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#a11y #Accessibility #AI #AIhype

I honestly think that AI does accelerate writing work but not in the way you think. Because it eases cognitive burden, it allows writers to create without burning out. Writers like me, anyway, whose day job involves writing cognitively demanding copy about high technical concepts 😅.

In the past, my work to so much of cognitive and creative energy out of me that there's often nothing left for my personal creative work. So I often have to sacrifice my personal writing. But due to the ability of AI to now help me with things that drain me, I can focus things that matter to me.

I like writing so yeah AI is never gonna take that away from me. (That's part of the reason why I don't pay for AI services because I don't really rely on it to generate much text.

(Writers often subscribe to models if they want to generate a lot of text as the free versions do not generate a large amount of text.) The open source Deep Seek is enough for me, because I use it mostly for planning and detail oriented work like editing. I also realize that I like to dictate my writing and I often use AI to help me organize my thoughts. And then I fix it by rewriting it. This has accelerated my blogging and writing.

Oddly I can't do it with fiction 😆. I usually use story beats to flesh out my chapter, and then use AI as a sophisticated swipe file to start my writing. And yes, I still write my fiction with my own fingers!

With that cognitive savings I gained from using AI, I could now write fiction, or my newsletters and #Cdrama reviews without feeling like I am draining my brain dry or burn out every month.

So I think AI doesn't exactly accelerate my work. It enables me to produce more because I no longer am exhausted as quickly or as often.

#Ai #Writing #Blogging

#AI #writing #blogging #CDrama

#foss #opensource #AI #eurollm

#programming #AI #opinion #programmingrant

For me it's even worse, because i not only got that in the 90's, i also grew up in the 70's during the oil crisis. Speed limits were lowered to 55 mph to save gas, fuel efficiency standards were first introduced, President Jimmy Carter had solar panels installed on the White House roof and addressed the nation on TV about saving energy while wearing a sweater so the White House thermostat could be set lower in the winter, and all the schools had stickers on the light switches reminding you to turn the lights off when leaving a classroom empty. Energy conservation was huge when i was growing up. Now it's "go ahead and use enough electricity to power a house for a month so you can make a video of a three eyed cat playing a banjo"

#AI #energy

Post from Jie (they/them) Seeing the absurd electricity usage by AI after growing up in the 90's surrounded by campaigns telling us not to leave the lights on when we leave the room, to save power and help the environment ... like ... I cannot begin to explain how much this breaks my brain.
#AI #energy

#AI #Browsers are like Candy Land for data miners and a nightmare for privacy nowadays.
#AI #browsers

#webdev #AI #Internet

I just published a new piece: “Why Can’t Everything Be Accessible?”
Accessibility isn’t complicated—it’s ignored. We’ve failed to teach, enforce, and value inclusion in tech.
Developers, educators, governments, and companies all have a role to play.
Read and share if you believe accessibility should be for everyone:
taylorarndt.substack.com/p/why…
#Accessibility #Inclusion #A11y #DigitalAccessibility #DisabilityRights #TechForGood #AI #InclusiveDesign

Why Can’t Everything Be Accessible?

Every day, millions of people are left behind by technology that was never built with them in mind.
Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
#a11y #Accessibility #AI #inclusion #disabilityrights #inclusivedesign #techforgood #digitalaccessibility

#AI #reddit #publicsafety

If someone keeps saying #AI is just "fancy autocomplete", they A) don't understand a thing about LLM's; and B) they have never brainstormed a naming idea with #ChatGPT.
#AI #chatgpt

#Accessibility #AI #inclusion #techethics #facerecognition

#AI #jobsecurity #goldenage #economiccomparison #techbubble

Here’s an interesting tech tip, that literally just came to me this morning as I was playing with Gemini. how to add the current date to your chat, to help keep things organized.
Prompt the model to automatically add the current date to the top of every new chat session. This small tweak makes referencing past discussions much more efficient. No complex settings are needed, just a straightforward instruction. As an example, I told Gemini to remember to put the date as the first line in every chat. Now, when I prompt it for something, it will automatically place today’s date in the very first line, allowing me to truly keep track of when I last updated a chat. Any subsequent prompts in the conversation, are not prefix with today’s date. Only the very first line. even better, you only have to tell it to remember one time. I’m sure you could do this with ChatGPT as well. #AI, #Gemini
#gemini #AI

"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."

-- Nick Clegg

#AI #AIcon #exploitation #BigTech

The Verge headline: "Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would 'kill' the AI industry."
#AI #bigtech #exploitation #aicon

De opleidingscommissie van de Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap aan Universiteit Gent besliste om het gebruik van generatieve #AI voor bachelor- en masterproeven dit academiejaar te verbieden. Maar die beslissing wordt van hogerhand teruggefloten. #UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt voor alle opleidingen.

apache.be/2025/10/08/ugent-ver…


UGent verbiedt verbod op AI aan filosofievakgroep

UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt ook voor opleidingen die bezwaren uiten.
apache.be
#AI #ugent

As an experiment, I am quite literally #vibeCoding an #accessibility mod for a game. I'm about 90% of the way there (AI is making a mess of things but even a broken clock is right twice a day), and so far, I have spent a grand total of six dollars, and maybe about a half an hour of work.
But sure, keep telling me making things #accessible is too expensive, takes too much time and doesn't need priority.
Want to force #developers to use #AI? Do me a favor, force them to use it for this as well while you're busy making their lives miserable :P #rant
#Accessibility #accessible #AI #rant #developers #vibecoding

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#a11y #Accessibility #AI #coding #coq #codex

Outre la douleur et le dégoût bien compréhensibles exprimés ici par Zelda Williams (fille de Robin Williams), je trouve sa définition de l'IA générative particulièrement bien trouvée :

"Human Centipede of Content".

#ai #generativeAI #genai

Capture d'écran d'une "story" de Zelda Williams (fille de Robin Williams) sur Instagram, dont voici la traduction française : "S'il vous plaît, arrêtez de m'envoyer des vidéos IA de Papa. Arrêtez de croire que je veux les voir ou que je vais comprendre, ce n'est pas le cas et ça ne le sera jamais. Si vous essayez juste de me troller, j'ai vu bien pire, je vais vous bloquer et passer à autre chose. Mais s'il vous plaît, si vous avez un minimum de décence, arrêtez de lui faire ça, à lui, à moi, à tout le monde même, point final. C'est stupide, c'est une perte de temps et d'énergie, et croyez-moi, ce n'est PAS ce qu'il voudrait. Voir l'héritage de personnes réelles réduit à « ça leur ressemble vaguement, donc ça suffit », juste pour que d'autres puissent produire d'horribles vidéos TikTok en les manipulant comme des marionnettes, c'est insupportable. Vous ne faites pas de l'art, vous fabriquez des hot-dogs industriels dégoûtants à partir de la vie d'êtres humains, de l'histoire de l'art et de la musique, puis vous nous en gavez de force en espérant qu'on vous donnera un petit pouce levé et un "J'aime". Ca me dégoûte."
Seconde capture de la "story" Instagram de Zelda Williams, dont voici la traduction française : "Et pour l'amour de TOUT, arrêtez d'en parler comme de « l'avenir ». L'IA ne fait que recycler et régurgiter le passé pour qu'il soit consommé à nouveau. Vous ne faites que reprendre ce que vous donne ce "Human Centipede" du contenu, et vous vous trouvez au bout du bout de la chaîne, tandis que ceux qui sont au début rigolent bien, et consomment et brûlent tout."
#AI #generativeAI #genai

#AI #EU #chatgpt

#technology #AI #cybersecurity #curl #bugs #HackerNews #sast

So I found the secret to getting Google to listen to us! See, you have to join their Discord servers lol.

So Gemini on Android is less accessible with TalkBack than Gemini on iOS or even Gemini on the web. And I'm tired as fuck of sucky ass technology shit for the day just trying to do BSI on this iPhone because obviously having both hands on either side of the screen is having more than 3 fingers on a single side of the screen or some bullshit. Crem of the storming crem, Apple. So St'm not going into detail about the issue here because anyone who's kept up with the complaining I do knows the issue. Anyway, so I join the Gemini Discord, and I thought I'd posted that issue months ago, but apparently not. I know I reported it from the feedback part of the Gemini settings, but this is just proof that they don't read that shit.

So I post the bug report in the bug channel, and within a good hour or 2 I get a reply. Because of course. Now Google, make a TalkBack Discord server lol. Fucking insane. But yeah y'all if you have issues with Gemini, go to their Discord lol.

#google #accessibility #ai #blind

#Accessibility #google #blind #AI

#AI #math #alphaproof #leanprover #itp

Hi everyone, an exciting announcement today - we've released our first 64-bit alpha build, which ALSO includes on-device AI image captioning. For the full details and the caveats - please see this post in the NVDA user group: groups.google.com/a/nvaccess.o…

(Also, in response to a couple of questions:
- The keystroke for image captioning is NVDA+Windows+comma
- And yes, you can setup the new alpha as a portable copy rather than installing it).

#NVDA #NVDAsr #AI #ImageDescription #Image #64bit

NVDA 64-bit with on-device image description alpha build now available

groups.google.com
#nvdasr #AI #image #nvda #imagedescription #64bit

#labor #AI

So today I needed an interface with a few intentional accessibility errors that I wanted to show for a demo. It didn't need to actually work, I just needed to briefly record the effect of a particular issue. So I used #AI to vibe code it for me. It was perfect! Within fifteen minutes I had an inaccessible interface that didn't work right! Exactly what I wanted! No, but on a more serious note, it was impressive that it did manage to build in exactly the flaws I asked it for (and some bonus other flaws), and it was full fledged enough that I could show the issue I wanted to demonstrate without writing any code myself. I do find it somewhat ironic, though, that this is easily going to become the way I most frequently use AI at work, and it's going to save me a ton of time and effort.
#AI

#AI #un #artificialintelligence #unitednations

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on #AI:

[T]he AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain, NFTs, AI, and now "super-intelligence." Further: the topline growth that AI companies are selling comes from replacing most workers with AI, and re-tasking the surviving workers as AI babysitters ("humans in the loop"), which won't work. Finally: AI cannot do your job, but an AI salesman can 100% convince your boss to fire you and replace you with an AI that can't do your job, and when the bubble bursts, the money-hemorrhaging "foundation models" will be shut off and we'll lose the AI that can't do your job, and you will be long gone, retrained or retired or "discouraged" and out of the labor market, and no one will do your job. AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:

pluralistic.net/2025/05/27/ran…

The only thing […] that we can do about this is to puncture the AI bubble as soon as possible, to halt this before it progresses any further and to head off the accumulation of social and economic debt. To do that, we have to take aim at the material basis for the AI bubble (creating a growth story by claiming that defective AI can do your job).


This and more: pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/eco…

(via mas.to/@BruceMirken/1152796148… @BruceMirken)

Bruce Mirken (@BruceMirken@mas.to)

THIS, from the irreplaceable @pluralistic@mamot.fr : "#AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." https://pluralistic.
mas.to
#AI @Cory Doctorow @Bruce Mirken

I forgot that I did eventually edit the first line of the book. It was originally, "I did not want to write this book."

Disabling Intelligences eBook is available now link.springer.com/book/10.1007…

Image text : I’ll be honest. When thinking about what books might live in me, this was never one of them. It was certainly not the book I thought I would write first. I never wanted to become known for artificial intelligence (AI) criticism at all. I want to sit in a lab and tinker with tech, building little gadgets that delight my disabled kin. I want to maintain surreptitious code bases of free little hacks that disrupt our perpetually inaccessible and downright-hostile world. I want to share disabled DIY specs through crumpled little zines posted in libraries and coffee houses. I want to run a free digital manufacturing center just for disabled people to come and build exactly what they want without a doctor, insurance company, or bank account telling them what body they’re allowed to have.
But in order to do that, I have to fight the inadequacies in technology policy and medical care. And in order to do that, I have to fight the AI industrial complex. Because underneath every insurance rejection is a predictive algorithm, behind every assistive technology is a data collection scheme, and now, behind every technology policy is an AI hype man.

#AI #AIhype #Disability #eugenics #metaeugenics

Image text : I’ll be honest. When thinking about what books might live in me, this was never one of them. It was certainly not the book I thought I would write first. I never wanted to become known for artificial intelligence (AI) criticism at all. I want to sit in a lab and tinker with tech, building little gadgets that delight my disabled kin. I want to maintain surreptitious code bases of free little hacks that disrupt our perpetually inaccessible and downright-hostile world. I want to share disabled DIY specs through crumpled little zines posted in libraries and coffee houses. I want to run a free digital manufacturing center just for disabled people to come and build exactly what they want without a doctor, insurance company, or bank account telling them what body they’re allowed to have. But in order to do that, I have to fight the inadequacies in technology policy and medical care. And in order to do that, I have to fight the AI industrial complex. Because underneath every insurance rejection is a predictive algorithm, behind every assistive technology is a data collection scheme, and now, behind every technology policy is an AI hype man.

Disabling Intelligences

This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.
SpringerLink
#AI #Disability #AIhype #eugenics #MetaEugenics

Has anyone looked at whether using #AI for coding will hold back adopting of new (improved) language tools and standards?

For example, #Drupal has used annotations for plugins for years, while #PHP attributes are the new preferred syntax. AIs are trained off of code of the past, which for plugins was all annotations until attributes were introduced. Does that mean the stochastic coding parrot will continue to suggest annotations because of their stronger weight in the training set?

#AI #php #drupal

Re last: Waiting waiting waiting! Waiting and looking forward! Given that most of news sites are accessibility nightmare, a morning brief from #ChatGPT would be an absolutely awesome feature. #AI
#AI #chatgpt

The 10GW data center deal between #Nvidia and #OpenAI seems even crazier when you put it into perspective. Czechia, home to 11 million people and an industrialized economy, has an average electricity consumption of 7 GW. The government subsidizes electromobility and encourages people to insulate their houses, yet it allows this. I hope the #AI bubble bursts before it causes real environmental damage.
#AI #nvidia #openai

Nvidia: AI’s Powerhouse, But Is It Too Late to Buy?

Nvidia dominates the AI GPU market with 90%+ share, fueling record revenue growth and becoming Wall Street’s AI darling. With data center demand exploding, long-term growth looks massive but sky-high valuation and rising competition make it a high-risk, high-reward bet.

#Nvidia #AI #Stocks #Investing #Tech #Semiconductors #WallStreet #GrowthStocks #NVDA #AIRevolution #TECHi

Read Full Article Here :- techi.com/nvidia-stock-2025-ai…

Nvidia Stock Prediction: Is It a Smart Buy or Risky Bet for AI-Fueled Growth? - TECHi

Nvidia stock has soared thanks to its dominance in AI, but with high valuation and competition, is it still a smart buy? Discover if Nvidia remains the top stock to hold for 2025 and beyond.
Fatimah Misbah Hussain (TECHi)
#AI #tech #nvidia #nvda #stocks #investing #wallstreet #semiconductors #airevolution #Techi #GrowthStocks

#AI #meta #artificialintelligence #MetaAI

Oh no. This doesn't seem quite ... right.

#AI #LLM

Text reads: Google search bar: “how to clean a rescued pigeon” Al Overview Pigeons are usually clean, even wild ones. You can try these steps to clean a rescued pigeon: • Remove the label • Remove the head • Make a small incision in the wing and snap to join •Cut off the wing •Remove the legs • Clean the top bone
#AI #llm

#Accessibility #AI #screenreaders @Craig Abbott

#AI #ki #curl #slug

#AI

I have finally moved over to Linux as my primary platform. In many ways it is like coming home, as I loved working on UNIX machines in the past. Of course, I have been using Linux as a secondary OS for a long time, but I finally made the switch. Microsoft cancelling Windows 10 and the direction Windows 11 is going was just too much for me.

@ruario helped the transition, by making it easy for me to work with multiple concurrent @Vivaldi installs.
That is a must for me as I test a lot of builds at the same time.

#Windows #Linux #computing #Technology #AI #Vivaldi

#linux #technology #Windows #AI #computing #vivaldi @Vivaldi Browser @Ruarí Ødegaard

I'm so glad #PHP foundation collaborates with #Symfony and #Anthropic, an official #MCP SDK is a great thing to have. #AI
#AI #php #symfony #anthropic #MCP

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