Apple is pre-announcing some Accessibility features likely coming to iOS 17 later this year, and we have the details on @macstories.

Two features are especially a big deal:

- Personal Voice will let users who are at risk of losing their voice create a synthetic version of it. All done with Neural Engine on-device.

- Assistive Access is a brand new, simplified UI mode for iPhone and iPad that streamlines the entire UI.

More details: https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-marks-global-accessibility-awareness-day-with-features-coming-to-ios-ipados-and-macos-later-this-year/

This older comic is going around. Animals with misleading names! A gentle attempt to poke fun at English common names.

Cannot read another thing about an already government controlled railway being 'brought under government control'.

Looks like emotion analytics in education could get banned if EU AI Act passes. Prohibitions now drafted include "emotion recognition systems in law enforcement, border management, workplace, and educational institutions" - though still wondering how the emotion learning analytics field will respond to this https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/11/23719694/eu-ai-act-draft-approved-prohibitions-surveillance-predictive-policing

It's so sad that the Brits have had to resort to importing the phrase "Free Speech Tsar" when they have an essentially infinite number of freely-adaptable titles to hand domestically. The Duke of Discourse. Warden of All Chit-Chat. Equerry of Arguments. Gold Stick To The Point. The Earl of Axiom. The Keeper of the King's Premises. The Wheedle Beadle. Chief Constable Counterexample. The Postillion of Positing. The Justiciar of Just One More Thing. The Marquess of My Question is More of a Comment.

I just found the hashtag #BloomScrolling and I could not be more thrilled!

My photos are just quick phone snapshots, but here are a couple of rhododendrons 💐

#Spring #Flowers

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Today’s Metropolitan Police apology shows they are still failing over Daniel Morgan

https://davidallengreen.com/2023/05/todays-metropolitan-police-apology-shows-they-are-still-failing-over-daniel-morgan/

Apple releases Final Cut Pro for iPad on a subscription model. First subscription for Apple software? https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/09/apple-announces-final-cut-pro-and-logic-pro-for-ipad/

@LoneLocust Quattro formaggi? Although Swiss cheese would probably be a lot further down the list than that… diciassette formaggi perhaps?

@LoneLocust Uh oh ☹️

In the latest Fusion Patrol, @LoneLocust and I get excited about Crime Traveller referencing the TARDIS and the Doctor Who theme… #FusionPatrol #CrimeTraveller #DeathMinister https://fusionpatrol.com/2023/05/06/629-crime-traveller-death-minister/

The Coronation service of King Charles III will be 4 hours longer than that of his mother, due to his limited mobility (and the Archbishop of Canterbury only being able to move diagonally, so it will take him way longer to reach the altar 😁 )