How Urban Areas Are Being Sliced to Tilt the House

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Via @elenashao.bsky.social and Nick Corasaniti

The Onion Signs New Deal to Take Over Infowars A new deal, which would allow The Onion to use the Infowars name and website address, must be approved by a Texas judge.

The Onion has to convert Infowars into a parody of itself: licensing the website from the site's court-appointed manager. Here's how it would work, and what would need to happen for it to become reality. nyti.ms/425AbUV

Everyone who works on a website has a role to ensure the site and its content are accessible. This resource from Vox Media breaks down some accessibility tasks by job role, including content creators, designers, developers, project managers, and testers.

accessibility.voxmedia.com

a legal mess, surely

conversation with Claude user: what data would ya say you yourself most passively collect, homeslice? Claude: Honestly? Within a single conversation, I take in everything you give me - your writing style, vocabulary, how you phrase things, what topics you care about. I'm picking up on all of that just by you talking to me. But here's the thing - I don't retain any of it. Once our conversation ends, it's gone. I have no memory of you next time you start a fresh chat. So it's less "passive collection" and more "passive observation that evaporates" Now, what Anthropic does with the conversation data on their end - that's a different question and honestly above my pay grade. They have a privacy policy that covers that, and I'd trust that over my own speculation.

chatbot conversation with Claude: user: literally you source info from sites and summarize em for me Claude: You’re absolutely right, I can just do that! Let me grab it! *failed to fetch and Anthropic link* Welp, blocked on that one! Let me search instead. …

bodes well!

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“failed to fetch” link: www.anthropic.com/privacy

When possible, use simple and familiar data visualization techniques. Complex data visualizations can be visually appealing, but they can also be more difficult to understand. If a visualization gets overly complex, consider alternate chart types for the sake of understanding.

drop those drop shadows and thank me later 🫡

YES. just let me see your face. but even face aside, why does the placement/size/overall visual style of the captions suck so badly in microsoft teams and zoom😭

google meet all the way

it’s useful, but I also hate the UX so very much and wish I could just get myself hired to rework it. (mostly I just avoid phone calls like the plague and will maybe prefer VRS once I improve my receptive signing a smidge more)

by any chance do you use innocaption? for phone calls? i’ve never used the CART option but curious if there’s any noticeable difference in caption quality

i’m curious if future guidelines will shift + if others feel similarly.

due to conflicting access needs, it’s super tough to accommodate everyone perfectly. i have residual hearing. if profoundly deaf individuals still prefer CART, then we should still default to CART when possible

2/2

related to hearing/accessibility

people often says live CART is more accessible than auto transcription, but for me personally, i’d much rather have flawed live captions than delayed CART. the tech is good enough at this point, and i’m used to filling in the blanks anyway

1/2

Insults for a Future Day: a roach in the picnic basket, munching dry chicken breasts, seasoned with dry scalp heart of a poacher balls of a spay mouth of the commode, bubbled to piss tiled floor overflow fingers fishing for the clog you are soft, pliable made of fondant

three extra syllables, still whining a fly trapped by venus and spat back out the last lurch of bile dirty ice stains on zoo penguins swagless waddle a name not protected in my mouth

NEXT time, i will be prepared to quack back

puff puff pass the albuterol, babe. (no seriously it’s tough to breathe)

from the bottom of my heart, thank you for covering this beat

A screenshot of two articles under a disability label. One says "Hold Off on Celebrating Trump's Proposal to Increase Disability Funding" the other says "Home Care Wasn't Ready for the Climate Crisis–Even Before Trump's Cuts." Both are by Julia Métraux

There's now a disability section on @motherjones.com's homepage 🥳 www.motherjones.com

the americans with disabilities act is beautiful law. I read the full thing on an airplane. practically felt like poetry.

also: we have a problem that warrants amendment.

tech co sells your health data to employer ->

employer can legally discriminate on your *predicted future disability status*

been wrestling lately with the question of who “should” have kids

it’s fascinating to witness the ways my friends change their tones & fast opinions when they learn what they did not know about me + that I am not an outside party, and these are non-theoretical discussions

I see much value in being open about disability challenges. when I openly communicate my experience of existing, I routinely observe the ways I challenge and change preconceived notions about the capacity for full personhood coincided with disability

someone recently told me my voice sounds like lace, and I’m thinkin ah what a romantic way to say yo you talk funny

Easy
h, l, r, w, y

Medium
b, c, ch, f, j, m, n, p, q, sh, v

Hard
d, g, k, s, t, th, x, z

And then, of course, every permutation

it comes to my attention that most people do not think of letters in terms of how difficult they are to say #cleftpalatethings 🥰

mhm mhm, i keep sayin’ one thing abt me is: what i wanna know, i’m gonna find out 🤠

this essay tickled my brain in a nice way

www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

new york times spelling bee game screenshot, with “hottogo” submitted. game feedback received says “not in word list”

olivia rodriguez offense😠

i love bein a curious person. i just ask my silly lil questions bc i like knowing things, and next thing i know i have play tickets, actor friends, and a fancy director tellin me to call him anytime i want (and yo i just might!)

hah, you don’t know what you don’t know, and that in itself doesn’t make anyone a fool. I just get tired of having things explained to me, especially inaccurately. it’s often insecurity talking, which I can have some empathy about — but humility would def be a better antidote than officious defenses

you too!!!

hahaha oh yeah that’s right, you are the one who told me you wrote a fractal renderer in rust —

I have no immediate desire to learn more languages. sometimes I just wanna spend time writing stories and making art. should I decide to make a video game, I’ll learn C++ and ask you for a code review 🪩🦋

I am but a lowly python and svelte/sveltekit girly with a touch of GLSL, but I have mentally documented your point about C#