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“Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies”
https://tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/28/foundations-types-of-assistive-technology-and-adaptive-strategies/
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Foundations: types of assistive technology and adaptive strategies - TetraLogical
This post provides an overview of common assistive technologies (AT) used by people with seeing, hearing, moving, and thinking disabilities. It also explains what adaptive strategies are, and how these approaches work together to support accessibility and inclusive experiences.

Faculty and students on Chinese campuses are enthusiastically embracing AI, and the level of public excitement for AI in China is far greater vs. the US and UK (Caiwei Chen/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/28/1120747/chinese-uni…

Chinese universities want students to use more AI, not less
Unlike the West, where universities are still agonizing over how students use AI in their work, top universities in China are going all in.

Goed achtergrondartikel over Peter Thiel en zijn pion JD Vance.
https://www.trouw.nl/opinie/pas-op-voor-peter-thiel-de-techmiljardair-is-zijn-geduld-met-de-mensheid-aan-het-verliezen~b348bd1c/

Pas op voor Peter Thiel: de techmiljardair is zijn geduld met de mensheid aan het verliezen
Met hun verlangen naar een nieuwe mens en een andere wereld marcheren de Amerikaanse bigtechmiljardairs richting de utopie. Dat zou Europa zeer nerveus moeten maken, schrijft Stevo Akkerman.

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.
Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?
Here's the actual impact.
"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.
On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

> "AI" is a fossil fuel technology.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/114760351207463338

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202

via https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/26/large-language-models-that-power-ai-should-be-publicly-owned:
Matteo Valleriani: "It is time to build public, open-access LLMs for the humanities…

📡 Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
#technology

Affordable, room-temperature maser created using LED technology
With the ability to detect and amplify extremely weak electromagnetic signals without adding additional noise, masers have many potential uses, including the production of more sensitive magnetic resonance body scanners, such as those used in airports.

Anzahl der #Windkraftanlagen nach Technologie in #Deutschland mit Stand vom 26.07.2025.
Berücksichtigt werden in Betrieb befindliche Anlagen.
Der Datenbestand enthält ggf. unplausible Datensätze.
Anmerkung: Erster Versuch einer

Denmark plans to clamp down on AI-generated deepfakes by changing copyright law to give its citizens rights to their own body, facial features, and voice (Miranda Bryant/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202