@Ciela personally, I think keeping things simple and designing things accessible from the start is something we should do, if not make mandatory per law.

The web used to be simple and accessible enough that it just worked with #LynxBrowser and other #CLI #Browsers and thus was trivial to do #TextToSpeech.

Slapping some "#AI" on is just putting the burden of #access onto those already #magrinalized and #discriminated against with even more compute load on their end and/or denying them privacy.

There are ways around #unjust and #discriminatory laws. Overturning of #RoeVWade was an #unfair #retrograde step. It #criminalized #abortion and #discriminated against half the population. Keep abortion safe, reinstate the original RvW decision.

#misoprostol #mifepristone #self #internet

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/22/g-s1-73119/abortion-mifepristone-roe-v-wade

Democrats revive effort to investigate military policies that discriminated against LGBTQ people

Democrats marked the 12th anniversary of the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy Wednesday by relaunching an effort to investigate the lasting impacts of military policies that discriminated against LGBTQ service members and veterans. The proposal, introduced by Reps. Mark Takano (D-Calif.) and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), would create…

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Legal bid to freeze Missouri's gender-affirming care restrictions gets a hearing this week

Opponents of the ban on most transgender minors receiving hormone therapy or puberty blockers say it runs afoul of Missouri's state constitutional equal protection guarantees.

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