Tootfinder

"Education Secretary Linda McMahon has apparently decided that giving blind contractors priority at Army dining halls "adversely affects" U.S. interests."
Trump Officials Plan To Drop Preference For Blind Vendors | HuffPost Latest News
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-blind-vendors-preference_n_6949a499e4b099a75cbdb8b1?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=reddit&utm_campaign=us_main

Weltraumschrott: Seismometer können Absturz fast in Echtzeit nachverfolgen
Wenn große Satelliten auf die Erde stürzen, sind wir bislang weitgehend blind für ihren Weg. Das könnte sich dank Technik aus der Erdbebenforschung ändern.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Hercules and Love Affair:
🎵 Blind
#HerculesandLoveAffair
https://talkboxmusic.bandcamp.com/track/hercules-love-affair-blind-talkbox-sighted-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rWS1umX04r7zzWnGNDu8w

dracula flow quote bot : I don't give a fuck if I go blind, I didn't need to see the price tag anyway
NEET (unspecified gender) : Oh my days, I remember that from yesterday! Hah-hah! *fragporites and rebloops*
Oedipus, two brooch pins in his eyes:

The vOICe for Android v2.78 released #BCI

The vOICe for Android - Apps on Google Play
Augmented Reality for the Blind: See with your Ears!

Congress is corrupt. The Courts are inept. Trump is criminal.
And the DOJ is STALLING to "wipe the remaining Epstein files clean of #Trump photos & references".
☑️ #DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From

DOJ Temporarily Deletes Trump Photo From Epstein Files, Ensuring Everyone Knew About The Deletion
Imagine having all the power but none of the brains. That’s the current administration, the one that behaves like a blind, enraged bull set loose in its own china shop. “We can always g…

Of all the lies of the internet, the worst is probably "the internet is forever".
Anyone who's been here for a while can name hundreds of internet stuff that is completely gone.
(yes, I know about the Internet Archive. I'm also aware of the many blind spots and broken links the Archive has. And of the fact that it isn't really searchable)

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with ‘less-lethal’ munitions | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/protesters-blind-us-federal-agents

»Open Source — Linus Torvalds hält Linux-Entwicklung mithilfe von KI für "furchtbare Idee"
Der Kernel-Erfinder zeigt sich zwar Vibe Coding gegenüber nicht prinzipiell abgeneigt, sieht das aber als Option für Neueinsteiger«
Durch KI lernt mensch mMn nicht viel, da dadurch nicht gelernt wird sondern meistens nur blind die "Lösungen" angenommen werden ohne die zu verstehen.
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Linus Torvalds hält Linux-Entwicklung mithilfe von KI für "furchtbare Idee"
Der Kernel-Erfinder zeigt sich zwar Vibe Coding gegenüber nicht prinzipiell abgeneigt, sieht das aber als Option für Neueinsteiger

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #GuyGarveysFinestHour
Blind Faith:
🎵 Can't Find My Way Home
#BlindFaith
https://fadervixen.bandcamp.com/track/cant-find-my-way-home-blind-faith-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/107K6xieSp2ihzoA2vTv2q

#catsofmastodon
@… https://noc.social/@todayilearned/1159

Today I learned (@todayilearned@noc.social)
Attached: 1 image TIL a nearly blind cat named Jerry Fox wore custom glasses and saved Brooklyn Borough Hall from a fire in 1904. He was on the city payroll as "Assistant Janitor" and when he died, The New York Times ran his obituary. https://www.catsabouttowntours.com/stories/jerry-fox-blind-cat-borough-hall #til #todayilearned https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1qgga7f/til_a_nearly_blind_cat_named_jerry_fox_wore/

US federal forces blind two protesters shot in face with 'less-lethal' munitions (Roque Planas/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/17/protesters-blind-us-federal-agents
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p21#a260117p21

Not that you needed another reason but …
https://krcgtv.com/news/nation-world/california-protester-left-blind-in-one-eye-is-among-string-of-violent-run-ins-with-ice

California protester left blind in one eye is among string of violent run-ins with ICE
A 21-year-old college student who said he was blinded in one eye by a projectile fired by a federal officer during a Southern California protest said he faces a

40 Jahre Windows – ich habe die Reise von 1.0 bis 95, NT und dem Cloud-Schwenk miterlebt. Was einst Innovation war, ist heute ein Abhängigkeitsverhältnis, das Politik und Verwaltung kaum hinterfragen. Während Europa über digitale Souveränität spricht, binden wir uns mmer fester an #Microsoft

Vier Jahrzehnte Windows und Microsoft – und Europa schaut weiter weg
Ich bin Teil der Generation Windows. CeBIT-Stände, Vertrieb, Marketing – alles erlebt. Was mich heute irritiert: Wie blind Bund und Länder in Microsofts Cloud marschieren, trotz Sicherheitsprobleme…

Multicolor photoreactions of the red light-activated channelrhodopsin Chrimson https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2513375122 Chrimson is "the first rhodopsin successfully applied to restore vision in a blind patient."
(2021) Partial recovery of visual function in a b…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Clan of Xymox:
🎵 Blind Hearts
#ClanofXymox
https://open.spotify.com/track/7K79Uhm2lRQEQ5KzjszERX

UK Gambling Commission says Meta is turning a blind eye to illegal gambling site ads on Facebook and Instagram, calls its ad library a "window into criminality" (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sick to my stomach.
“A 21-year-old anti-ICE protester has been left permanently blind in his left eye after a federal agent fired a less-lethal projectile into his face from close range during a demonstration in Santa Ana, California. Kaden Rummler, a college student, underwent six hours of surgery to remove shards of plastic, glass and metal embedded in his eyes and face, with one piece lodged just 7 millimetres from his carotid artery.”

Source: Peter Chernin is in negotiations to sell his independent studio, North Road, to French media company Mediawan in a deal worth $700M to $1B (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2026-01…

🛟 The Abundance Movement’s Blind Spot
#climatechange

The Abundance Movement’s Blind Spot
What if Americans care more about the cost of climate disasters than carbon-free energy?

If you reintroduce an apex predator into a naïve ecosystem that has further evolved without it and then look all surprised_pikachu.gif when it acts like an apex predator, you might be incredibly stupid https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202

Blind Greyhound Variety Hour
This show features interviews with the best and brightest artists coming out of Australia & NZ...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/blind-greyhound-variety-hour/

"When Politics Blind Justice" (Michael Cohen)
https://therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/when-politics-blind-justice
http://www.memeorandum.com/260117/p1#a260117p1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #IndieForeverDiscoWithBethDitto
Hercules & Love Affair:
🎵 Blind (Radio Edit)
#Hercules #LoveAffair
https://talkboxmusic.bandcamp.com/track/hercules-love-affair-blind-talkbox-sighted-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7rWS1umX04r7zzWnGNDu8w

The five-hour reckoning that reshaped Matt Nagy's next head-coaching run

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/matt-nagy-blind-spot-report-head-coaching-interviews/<…

Trump Officials Plan To Drop Army's Preference For Blind Vendors
The decision was approved by Trump’s education secretary,
Linda McMahon,
the former professional wrestling CEO,
according to a notice.
The Education Department oversees what’s known as the "Randolph-Sheppard Vending Facility Program",
which was created during the Great Depression to help integrate blind workers into the U.S. workforce due to discrimination.
An Education D…

Trump's Latest Target In His Anti-DEI Rampage: Blind Workers
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has apparently decided that giving blind entrepreneurs priority at Army dining halls "adversely affects" U.S. interests.

Filmempfehlung für alle, die Auto fahren.
#auto #unfall
https://www.morethanacyclist.org/home/blin…

Our New Film - Blind SPOT — MORE THAN A CYCLIST
We are proud to launch our second film, in conjunction with Will Pope; Blind Spot. Credits Written and Directed by Will Pope Produced by Allegra Venturi Featuring Gabriel Fogarty Graveson as Jake Lucia Bonbright as Sarah Patrick O'Halloran as Michael Mike Kelson as Officer Reid

CES 2026: Self-driving glasses for the blind https://www.eetimes.com/ces-2026-self-driving-glasses-for-the-blind/ about .lumen; YouTube video at

CES 2026: Self-Driving Glasses for the Blind
Romanian startup .lumen unveils self-driving glasses for the blind at CES 2026—discover how AI-powered mobility is redefining independence.

A fun blind taste test of 25 coffees by coffee tasting experts! Lots of opinions.
No surprise that not a single expert liked Starbucks.
▶️ Coffee Experts Blind Taste Test Every Supermarket Coffee | The Taste Panel | Epicurious
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CnB2tA_CTN

Dobrindt: Rechts blind, Links zurückschlagen - Und während man "Klimakleber" zu Millionenstrafen verurteilt, weil sie Flugbahnen und Innenstädte blockierten, lässt man Bauern einfach Autobahnen blockieren – kann man nichts machen. Genausowenig wie gegen Rechts. Kann man leider auch nichts tun. Wegen Klientelpolitik | Thomas @…

Dobrindt: Rechts blind, Links zurückschlagen | Thomas Gigold
»Wir schlagen zurück – und überlassen den Linksextremisten und Klimaextremisten nicht das Feld«

Third Eye Blind, Daniel Emmet highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/third-eye-blind-daniel-emmet-highlight-sunday-s-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-chiefs-week-18

UK Gambling Commission says Meta is turning a blind eye to illegal gambling site ads on Facebook and Instagram, calls its ad library a "window into criminality" (Olivia Solon/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

In Ukraine, the fog of war is enhanced with atmospheric fog.
It is not only the physical battles that are affected by this fog, but also the global speculation about a scene most journalists refuse to visit and report from.
Like blind men describing an elephant that lives in the next town away from them, they publish lies and rumors they can not substantiate.
Giorgio is actually on the ground in Ukraine, reporting the truth he witnesses first-hand.
The Russians would…

May the West Emerge From the Fog
Live from Ukraine 🇺🇦

From China, on visual-to-auditory sensory substitution: Image-to-sound conversion and automated classification for blind assistance https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3773365.3773472 2025 8th International Conference on Computer Information Science and Artificial Intelligence, in Wuhan, Chin…

I really despise having to live through the fall of an empire, entirely brought on by decadence, greed, blind hate and indifference to human suffering.
And there's still tons of "centrists" who think this is "just politics", despite their children having to grow up in a hellscape.

A 'scandal' is someone getting blind roaring drunk in public. MBS had the guy butchered...
Saudi crown prince to visit US for first time since Khashoggi death
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/saudi-crown-prince-to-visit-us-for-first-time-since-khashoggi-death.html

It is pretty clear that ICE/DHS are intentionally trying to elicit a violent, possibly armed, response to these violent acts.
The ICE-gang is desiring this because then el cheato will invoke the insurrection act. That will, in turn, open the gates for the goons to really start breaking heads and for blood to flow in the streets.
My guess is that some ICE goon, somewhere, is going to get shot by a sniper or protester within a month, if not sooner.
I expect February to begin…

SoCal protester permanently blinded by DHS agent, family says
A young protester narrowly avoided being killed but was left permanently blind after a Department of Homeland Security agent fired a nonlethal round at close range during a Santa Ana protest last week, according to family of the victim.

Been playing with what kind of image to use in the fake window. Some beachy sunset as though looking out from a beach bar?
Maybe that's too lazy just based on the window blind I made a couple of years back. Will I sleep paranoid I'm being watched by Krux?

»Der größte KI-Fehler — Zu glauben, dass Guardrails schützen:
Bei Menschen undenkbar, bei KI-Systemen oft Usus: hochkritische Entscheidungen im Sekundentakt ohne echte Kontrolle.«
Ich lass dies mal so hier stehen. Denn das ich der Meinung bin, dass mensch der KI nicht blind trauen darf, hatte ich schon mehrfach erwähnt.
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Der größte KI-Fehler: Zu glauben, dass Guardrails schützen
Bei Menschen undenkbar, bei KI-Systemen oft Usus: hochkritische Entscheidungen im Sekundentakt ohne echte Kontrolle.

Mice can be trained to drink water
as a way to ‘tell’ researchers they see something
https://theconversation.com/gazing-into-the-minds-eye-with-mice-how-neuroscientists-are-seeing-human-vision-more-clearly-…

Gazing into the mind’s eye with mice – how neuroscientists are seeing human vision more clearly
It was once believed that mice had relatively poor vision. Turns out mice are far from blind – and studying how their vision is shaped by their environment and behavior can clarify the same in people.

“[open social] must be funded like infrastructure, not consumer apps. In fact, given the scale of hybrid threats, it should be funded from defense budgets, not innovation leftovers.
The strategic layer of democracy is the information layer. And right now, it is outsourced.” @seabass.bsky.social
<…

Freund blind gemacht - Zwei Mordversuche: Neuer Prozess für Giftmischerin #News #Nachrichten

Das US-Unternehmen #Zanskar hat mit „Big Blind“ in Nevada das erste kommerziell nutzbare, "blinde" #Geothermie-System seit über 30 Jahren entdeckt.
Die KI-gestützte Erkundung ermöglichte Bohrungen, die bereits in 2.700 Metern Tiefe ein heißes, durchlässiges Reservoir aufzeigten. D…

Zanskar Reveals ‘Big Blind’ - The Discovery of the First Blind Geothermal System in the U.S. by Industry in Over 30 Years
Located in the western Nevada desert, ‘Big Blind’ is Zanskar’s third geothermal discovery in the past year alone, demonstrating the speed and repeatability of its AI-native platform

Wenn du mit den breitesten Lächeln der Welt durchs finster werdende Hamburger Bahnhofviertel läuft, dann hast du vorher nicht nur köstlich gegessen sondern auch ein absolut großartiges Speeddating Blind Date mit der erfreulichen Frau @… gehabt. Danke für das tolle, aber viel zu kurze Spontantreffen! Das machmer baldmöglichst wieder!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Retirement:
🎵 Blind
#Retirement
https://rtrmnt.bandcamp.com/track/blind
https://open.spotify.com/track/3SdoY5ZaFQpbyteimFMVKA

@… I would say both yes, and not enough.
It’s hard to know what you weren’t taught, because you don’t know it (unknown unknown).
I suspect many Europeans like myself were taught, and believe they know everything important, and are probably blind to important nuance.

Hessen erklärt Microsoft 365 für »datenschutzkonform« – ohne technische Prüfung. Die Aufsicht fliegt blind und nennt es Grundsatzlösung. Kuketz zeigt: So wird Kontrolle zur Vertrauensübung in einen US-Konzern. https://www.kuketz-blog.d…

Happy Pants
A weekly radio program and podcast distributed nationally for children aged under 10 who are blind, have low vision or a print disability, and their families...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/happy-pants/

Ecological myopia: The blind spot holding back climate action #climate

Ecological myopia: The blind spot holding back climate action
Global debate about how to navigate the climate crisis often centers on high-level pledges and whether national targets are being met. Yet focusing on these technical outcomes obscures a deeper problem that keeps climate action falling short.

Trump's Diversity Rollback Ends Crucial Aid for Deafblind Children Like Annie Garner (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/trump-dei-funding-deaf-blind.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p45#a251215p45

Third Eye Blind, Daniel Emmet highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/third-eye-blind-daniel-emmet-highlight-sunday-s-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-chiefs-week-18

Efficacy of electronic travel aids for the blind and visually impaired during wayfinding #ETA

Efficacy of Electronic Travel Aids for the Blind and Visually Impaired During Wayfinding
Independent traveling remains challenging for blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. While the white cane is effective at detecting ground-level obstacles, it provides no information about elevated obstacles or object characteristics. Recent technologies have been designed to support navigation as well as object detection. In our study, we compared the performance of 13 BVI participants who separately used two secondary electronic travel aids (ETAs) versus cane use alone. One ETA was a …

Louisiana-Monroe set to hire SJ Tuohy of 'The Blind Side' fame as athletic director

https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/…

»Berner Informatikamt unterstützt Open-Source-Zentrum:
Das kantonale Informatikamt will sich am Aufbau des Zentrums des Netzwerks "Souveräne Digitale Schweiz" beteiligen. Eine Abkehr beispielsweise von M365 ist aber vorerst nicht geplant.«
Das ist sehr positiv und doch bin ich skeptisch wie weit in der Schweiz auf Open-Source gesetzt wird. Noch des Öfteren wird den Verkäufer*innen blind geglaubt.
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Berner Informatikamt unterstützt Open-Source-Zentrum
Das kantonale Informatikamt will sich am Aufbau des Zentrums des Netzwerks "Souveräne Digitale Schweiz" beteiligen. Eine Abkehr beispielsweise von M365 ist aber vorerst nicht geplant.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Blind Melon:
🎵 No Rain
#BlindMelon
https://keendj.bandcamp.com/track/blind-melon-no-rain-thdp-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6txWz9UapYHVxEd7dDIHXT

(YouTube podcast) Congenitally blind user of The vOICe on smart glasses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djt5sMzKUAM&t=2763s via @… of …

Third Eye Blind, Alex Nester highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/third-eye-blind-alex-nester-highlight-sunday-s-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-chiefs-week-18

Short-term, the money may be in implantable visual prostheses for the blind. Longer-term, the money may be in training & support for noninvasive visual prostheses for the blind https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Microsoft Windows vs Linux, Neuralink Blindsight vs The vOIC…

Business idea: I buy this Medusa head, and then get people to look at it, and then I sell them as statues once they turn to stone

»Vorsicht! Vielleicht „halluziniert“ Ihre KI.
Die KI-Systeme zeigen immer mehr Eigenschaften und Fähigkeiten, die vor nicht allzu langer Zeit noch als ureigen menschlich galten. Sie reagieren (scheinbar) empathisch, sie halluzinieren … Deshalb sollte man ihren Aussagen und Empfehlungen nicht blind vertrauen.«
Ich konnte KI noch nie wirklich produktiv so wie Zeit sparend einsetzen, auch deswegen mMn überflüssig.
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Vorsicht! Vielleicht „halluziniert“ Ihre KI.
Die KI-Systeme zeigen immer mehr Eigenschaften und Fähigkeiten, die vor nicht allzu langer Zeit noch als ureigen menschlich galten. Sie reagieren (scheinbar) empathisch, sie halluzinieren … Deshalb sollte man ihren Aussagen und Empfehlungen nicht blind vertrauen.

UL-Monroe reportedly hiring SJ Tuohy of 'Blind Side' fame as athletic director

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/ul-monroe-reportedly-hiring-sj-…

'Blind Into Caracas' -- Less than 24 hours in, members of the Trump team are celebrating victory. (James Fallows/Breaking the News)
https://fallows.substack.com/p/blind-into-caracas
http://www.memeorandum.com/260103/p83#a260103p83

Third Eye Blind, Alex Nester highlight Sunday’s gameday entertainment https://www.raiders.com/news/third-eye-blind-alex-nester-highlight-sunday-s-gameday-entertainment-raiders-vs-chiefs-week-18

Smart glasses find purpose among blind users https://tribune.com.pk/story/2585783/smart-glasses-find-purpose-among-blind-users "If it's on your head, it's definitely a lot more intuitive."

Smart glasses find purpose among blind users
The glasses 110 camera captures 50 more reducing head movement says Agiga CEO Wang

«Keine KI mehr, keine neuen Funktionen mehr. Nur Fehlerbehebungen.» meint Microsoft-Urgestein Dave Plummer. Die Prognose von @…: Das wird nicht passieren. Microsoft wird blind an der Strategie festhalten, bis so viele Leute Linux installieren, dass es wehtut. Microsofts KI-Strategie in Windows ist chaotisch und ziellos

Microsofts KI-Strategie in Windows ist chaotisch und ziellos
Eine Be­stands­auf­nah­me zur KI in Win­dows: Haben die Kritiker recht, die die Stra­te­gie als wenig durch­dacht und über­grif­fig em­pfin­den? Spoiler: Ja. Und weit­ge­hend nutz­los sind

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Etta James:
🎵 I'd Rather Go Blind
#EttaJames
https://a1-bhmg.bandcamp.com/album/etta-james-id-rather-go-blind-flip
https://open.spotify.com/track/1kPBT8S2wJFNAyBMnGVZgL

Write-up of a visit to a festive season exhibition using The vOICe #noninvasive

S-cones (which respond to short wavelengths) are very few in the fovea center
so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot
(Williams et al., 1981)
but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the population
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11515/

S-Cone Pathways by Helga Kolb
There are differences in the genetic structure and locus of the S-cone visual pigment compared with the L- and M-cone pigments (Nathans et al., 1986), yet the S-cones are common to all vertebrate retinas and always form a consistent 8-10% of the cone photoreceptor population (Marc, 1982; Kolb and Lipetz, 1991).The S-cones are however, very few in the fovea center so causing a so-called S-cone blind spot (Williams et al., 1981) but they peak in number on the foveal slope at about 12% of the popu…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Monster Rally:
🎵 Incredibly Blind (feat. TV Girl & X-Cetra)
#MonsterRally
https://monsterrally.bandcamp.com/album/incredibly-blind-feat-tv-girl-x-cetra
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Ui0BmcYIgCF3rWQPBGtl3

Tricks for using Google Gemini Live AI scene description in combination with The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind #blind

(PDF on Zenodo) White paper: Comparing The vOICe vision BCI for the blind with Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision #BCI

Trump officials plan to drop Army's preference for blind vendors https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-blind-vendors-preference_n_6949a499e4b099a75cbdb8b1 "giving blind entrepreneurs priority at Army dining halls 'adversely affects…

Trump's Latest Target In His Anti-DEI Rampage: Blind Workers
Education Secretary Linda McMahon has apparently decided that giving blind entrepreneurs priority at Army dining halls "adversely affects" U.S. interests.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Dave Pike:
🎵 Blind Man Blind Man
#DavePike
https://open.spotify.com/track/1MdI4RPlWfqpkDrxM9YjKN

(YouTube) China's first brain-computer cluster in Shanghai sees vision implants and ultrasound brain therapy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGcXdkqNbek "Mindtrix BCI founder Liu Bing is developing an implant and smart glasses that could help blind patients “see”. Clinical trials may start…

Blind Russians lose access to accessibility app Be My Eyes as Internet restrictions tighten https://meduza-io.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2025/12/23/blind-ru…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Collie Buddz:
🎵 Blind to You
#CollieBuddz
https://rockersgalore.bandcamp.com/track/collie-buddz-blind-to-you-rockers-galore-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1K4GmEkkeNhtPFbuKoVbqF

Long-term visual-to-tactile stimulation induces functional reorganization of thalamic pathways to achieve visual perception https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105381192500655X using haptic sensory substitution;

(YouTube) Samarth by Hyundai: The vOICe vision BCI in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgpoT3eff0&t=692s Will Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants for restoring vision ever work for congenitally blind people? Probably not.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Curtis Harding:
🎵 True Love Can't Be Blind
#CurtisHarding
https://curtisharding.bandcamp.com/track/true-love-cant-be-blind
https://open.spotify.com/track/3hse5AxOFZ40svnCLsElsj

Stem-cell based retinal implant: Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration? #AMD

Can a retinal implant reverse macular degeneration?
LOS ANGELES — Age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss and blindness for Americans 65 and older, is a progressive disease affecting central vision. Over time, faces, book pages and anything directly in front of a person become obscured by blurry, dark or blind spots.Now, a novel clinical trial offers hope for patients...

Enhanced pitch perception in early blind individuals and musicians is due to reduced internal noise https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.25.690447v1

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
The Blind Shake:
🎵 Walking Stick
#TheBlindShake
https://theblindshake.bandcamp.com/track/walking-stick
https://open.spotify.com/track/7GLtFlFZERuO1m0tkpIByB

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss #neuroscience

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss - Scientific Data
In recent years, neuroscience has increasingly leveraged naturalistic stimuli, like movies and narratives, to investigate cognitive processes underlying real-world human behavior. Here, we present a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) dataset featuring 50 participants, with and without congenital sensory loss (typical development, congenitally blind and deaf individuals), who were exposed to audiovisual, auditory, or visual versions of the live-action movie 101 Dalmatians. The dataset …

Instead of invasive electrodes (Neuralink Blindsight) or ultrasound ( invasive irreversible gene therapy and/or neural dust, Merge Labs), The vOICe vision BCI uses audible sound and is completely noninvasive https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm and it works, gives functional v…

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals https://www.eneuro.org/content/early/2025/12/07/ENEURO.0002-25.2025

Repetition suppression for mirror images of objects and not Braille letters in the ventral visual stream of congenitally blind individuals
Mirror-invariance is the cognitive tendency to perceive mirror-image objects as identical. Mirrored letters, however, are distinct orthographic units, and must be identified as different; mirror-invariance must be ‘broken’ to enable efficient reading. Consistent with this phenomenon, a small, localized region in the ventral visual stream, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), exhibits repetition suppression to both identical and mirror pairs of objects but only to identical, not mirror, pairs o…

Human-in-the-loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex #blind

Are artificial retinas merely an approach to recover sight, or are they a tool of augmented reality beyond natural eyes in blind people? https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bst/advpub/0/advpub_2025.01341/_article

Are artificial retinas merely an approach to recover sight, or are they a tool of augmented reality beyond natural eyes in blind people?
Implantable artificial retinas have been a considerable technology to help blind people recover their sight. This topic has attracted increasing atten …

Congenitally blind user of The vOICe vision BCI: A look at building layers #noninvasive

A look at building layers
I was walking around in the gated community where I live. Checkout this interesting image I took. It primarily shows different buildings. I was on the upper deck of a swimmingpool area where there …

While Elon Musk is pushing hard to get the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant out, The vOICe vision BCI can grow organically, no matter how long it takes https://www.artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm Applied psychohistory

(IEEE Spectrum flashback, 2004) Sight for sore ears - Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind https://spectrum.ieee.org/sight-for-sore-ears

Sight for Sore Ears
Dutchman develops auditory imager for the blind

No, not bringing the extinct dire wolf back from extinction, but just resurrecting an old 3D VRML scene that I created back in 1999 as training material for use with The vOICe for Windows' active window client sonification for the blind.
Visit https://www.artificialvision.com/vrmlscene.h…

Some years ago, a Russian team came closest to turning training of blind people to see with The vOICe into a commercially viable business, a bit like how Linux service companies make a living from the otherwise free Linux https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmrvukzbS44S…

Neural correlates of phosphene perception in blind individuals: A step toward a bidirectional cortical visual prosthesis https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adv8846 "Cortical prostheses could one day restore functional vision in some blind subjects"

Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21720-0 "Tactile sensory substitution, like auditory substitution, effectively compensates for lost vision by engaging cross-modal r…

Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted - Scientific Reports
This study investigates the effectiveness of a vibrotactile bracelet in supporting goal-directed hand movements and grasping tasks for visually conditioned individuals. The research addresses the challenge of object manipulation without visual feedback, comparing tactile to auditory cues. The primary research question explores whether vibrotactile signals delivered via a wrist-worn device can accurately guide hand movements and improve grasping precision. Forty-one participants with varying deg…

Combining AI scene description for "semantic vision" with The vOICe soundscapes for uninterpreted "raw vision" keeps you from getting dumbed down by AI https://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm#preview_AI Mind your cognitive reserve!

Stare-down between a female blind user of The vOICe vision BCI glasses and a male blind recipient of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant (AI-generated video clip). For the serious part, visit https://artificialvision.com/neuralink.htm

The vOICe web app is the richest functional vision option for the totally blind that is just one click away - no brain surgery, and for free https://www.seeingwithsound.com/webvoice/webvoice.htm but yes, it's like learning a new language, or braille, or chess, or...

(YouTube) Samarth by Hyundai: The vOICe vision BCI in India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtgpoT3eff0&t=692s
Here wearing the heat-resistant Vuzix M400 Android smart glasses. Will Neuralink Blindsight, ReVision Implant or Cortigent Orion ever work for people born bli…