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Open-mindedness is measured by how often one’s mind is changed, not by one’s willingness to debate.

—@maxleibman

“To raise awareness of her native language, 16-year-old Emma Stevens sang a version of The Beatles’ 1968 classic “Blackbird” in the Mi’kmaq language, an Eastern Algonquian language spoken by nearly 11,000 in Canada and the United States.”

https://www.openculture.com/2023/07/hear-the-beatles-blackbird-sung-in-the-indigenous-mikmaq-language.html

—@roannaflowers

July 17 is #AltTextCoverDay, we all know how important alt text is here, but did you know most book covers, including audiobook covers, never have alt text? Next monday, July 17, post the alt text of your books / your favorite book covers!

Reply to this post if blind and low vision folks can DM you for help getting alt text of their fave book covers to post.

#AltTextCoverDay #DisabilityPrideMonth #Books #bookstodon #AmWriting

—@JessMahler

All I have to say is, the alt-text on #SilentSunday pics are a thing of beauty all on their own. Many of you describe beautifully. That’s so freakin sexy.

—@ThisPlaceAgain

Citing someone’s “philanthropy” as a mitigating factor when they’ve committed horrible crimes is just another way of saying the law doesn’t apply to rich people

—@bootstheory

I went on the Digital Accessibility Podcast and we talked about burnout in the #a11y industry.

It’s on all major platforms, and YouTube: https://youtu.be/lChvjtGlg5E

It was interesting to record. Almost like therapy! If anything discussed resonates with you, my DM’s are open!

—@craigabbott

Okay, y’all. I’ve taken what I’ve learned while using #RSS over the last 23+ years and made a 4,000 word, information-packed, free, ad-free article:

– What is RSS?
– Finding and Using Site-Based RSS Feeds
– Finding and Using Keyword-Based RSS Feeds
– RSS Feed Readers
– RSS Feed Tools

If you’re looking for ways you can continue monitoring news and the web in a post-Twitter world, I think this will help.

Like this article? Please consider boosting it. Thank you.

https://researchbuzz.me/2023/07/06/rss-2/

—@researchbuzz

Earlier this year, we were talking on #ActuallyAutistic about people not respecting food allergies.
It’s on my mind because my 12yo niece’s best friend’s organs are being harvested tonight for donors.
She had a severe nut allergy, and on July 4th, someone, assuring her there were no nuts in it, gave her something made with peanut butter. She went into anaphylactic shock, then cardiac arrest, and was declared brain dead that night.
Her family is having a ceremony at the hospital tonight, as her friends and classmates say goodbye. Everyone is devastated. My niece has been friends with her since preschool.

—@n69n

Given the late stage of #capitalism we live in, I read every “Why as Mastodon failed” as “No private company has found a way of monetizing the platform and their users”, and I think that’s beautiful.

—@hk

When a woman like Sara Hossein speaks out at the UN against human rights abuse in Iran, and is disrupted by Iran, North Korea, Belarus, Russia, China, Syria,Venezuela, Cuba and Zimbabwe, you know every word is hitting home to the dictators club.

Full statement below.

#IRGCTerrorists
#StopExecutionsInIran
#MahsaAmini

https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements/2023/07/statement-ffm-chair-sara-hossain-53rd-session-human-rights-council

—@ProjectFearlessness

Testing! Testing! I’m not sure I’ve been doing this right. No one seems to see my posts….

I’d love to get this working because it allows longer posts than my other account.

Please boost if you see this! Help me federate!

—@cshlan

Someone linked to an obviously ChatGPT-generated article and I realized the thing which makes it so obvious is how much it resembles an uninspired attempt at the 5-paragraph essay form, including the horrid formulaic phrases (“There are several reasons why…” / etc.).

As someone who did forensics (the public-speaking kind, not the crime-scene investigation kind) in school and had to listen to way too many people stumbling through the oratorical equivalent of this, it’s A) always going to stand out and B) always going to make me wince.

—@ubernostrum

In case there was any doubt, Google’s privacy policy now explicitly states that it’s going to suck up all your data to train its AI https://www.pcgamer.com/in-case-there-was-any-doubt-googles-privacy-policy-now-explicitly-states-that-its-going-to-suck-up-all-your-data-to-train-its-ai/

—@digitaldutta

I know that a lot of people have no idea where food comes from or don’t have relationship with food other than it comes from groceries/restaurant/mother/wife. This. This is wild.

—@xgebi

As a Brit the name “GitHub” will never stop being amusing to me. (Git being British slang for a nasty, unpleasant person, generally a man.) So I’m like “GitHub? Sounds like some pubs I know, amirite?”

—@beecycling

Just what kind of nonsense is this? I’m shocked. I’ve had to reboot my brain twice when I saw this. Not only is it terrible for accessibility, but it is also stupid. Registration, I can mostly understand. Login is stretching it dangerously thin. But searching? What kind of questions are those, anyway? It wasn’t enough to ask to break our brain decrypting the first part of that ridiculous challenge? #accessibility #blind #captcha #disability #wtf

—@xogium

There’s this growing trend of certain video essayists (not naming names) editing things in a frenetic style with lots of flashing effects and quick cuts and it’s too much to handle as someone with #epilepsy

I expect nothing to change with big production media, but I’d hope smaller creators would have just a little consideration.

I swear one creator (or their editor idk) did it more in response to me saying it was too much for me to safely handle and just added a warning for flashing lights at the beginning.

I’m so tired. That warning might as well say “fuck you.”

—@Bec

Wild Geerters
@steinkobbe

The Elon fanboys have invented an alternative reality now where Elon personally created Twitter

https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1677659131166040066

—@davidgerard

What are people envisioning when they wring their hands about one or another social media service becoming an echo chamber?

When they say “you can’t expect to only see things you agree with” I feel like they’re imagining a spirited debate centering on a fringe take on NAFTA rather than like, you know, someone posting a picture of your front door with a Bowie knife plunged into it.

—@andrew