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AI replacing Auslan interpreter jobs in regional towns
By Claudia Forsberg
Virtual interpreters, apps and AI can help deaf and hearing-impaired people in regional areas, but there are fears the tech is coming at the expense of face-to-face interpreters.
#Disabilities #RegionalCommunities #Hearing #ClaudiaForsberg
The lasting lesson of this (one I already knew but keeps getting reaffirmed) is how absolutely threatened by protest the fascists are (those in power and their followers): the words, the refusal, especially from women.
THAT WE DARE TO SAY NO cannot be tolerated.
Because it has incredible power.
Hello fedi dev friends with resumes.
I'm trying to revamp my resume to get a lot more specific about the exact role I want (Senior Frontend Engineer). Seems silly to me, but since I got virtually nowhere in past efforts reaching anyone even for an initial interview, I'm thinking I was painting too broad a picture.
Anyone feel like sharing their resume with me that has been successful in the past? I just want some good inspiration and lord knows I'm not gonna ask a clanker for advice.
TIA! 🙏
I still came back for more (protest).
The man's sudden visceral anger and the threat of violence shook me (of course) but the thing I was thinking, as I kept walking and he kept shouting, menacing me with his truck:
I'M NOT THE ONE WHO IS SCARED HERE.
At a Tesla Takedown protest, walking to the protest area with my sign, an old white guy slowed down his 5-ton vehicle so he could threaten me with words as well as his truck.
I'm not young, but I am a woman, and angry men being free to be violent to women is the entire basis of patriarchy.
@bartreardon wow. Where is this?
@emmadavidson icefields parkway in the Rocky Mountains here in Canada. The two morning photos are from our campground. The fox looking lake is peyto lake and the other is some random lake+forrest+mountain view of which there are an abundance of here.
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A dramatic moment at the White House: Satmar Rebbes Rav Aharon Teitelbaum and Rav Zalman Leib Teitelbaum spoke and shook hands for the first time in decades during their meeting with President Trump.
The two Rebbes exchanged greetings, with Rav Aharon wishing his brother Mazel Tov on his grandson’s engagement. Trump reportedly asked whether the two were twins, prompting Reb Aron to answer that “we are brothers”.
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I'm dyIINNGGG---
( https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/liveblogs/live-blog/2593841/%f0%9f%9a%a8satmar-achdus-rebbes-speak-and-shake-hands-for-first-time-in-decades-as-trump-asks-are-you-twins.html )
Reb Aharon's reaction to being invited to the White House was to tell his students in yeshiva "I don't care about the guy -- you shouldn't care about the guy. I wasn't gonna go, but then I thought, nu? maybe something good will come from this -- I'll try to tell Trump to tell Bibi not to conscript Hasidim in Israel."
(This isn't surprising -- insular Hasidic groups do a very coordinated, local-transctional form of politics. As opposed to, like, ideologically. They have strong ideological positions for themselves, and.. prolly for Jews in general? But for engagement with secular society-- transactional, not transformative. But it's VERY funny to hear out loud.)
Germany’s far-right AfD projected to win eastern state but unclear if it will be able to govern | CNN
｢ The far-right Alternative for Germany surged into first place in state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday but it was unclear whether it would be able to form a government on its own, according to exit polls after voting closed ｣
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/06/europe/germany-afd-state-election-majority-intl
Falls jemand in Münster und umzu zufällig grad einen Sekretär gebrauchen kann: Ich verschenke diesen hier meiner Großmutter, da er leider bei uns nicht mehr reinpasst. Sehr stabil, die vier Schubladen und die Ablagefächer oben sind sehr geräumig. Über die Jahrzehnte hat er aber einige Macken abbekommen (Kratzer, Reste von Transportklebeband, einige Schubladengriffe korrodiert) und müsste daher überarbeitet werden. Seine Maße: Breite 84 cm, Höhe 105 cm, Tiefe zugeklappt 43 cm, aufgeklappt 68 cm.
important to remind bots of their responsibilities
@charliejane may I ask where this screenshot is from?
Currarong, NSW
A7r (infrared) + 850nm filter + Sirui Saturn 59/2.9 x1.6 Anamorphic
Germany, 95.1% of electoral districts counted:
Saxony-Anhalt regional parliament election
AfD (ESN): 44.6% (+23.8)
CDU (EPP): 16.9% (-20.2)
SPD (S&D): 9.1% (+0.7)
GRÜNE (Greens/EFA): 8.9% (+3.0)
LINKE (LEFT): 8.4% (-2.6)
...
+/- vs. Last election result
➤ europeelects.eu/germany
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that the Department of Homeland Security turn over records
and fully cooperate with an investigation into the death of
Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a nearly blind Rohingya refugee who died after US border agents
left him outside a closed coffee shop on a freezing night in Buffalo earlier this year.
At a press conference in Buffalo on Friday,
standing just a few feet away from where Shah was found dead,
Tim Kennedy of New York was joined by
Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, the ranking Democrat on the House homeland security committee,
Lou Correa of California,
and Nellie Pou of New Jersey
in calling on DHS to cooperate with the Erie county district attorney’s investigation.
Kennedy said:
“The Erie county medical examiner has ruled his death a homicide,
yet DHS still won’t hand over a single meaningful record.
Not to my office,
not to attorney general [Tish] James,
and not to the Erie county district attorney.
Simply put, they are obstructing the pursuit of justice by local law enforcement.”
RE: https://kolektiva.social/@alissaazar/117225045295427439
Not only is this an appalling abuse of power by the US administration, who are labelling anyone who disagrees with them or challenges them as a terrorist.
This is a damning indictment against all the European organisations who claim to be for digital rights, for freedom of expression, for wanting to use technology to empower rather than enslave, who claim to want to break from the US big tech monopolies, and who have remained silent when a hacktivist group is targeted in this way.
My favorite Mastodon app, Fedilab, is no longer on Google Play, but you can still get it from F-Droid.
You can import your old settings, too. It's easy and only takes a few minutes. I'm not an experienced F-Droid user, but everything went smoothly...
Thanks for the great work! @apps
Words translated from and by The Black Wave Collective in Italy.
“Follow those with whom you can dream”
Casino Royale
A comrade is crying.
Some are phoning, some are writing, some aren’t replying, some are translating.
She’s crying, and no one can console her.
Some are saving PDF pages of the ‘Inventati’ lists that are still recoverable; others are swearing because they can no longer find the Indymedia archive and don’t want to bother anyone with an email at such a difficult time.
She is crying, and she doesn’t want to be comforted.
Someone tries to tell her that we’ll save everything – every piece of data, every trace.
And she explodes.
“Do you realise that my daughter, your children, other people’s children, and those yet to come, won’t experience what we’ve lived through?
They won’t discover the Internet as we did; they won’t learn to encrypt or write in HTML?!
OUR FUCKING CHILDREN AND THEIRS WON’T HAVE AUTISTICI OR INVENTATI.
They won’t be as free as we were.
And they’ll be even more alone, without our tools!”
What sort of world would it be without A/I?
We never thought we’d have to find out.
Thanks to those who guarded servers as if they were hearths,
to those who wrote code as one writes a love letter,
to those who kept free spaces alive whilst everything else was crumbling around them.
Thanks to those who believed that another network was possible,
that another way of being together could exist,
that freedom was not an icon but a daily practice.
Thanks to those who resisted,
to those who resist,
to those who will resist.
Con tutto l'amore che c'è
The BlackWave Collective
The most toxic thing to happen in the F/OSS world is the attitude that some people are so smart (because they’ve created successful projects) that you cannot criticise them. The idea that, because someone created something good, they are infallible is disastrous for them, the projects they run, and the broader ecosystem.
Producing good work is inseparable from getting useful feedback.
I like to think I’m pretty smart, but I absolutely would not have been able to build any of the things I’m proud of without people willing to tell me that my ideas are stupid.
There are may examples, but a couple of concrete ones: I had an entire mechanism designed for delegating access to the CSR field that allows control over interrupts in CHERIoT. Hongyan Xia pointed out that I was solving the wrong problem, badly. He proposed sentries (an existing mechanism for immutable, unforgeable, function pointers and return addresses) that enabled or disabled interrupts on a jump and captured the prior state in the link register. This not only let us have functions that ran with interrupts disabled (and therefore the ability to reason about worst-case context switch time), it also let us statically audit these properties and enforced a structured-programming discipline. Murali Vijayaraghavan later extended the mechanism to properly differentiate function pointers and return addresses, giving lightweight enforcement of some useful CFI properties. I’d not tried this because I assumed it was impossible without explicit call and return instructions, he showed me I was wrong.
If I ever reach the position where people are unwilling to disagree with me, I expect the quality of my work will drop considerably.
@david_chisnall I would say also that the successful moneyed projects like the Linux kernel that are claiming "hacker cred" while in the next breath pontificating to devs that certain features can only be used in certain ways....
That is a problem. It then becomes a "hacking for me and not for thee" dynamic which people experience as hypocrisy. Or corruption, if said kernel priest has business on the side developing custom configurations using the same kind of new ideas that they are pissing on in lkml posts.
There is more to it than just a willingness to disagree. How the divergence is framed by the resident experts, and whether or not they recognize conflicts of interest matters as well.
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