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Assisting the last mile with smart glasses: towards user-centric LLM prompt engineering for visually impaired people #AI

Assisting the Last Mile with Smart Glasses: Towards User-Centric LLM Prompt Engineering for Visually Impaired People
The independent mobility of visually impaired people remains limited, particularly on the so-called last mile. Obstacles, a lack of guidance systems, and the absence of visual information make it difficult to navigate public spaces. Existing aids such as white canes...

I spent last week on Kangaroo Island, South Australia, and it really exceeded my expectations. Winter is supposed to be a good time to see wildlife and I was not disappointed. Among the many highlights was visiting a sea lion colony that is thought to house about 8% of the entire population of this endangered species. And since this is the Fediverse I should say that their reputation for making bad faith arguments in comment threads is totally undeserved.

heise | Proton Lumo 2.0: Wie Sie mehr aus der privaten KI rausholen
Chatbots aus Europa sind rar. Die neue Version von Protons KI kann zwar nicht mit Claude und ChatGPT mithalten. Diese Tricks machen Lumo trotzdem klüger.

Proton Lumo 2.0: Wie Sie mehr aus der privaten KI rausholen
Chatbots aus Europa sind rar. Die neue Version von Protons KI kann zwar nicht mit Claude und ChatGPT mithalten. Diese Tricks machen Lumo trotzdem klüger.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116933798329257650
The most sinister line of his speech on Thursday came towards the end,
when Trump said his administration would be taking more action to try to take control over elections.
The Department of Homeland Security,…

DJ Withers faces uphill battle to crack loaded Cowboys interior D-line https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2026/07/17/cowboys-dj-withers-scouting-report/90937506007/

This month's Papers Club reading is titled
Textiling World Politics: Towards an extended epistemology, methodology, and ontology
and we are inviting Toronto's makers, scholars, and thinkers of every stripe to come join the discussion. We are extending special invitations to fiber artists - that includes knitting, crochet, weaving, fashion design etc. So if you know a fiber artist friend, please forward them this message :)
Thank you, hope to see you on July 27th!

How fast would the LLM, attempting to decipher "Truths" into something legible, have to operate in order for this API to provide usable investment information?
(As someone occasionally involved in the publishing of market-affecting information, this article's framing does make this service feel, y'know, corrupt.)

Truth Social will sell Wall Street quicker access to posts
Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.

War started: line goes up. War on pause: line goes up. War resumes: line goes up. Oil prices rise: line goes up. "Peace" talks: line goes up. Talks break down, more bombing: line goes up. Thermonuclear war threats: line goes up. Ceasefire summit: line goes up. Ceasefire starts: line goes up. Ceasefire actually completely made up by the US: line goes up. Bombings continue: line goes up.
Rational markets, baby!

You don’t need to read Project Censored’s latest State of the Free Press report to know that the state of the free press in America is not good (but, obviously, you should still read the report). 
And it’s not just President Trump, his administration, and the MAGA faithful repeatedly, publicly expressing their hatred and verbalizing threats towards journalists and media organizations that don’t tow the Supreme Leader’s line.
It’s not just Trump and his cabinet bullying and berat…

The war on our sight
"This is a class war happening on two fronts: A war in reality, and a war on reality and our capacity to perceive it. And it’s high time we all start seeing and responding to all of this in the terms of a war that we are not just reporting on but on the frontlines of."