Kevin R Jones

@kevinrj
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👨🏽‍🦯 Totally blind since birth, I was a Rotary exchange student to Brazil in high school.
After Edgewood College, I worked as a programmer as well as in IT. Now I help to advance computer accessibility for the blind community.
I've also played piano since age 4, and concentrate in the area of the late 18th century, period instruments, as well as the music.
I have also been fortunate enough to work with the BrainPort artificial vision device, which has changed how I think of objects in my mind.

I occasionally shoot terminal tips back and forth with someone on another network. Their latest is this, which I found really cool.

Take the terms of service for services you sign up to. Commit them to a git repo. Set up updates, if you like.

Then you can use diff to spot changes as they happen.

#FiveYearsAgoToday #AreWeGreatYet

July 4, 2020 – COVID-19 killed nearly 130,000 Americans, but Trump, speaking at the White House, “maintained that 99 percent of coronavirus cases were totally harmless.”

#TrumpKillsAmerica #RepublicansOwnThis #AgentKrasnov #GOPKakistocracy #FightFascism #USPol

SO.
I have reached the end of a Day That Shall Live in Infamy.

Was going to chill with a movie.

Remote doesn't work.
Batteries are dead, but replacing them doesn't fix it.

It's a cheap player that has no "play" button. No remote, no movie.

I am devastated by this travesty!
😱  

Checking what I've got on my hard drive to watch instead...

The problem here is that people get new ideas by thinking critically. They combine existing ideas and come up with new solutions to problems. We're a creative, problem-solving species.

It's exactly that skill that's getting lost when people start to depend on AI. LLM's and generative AI are never going to get new ideas. Because all data they've been trained on consisted of old ideas.

We need new ideas. 2/2

#AI #LLM #genAI

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I’m not the least bit patriotic. Political borders are arbitrary. I identify as an Earthling. (To hell with Mars, by the way.)

I didn’t choose the circumstances of my birth, so why should I celebrate them? Although I do choose to continue living in the United States, indeed expect to die here, that’s merely a practical matter: all things considered, it would not be of personal benefit for me to emigrate.

I guess that’s the same reason I’m still in the Apple ecosystem. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I wish the Logitech MX had just one more Bluetooth pairing slot. I currently have it paired with two windows PCs and my phone. I have to unpair from one device to connect to my MacBook.
10 years ago, I had an IOGear GKM-611B that could pair with up to six Bluetooth devices at once. The keyboard itself wasn't my favorite, but I liked that aspect of it.

My father's first memories are of a concentration camp. My grandmother screamed through nightmares every night for the rest of her life. I exist because she risked her life so my dad could survive.

This Fourth of July, I'm not feeling very patriotic. But I know exactly which America I believe in.

https://werd.io/america-is-a-myth/

#democracy

America is a myth

We have to decide which story we believe in.

Werd I/O

I'd like to see neuroscientists nudge the brain toward brain states that blend lucid dreaming and visual-to-auditory sensory substitution https://thedebrief.org/largest-brain-study-yet-confirms-lucid-dreaming-as-unique-state-of-consciousness/ "Largest brain study yet confirms lucid dreaming as unique state of consciousness"; #neuroscience

Electrophysiological correlates of lucid dreaming: sensor and source level signatures https://www.jneurosci.org/content/45/20/e2237242025

Largest Brain Study Yet Confirms Lucid Dreaming as Unique State of Consciousness

Science, Tech and Defense for the Rebelliously Curious.

The Debrief
We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10 - Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks ... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/07/04/windows_11_market_share/
We're number 1! Windows 11 finally overtakes Windows 10

: Three months to go until support ends, and Microsoft's flagship operating system squeaks past its predecessor

The Register