*nodding solemnly with full comprehension* yes, I see. there’s a special kind of kid who can’t play sports or go to the bathroom
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Huge nerd https://bookmaniac.org Grassroots Open Assistive Tech https://www.openassistivetech.org
GOAT Space is OPEN! 10-4 today,! DM me, ring the doorbell, etc. Doorbell is on the gate on 10th Street in Oakland, behind the Bookmark Bookstore. Free wheelchair cushions, seat backs, and footrests! #GOATspace #OpenAssistiveTech #DisabilityJustice #wheelchairs #Oakland
Argh, my nonprofit, GOAT's, powerchair motor controller research just got our Anthropic account cancelled. We are not exactly nefarious hackers, just using the open r-net library to analyze the log files of our own wheelchairs!! Anyone have a contact at Anthropic I can talk with? Thanks!
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Miles and Miles of Protest in Bolivia as Miners and Unions March Against Privatization and Low Wages | Common Dreams
Thousands of miners and workers march in Bolivia, facing fuel shortages and threats to indigenous lands. Will their voices be heard? Join the fight for fair wages, land rights, and basic necessities. ...
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Grant opportunities for disability & tech projects/nonprofits! www.openassistivetech.org/new-grant-op... Talk with me if you are interested! #DisabilityJustice #AssistiveTech #Accessibility #Grants #funding
New grant opportunities for disability justice nonprofits! – GOAT
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Let the ais have goblins and pigeons! Have you no soul
Here is an AI trained just using text from 1931 or earlier, which leads to a lot of interesting experiments: can the model independently develop later inventions? Can it learn to code from examples alone? You can talk to the model here: talkie-lm.com/chat Details here: talkie-lm.com/introducing-...
Parallel Agents just shipped. Mix and match any agent, run them all at once, and manage everything from a new Threads Sidebar. Claude Agent, Codex, Zed's agent, or anything on ACP. One window, across all your projects. zed.dev/blog/paralle...
New grant opportunity for disability & tech nonprofit organizations or programs: www.openassistivetech.org/new-grant-op...
New grant opportunities for disability justice nonprofits! – GOAT
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have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't
Truly disheartening to learn that even the far side of the moon isn't far enough to get away from him
Awkward scenes aboard Artemis II as Trump stops ranting and none of the astronauts have anything left to say to him, leading to extended dead air
Update: the Tennessee House passed HB 754, which will create a public list of trans residents, by a party-line vote of 70-21 this morning. Shortly before its passage, Republicans, again on party lines, rejected Democrats' attempt to remove the provisions that collect and publish trans people's data.
Aleksandra Vaca@transiticsnews.com · 5mo ago1. Yesterday, Tennessee Republicans advanced a bill that will create a public list of the state’s trans people. HB 754 forces medical providers to hand trans people’s medical information over to the state government, allowing the state to identify them. transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-...
4. Finally, this sensitive data will be released to the public as part of a “comprehensive annual statistical report,” posing a risk to the privacy and safety of trans Tennesseans. HB 754 is quite possibly the most dangerous anti-trans bill proposed so far. It must be defeated before it’s too late.
3. All four of these things are considered to be “individually identifiable” information under HIPAA, as they are specific enough to allow a a person’s identity to be discerned. As such, it will essentially allow the state to create a list of trans Tennesseans, exposing them to state surveillance.
2. The information HB 754 would collect includes the date of a trans person’s gender-affirming care appointment, the person’s county of residence, the name and contact information of their healthcare provider, and a list of all the mental health diagnoses they have ever received.
1. Yesterday, Tennessee Republicans advanced a bill that will create a public list of the state’s trans people. HB 754 forces medical providers to hand trans people’s medical information over to the state government, allowing the state to identify them. transitics.substack.com/p/tennessee-...
Tennessee Republicans Advance Bill That Will Create a Public List of the State’s Trans People
House Bill 754 forces medical providers to hand trans people’s medical information over to the state, allowing the state to identify them. And under the bill, the data will be released to the public.
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Tune Up Tuesday -- like a day spa for wheelchairs - at the Disability Cultural Center! www.openassistivetech.org/tune-up-tues... Our next one will be April 7th!
Tune Up Tuesday at the DCC – GOAT
Our March Tune Up was at the Disability Cultural Center in SF. Now that we have a regular monthly cadence for these events, I printed and distributed flyers to pass out on the street.
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HIM: AHOY! HER: AUGH! Do you MIND? I'm breast-feeding my chickens here! HIM: Sorry. I'm Richard Bissell, author of A STRETCH ON THE RIVER and co-author of THE PAJAMA GAME. My new book is a fresh and original story about a river that rises, floods a farm house and ruins everyone's pajamas!
Just in case people are unaware of the history of this, this song explains how it all started. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bNy...
Afroman - Will You Help Me Repair My Door (Official Video)
YouTube video by AfromanVEVO
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Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 5mo ago
Joyce Ng has gone missing. She is an open source and open hardware advocate and fights peacefully against the rise of Christian right-wing nationalism. There is reason to fear she has been apprehended by authorities: social.coop/@cwebber/116...
Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber@social.coop)
Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl@chaos.social (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely eve...
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Fun & weird! R.U.Sirius interview with science fiction writer Joan Slonczewski: magazine.mindplex.ai/post/ai-pers... #microbiology #ScienceFiction #AI
AI Personhood… Now? Minds In Transit with Joan Slonczewski
A microbiologist who writes best selling sci-fis argues AI may deserve rights today! Joan Slonczewski’s strange universe—talking microbes, shared cognition, and ethical machines—pushes the debate far ...
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Tune-Up Tuesday! Free wheelchair repair DIY, inspection, maintenance, how to make accessories, and more. Free toolkits you can take home. Next week at the Disability Cultural Center in SF 2:30-4:30pm. We'll be hosting these monthly! disabilityculturalcenter.org/event/tune-u...
Tune-Up Tuesday – Disability Cultural Center
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Current mood, from that fucking article about women scientists and misogynist horribleness in epstein files (19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...) youtu.be/Q-7-DDgUh_E?... #FuckTheseFuckingFascists
The Muslims - "Fuck These Fuckin Fascists"
YouTube video by Epitaph Records
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The UK just proposed new school guidance that effectively bans even social transition for trans students (using a different name, pronoun or haircut). It implements a full bathroom ban while requiring mandatory outing of trans youth if a teacher suspects they are trans. www.bbc.com/news/article...
'Vast majority' of parents should be involved if children question gender, schools told
School leaders welcome the "greater clarity" on how to handle the polarising issue for parents and pupils.
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