The most recent producer price index numbers directly contradict two of Trump’s favorite narratives: that his tariffs won’t lead to significant price increases and that other countries will foot the bill if they do.

Who will he fire this time?
https://trib.al/nncUHuV

Folks, don't start your live virtual events with loud blasting music, especially if your target users are screen reader users, who conveniently hear nothing behind the loud placeholder music, unless they know the direct shortcut to duck non screen reader audio.

@bagder

I wish there was an open-source license that had an ‘if you are a company with over $<X> revenue, then you owe <Y>% of it to the project’ type of clause.

Wouldn't that mostly fix the problem? Is there such a license available now? #openSource

[ Addendum: I'm still compelled by this idea. But, here is an important differing point of view: https://thenewstack.io/open-source-is-too-important-to-dilute/ ]

Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Just Got Smarter: New Accessibility Upgrade You Need to See - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1gJpljjjgU

Shooting fish in a barrel isn't as easy as it sounds. The fish move, the water's surface causes light refraction, distorting the target's position, and a bullet fired into water rapidly loses momentum due to the water's density. It's a stupid saying.

The last couple of weeks, the Russians have been losing less than 5 tanks per day, and many days only 1 tank. Gone are the days when they would send 20+ tanks into battle and lose them.

This is not because they have invented an unbeatable tank. As satellite pictures confirm, It is because they are out of old tanks to refurbish.

It is going to be a long, cold winter for the under-equipped Russians in Ukraine.

Please people can we start calling billionaires and their GOP what they are?

evil corrupt satanic evil despotic tyrannical evil out to control everybody and destroy them!

Don’t waste any time softball this call them the enemies of all that is good and all that is decent and a threat to human existence

#EpsteinNation

Joy! I just discovered that, at my kid's school, they've started using "clanker" to refer to automation and AI.

As in: You let a clanker write your paper? Gross...

"Don't be fooled: Trump's D.C. takeover is about race. Black people have been Trump’s target for his entire adult life. …

This is a man whose first appearance in the New York Times was for denying apartments to Black applicants."

~ Shalise Manza Young

#Trump #WashingtonDC #crime #fascism #racism #military
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/dont-be-fooled-trumps-dc-takeover

Congrats to my nephew Elias! He started an organization in Atlanta to help seniors with cognitive impairments by using music when my stepmom was diagnosed with Parkinson’s, and he just won a fellowship for his work: https://dillerteenawards.org/recipient/elias-kremer/

I wrote a little bit about the base model M1 MacBook Air going on sale right now for $599 (!!!) at Walmart. It's a big deal for accessibility, in more ways than one.

https://www.curbcuts.co/blog/2025-8-13-walmart-makes-m1-macbook-air-more-accessible

The Sun unleashing a spectacular solar flare and coronal mass ejection, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft.

Credit: SDO/NASA Goddard

We got our blind kitchen order today. All I can say is, amazing! The tools aren’t expressly made for blind people, but they’re gonna help us cook like power chefs. Looking forward to the pineapple cutter and the wet and dry measuring cups and spoons. Each item comes in ziplock bags and is labelled in Braille. https://www.theblindkitchen.com

Sometimes I can't see the trees for the forest sigh smile.
A customer had borrowed a Brailliant BI40X as her husband wanted her to try it out as a note taker: i.e. keeping notes, shopping lists etc.
She said “but I can use my slate or my Perkins or my victor Reader Stream to do all of this”
.”
For which I agreed.
Then for some reason i asked “do you like reading Braille (hard copy) books?”
To which she said that this was one of her main forms of entertainment, but waiting for the books, and the amount of space they took up, was starting to annoy her a bit.
When I explained that she could have access to hundreds if not thousands of Braille (.brf) books on the Brailliant, and not to have to worry about carrying around Braille volumes or waiting for them to turn up in the nail, she was amazed that such a thing was possible.
So rather than 29 volumes of harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, its one single file, that can be read on one single device (plus all of the hundreds of other books).
Her husband is now downloading some books for her to trial, but I somehow think she will be on a Brailiant Braille book journey very very soon.
Most smart Braille displays will allow this electronic Braille book (file .brf) reading. The only ones that I know of that don't as they rely on a PC or smart phone/tablet, is the Focus range and the DotPad.
Next time I talk to someone about a smart Braille display, books are going to be one of the first things I talk about....
Oh and hey by the way, iOS 26 and Mac OS 26 will allow you to read .brf files from the iPhone or the Mac, so something to also ponder.
Woody

Russia restricts WhatsApp and Telegram calls in push to control internet - Moscow claims the encrypted apps are used for “deceit and extortion.” Meta says it’s a pu... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/14/russia-block-whatsapp-telegram-ban/

Counting steps is easy using a phone, a wearable or fitness tracker. And Scientists have lots of data to figure out how many daily steps you need to improve health. Here's what they've found. #news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5501610/counting-steps-health-fitness-tracker

Our hero, indeed.
Man who hurled sandwich at law enforcement in D.C. charged with felony https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/08/13/subway-sandwich-man-arrested-felony/

In juvenile detention, these students say they're not learning — and it's keeping them incarcerated
https://apnews.com/article/school-juvenile-detention-online-feb1368304e42855017af229890bff4c?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Ok so these Ally Solo glasses have my interest for several reasons. I think Invision picked the right hardware, and it appears that these can be used by others to create their own AI platforms. I will be exploring this myself for some AI work we are doing. Also, they connect the same way the Meta glasses do, which is Bluetooth, so they always have Internet. This is the right way to make this work.

Sudden federal takeovers of America’s cities will apparently be the new normal.

Several officials, including one senior administration official, told Rolling Stone that it is now a priority to normalize military deployments to cities across the country.
https://trib.al/2bj5Grx