I wore my “We All We Got” shirt last week and got some positive reactions. The design isn’t flashy, but I think something about the phrase “We All We Got” catches attention. At the voting polls on Tuesday, someone commented that they loved my shirt. I asked if they were familiar …
Today is a special International Women’s Day for me, because I have somehow, despite considerable obstacles placed into our paths, successfully launched a woman.
Summary: A response to Jakob Nielsen’s blog post declaring accessibility to have failed and proposing an artificial intelligence-based solution. I critique his claims and his solution, and identify what I perceive to be a fundamental misconception of what accessibility is.
I just had to check and I haven't posted much on leap days either! It's also a weird trip down memory lane to look at my site archives in 4-year chunks!
404 Media reports that Automattic is planning to sell its data to Midjourney and OpenAI for training generative models:The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 …
Thanks to Samantha Cole at 404 Media, we are now aware that Automattic plans to sell user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com (which is the host for my blog) for “AI” products.
You gotta be kidding me. So much for wanting to help the open Web; they're going to opt to sell people's contributions to the Web. Reddit: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-contentWordpress/Tumblr/Automattic: …
I helped work on the Jamstack TV project (now dormant with the rest of the jamstack.org site, though the feature is still up), which used a lovely Algolia integration to allow deep searching of video transcripts. It was a really cool feature.
