okay, going through Pearson airport in a couple of wweeks. I think that is an Aira location. I have never tried that and I think I should. wonder if I can do it with my Meta glasses. I don't have an Aira plan so I didn't pay attention.
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lots of things. totally blind accessibility specialist for a financial institution however, this is a personal space and does not reflect my work. single parent. computer nerd, social activism volunteer and many others. Feel free to follow. love interacting with people.
Jayson SmithHere's a demonstration of Richard, one of the two new Blastbay formant-based neural text to speech voices. In this demo, I've deliberately installed the trial version on one of my computers so you get to hear the degraded audio once the one-minute trial period ends. Transcript in alt text.
BroadwaybabytoThe cruel medical experiment on a black pregnant woman in Georgia will finally come to an end.
Adriana Smith was declared brain dead at 9 weeks pregnant after an ER sent her home with blood clots in her brain.
The hospital kept her body alive due to Georgia’s abortion ban
Adriana was a nurse who went to the ER due to severe headaches. She was dismissed despite blood clots in her brain and declared brain dead the next day.
Her body was placed on organ & tissue support due to the State’s strict abortion ban.
The family were not asked to consent. They had no say in the matter.
It’s generally not medically indicated to try and keep a body alive for a fetus of that age.
Only a handful of cases exist in the medical literature.
In the 35 cases studied, the median gestational age at time of brain death was 20 weeks, not 9.
27 neonates were born alive, only 8 were described as “healthy”
There was no medical precedent for what happened to Adriana.
In total she spent nearly 4 months on life support, all without her consent or the consent of next of kin.
The baby, Chance, has been born at 1lb 13oz and is in the NICU. Details about his prognosis are not yet known
The costs associated with both Adriana’s ICU stay and Chance’s NICU stay will be astronomical, and it remains to be seen if her family will be forced to pay them.
What we do know is the state forced this birth. The hospital forced this birth.
They won’t be the ones to care for the child, but they stripped Adriana and her family of their autonomy and dignity due to an abortion ban that seeks to control women.
They experimented on her to see if women can be treated as nothing more than vessels for fetuses.
Misogynoir killed Adriana, and then the State opted to experiment on her body.
That’s what happened here.
I’m glad that the baby has been born alive, and we should all hope for a good outcome, but we should be enraged this was allowed to happen in the first place.
My original article about Adriana Smith and medical misogyny looks at the policies of forced birth and what responsibility (if any) the government should have to provide to those it demands be brought into the world.
https://www.disabledginger.com/p/adriana-smith-misogyny-and-the-cruelty
#uspol #fascism #georgia #abortion #abortionishealthcare #roevwade #misogyny #misogynoir #adrianasmith
alright, have these things and got them set up with no issues. now to work out all the things I can do. I did a test live stream on facebook just to see if it worked and it did. now let's what I can find that's actually useful.
okay, sanity check. going on a flight in July. Trying to go through the hoops to bring my guide dog and I get this: "The final assessment for accepting the Service Dog will be made at the airport on review of documentation and observation of the behaviour of the Service Dog, as well the dog is harnessed, leashed, or tethered at all times in the airport and on the aircraft. Porter Airlines is entitled to obtain assurances that we can safely transport a service dog and that the animal behaves properly in a public setting." So my rights to travlel on a ticket I am paying for is determined by some random ticket counter agent? Are any other passengers subjected to this level of Scrutiny? I really don't think it will be a problem because he is well behaved but I have a problem with some random person with no qualification getting to determine if I get to travel. Maybe I'm just grupy as I get older?
okay, meta glasses are coming tomorrow. how difficult is it get started and find out all the things I can ask them. maybe I should look for a podcast or something.
Want to jump on the Meta Glasses bandwagon thingy? Well, now's your chance. They're on sale for $239. https://www.ray-ban.com/canada/en/rayban-meta-ai-glasses?cid=CM-ENL_250606-RBMetaSummerPromoLaunchNAB_30343805&h5e=1e0b5b6455ced13cf993e7db8af39f16
yay, Jessica is back and has claimed her dogs. Now I am back to one, Farley the not much work guide dog.
Today I had a healthcare worker tell me I was “wrong” about assisted dying. That I misinterpreted it being offered to me.
When I explained that I had death offered for an acute and treatable condition in the ER, he said that was wrong.
But then he said it was just one bad apple having a “bad day”
A doctor literally offered me medically assisted death instead of healthcare. It wasn’t one option of many, it was the ONLY option.
That’s not having a bad day, that’s eugenics.
When I pushed back & asked him to consider how many disabled people have similar stories and how many advocacy groups have raised concerns?
He mansplained. He psychologized. He “warned” me. And then he said I was paranoid.
If we can’t even have a civil discussion about the risks, we obviously can’t administer the program ethically.
I’m heartbroken this came from a healthcare worker to boot.
#maid #assisteddying #eugenics #ableism #MedicalTrauma #euthanasia #fascism #disability
so one of these dogs I have is a Basenji apparently they are white dogs. don't know if I have ever heard of a white dog before. wonder if its true.