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James Russo retweeted
“We only want [equally] effective communication accessibility. I hope that hearing people would just listen to us, the deaf community, for our accessibility needs.” Read more from @washingtonpost on bringing ASL to local weather reports: washingtonpost.com/weather/2… #ASL #SignLanguage
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Full story now: @DeptVetAffairs adds nine rare cancers to the list of illnesses presumed caused by burn pits. Veterans who served in Gulf War, Iraq War and War in Afghanistan will be eligible: militarytimes.com/news/burn-…
James Russo retweeted
Here's the full White House statement on the announcement: "[After Vietnam] too many veterans were left unable to access the care they needed. I refuse to repeat that mistake when it comes to the veterans of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."
James Russo retweeted
Get GREEN PILLED on the latest @gmiwhpodcast episode on the ultimate cannabis conspiracy theorist. megaphone.link/POD4991862772
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Happening this morning: @DeptVetAffairs adds nine respiratory cancers to the list of #burnpit presumptive illnesses. Will begin processing these claims immediately, more details to come soon.
James Russo retweeted
The idea that the Democrats' path to victory requires abandoning abortion, gender minorities, racial justice, unions, health care and fair immigration policy is just wild. There's *already* a party that holds those positions: Republicans.
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Here are the industries where veterans are finding jobs militarytimes.com/education-…
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Yellow Ribbon Program helps some post-9/11 veterans pay for more expensive schooling militarytimes.com/education-…
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The Regional ADA Centers are distributed throughout the United States to provide local assistance and foster implementation of the ADA. Looking to find your Regional ADA Center? We can help you! Check out this page for more: adata.org/find-your-region
#ADA #Disability #PwD
ALT A map of all the ADA National Network regional centers.
James Russo retweeted
“Living with covid should not mean abandoning all responsibility to each other. We have to continue working together to protect one another so that we can keep society safe, open & accessible to everyone.”
TY @oni_blackstock & @luckytran for this piece!
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
James Russo retweeted
New: the FDA has issued a warning about false positives in prenatal testing that @aatishb and I investigated in January.
We found instances where positive results for certain tests were wrong more than 90% of the time.
nytimes.com/2022/04/20/upsho…
James Russo retweeted
I assume this is because the use of electronics in the public gallery could interfere communications and navigational equipment and risk the courtroom crashing into the ground.
James Russo retweeted
Heads up: @DeptVetAffairs plans to award almost $52 million in suicide prevention grants to community groups later this year. Details here -- militarytimes.com/veterans/2…
James Russo retweeted
“We want a culture that is inclusive of everyone and where everyone who joins feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow.”-@NellieBor, Global Inclusion and Diversity Lead #Inclusion #WednesdayWisdom #Accessibility
ALT A close up of two people holding hands. The quote from the caption is overlayed.
James Russo retweeted
Thread. But beware, this is, um, unsettling.
We're in the middle of a giant machine learning surge, with ML-based "classifiers" being used to make all kinds of decisions at speeds that humans could never match: ML decides everything from whether you get a bank loan to what your phone's camera judges to be a human face. 1/
ALT Mad Magazine's Alfred E. Neuman, as presented on the cover of the December 1957 issue, in which three Neumans are posed as the three wise monkeys. These Neumans' faces have been removed and replaced with the menacing eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The background has been replaced with the code-waterfall effect from The Matrix. Image: Cryteria (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HAL9000.svg CC BY 3.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en Norman Mingo/MAD Magazine (modified)
James Russo retweeted
If you only know Jack Herer the strain—and not Jack Herer the man—then you don’t know Jack. megaphone.link/POD4991862772
