Actress Hayden Panettiere has died, her representative confirms. She was 36 abcnews.com/US/hayden-pa...
Alexa Heinrich (she/her)
@alexaheinrich.bsky.social
Social media strategist and accessibility advocate. Creator of Accessible Social. Wealthy dragonfruit farmer in the Sims. TheRealAlexa.com/hello https://accessible-social.com/
“Developers are capable of incorporating privacy into the principles of inclusive design and using inclusive design to build their tools—particularly those they are going to market to the disability community—limiting the need for trade-offs. With its smart glasses, Meta has done neither…”
For Meta’s Smart Glasses, Access Is An Afterthought
Tech companies are using accessibility as a smoke screen to obfuscate the risks of AI wearables, writes Ariana Aboulafia.
techpolicy.press
My sanity is being held together by competitive improv dance videos and a new baby Pygmy hippo becoming internet famous every few months.
Welp. Sometime between this morning and now, the rabbits stripped every bean and nearly all the leaves off our seven green bean plants. Now I get why so many home gardeners plant pole beans instead of bush beans. 🥴
Hope even more service members are now waking up to the fact that Trump and his administration do not care about them. That decrepit old man sees them as nothing but battle fodder. Shameful.
It's maddening that I still experience imposter syndrome on a near-daily basis while we have the most incompetent assclowns running the country (into the ground) right now.
Karoline Leavitt? More like Karoline Leaving, amiright? I’m sorry, I’m done now. 😅
WASHINGTON (AP) — Peggy Flanagan wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Minnesota.
Our garden has reached "ask the neighbors if they want any" status. 🙌
Caught two live frogs at the neighborhood pool today after they hopped in the water, so yeah, I was the most popular person for like five minutes for half a dozen children. For whatever reason, they couldn't believe that I had dove under the water to catch them. 🐸
"No one wants to work anymore," cries the CEO who thinks replacing half their workforce with AI is a good idea. 🫠
How embarrassing it is, for a former superpower, to waste «virtually all» of its stockpile on a war it never actually needed to wage. Wasting in months of meaningless conflict, what will take years to replenish.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago"The Army has used up 'virtually all' of its stockpile of highly accurate long-range missiles during its five-month war with Iran, raising concerns about the military's readiness for future conflicts"
Blocking all the “influencers” who went on the OpenAI summer camp trip was almost as satisfying as not knowing who any of them are. 😅
Activist and grassroots organizer Will Lawrence has won the Democratic primary election in Michigan’s 7th Congressional District, with a campaign focused on data centers’ regulation and demanding accountability for big tech and AI companies. www.wired.com/story/anti-d...
The Anti-Data-Center Movement Is Reshaping Michigan Politics
Climate activist Will Lawrence cofounded the Sunrise Movement. Now, he has shifted his focus in his attempt to compete for a swing-district seat by calling for a data center moratorium.
wired.com
I can't remember the last time I didn't feel overstimulated or overwhelmed. Hate that for me. 🫠
Wait, doesn't Chicago already have universal pre-K? I could have sworn it did, so I'm confused by Giannoulias making that a platform position. Maybe I'm misremembering from when I lived in the city.
Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois' Secretary Of State, Enters Chicago Mayor's Race
Long rumored to be eyeing a run for City Hall, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias announced Sunday that he's jumping into the mayor's race. Giannoulias has amassed a massive political war c...
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LOL so I'm just now realizing that Sadie Sink is a real person and not some character Marvel created. That name just sounds like a comic book character to me!
If I get on a plane and someone starts spewing their religious propaganda, I’m going to loudly reenact this scene from Saved! until they stop.
Saved! Cassandra Speaking in Tongue
YouTube video by Jennifer McCombs
youtu.be
Representatives for Taylor Farms called the White House to try to delay a recall tied to one of the largest foodborne illness outbreaks in U.S. history www.wsj.com/health/taylo...
A dark money campaign is offering influencers $1,500 per post to attack Abdul El-Sayed and support Haley Stevens. Same exact dollar figure that was paid to attack @katmabu.bsky.social (Nobody ever found out who was paying for that campaign.) Gross, lazy and above all cynical shit.
Secret paid influencer campaign backing Stevens floods Michigan Senate race
Rep. Haley Stevens and the Senate Democratic PAC said they were not involved in the effort to pay for user-generated content endorsing her.
ms.now
Told my dad about Alan Ritchson’s recent podcast interview where he ripped into Trump. “This is why he’s the best Jack Reacher. And he’s good at whooping Nazi ass too!” Safe to say that Dad is a big fan. 😂
The great congresswoman from the Bronx, @aoc.bsky.social, brought the heat in Michigan! Grateful to have her voice, vision, and support. This movement is of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Look, wealthy people who possess a modicum of integrity! More millionaires and billionaires like this, please!
More than 100 UK millionaires ask new PM Andy Burnham to tax them more
The 'Patriotic Millionaires' say 'wealth and power have been concentrated in a small group for too long'.
aljazeera.com
Correct language: "OpenAI at fault" If an AI tech firm says its "AI went rogue", let's be clear. The AI tech firm is at fault for designing a dangerous product, in the same way a car manufacturer is at fault for designing a dangerous car. The car itself is not at fault. www.bbc.com/news/article...
OpenAI says its AI went rogue and launched 'unprecedented' cyber-attack
It is one of the first publicly disclosed cyber-attacks carried out by AI without direct human involvement.
bbc.com
Closed up our basement grow room like I do every night. Came upstairs, walked into my bedroom, and was hit with the overwhelming feeling that I had accidentally trapped my cat in the groom room.
I would say that Trump should eat some lettuce from Taylor Farms to prove it's safe, but we all know that man shits his pants several times a day now.
This shit with Taylor Farms is exactly what I’m talking about when I say you may say you “don’t do politics,“ but politics are more than happy to do you. The microbes political bribes got out the door and into your intestines don’t particularly care that you find it all beneath you.