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Be My Eyes Sep 22, 2025

Guess what! CBS featured Be My Eyes on Meta AI Glasses, showing how they empower blind & low-vision people like Emeline Lakrout! 🙌

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/ai-glasses-foster-independence-for-visually-impaired-people/

AI glasses foster independence for visually-impaired people

Visually-impaired people are finding new independence with AI glasses. "CBS Saturday Morning" meets Emeline Lakrout, an active, visually-impaired New Yorker who has found new ways to use AI glasses to her advantage.

Shawn Klein Feb 28, 2024

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Nicole Parsons Feb 28, 2024

@kshapar @HistoPol @GottaLaff

Over 1.2 million Americans lost their lives to covid because of #MoscowMitch and his GOP donors monetizing a pandemic for self-enrichment.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/21/us-covid-death-rate-testing-reporting

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/covid-relief-bill-three-martini-lunch

Thanks to #MoscowMitch , Putin is brewing a WW3 that may kill millions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-defends-blocking-election-security-bill-rejects-criticism-he-is-aiding-russia/2019/07/29/08dca6d4-b239-11e9-951e-de024209545d_story.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/mitch-mcconnell-russian-interference

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/30/why-is-mitch-mcconnell-blocking-election-security-bills-good-question/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mcconnell-blocks-bills-election-security-heels-mueller-warnings/story?id=64569009

https://newrepublic.com/article/154566/simple-odious-reason-mitch-mcconnell-opposes-election-integrity

Covid death toll in US likely 16% higher than official tally, study says

Researchers think undercounting goes beyond overloaded health systems to a lack of awareness of Covid and low levels of testing

The Guardian

Shawn Klein Feb 28, 2024

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Nicole Parsons Feb 28, 2024

@kshapar @HistoPol @GottaLaff

167 million American women lost their civil rights thanks to #MoscowMitch

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/mitch-mcconnell-roe-v-wade-supreme-court

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/mcconnell-the-gop-the-court/transcript/

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/republican-judges-rule-of-law

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/03/republicans-mitch-mcconnell-1980s-breaking-democracy.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/aug/15/us-supreme-court-mitch-mcconell-conservative-judges-democracy

Mitch McConnell Is Hoping People Just Forget He’s to Blame for Abortion Rights Being Obliterated

Reality check: Roe would not be on the chopping block if not for McConnell’s years of scheming.

Vanity Fair

Shawn Klein Feb 28, 2024

Ghost Kitchens Are Advertising AI-Generated Food On DoorDash and Grubhub https://slashdot.org/story/24/02/27/2138240/ghost-kitchens-are-advertising-ai-generated-food-on-doordash-and-grubhub

Ghost Kitchens Are Advertising AI-Generated Food On DoorDash and Grubhub - Slashdot

Emanuel Maiberg reports via 404 Media: Dozens of Ghost kitchens, restaurants that serve food exclusively by delivery on apps like DoorDash and Grubhub, are selling food that they promote to customers with AI-generated images. It's common for advertisements to stage or edit pictures of food to make ...

Shawn Klein Oct 30, 2023

Janet Logan (she/her) 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 30, 2023

This author (not me to be clear) writes about coming out in the current political climate, at age 63, as #transgender .

I Came Out As Transgender At 63 Years Old

"It’s not something you dabble with and then grow out of. It’s a feeling we’ve spent a lifetime trying to ignore until we either die fearful and silent, or decide that living whole and happy is worth having people hate us."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/coming-out-trans-63_n_6508dc11e4b0fe763ab6a646

#trans #TransJoy

I Hid My True Identity For Decades. Here's What Happened When I Finally Revealed Myself At 63.

"I had become resigned to living the rest of my life as if it belonged to someone I emailed with a few times but never actually met."

HuffPost

Shawn Klein Oct 30, 2023

American Council of the Blind Oct 30, 2023

Thanks JPMorgan Chase & Co. for hosting the Code for Social Good Hackathon! ACB was grateful to be a part of this beneficial event that helped streamline our Community Events platform and processes. Congrats to the winning team and all participants!

Shawn Klein Oct 30, 2023

When Matthew Perry Met #Windows 95. Youtube video inside article. https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/23/10/30/0038235/when-matthew-perry-met-windows-95

When Matthew Perry Met Windows 95 - Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: In 1994 the TV show Friends premiered, and its first season's high ratings made it the 8th most-popular show. The next year Microsoft released Windows 95 — and filmed a promotional video for it with 25-year-old Matthew Perry and 26-year-old Jennif...

Shawn Klein Oct 24, 2023

Tech news from Canada Oct 24, 2023

Wired: A Powerful Tool US Spies Misused to Stalk Women Faces Its Potential Demise https://www.wired.com/story/section-702-nsa-abuses-reauthorization/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Security/NationalSecurity #Security/SecurityNews #Security/Privacy #nationalsecurity #surveillance #Section702 #Security #privacy #FISA #NSA

A Powerful Tool US Spies Misused to Stalk Women Faces Its Potential Demise

Though often viewed as the “crown jewel” of the US intelligence community, fresh reports of abuse by NSA employees and chaos in the US Congress put the tool's future in jeopardy.

WIRED

Shawn Klein Oct 24, 2023

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Evan Urquhart 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 23, 2023

The larger question here ought to be: What can we learn from cases where someone's transition goes wrong? How can we improve treatment for everyone?

But for a right-wing media bent on portraying transition as wrong and unnatural, strange stories with hard to pin-down details become fodder for laws targeting transgender medical care with restrictions.

Shawn Klein Oct 24, 2023

Jonathan Mosen Oct 22, 2023

Recently I was invited by a blind podcaster I’ve not come across before to be on his podcast. Dustin Boggus does a podcast called MyHomeKitHome. As the name implies, it’s all about the smart home. He knows his stuff and does a very professional job. Check out MyHomeKitHome in all the usual places. Here’s the episode we did together. https://overcast.fm/+7auGZC2GE

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AI glasses foster independence for visually-impaired people

Covid death toll in US likely 16% higher than official tally, study says

Mitch McConnell Is Hoping People Just Forget He’s to Blame for Abortion Rights Being Obliterated

Ghost Kitchens Are Advertising AI-Generated Food On DoorDash and Grubhub - Slashdot

I Hid My True Identity For Decades. Here's What Happened When I Finally Revealed Myself At 63.

When Matthew Perry Met Windows 95 - Slashdot

A Powerful Tool US Spies Misused to Stalk Women Faces Its Potential Demise

Accessibility & the Smart Home: A Conversation with Jonathan Mosen — The myHomeKithome Podcast