** Accessibility and the product person **
This post is a slightly modified version of a talk I presented to the product practice at my work. It presents a few ways that product designers and managers can help to move accessibility forward. It is a little bit different than what I normally share, here, but, I thought it may be interesting to some folks.

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Consciousness and Materialism

David Hume has often been quoted for his “Is” vs. “Ought” distinction.
The argument is that fact and morality are two different domains, and from no accumulation of statements of fact alone can we ever jump to a statement of morality.

We can say statements of fact such as:

1. To be murdered is potentially painful.
   
2. To be murdered is irreversible.
   
3. Murder causes social dysfunction.
   
4. Etc. …
   

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A Modest Robot Levy Could Help Combat Effects of Automation On Income Inequality In US, Study Suggests
An anonymous reader quotes a report from MIT News: What if the U.S. placed a tax on robots? The concept has been publicly discussed by policy analysts, scholars, and Bill Gates (who favors the notion). Because robots can replace jobs, the idea goes, a stiff tax on them … ⌘ Read more

Artemis Quote
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Gwern’s law: Well-known quotes are often wittier and more memorable than the original.

@fastidious@arrakis.netbros.com will reply to this twt, quoting something in it. I will do that same afterwards on his reply.

@quark@ferengi.one >This works…

Now, if I use “>” (without the quotes) with a space after it, and then text, the entire line gets omitted.

Veganism Is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism
People have quoted me as saying that.I forget where it comes from, probably a livestream, but I definitely stand by it.Since a lot of people labor under the assumption that my channel is about “Linux,” I’ve accumulated a lot of subscribers that are variously nerds, furries, degenerates, coomers, libertarians, communists, trannies and among them are vegans.Some of them (I assume) are good people.

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Veganism is the Pinnacle of Bugmanism

by Luke Smith

People have quoted me as saying that.
I forget where it comes from, probably a livestream, but I definitely stand by it.
Since a lot of people labor under the assumption that my channel is about “Linux,” I’ve accumulated a lot of subscribers that are variously nerds, furries, degenerates, coomers, libertarians, communists, trannies and among them are vegans.
Some of them (I assume) are go … ⌘ Read more

Need to remember to use single quotes tho

‘Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.’ - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3100234-in-defense-of-food-an-eater-s-manifesto

‘Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much.’ - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3100234-in-defense-of-food-an-eater-s-manifesto

You see these proper quotes/apostrophes in my posts? They’re not curling themselves.

12.02.2020: Cafe Regenbogen: "Ich erzähl dir meine Wege" https://feg-ffb.de/?p=6323

let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor / let the quote marks hit the floor …

%23-quote-bottom<\/title><\/linearGradient><\/defs>… https://jezebel.com/pizzagate-satanic-panic-and-the-power-of-conspiracy-t-1833551416

jezbel-quote<\/title>https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/how-filmmakers-created-fake-newsreels-in-the-1920s-1832866878

List: Revolutionary Quotes From Centrist History - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/revolutionary-quotes-from-centrist-history

Is it really conspiracy theory if you don’t quote Baudrillard at least once?

Programming Quotes http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/

Rockstar developers speak out about “100-hour weeks” comment | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/10/red-dead-redemption-2-devs-say-quoted-100-hour-weeks-arent-the-norm/

Discovery Writing and the so-called Forster Quote | rjheeks https://rjheeks.wordpress.com/2011/04/13/discovery-writing-and-the-so-called-forster-quote/

Quotes http://worrydream.com/quotes/

Chris Espinosa, quoted in the final chapter of Fire in the Valley, says that when Jobs came back to Apple his screaming fits were ‘for show’. What’s worse: a manager with no emotional control or one that fakes it for emotional manipulation?

Thread by @GalaxyKate: &quot;Do you know this book (grapefruit, by Yoko Ono)? I‘ve been reading it and profoundly affecting my bot-making. Art appreciation and bot-makin […]&quot; https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/999110758305882112.html?refreshed=yes

Understanding word vectors: A tutorial for &quot;Reading and Writing El… https://gist.github.com/aparrish/2f562e3737544cf29aaf1af30362f469

Conspiracies and &quot;The Wrong Room&quot; Phenomenon … http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/02/conspiracies-and-the-wrong-room-phenomenon/

Every Deluze quote is relevant to every situation, given sufficient effort on the part of the reader.

&quot;Weird Al&quot; Yankovic - Mission Statement - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

Understanding &quot;Life On Mars?&quot; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pY27JurC1Y0

Why the Oscars Don‘t &quot;Get&quot; Animation - Especially Anime - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfyMD5rSK50

Understanding &quot;Hurt&quot; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8n78hRFSew

bowser ❌ on Twitter: &quot;WSJ is quoting the Illuminatus Trilogy, what is ha… https://twitter.com/browserdotsys/status/943233927795355648

&quot;STRANGER THINGS: A Bad Lip Reading&quot; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-4rhjO6xYg

Downtown Immorality Lecture Series: &quot;THE DARK IMMORTALITY OF THE VAMPIRE&quot; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmp6RONkEw

Novels &quot;Written&quot; for NaNoGenMo https://bookriot.com/2017/11/27/novels-written-nanogenmo/

Daniel Fischlin, et. al. – &quot;The Charisma Leak&quot;: A Conversation with William Gibson and Bruce Sterling https://www.depauw.edu/sfs/interviews/gibsonsterling.htm

&quot;Facephenes&quot;: Brain Stimulation Creates Phantasmal Faces - Neuroskeptic http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2017/11/04/facephenes-phantasmal-faces/#.WgBm4lf950y

ONE HIT WONDERLAND: &quot;Fire&quot; by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPlOd2MQuXI

Assault, Robbery, and Murder: The Dark History of &quot;Bedsheet Ghosts&quot; | Mental Floss http://mentalfloss.com/article/507440/assault-robbery-and-murder-dark-history-bedsheet-ghosts

Bruce Haack‘s &quot;Electric Lucifer,&quot; the rock opera / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2017/10/24/bruce-haacks-electric-luci.html

&quot;Key to the City: Writing Code to Induce Social Change&quot; by Jurnell Cockhren - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Z0LGeQCWU

&quot;Rebuilding the Cathedral&quot; by Nadia Eghbal - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS6IpvTWwkQ

&quot;Aesthetic Engine 2&quot; by Vladimir Mitrovic - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAil0DzclFA

&quot;Narrated Reality&quot; by Ross Goodwin - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E22CWmOpsk

&quot;Alice‘s Adventures in Artificial Intelligence-land&quot; by Coraline Ada Ehmke - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBkfjhi-krw

&quot;Experimental Creative Writing with the Vectorized Word&quot; by Allison Parrish - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc

Gemini &quot;The Autonomous Robot&quot; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A44biuHj7UY

Meet the Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces With &quot;Secure Scuttlebutt&quot; - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/05/meet-the-counterantidisintermediationists/527553/

&quot;Home Movie&quot;Documentary Electronic House Pt2 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiVBS-QHEms

&quot;Home Movie&quot;Documentary Electronic House Pt1 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC9Lr-qk6Ws

GitHub - deniskyashif/ssfst: Subsequential Transducer for Efficient &quot;Dictionary-Based&quot; Text Rewriting https://github.com/deniskyashif/ssfst

Chuck Thacker, &quot;Personal Distributed Computing—The Alto and Ethernet Hardware&quot; - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9n2J24Jg2Y

GitHub - shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning: Syllabus for Part 2 of Nature of Code: &quot;Intelligence and Learning&quot; at ITP Spring 2017 Edit https://github.com/shiffman/NOC-S17-2-Intelligence-Learning

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net The problem is that my ini parser does not remove quotes around values and twtxt’s does. Another parser? Another format? sigh

@dracoblue@dracoblue.net The problem is that my ini parser does not remove quotes around values and twtxt’s does. Another parser? Another format? sigh

@kdave@kdave.github.io I have no strong opinion about different configs fot #txtnix and #twtxt, but @david@post.aldebaran.uberspace.de had compatibiliy issues with quoting.

@kdave@kdave.github.io I have no strong opinion about different configs fot #txtnix and #twtxt, but @david@post.aldebaran.uberspace.de had compatibiliy issues with quoting.

@david And there are no problems with shell quoting! And especially with history expansion when using an exclamation mark.

@david And there are no problems with shell quoting! And especially with history expansion when using an exclamation mark.

Apparently this thing — by which I mean “my shell” — has trouble with exclamation marks inside double quotes. Phooey.

New build farm hardware at TUD

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Here’s what we have: 5 Intel Core 2 Duo DualCore machines
with 1GB RAM, 2 Mac minis with 1,83-GHz Intel Core
Duo-processor, another Core 2 Duo a UPS to deal with spikes in
power supp … ⌘ Read more