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  • Meta donates AI-powered glasses to every blind veteran in America

    06/17/2026 12:38:15 PM PDT · by Twotone · 14 replies
    WIFR.com ^ | June 15, 2026 | Forrest Nelson
    (WIFR) - Meta believes the “Future is for Everyone.” The tech industry giant announced legally blind veterans in America can get a free pair of its Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses. While most people probably know the spectacles as being used to record hands-free first-person point-of-view content with its camera, its built-in multimodal AI assistant can understand auditory requests and process visual cues. Meta says the initiative to get the wearable tech in the hands and on the heads of blind veterans is designed to help them live more independently. The Meta AI, which is built on Meta’s large language model...
  • Fallujah Surrender Thread

    04/30/2004 6:48:02 AM PDT · by nicollo · 107 replies · 339+ views
    4-30-04 | Nicollo
    Sign up here to register your fright. Acceptable forms of surrender include: - Arm chair trade-ins - Suicide notes - French passports - Democratic Party registrations - Photos of nukes
  • "Fletcher's Flop": How the Courier-Journal Assesses KY Legislative Session}

    04/15/2004 6:42:50 AM PDT · by Theodore R. · 4 replies · 252+ views
    Louisville, KY, Courier-Journal ^ | 04-15-04 | Editorial Board
    <p>A new governor's first legislative session is supposed to be a crowning moment, in which an election mandate is transformed into progress. In Ernie Fletcher's case, it was a flop.</p> <p>There are plenty of excuses, including the fact that his party hasn't run the executive branch in more than three decades, thus doesn't have much current experience on which to draw. Also, unprecedented ill-will paralyzed the legislative branch, with Senate bullies and House incompetents jockeying for political advantage.</p>