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In den 1980er-Jahren gab es bei CDU und CSU in Bezug auf die AIDS-Pandemie zwei Positionen: In Bayern wollte Peter Gauweiler auf AIDS-Kranke das Bundes-Seuchengesetz anwenden. Er schuf für Bayern einen Maßnahmenkatalog, der Zwangstests und Absonderungen vorsah. Bereits zuvor ging er lokal in München mit großer Härte gegen schwule Lokale vor und bezeichnete AIDS-Kranke als "Aussätzige".
Die andere Position war Menschlichkeit. Die vertrat Rita Süssmuth beinahe allein.

IEEE Spectrum: These hearing aids will tune in to your brain #BCI

Hearing Aids Will Use Biosignals to Ease Mental Strain
Could smart hearing aids that read brain waves and eye movements be the answer to fatigue-free listening?

We have labeled the band-aids/gauze. Pray we do not label it any further.
[#BikeTooter, I guess?]

The Cleveland Plain Dealer says it has removed "writing" from some reporters' workloads; an "AI rewrite specialist" turns info gathered by reporters into drafts (Chris Quinn/Plain Dealer)
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2026/02/jo…

Journalism schools are teaching fear of the future: Letter from the Editor
Journalism schools lag in teaching AI, crucial for modern reporting, which aids in efficient news gathering and frees reporters for fieldwork.

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 …

Yesterday I finished "Marshmallow and Jordan" by Alina Chau. It's an excellent cozy graphic novel about a friendship between a wheelchair-using athlete and a baby elephant in Indonesia. It's got lovely vibrant art, an interesting plot, and a final twist that fits nicely.
Not sure it's totally realistic about the accessibility of water polo, and it's not #OwnVoices but the author made what to me seems like a good effort to be both respectful and neither too-positive nor too-paternalistic about disability. Would be curious to hear the perspective of someone who use mobility aids about this of course.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

The City of Toronto’s Skate Lending Library, in partnership with Desjardins Financial Group, brings free ice skates and helmet rentals to outdoor rinks in Toronto. Whether you’re taking your first glide on the ice or a seasoned professional, we’re aiming to make skating accessible to all. Check the schedule on this page and let’s lace up together for some winter fun.
Skate Lending Library locations also have skate aids for use that help with balancing on the ice while learning how to skate.
#TorontoParks #familyday
https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/parks-recreation/program-activities/ice-snow-activities/public-leisure-skating/skate-lending-library/

This looks like a potential money maker for marketing to #boomers. I am one myself, and #dementia is my number one fear. Just gin up a little gizmo that generates a 40 Hz tone that I can plug into my hearing aids, or generic ear buds. Who cares if it works, you’ll make millions overnight.

Listening to this sound could help reverse Alzheimer’s | BBC Science Focus Magazine
The research is in its early stages but offers “encouraging” evidence of a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s

Good Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Lucille Teasdale-Corti (January 30, 1929 – August 1, 1996). She was a Canadian physician and pediatric surgeon, who worked in Uganda from 1961 until her death in 1996. She met her husband, Dr. Piero Corti, during her internship and together they founded a university hospital in the north of Uganda - St. Mary's. For 35 years they battled disease and war to bring medical aid to an impoverished nation. She contracted HIV while operating on patients in the mid-1980s and despite being given a short time to live, she continued to work for 11 more years, eventually dying of AIDS-related complications in 1996.
The attached article from 2011 is written from her daughters perspective. Dr. Dominique Corti has continued to build on her parents legacy and today St. Mary's is an important teaching hospital that has churned out a generation’s worth of homegrown Ugandan doctors and nurses.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://globalnews.ca/news/137248/teasdales-daughter-carries-on-legacy-for-canadian-doctors-african-adventure/

@… I think I'm OK on Kubuntu 25.10.
Slightly off-topic, I recently began using my hearing aids with an iPad. It's almost indescribably wonderful.
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