Trump admin is “destroying medical research,” Senate report finds
arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/trump-adm...

Who would’ve had it on their 2020’s bingo card that Minneapolis Minnesota would be the center of a boiling point in the United Stares in the dead of winter?

The show Pluribus is delightfully fucked

Black and white photo of young Miles Davis wearing a white t-shirt and jeans, playing a trumpet while leaning back with the text to the left. “Anybody can play. The note is only 20%. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80%.” - Miles Davis

Ok, my request to streaming services for using AI - add an automatic reducer option for flashing lights/screens, reducing on screen animation and lowering the white point of the video for recorded and live content. ESPN, Disney+, Netflix, Paramount+, Hulu, Peacock TV, YouTube, etc

Scientists Just Got an Unprecedented Glimpse into the Nature of Reality “We had promised that gravitational waves would open a new window into the universe, and that has materialized,” one researcher said.”

www.404media.co/scientists-j...

Unity developers can now tap into system screen reader tools on macOS and Windows Unity is updating its game engine so developers can leverage the built-in screen reading software in desktop operating systems.

This breaks a big barrier to accessible games. I’m glad to see it.

www.engadget.com/gaming/unity...

I hate that AI has ruined em dashes for those of us who love and use them

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

“Keep BlueSky Weird”?

The thing I love about the US is that we're the only nation in the world confused enough to:
have produced the most CO2 in the atmosphere,
wag our fingers at everyone else about CO2 emissions,
claim that the world can't switch to solar fast enough,
then get mad at China for subsidizing their solar

Just get rid of congressional districts. Install rank choice voting and have the whole state vote for their slate of representatives.

[accidentally entering a rap battle]

I uh, I got flows like oauth

What if we established a tax-exempt Church of Democracy and sued the government for infringing on our religious freedoms when it does authoritarian stuff?

My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate.

Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.

I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.

Digital technology was promised as a way for information to be accessible.

That accessibility is now being stripped intentionally in places like Mississippi to fuel disinformation and surveillance.

I know that sounds ridiculous but we live in truly ridiculous times.

Played DND, and purposefully murdered my character in a devious scheme with the DM.

Two scenes - ones with a person stepping on a rake and it hits them in the head, the other where they use the rake as a skateboard to grind down the railing of stairs, only to land at the end and still accidentally hit themselves in the head with the rake. Captioned, respectively, junior developer and senior developer

Designers love to be like "users hate scrolling" then hide crap in an expandable menu so no one can find anything.

Accessibility debt piles up fast. Fixing it shouldn’t burn out your team.

Join @a11ymel.bsky.social (HashiCorp) and @ericwbailey.website (GitHub) for a live session on how to reduce A11y debt without overwhelming your team.

🗓 July 24, 12PM EDT
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I love CSS folks. They are soldiers of joy and delight. The world is burning and AI debates have people at each others throats and CSS peeps keep being like “check out this dancing turtle I made out of divs 🥰”

I’ve had a very similar experience. It was a grassroots effort for us.

‘She’ll fall through the cracks’: Parents of kids with disabilities brace for new reality Cuts to Medicaid and the Department of Education could have detrimental impacts on keeping kids with complex medical needs healthy and educated.

‘She’ll fall through the cracks’: Parents of kids with disabilities brace for new reality 19thnews.org/2025/05/kids... #a11y

A female black Labrador lies on a white floor leaning forward to sniff a male black and white long hair chihuahua the size of a softball while he sniffs her muzzle

A female black Labrador lies on A white floor turning her head and body to watch a male black and white long hair chihuahua the size of a softball while he looks on nervously

Wiley made a new friend named Snooze on Friday

A female black Labrador lies on her side half way on a brown oval dog bed with her head and front paws on a red checkered carpet surrounded by a brown bone and other green toys. She appears to be exhausted.

There’s definitely a vibe in this house tonight

Alt text is extremely important right now as you organize.

Please prioritize it at the minimum to ensure your information is being distributed properly.

If you need help, I will help you as best as I can.

I want one for baseball and soccer!

Survival Tips For Women In Tech | Patricia Aas Who else is the only woman on their dev team?

Since apparently being a nice person is illegal in the US now, it’s time to pull out my most popular blog post ever.
It’s called “survival tips for women in tech”, but I’m told it works for all genders and in countless industries.
patricia.no/2018/09/06/s...