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From https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/05/02/a-siri-bug-in-the-ios-1641-calendar-app-is-causing-problems-for-vision-impaired?utm_medium=rss

Naturally, sighted people can just allow Siri to set the event on the wrong day and correct it later manually, but this is not an option for the visually disabled.

*sigh* Okay. Figures. Just keep on telling people that all blind people can do with their iPhone is talk to Siri. So tiring and insulting. Like yes this bug is important. Yes it should be fixed. But blind people have got to be able to use VoiceOver if Siri doesn’t work, or breaks, or can’t read your voicemail, or whatever Apple does to it.

#blind #accessibility

—@devinprater

For all of my friends out there who like whacky or unusual audio related content, I found this on a completely unrelated Google search. Such a cool idea!! https://youtu.be/hRnqQgjhlrg

—@ladymunch

Ducklings! First five to hatch, maybe a few more to come. #hatch #smallholding #HobbyFarm #cute

—@ScotHomestead

Being different isn’t a bad thing. It means you’re brave enough to be yourself.✨✨✨✨

—@Quietgirl82

#Introduction. My name is Lulu Hartgen. I live in the UK. I manage an internet radio station, Team-FM. I am happily married. I love playing Mud games, reading and I collect dolls. I look forward to meeting many people here!

—@lulu_bear

In 1997, Jorn Barger coined the term “web-log” to describe his website “Robot Wisdom,” where he logged his journeys around this exciting new digital space called “the web.” Two years later, @peterme shortened “web-blog” to “#blog“:

https://peterme.com/archives/00000205.html

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If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/02/wunderkammer/#jubillee

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—@pluralistic

(Don’t talk to me about shopping at Walmart unless you’re prepared to subsidize my groceries somewhere else. Disabled people in America are kept poor on purpose as public policy.)

—@amaditalks

Happy birthday to this snoot. I hope the rest of him is having a good day, too.

#Dachshund

—@ross

Is there an organized group in Florida that is submitting book removals for any all books containing girls playing with dolls and other cis behaviors, any mention of hetero-parental relationships, and all mentions of white-on-white friendships? There should be.

If you can’t talk about gender, sex, or race, that should apply to ALL talk of these topics, not just the topics “mothers of liberty” (or whatever that fascist group’s name is) disagree with.

—@estelle

“Here’s Why Human Sex Is Not Binary

Ova don’t make a woman, and sperm don’t make a man

(…) when someone (…) argues that legal and social policy should be “rooted in properties of bodies,” they are not really talking about gametes and sex biology. They are arguing for a specific political, and discriminatory, definition of what is “natural” and “right” for humans based on a false representation of biology. Over the past few centuries this process of misrepresentation of biology was, and still is, used to deny women rights and to justify legal and societal misogyny and inequity, to justify slavery, racialization, racism and to enforce multiple forms of discrimination and bias. Today dishonest ascriptions of what biology is are being deployed to restrict women’s bodily autonomy, target LGBTQIA+ individuals broadly and, most recently, attack the rights of transexual and transgender people.”

🔗: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-why-human-sex-is-not-binary/

#sex #gender #biology #nonbinary #WomenRights #LGBTQIA+ #trans

—@NatalieDavis

The best takedown of Elon’s plan to let publishers charge per-story you’ll read.

Joshua Benton at Nieman Lab, summing up Elon barging in to two decades of conversation about media micropayments. (emphasis mine):

> Nearly all news sites will let a random web user read a story (or two, or five) for free. It’s only after a given number of clicks that the wall goes up.
> If you want to think of that as “news sites already offer micropayments for those first five articles — they’ve just set the price at $0,” be my guest. And for those times when someone really wants to read just one article, that free allotment allows all the paywall workarounds that the savvy digital news consumer knows about. (We’re all adults here; we can talk about incognito windows.) If most paywalls aren’t that hard, there’s little pressure for a paid product to get around them on a single story.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/05/micropayments-elon-musk-thinks-hes-got-a-major-win-win-for-news-publishers-with-micropayments/

—@nilay_patel

Reminder: almost every trans person is having well deserved mental breakdowns right now. It’s not you. You don’t suck. You are not ugly or bad or worthless. Society is fucking evil. And the rest of us all love you.

Perhaps it’s toxic positivity, I know it’s not okay. But you don’t have to suffer alone.

—@CharlotteEowyn

WPSpeakers is a free database of speakers available for WordPress meetups, WordCamps, and other events. Add yourself as a speaker or find one for your event. I couldn’t afford to sponsor this cool site, but I did chip in for the speaker tip jar. You can too! Let’s fill up that tip jar! Thanks to @michellefrechette for creating this site. https://wpspeakers.com/ #WordPress

—@donnacavalier

Welcoming signal boosts: Come work on my team!

We are hiring a Senior Digital Security Trainer. You’ll work with journalists, media organizations, whistleblowers and other mission-aligned groups to develop their digital security hygiene.

Many of us have nontraditional backgrounds in security, so we intend to cast a wide net. Even if you don’t think you fully match the job description, if you’re excited about it we want to hear from you. Apply by 5/15! https://grnh.se/4bd2fe535us

—@mshelton