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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessibility

    Accessibility is the design of products, devices, services, vehicles, or environments so as to be usable by people with disabilities.

    Assistive technology is the creation of a new device that assists a person in completing a task that would otherwise be impossible. Some examples include new computer software programs like screen readers, and inventions such as assistive listening devices, including hearing aids, and traffic lights with a standard color code that enables colorblind individuals to understand the correct signal.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/gusalexiou/2020/09/08/could-elon-musks-neuralink-be-a-game-changer-for-people-with-disabilities

    Disabled people are likely to have had their attention piqued by Musk reiterating that, in the first instance, Neuralink would be looking to “solve important brain and spine problems.”

    In fact, throughout the presentation, several chronic and life-limiting conditions were cited as being potentially treatable by Neuralink — ranging from blindness, spinal cord injuries, memory loss, brain damage and even depression.

    The company’s first round of clinical trials will focus on patients with spinal cord injuries.

    https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-start-human-trials-brain-implant-2023-09-19/

    …Neuralink said, adding that its initial goal is to enable people to control a computer cursor or keyboard using their thoughts alone.

    ETA:

    I have no interest in defending the muskrat or his dystopian vision for this technology. I’m just a developer who gives half a shit about making accessible software, so I want people to know what that means.

    I hadn’t really formed an opinion on this article specifically, but… If I had spinal damage? I might consider signing up for the monkey-killer chip too. A shot at getting my body back might be too enticing to resist.










  • kibiz0r@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.ml*Permanently Deleted*
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    There will never be anything more illustrative of the limits of human intellect than the fact that a master logician famously argued that:

    I ought to do XYZ because there may be an omnipotent being that rewards doing XYZ

    …and did not immediately think:

    I ought not to do XYZ because there may be an omnipotent being that punishes doing XYZ




  • kibiz0r@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlAccurate.
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    1 year ago

    Gandhi on Zionism:

    My sympathies are all with the Jews.

    But my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice.

    Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct. The mandates have no sanction but that of the last war. Surely it would be a crime against humanity to reduce the proud Arabs so that Palestine can be restored to the Jews partly or wholly as their national home.

    Edit: This was 1938, btw. 10 years before the Nakba.