Notices by Robert Kingett backup (weirdwriter@tweesecake.social), page 2

So I don’t really understand why people are still trying to educate others about the problems of closed platforms, algorithms and how they work with silos like threads and blue sky. It’s very clear that people just want to talk to their friends and they don’t care about close platforms versus open platforms, algorithms, or who controls it or any thing of the sort. My advice, rather than try and convince people to move over to an open activity pub enabled platform, just let them do their thing and continue to improve the open social network. When their beloved social media platform goes through the #Enshitification cycle and they’re looking for an alternative because they realized that their platform was out of their control, that’s when you show them your much more mature open social media then it was years ago. In short, if they want algorithms, let them have it over there in a closed platform. Let them go over there. Let’s just continue to improve the space and cultivate this space into something people wanna actually join. #BlueSky #Threads

You can also reply and put the reach to public and put everyone at the end, like what I am doing now. This way, people can look and see what I am replying to and my reply. @BeAware @sebgiessmann

Sighted folks, if you see an image without #AltText, just reply with the alt text yourself instead of demanding others add it. If you proactively add Alt text and they ask you why, or ask you to stop, then that’s when you can go completely unfiltered on their asses and absolutely ring their neck for not providing. Proactively providing alt text does more to help us than what you are currently doing now. Now if this individual continuously refuses to add alt text without an explanation, or starts whining about why others images with descriptions get shared more than there’s, that’s when you can pop up and explain. Use #Alt4U when giving an image description. Tell the poster about #Alt4Me

Here's a guide to game emulators. It's written with blind and low vision people in mind! https://fuge.seediffusion.cc/ #Gaming #GameDev #Blind @mastoblind @main

A Black Deaf person still needs money for food and rent! Their 2 links are, CASH APP, https://cash.app/$WarrenCSmith and PayPal, https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/lenadats #MutalAid #Disability @mutualaid @MutualAidVisibility

I posted Why I left Patreon. https://robertkingett.com/posts/6613/

Actually, since you are an indie publisher, like me, this may be a better avenue. https://www.bookshare.org/help-and-learning-articles/how-do-publisher-donations-work @j9t

This is fantastic! Consider donating it to Bookshare? I know it's free but still could reach a whole international audience https://www.bookshare.org/help-and-learning-articles/how-do-authors-donate-books-to-bookshare @j9t

@BeAware Because I think it will be easier to explain activity pub to people if we closely align it with RSS. I also believe that people are hungry for longer form content, whether that be lengthy video essays or longer posts

Thinking about the #Fediverse tonight and I think the Fediverse will only thrive in the longform blogging space.

This ironically makes a case for why we shouldn't want rapid adoption of the Fediverse or force people onto the #Fediverse and just let them find their way here when they want to. https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1829989.html #Mastodon

You should check out #BloomScrolling when you have a minute! Really great hashtag containing plants and the majority of pictures have #AltText @ChanceyFleet

#WebDev this is what we mean when we say that a website is not accessible to our screen reader.

I got a pay wall so can you share a #GiftLink or #GiftArticle or an article with #NoPaywall? @tchambers

Help a Black single father feed his kid and keep a roof over their heads! https://cash.app/$macck101 #MutualAid @mutualaid@a.gup.pe @mutualaid@a.gup.pe @MutualAidNet @mutualaid@kolektiva.social

So @bemyeyes is opting us all into AI training models and we have to opt out. *sigh* I guess I'll just delete my account, then, since this isn't opt in! The below is an excerpt from their latest newsletter sent last night.

Tomorrow we will be making an important announcement, and we wanted you as a user of our products to know first. The announcement is about the fast-paced developments in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector, along with our own role and responsibilities in it:
1. We intend to provide video data to organizations to train AI models to be more inclusive and representative of the blind and low vision community
2. We are strengthening our data and privacy policy - and making it more restrictive - to ensure you have even greater control over if and how your data is used
We are taking these steps to ensure our users, and the blind and low-vision community generally, are not left out of the innovative power of AI, and that AI models are trained using data that reflects the real, relevant, and lived experiences of people who are blind or have low vision.
The 26th of July this year is the 34th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the United States’ strongest measure protecting the civil rights of people with disabilities. With equivalent acts around the world such as the European Accessibility Act (EAA), there has perhaps never been a stronger focus on ensuring equality and inclusion for all. However, with the exponential rise of AI technologies beginning to impact every element of our lives, there has also never been a greater risk of undoing all the great work that has been done to-date.
That’s because AI is developing at a breakneck speed, and we are already starting to see examples of biased characterizations of blindness and even offensive language being surfaced through AI, as well as less than inclusive responses to otherwise reasonable questions. There is no suggestion that this is deliberate. Blind people have simply not had the opportunity to inject their own experience into the extremely fast-paced development of AI models. So the potential for AI-generated bias and exclusion is very real, and completely contrary to the principles of the ADA, the EEA, and our own Be My Eyes’ mission.

#AI #AIHype #Privacy #Accessibility

A Black Deaf person needs money for food and rent! Their 2 links are, CASH APP, https://cash.app/$WarrenCSmith and PayPal, https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/lenadats #MutalAid #Disability @mutualaid @MutualAidVisibility

Reminder that I write about a lot of stuff, blindness, life stuff, my author news. I never stick to 1 topic so if you wanna follow, my RSS feed is https://robertkingett.com/feed/ #RSS #Blog #IndieWeb

@tess @aral This is everything right here! And people really do wonder why we stick with big Tech as problematic as it is. I honestly can’t tell which is more frustrating these days. I think we are all well aware of the issues caused by big tech but I never seen such irony as The open source community. Well, if your system isn’t working, you could use the system that you can’t use to contribute code on the system that you can’t use. Blows my mind every time. When open source actually works collaboratively, and without the elitism, it really is the best way to make Tech. I’ve contributed to fantastic open source environments and tools and otherwise, but there’s just something about the community as a whole that percolates this kind of ironic accessibility view all throughout the projects that I encounter. Even though big tech could be better in their accessibility, at least they give us breadcrumbs. The open source community turns around and says, if you want it, you make this thing accessible, not me.

Blind people will take away universal access, such as the Curb Cut effect, to make individualized access that benefits that particular individual. I wonder how the confusion manifests when they see universal access working for multiple disability groups at once. Does their head explode or do they think this is a happy accident?