P/w Long Covid, writer, nerd, loudmouth, green thumb, artist, queer, ND, & Disability Extremest! No alt text= no RT. Dont tag me, ask to be added to the GC
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Hello I'm Gwen and I run AidBot
I am 175 $5 monthly Patreon supporters short of being able to cover my basic survival expenses and need as much help as I can get closing that gap
Until that gap is closed this is the current emergency (Not including this months expenses that I haven't been able to do the math on yet)
Twitter.com/PenGwenWithLC/stβ¦
Thank you A.A! Every bit gets me closer to keeping everything on and being able to get caught up on rent and bills and medical care and everything else!
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LIVE NOW!
War Criminal Netanyahu rails against Mamdani, Hasan Piker as delegates walk out & peaceful PROTESTERS are arrested, Trump FLINCHES at flyover while Xi is unfazed
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I finally got my spoons and cognitive skills to synch up so I could make this, Video Update: My Relocation Situation & Crowdfunding Plans
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RT @Elixirscloset: Im logging off soon to get ready for an interview. I don't have enough for my room tomorrow. I would really appreciate iβ¦
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TONIGHT 6pmPT/9pmET
War Criminal Netanyahu rails against Mamdani, Hasan Piker as delegates walk out & peaceful PROTESTERS are arrested, Trump FLINCHES at flyover while Xi is unfazed
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Discourse so demoralizing I'm not sure there's even a point to trying to get survival needs met
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Alright, the fun's over. Ted Cruz and all of the worst conservatives are making fun of the lesbian bar now.
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It's the way y'all delight in being cruel to disabled people
I sincerely hope you find ways to unfuck the rot in your souls
Quickly
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LIVE NOW!
WH bans media, as Trump TV state-run propaganda debuts. DSA candidates betray voters to cozy up to genocidal fascists, while UN targets Iran, NATO attacks Russia
@jkishore joins to discuss Ukraine's imprisonment of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
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RT @resinthunder: you fuckers donβt realize how you hurt yourselves in your rush to punch down on disabled people
you have made your own lβ¦
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I can not recommend this book highly enough
There are so many important concepts here and historical context that we need more people to understand and integrate into their thinking and advocacy (don't forget to cancel the 30 day trial before audible charges you)
Health Communism by Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant on Audible. audible.com/pd/B0BGW1C2NJ?soβ¦
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Boosting again. Apologies for being annoying. Still no movement but Iβm thankful for all the shares.
I'm trying to survive on extremely inadequate disability support and need help surviving. I'm trying to raise $266 towards my winter firewood (my only heat source) and $150 (25 short from last month and 125 this month). Any help is deeply appreciatedπ«Ά
joyofabluesky@gmail.com
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Please help Gwen π«Ά
This really needs to move if I'm going to be okay. I have so many medical expenses that have been putting off that can't be any longer (honestly they never could be safely but I wasn't left many choices by abuse) and bill are bouncing.
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There were several states and cities who passed masking bans in 2024 explicitly in response to anti-genocide protests. They aren't even really trying to hide the source of anti-mask sentiment and people get tricked because wearing a mask is a discomfort they don't want to accept.
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Going to keep trying!
ALT Graphic: Burgundy lettering on mottled old paper background cut through with the image of a graphic bright yellow lightening bolt. A picture of a bald, light skinned Black person wearing oversized frames is in the bottom left corner. Text: Looking for a covid safe roommate, still masking regularly. Prefer west end. Parkdale/High Park. Open to other locations. Happy to form a search party or move into an existing space. No Rush. Can wait to find the right space. Very left. Open communicator. DM if interested in chatting.
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TONIGHT!
WH bans media, as Trump TV state-run propaganda debuts. DSA candidates betray voters to cozy up to genocidal fascists, while UN targets Iran, NATO attacks Russia
@jkishore joins to discuss Ukraine's imprisonment of socialist Bogdan Syrotiuk
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π¨π¨ URGENT we are almost out of gas which means no AC in this weather, pls share ππ
hate to be back in this position, pls circulate!
weβre living in my car again & my son is immunocompromised which is really dangerous for his health..
if anyone can help it would help shelter/feed us.. pls thx so much! π
goal: $0/75
CA: $nxty
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This really needs to move if I'm going to be okay. I have so many medical expenses that have been putting off that can't be any longer (honestly they never could be safely but I wasn't left many choices by abuse) and bill are bouncing.
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Thank you A.H and C.W! Inching closer to clearing rent and everything else standing between me and being okay! I appreciate ever bit of support so much!
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I very badly want a dutch baby for breakfast but I am out of eggs lemons and spoons
And I'm almost out of flour
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The anti masking sentiment that gets amplified in the media is the op
The people maintaining solidarity protecting themselves their communities and comrades are the ones who didn't get taken in by it
Flock Cameras Can Read Our Lips Under Favorable Conditions
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The Modern Rogue tested whether Flock-style street cameras and current AI tools can reconstruct speech from silent video.
Hosts Brian Brushwood and Justin Young recorded conversations at several distances indoors and outdoors, removed the audio, and ran the footage through publicly available lip-reading software.
Specialized lip-reading tools recovered some phrases when the face was large, well lit, and facing the camera.
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Newer pan-tilt-zoom cameras can use strong optical zoom to capture a usable face, a prerequisite for lip reading.
Dedicated lip-reading projects, including Open-Alterego, performed better on close and mid-range indoor footage.
Extra processing helped: cropping to a single speaker, running multiple analysis passes, and using a language model to fill gaps from partial matches.
Context was a major factor. Isolated mouth movements were hard to read; a few confirmed words let the system infer more of the conversation.
The hosts said better cameras, more training data on a specific speaker, and more computing power would likely improve performance.
Their conclusion: current public tools cannot reliably read every conversation from a street camera, but they can extract usable speech from good silent footage under favorable conditions.
Source: piped.video/watch?v=Ks5Dzbt6β¦
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