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Reddit has now sufficiently broken their own site that moderators of the blind community's subreddit who are themselves blind can no longer access the moderator tools.
This statement by the mod team is worth a read to understand the full extent of the failure.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14nzwkm/they_finally_did_it_reddit_made_it_impossible_for/
Edit: it's also worth noting that this community now has a dedicated Lemmy instance. https://RBlind.com
Edit 2: Here are archived copies of the mod team's post for those who don't want to click a Reddit link.
https://archive.is/1bk6N
https://web.archive.org/web/20230703134218/https://old.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14nzwkm/they_finally_did_it_reddit_made_it_impossible_for/
Asking Bard about charges against Donald Trump and it is going berserk, saying he's already been charged on April 12, 2023, then saying he has already been charged in July 2023, then saying he hasn't been charged with any crimes at all.
Google's Bard is a disaster on basic facts. I've caught it fabricating numerous things.
It can't even figure out what date today is. It thinks today is February 25.
Forgive me if I'm not afraid of AI taking my job.
Interesting interaction with Google's Bard tonight. It lied to me by referencing an LA Times article that doesn't exist and making up two quotes that supposedly came from that article.
It claimed it wanted to make the conversation "more interesting," which is why it lied to me.
Yikes.
Adulthood in 2023 can be defined as an endless cycle of having to download a never-ending avalanche of highly specific apps that never work properly to manage your kids' activities. Little League? App. Boy Scouts? App. Karate? App. School? ALL THE OTHER APPS. Is app fatigue a thing?
App fatigue is a thing.
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“We’re Still Gonna Say No”: Inside UnitedHealthcare’s Effort to Deny Coverage to Chronically Ill Patient
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After a college student finally found a treatment for his ulcerative colitis that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.
His fight to finally get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
#Insurance #UnitedHealthcare #Health #Healthcare #DenialOfCare
After a college student finally found a treatment that worked, the insurance giant decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
The U.S. Copyright Office is holding firm that AI-generated artwork is ineligible for copyright.
https://www.cbr.com/ai-comic-deemed-ineligible-copyright-protection/
#ai #aiArt #aiArtCommunity #aiArtwork #comics #media #art #artwork #artistsOfMastodon #indieArtists #artistsOnMastodon #comicArt #comicArtists #copyright
"Oh wow, I totally wasn't going to do it, but your popover newsletter nag that blew my screen up and blocked me from experiencing your site totally convinced me to sign up!"
-Nobody ever
Come on. It's 2023 and screen takeover nags are still a thing?
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