@ChanceyFleet

Tech while Blind: sometimes friction, sometimes joy. nonvisual tech ed & design @NYPLHeiskell; president NFB tech trainers' division; affiliate @Datasociety.

 Brooklyn, NY
Joined December 2012
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Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
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It's muted now, but some quick responses just to get ahead of the comments: - "You just don't understand AI" If you mean the appeal, yes, agreed, I do not understand the appeal of AI. If you mean how it works and what it can/can't do, understanding that is my literal job.
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I just heard a comedian say that if vaccines cause autism, America would have SO MANY TRAINS. SOOOO MANY TRAINS. LOL
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Something's very different in tech. Once upon a time, every bad choice by tech companies - taking away features, locking out mods or plugins, nerfing the API - was countered, nearly instantaneously, by someone writing a program that overrode that choice. 1/
A 19th century engraving of fiendishly complex machine composed of thousands of interlocking gears and frames (originally an image of a printing press, but modified so that it's just all gears and things), colored dark blue. It bears Woody Guthrie's guitar sticker, 'This machine KILLS fascists. To one side of it stands an image of Ned Ludd, taken from an infamous 19th century Luddite handbill, waving troops into battle. King Ludd's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie, the face within lost in shadow.

ALT A 19th century engraving of fiendishly complex machine composed of thousands of interlocking gears and frames (originally an image of a printing press, but modified so that it's just all gears and things), colored dark blue. It bears Woody Guthrie's guitar sticker, 'This machine KILLS fascists. To one side of it stands an image of Ned Ludd, taken from an infamous 19th century Luddite handbill, waving troops into battle. King Ludd's head has been replaced with a hacker's hoodie, the face within lost in shadow.

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A Beginner's Guide to Failed Thermoform Graphics or Move Fast and Bake Things
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Joan Horvath will be giving a free webinar titled "Intro to OpenSCAD and the Nonscriptum open source STEM model repositories" on Tuesday, April 22 from 4-5 pm eastern! Please fill out this form by April 20th, 2025 to receive the Zoom link.  forms.gle/YXhVLPEPuV282ERn8?…

Sign up for Joan Horvath's Workshop on April 22, 2025

Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron, co-founders of Nonscriptum, LLC will be giving a free webinar for the See3D community on Tuesday, April 22 from 4-5 pm Eastern Daylight Time! Please fill out this form...

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Folks at #CSUNATC25 —If the loud tile work at @HiltonHotels is impacting nonvisual navigation, communication, or sensory processing, tell the desk, grab sound samples & speak up. Jackhammers don’t belong in shared spaces during an accessibility conference. #AccessMatters
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I did. Because it does.
TechCrunch
@TechCrunch7 Mar 2025
Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues tcrn.ch/3DlyFVQ
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You'll Never Have to Vote Again A short #SpecFic on #AI and #Democracy originally presented to the Accessing Democracy event at Virginia Tech on Dec. 6th 2024 by Rua M. Williams 🧵
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You want me to go apple picking? The original sin???
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I asked the Meta glasses to describe a stand at the farmers market. The glasses said to me: Baskets of apples in many colors, with no one visible to tend to them. Thank you Meta  but I know this fairytale and I will be leaving those apples alone
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the sixth love language is navigating bureaucracy for someone
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Elevate your sticker game with a unique rainbow sheen.

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Uber & Lyft frequently deny service to blind people with guide dogs. Help advocate for our civil rights by joining the National Federation of the Blind’s Rideshare Rally in San Francisco on Oct 15, 10 am to 3 pm, outside @Uber & @Lyft headquarters. #RightToRide @NFB_voice 1/3
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To everyone who ever said I didn't "look autistic" know that I'm constantly running ActLikePeopleExpect.exe in my brain am not always aware I'm doing it and it's eating up at least 50% of my RAM. It's also the reason for a lot of CPU overheating

ALT To everyone who ever said I didn't "look autistic" know that I'm constantly running ActLikePeopleExpect.exe in my brain am not always aware I'm doing it and it's eating up at least 50% of my RAM. It's also the reason for a lot of CPU overheating

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📢📢#CriticalAI DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES FOR TEACHING CRITICAL AI LITERACIES DESIGN JUSTICE LABS is an NEH and RU-sponsored set of resources for teaching about "generative AI" from design justice and critical AI perspectives. rutgers.box.com/s/v1ywq3701c…
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Kamala Harris outgrossed Twisters in her opening weekend.
The Associated Press
@AP22 Jul 2024
BREAKING: Vice President Harris raises $81 million in 24 hours since President Biden dropped out of the race and endorsed her, setting a new presidential donation record. apnews.com/live/biden-trump-…

Highlights: Harris declares election will be 'choice between freedom and chaos' at Wisconsin rally

Vice President Kamala Harris Harris framed the race with Donald Trump as a choice between "freedom" and "chaos."

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The preferred term is "screen experiencing blueness"
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If you haven’t already READ THIS BOOK NOW! If you already have, you might want to pick up this 30th anniversary edition with a new foreward by yours truly… #bydhttmwfi
Seven Stories Press@7StoriesPress15 Jul 2024
In 1998, Octavia Butler warned that the US would enter into a 30 year period of chaos, starting around 2015, during which America would elect a christofascist president named “Donner” who uses the slogan “make America great again.” And that’s why you read small press books!!
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