Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals.

📷Robert Madden
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/americas/native-americans-invented-dice-and-games-of-chance-more-than-12-000-years-ago-archaeological-study-reveals

Robert Madden of Colorado State University identified and examined more than 600 sets of dice, or binary lots, recovered from 45 different archaeological sites in the western United States, on both sides of the Rocky Mountains.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-antiquity/article/probability-in-the-pleistocene-origins-and-antiquity-of-native-american-dice-games-of-chance-and-gambling/E38C7B1F4CE7F417D8EFAC5AFEEF20A2

The Bikedel Test

• two named Americans
• talking with each other
• about something other than cars

My dad is partially sighted with poor motor control. He likes audiobooks but every player I tried had tiny buttons and too many screens.

I’ve now made this one. Two screens, big controls, high contrast.

When I want to send him a new book, I just text him a link — he taps it and the book appears in his library.

It always comes back to the last book he was playing, ready to play again.

The settings are configurable via a link too.

This is very much made for my exact specific needs with him, but it’s open source and free if it helps anyone else.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/easy-audiobook/id6761441597

https://github.com/griches/EasyAudioBook

#iOS
#Accessibility
#Audiobooks
#OpenSource
#AI

Black and Indigenous women poets, DM me links to your work. I’m on a poetry selection committee and I want to lift you!

Esp. Queer and disabled Black and Indigenous women. Esp. esp. trans Black and Indigenous women.

I don’t care about your resume or publication history or where you are in the world. I just want to read your words.

This is also like a year out, so don’t wait for a contact. I’ll just be adding your name/info to a proposed reading list.

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#poetry #literary #writing #BlackMastodon #BlackFedi #BlackWriter #NDN #NDNlit #NDNMastodon #chicanaWriters #chicanaLiterature