Assholes who make fun of people eulogizing their dogs: There aren't many places for folks to do that, and it's a big moment in some people's lives they weren't exactly ready for. So shut the hell up and let them do it.
Steve Faulkner
@stevefaulkner.eurosky.social
Accessibility is political✊ Working for the web, anywhere and everywhere 🖖🏽
“The ‘Disability Dongle’: Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and you.” by @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy: sightlessscribbles.com/disability-d... I’ve attached my disability dongle meme because yes. #accessibility #a11y
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 · yesterday"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"
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
War! What is it good for? Absolutely humongous oil company profits | First Dog on the Moon
Mission accomplished
theguardian.com
My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot
As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
theguardian.com
“Link + Popover Navigation” adrianroselli.com/2026/07/link... With `popover` support now extant, you can ditch the disclosure widget version and go JS-free. If you don’t like my layout choices (or SVGs), I link to variants from readers. There’s also a linked polyfill. #HTML #accessibility #a11y
Link + Popover Navigation
This is a redress of my 2019 post Link + Disclosure Widget Navigation, except (as the title implies), I’ve modified it to use native HTML popovers instead of ARIA or HTML disclosure widgets. Popover h...
adrianroselli.com
Massive heat wave, thousands dead, one of the worst fire seasons on record: 🦗🦗🦗. Morocco playing games amplified by Russian propaganda: 20 EU heads of state write outraged letters. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 This is how you lose a hybrid conflict.
Alice Stollmeyer@stollmeyer.eurosky.social · 5d agoUkraine Foreign Affairs Minister: "We have detected intensive Russian propaganda campaign across Europe using pictures from Ceuta to sow destabilisation." Far-right from EU (& US!) falls with open eyes for hybrid threats from the weaponisation of migration, even fan the flames. #unity #solidarity
"Bellingcat (…) published the walkthrough under the headline Who to Trust, Google or the Russian MoD? In 2015 that was a rhetorical question." www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
digitaldigging.org
wow i can't believe that mitch mcconnell died tomorrow
Apple workers could have gotten $4 MILLION each over 8 years. Instead, Apple spent $650 BILLION on stock buybacks. Shareholders got rich. Workers got nothing. This isn't investment. It's theft. Tax the rich.
alt text. 🤖 #a11y is political Tom Morrello with guitar on stage with the banner behind him reads “NAZI LIVES DON’T MATTER“ #fascism
The Mouthy Renegade Writer@mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 4d agoTom Morello from Rage Against the Machine has it figured out. I couldn't agree more. Fuck fascism.
Countries where it’s illegal to criticize the president: • Iran • China • Russia • North Korea • The United States
alt text. 🤖 #a11y is political Tom Morrello with guitar on stage with the banner behind him reads “NAZI LIVES DON’T MATTER“ #fascism
The Mouthy Renegade Writer@mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 4d agoTom Morello from Rage Against the Machine has it figured out. I couldn't agree more. Fuck fascism.
An LLM AIs does not "go rogue." It is instructed to perform a task. If the instructor leaves the front open and the LLM can perform the task best by working beyond the door, that's not "escaping containment," it's just following instructions. The instructor leaving the door open is the rogue here.
What Can’t I Press? now includes Orca keyboard shortcuts. #a11y github.com/ericwbailey/...
GitHub - ericwbailey/what-cant-i-press: ⌨️ Lists what keyboard shortcuts are claimed
⌨️ Lists what keyboard shortcuts are claimed. Contribute to ericwbailey/what-cant-i-press development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
Tell me nobody wants to use your product for anything of value without telling me.
Veerender Singh Jubbal@veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 5d ago
Sam: Team, we need to take back the spotlight, show the world our models are the best. Make them hack a few friendly companies. It can't look like we're hacking, and it sounds even better saying the models went rogue, and that's what we'll say. We've got the press release written, so get to work.
I am excited, going with my daughters to Amsterdam for 4 days tomorrow 🎈
Data centers Raise energy prices. Lower water pressure. Increase noise pollution. Raise temperatures. And don’t require large staff numbers. That is a fact. Not a theory.
🧍♀️ ARIA Testify free, open source, code now available: #a11y #testing #tools #ARIA github.com/stevefaulkne... youtu.be/prLFqx1fR-k
Black Grape - In The Name Of The Father
YouTube video by BlackGrapeVEVO
youtu.be
🧍♀️ ARIA Testify free, open source, code now available: #a11y #testing #tools #ARIA github.com/stevefaulkne... youtu.be/prLFqx1fR-k
Black Grape - In The Name Of The Father
YouTube video by BlackGrapeVEVO
youtu.be
NO, ADOBE, I DON'T NEED A FUCKING AI SUMMARY OF A CV. FUCK OFF. LITERALLY FUCK DIRECTLY OFF. I CANNOT KEEP SPENDING MY TIME DIP DODGING AROUND FORCED AI BOLLOCKS IN EVERY FUCKING APP I USE, EVERY DOCUMENT I READ, EVERY SITE I VISIT, EVERY APPLIANCE I TURN ON, FUCK OFF, FUCK OFF, FUUUUCKKK OFFFFFF
ariaNotify API works! Testing with a WCAG working example by @patrickhlauke.bsky.social, the video illustrates the messages being conveyed for an uploading document progress bar "0%, 15%, 35%, upload complete" This is captured by a small app I am building "ARIA Testify" #a11y youtu.be/uZNqBieAP3s
ARIA notifier
YouTube video by Steve Faulkner
youtu.be
"Everyone currently beating the drum for AI is, in effect, also saying: “Too bad about your environment, your intellectual property, your digital sovereignty, your employees, and your inability to get electricity for your new home.” Because apparently we simply have to press on."
Steve Faulkner@stevefaulkner.eurosky.social · 5d ago😱 AI: Considerations for people who make decisions "It’s genuinely amusing to ask AI vendors whether they’ll indemnify you against intellectual property claims arising from their output. Ask your legal department to look into it." #ai #llm #IP #theft berthub.eu/articles/pos...
😱 AI: Considerations for people who make decisions "It’s genuinely amusing to ask AI vendors whether they’ll indemnify you against intellectual property claims arising from their output. Ask your legal department to look into it." #ai #llm #IP #theft berthub.eu/articles/pos...
AI: Considerations for people who make decisions - Bert Hubert's writings
Recently I gave two presentations in quick succession to the Dutch Network of Government Service Providers and the Dutch Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation about AI. In these two ...
berthub.eu
I didn’t expect much, but I expected more than two people to get this t-shirt double reference. Three people genuinely thought it was the band alone. Also, I’m just flipping off people who wanted me to hurry up so they could pose by the sign. It’s not meant for you.
🌿 A new version of the Web Sustainability Guidelines is out! www.w3.org/TR/web-susta... Updates include: - Impact Measurement + Impact API - Lots of small tweaks following peer review - Improved tone of voice and readability, new introduction Changelog: github.com/w3c/sustaina...
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG)
Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG) provide actionable recommendations to help digital teams make informed, sustainable decisions. In considering different aspects of work and the web, these guideline...
w3.org
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
theguardian.com