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A satirical jab at the sighted people who create technology for blind people without ever talking to us about what we need, in parity radio news form. Hear the rest at https://deepsy.net/p/bonus-episode-glass-eye-witness-news #Blind #Blindness #Disability #AssistiveTech #Parody #Satire #DeepSy

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During this year's "Games for blind gamers" jam on #itchIO, a #game was submitted that tried to accurately portray a #blind protagonist. This game was developed by a developer who is not blind, but believed to have done adequate research into this. Some people did not agree and came down on them rather hard, but I saw an opportunity.
In this video I break down what was represented well, what wasn't, and we get into some really interesting #blindness and #disability topics along the way. Hopefully it might teach a thing or two :) https://youtu.be/qE81d4Pcw9E

#disability #disabilities #blindness #representation #indieGames #gaming #youtube #selfPromo

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New post: Grieving the Version of Me Everyone Thought I Was

https://lanie.work/advocacy/grieving-the-version-of-me/

#Disability #Autism #Blindness #Chronic-Illness #Long-Term-Care #Caregiving #Advocacy

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What VoiceOver setting changes the, slide to type, feedback, using Apple's keyboard? I changed some settings in iOS 26 to quiet some of the sounds but now I can't remember what I changed to where VoiceOver would stop announcing suggestions, or autocomplete stuff... #Apple #IOS #Blind #Blindness

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PSA to other blind people, rating a Deaf Uber driver 1 star with a safety violation because of a disability clash and because you are totally blind is a very ableist thing to do.

There's texting. There are ASL classes for the blind. I took one years ago at the school for the Deaf and the Blind I attended. I have Deaf friends teach me ASL via touch.

I know ASL is a visual language, but let's not be ableist because we are blind ourselves.

#Ableism #Blind #Blindness

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Not by me. Meta’s Muse – early impressions from a blindness perspective https://blog.blackspheretech.com/?p=544 #AI #Blind #Blindness

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I am forced to use cloud based LLMs through the screen reader vibe coded/agentic coded apps made by blind people because developers have failed me ever since I've been alive—but I don't know why other blind people don't understand that every single time I criticize tech or even the LLM companies directly, I'm not criticizing you for using the LLM willingly. These companies will never know you defend them. These companies don't need you on their defense team. They have venture capital. You do not. The fact I use tools and tech made by blind folks using cloud based LLMs also isn't the gotcha you believe it is. at least I'm willing to acknowledge my imperfections and the fact I live under and inside techno fascism. The religious framing is boring too. It's like someone that keeps doing the same combos in a fighting game. I know what's going to come next. None of that diminishes my critiques of the companies and the LLM makers. Now you know I use your vibe coded/agentic coded software and still hate the LLM companies, how does that sit with your brain? To make the hypocrisy easy for you, here's all the tools I use. https://sightlessscribbles.com/tools/ #AI #NoAI #Blind #Blindness

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Fucking great. Sigh. For me, Seeing AI by Microsoft is now describing images that I know are human photographed to be AI generated. I wish there AI describing feature acted more like Ira and just describes the picture not tries to interpret if a thing is AI generated or not. #blindness #Blind #AI

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An abridged reaction by the blind community to LLM critiques.

when sighted and sighted disabled people criticize AI companies, rightly, the right way instead of falling into stupid hype themselves, this is usually the response from blind people.

Blind people. those luddites don't understand the technology at all. Besides, they aren't disabled, so shouldn’t be listened to. AI can describe pictures for me so I don't have to be a human being and talk to other people and actually be social with people so the AI CEO is fantastic, regardless if he fucks over his workers.

I am blind. I do not care about intersectionality, only blindness issues.

Why are they attacking the companies because it's like they're attacking me personally. They're a bunch of religious zellets that just fear technology. I wonder if people avoided cars when cars were invented because they were so afraid of cars that they'd avoid progress? Non-disabled people are trying to put the genie back in the bottle and it won’t work!

and as for audiobook narrators crying they will lose their jobs? I hate audiobooks. If you don't know Braille, you’re not the representative blind person, let alone a good blind person.

If you critique Tech Bros because they happen to have made something I find useful, you’re an ableist bastard. Corporations are giving us accessibility! Why are people trying to take that away?

Sighted people are mad because we can finally be libertarians and make our own accessible software without community, but we sometimes think the ADA is good, I guess.

Also, fuck autism! Stop rocking!

We have centuries of internalized ableism to work through that other disability groups do not seem to have, but instead of community orgonizing, we will hitch our waggons to corporations until a better corporation comes around.

Sighted people are dumb about tech and technology because they don't understand how AI works.

The ones that do speak out about AI in our community, we can just ignore them, because we will be over here, cheering on corporations while the religious cult continues to warn us problems we refuse to listen to.

Also, yay driverless cars! If you hate driverless cars, you are an anti-blind bastard.

#AI #Blindness #Blind #Disability #FuckAI

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For the evening/afternoon crowd, The Hostage Negotiation of the Front-Facing Camera, Sightless Scribbles https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-hostage-negotiation-of-the-front-facing-camera/ #Zoom #Phone #Blind #Blindness #Disability

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