A word after a word after a word is power. - Margaret Atwood

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the hateful attitude and behaviors of right-wingers are NOT a mental illness. It is a SOCIAL ILL.

Amazon.com Keyboard Shortcuts... I just noticed that Amazon.com now has a few built in keyboard shortcuts. I am using Jaws and the Google Chrome browser. Please note, with Jaws, you do not have to turn off the virtual cursor or any changes have to be made. The keyboard shortcuts just work! Here are the shortcuts. ALT+/, Go to search. Shift+alt+C, go to cart. Shift+alt+H, go to home. Shift+alt+O, go to list of orders. That's it. Some is better than nothing. I know I will be using them! Happy shopping. #Amazon #Windows #Jaws #Keyboard #Shortcuts #Blind #Accessible

#AmReading : "'Free speech' is a deck chair on the Titanic when public life itself is inaccessible and unsafe for disabled, chronically
ill, and immunocompromised people."
- Kevin Gotkin, Crip News V150
I relate. My soapbox is inaccessible, too!
#Disability #Crip #CripNews #DisabilityStudies #Ableism #Reading

The word "excellent" is derived from the Christian practice of giving up the use of Microsoft Excel for 40 days to commemorate Christ's sacrifice.

It is a period of great productivity.

The date of lent is calculated by using an obscure Excel macro on a field that didn't originally have anything to do with dates, but Excel converted it to one anyway.

G'day!

AI repairman here.

People complain that AI hallucinates, that it plain makes things up.

My job is to fix it.

Despite what you might think, I don't go tweaking the AI settings to make it tell the truth.

Nope. I tweak reality instead.

I hate to tell you this, but if the AI says you're dead, then you are dead.

And if you aren't?

Then it's my job to fix that.

Sorry. And farewell!

#MicroFiction #tootfic

OMG!!! 😿😦Save us all, Lord.

I’m not a science fiction expert or aficionado, but a course such a this is worthwhile. I had something similar in college in the dark ages and found it worthwhile.
#literature #ScienceFiction

https://theconversation.com/a-college-course-thats-a-history-of-the-future-237094

since most normies still don't get it, I'll spell it out here for you

telling an autistic/adhd person that "we're all on a spectrum" is a little bit like telling a physically disabled person that we're all on a spectrum between 0% and 100% missing limb.

technically you're not wrong, but in reality most people are at _exactly_ 0% and some people are at 0%+. That's why we call it a disability, because a 0%+ person is at a disadvantage comparing to the rest of the crowd

#autism #adhd

If you've got a pair of binoculars, a telescope, a Seestar, or a DSLR with zoom lens -- then make sure you take a look up at the Moon tonight, because the bright dot next door is Saturn!

Easy to spot with the Moon being so close.

And if you're viewing device is powerful enough to resolve the small detail, you can even see some of Saturn's moons around it

📸 Stellarium

#Saturn #Planets #Moon #Astrodon

Tiny Mastodon Reminder :mastodon:💡

When discussing a specific topic, using at least one relevant hashtag in your post is a great idea to help your post getting seen and found.

👉 You can add your hashtag(s) at the end to improve accessibility and readability.

👉 You should CapitalizeEachWord of a multi-word hashtag to increase accessibility.

👉 Don't forget that you can also follow hashtags on Mastodon! :awesome:

#TinyMastodonTip #Mastodon

Can I return this if I don't like the ending?

#OverHeardAtTheBookStore
#HashTagGames

"Man these paper things are great! It's like webcomics or online articles, but without ads or paywalls!"

#OverHeardAtTheBookStore
#HashTagGames

@pennyfwd this looks like it might be restricted to the US. Could you/someone confirm? #Accessibility #A11y

Three reminders:

"Handmaid's Tale" has already been here the whole time, it was pointed at racialized women.

#Racism is fascism that hasn't yet come for the white people.

The #future is already here, it's just unevenly distributed. [@GreatDismal]

Me: *recalls the exact location of a random one-off item I stored 2 months ago down to its precise placement within a container*
Also me: *walks through a doorway and forgets who I am and what I am doing here*

There's an interesting phenomenon in tech where centralization leads to failures being correlated, correlated failures are more likely to be talked about in the media, and that leads to a psychological perception of centralization leading to higher failure rates.

Case in point, CrowdStrike. Let's say we have a hundred small AV vendors instead of just one, and all of them experience one critical failure every five years. This is much worse than CrowdStrike. your chances of experiencing a failure as a customer of any of these vendors are much higher. Yet, if a failure happens, no media organization is going to care, because it's only going to affect a handful of companies at most. Your hospital's computers will go down a lot more often on average, but you don't visit your hospital that often. Because it's just your own hospital that is affected on a given day, you probably won't even know. No media organization is going to care and write scandalous news stories about how their AV vendor is mismanaged and putting their patients at risk.

Same applies to AWS or even Mastodon. Your instance may go down twice as often as X and for twice as long, but you probably won't even notice most of these outages. If X goes down, though, it goes down for everyone, the media write about it, and you know that it went down even though you otherwise wouldn't even notice.

This creates a weird perception and bias against centralized services in people's minds.