
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Is it me, or is the new #Mastodon #quote feature the MOST USELESS tool ever to be designed? It overloads a button, making you take an extra tap to boost, not to mention having to read and target a new menu with a finger or a mouse? In case you didn't know, it is hidden under the boost button in the Web UI. It allows you to quote a whole toot, annotate the quote, and ask, if necessary, if the poster will allow you to do so. The poster can revoke permission.

...to quote something, copy and paste only the content you need. Be sure to include the user's handle if you want to attribute the quote.


Nobody that would abuse quoting, that is would misappropriate or twist a toot's meaning, would use the feature. They will copy and paste. This leaves the remainder of the community doing an extra tap, with the extra dexterity required for potentially challenged users, while trying to figure out why they would use the feature in the first place.

Boost for Sample Size when you vote, please!


#BoostingIsSharing #poll

#fediverse #write #author #writingCommunity #writersOfMastodon #writingCommunity

  • I've used the quote feature and like it. (33%, 20 votes)
  • I've used the quote feature and don't like it. (6%, 4 votes)
  • I've not used the quote feature. (35%, 21 votes)
  • What quote feature? (16%, 10 votes)
  • I left a comment. (6%, 4 votes)
59 voters. Poll end: 3 weeks ago

#fediverse #Mastodon #poll #writingcommunity #author #quote #boostingissharing #writersofmastodon #write
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Happy International Day of Persons with Disabilities!

This year's #IDPwD theme is: "Fostering #disability #inclusive societies for advancing social progress"

What better way than ensuring everyone has access to, and awareness of #Accessibility of technology.

* #NVDA is FREE for anyone
* Right now, get 10% off certification to show your skills (& cheap training materials to get you to that point)

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#DisabilityAwareness #Inclusion #IDPwD2025 #NVDA #Accessibility

Four people with different skin colours, standing in a circle with hands all in the centre, seen from above. Text above reads "International Day of Persons with Disabilities 3rd December 2025" and below is this year's theme: "Fostering disability inclusive societies for advancing social progress #IDPwD". Text is purple on white. Decorated with several faint NV Access sunburst designs in less crowded parts of the image.

International Day of Persons with Disabilities | United Nations

The International Day of Disabled Persons aims to promote the rights and well-being of persons with disabilities in all spheres of society and development.
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#Accessibility #Disability #nvda #inclusion #inclusive #IDPWD #disabilityawareness #idpwd2025

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NV Access

@J3317 Thanks for asking! NVDA will never be paid, for multiple reasons:
- NVDA is free & open source, licensed under GPL. Half our contributions are from the community so they would need to agree to a change of license.
- NV Access is a registered charity, overseen by a board of directors whose first "statement of purpose" is "To facilitate the development of open-source assistive technologies for blind and vision impaired people that are free of charge to the end user" nvaccess.org/about-nv-access/

NV Access | About NV Access

www.nvaccess.org
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NV Access

@J3317 We get income from a range of sources:
- Companies such as Microsoft, Google and Adobe who believe in what we do: They help fund us, and in return we give them our accessibility expertise - helping improve the accessibility of their products for everyone
- Private and corporate donations
- Sale of training material, NVDA Expert Certification and telephone support, both to individuals and corporate users
- Funding or support towards specific projects; our financial situation is healthy.
@Joshua

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Иногда вижу как кто-то заявляет, что несогласен и имеет на это право, на счет научной публикации. Хотя он некомпетентен что бы иметь мнение. Несогласие должно быть так же компетентно как заявление или публикация. В серьезном журнале вам даже могут отказать в публикации так как не смогли найти профильного рецензента. Потому, что твое несогласие как Васи вообще никого не волнует, если на другой чаше весов серьезный научный труд. Компетентность несогласия мало популяризируют как мнеикажется.

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I can recommend #Strasbourg as a great place to visit at Christmas time. The whole town centre is wonderful, with a selection of Christmas markets selling high quality food and gifts. Best of all, it's reachable by train from much of the UK in less than a day.

#ChristmasMarket
#TravelByTrain
#FlyFreeTravel

Christmas lights in the shape of barrels hanging above a narrow street A tree of blue lights. An illuminated cathedral spire reaches into the dark sky. A building illuminated in vivid red with gold lights strung across the street.
Christmas lights and a huge Christmas tree. Illuminated medieval buildings reflected in a still, dark river. A building illuminated with multicoloured lights.
#strasbourg #christmasmarket #travelbytrain #flyfreetravel
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If you're only going to follow people to promote your link to your Youtube, Go Fund Me, or anything else, then no, I will not accept your request. If we've been following each other for a while, we've talked, you seem cool, and you make a post saying "hey, I've done this cool thing," or "hey, I need help," then yeah of course I'll check it out and boost it!
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